Christmas Menus

ashli_2

Sorry to anyone who finds this tedious but I thought if a few of us could share our Christmas menus we could get some ideas from each other and plan ahead a little better sooo....


Mine are...

Christmas eve...

Could do with some quick but special breakfast and lunch inspiration

Steak, stilton sauce, home made chips, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion rings

Christmas day...

Breakfast: smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels and Bucks fizz

Dinner: Pate and melba toast

Turkey and all the trimmings

Something ice-creamy (no pudding here!))


Boxing Day...

Full English Breakfast

Buffet lunch: cheese, pickles, hummous, salami, pate, breads and crackers, coleslaw

Dinner: a ham, parsley sauce, new potatoes, peas.


Only 101 days to go....I can't wait! :beer:

Lillibet_2

Xmas day
Breakfast : Crossiants & HM apricot jam

Lunch
No starter as it fills us up too much!
3 bird roast, hoping for duck, chicken & pheasent with cranberry stuffing but depends on the butchers mood!
Roasted veggies
Roasted Spuds
Yorkshires
Pumpkin pie (another no-pudding family)

Tea
HM sausage rolls
HM Cornish pasties
HM Scotch eggs
Cheese & biscuits
Christmas cake

Boxing day
Lunch
Chicken chasseur & rice
Autumn pudding (like a sumemr pudding but with autumn fruits)

Tea
Leftovers!

New Years Eve
A massive Chinese takeaway with lots of Oriental duck!

Baileys_Babe

Christmas EveWe usually visit friends for a turkey and all the trimming in the evening as this is when they have their main christmas feast. Have never thought about making any of the other meals special but I am now having read this thread. Possible have bruch as we will be having a large meal in the evening.Christmas day Breakfast: as normal Grapefruit Porridge/cereal Toast. Lunch:Roast goose & something else roasted (pork or game), Roast veggies, Roast potatoes, Carrot and swede mash, Braised red cabbage, Gravy, Apple sauce, Cranberry sauce, Christmas pud & brandy sauce or porfiteroles. Tea:Go to friends for their birthday teaBoxing day:Breakfast: as normal Lunch:HM Soup, HM Bread, Cheese, Pickles, Christmas cake, Yule log, mince pies all HM delicious. Dinner:Jacket potatoes, Ham, parsley sauce, veg (have yet to decide which, maybe peas)

Targanielle

Christmas Eve

Supper:
Smoked Salmon with Lemon and Cream Pasta:
Cook the pasta in the normal way, but use Lemon Oil instead of olive oil in the water. When cooked, drain well and return to the pan. Stir through a pack of smoked salmon bits (usually cheaper than the neat slices - Sainsbury's do packs for around 88p at the moment), dried tarragon to taste and double cream. Season with black pepper (no salt needed because of the smoked salmon.)

Christmas Day

Breakfast

Wholemeal toast with butter and marmalde or marmite (depending on personal preference; tea or coffee

Lunch

Starter:
Melon slice

Main Course:
Turkey
duchess potatoes
sprouts
carrots
cranberry sauce (HM)
bread sauce (HM)
gravy

Desert:
Christmas Pudding Ice Cream from Salcombe Dairies

Coffee and liquers as desired

Afternoon Tea:

Usually a cup of tea and a slice of Christmas cake (HM).

Boxing Day

Breakfast:

As Christmas Day

Lunch:

Cold Turkey with Bubble and Squeak made from yesterday's leftovers
Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce (both HM)

Tea:

Sandwiches
Mince pies (HM)
Christmas Cake

nikflo

ok here's mine but it is work in progress......(don't normally do a starter on xmas day as the big dinner is huge)

christmas eve - fish and chips from the chip shop (after i have spent all morning getting the xmas veg ready i never fancy cooking)

christmas day breakfast - a glass of bucks fizz and chocolate (its the only day i allow it!!)

lunch - turkey (though thinking of goose this year)
all the trimmings

pudding - christmas pudding with lashings of brandy cream and m&s's extra thick double cream.


tea - if any thing then perhaps a turkey sandwich.

boxing day brunch - fried eggs, fried left over stuffing/sausage meat, bacon.

boxing day evening - cold meat, mash and pickles.

sandy2_2

ashli wrote: »

Sorry to anyone who finds this tedious but I thought if a few of us could share our Christmas menus we could get some ideas from each other and plan ahead a little better sooo....
Christmas day...

Dinner: Pate and melba toast

Turkey and all the trimmings

Something ice-creamy (no pudding here!))

What about christmas pudding icecream see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/christmaspuddingicec_2755.shtml

I think I might have icecream with some mincemeat warmed thro with come brandy or somesuch as a sauce over the top

kethry

i'm not sure yet what's happening this christmas so i can only detail our menu from last year:

Christmas Eve: frozen pizza (cos, like someone else, i'm usually shattered after all day cooking!)

Christmas day: breakfast muffins to start, we had a friend visiting for christmas lunch - a huge leg of lamb with paxo's sage and onion stuffing in a pan, pigs in blankets, paxos's chestnut stuffing balls, roast potatoes, broccoli, sprouts, gravy, and yorkshire puddings (purely cos i like yorkshire pud). For afters was Xmas pudding with brandy butter, rum butter, and the rum sauce i do. Oh and double cream. We didn't really have tea - OH sat there, holding the lamb joint leg, munching on the leftovers from that for the rest of the day, quite happily - otherwise, we just raided the fridge for stuff.

Boxing day: breakfast was a full english (which is a tradition in this house on boxing day). Again, we didn't eat much for the rest of the day, just picking at the fridge.

Day after Boxing day: breakfast was croissants to start, then we had my parents and grandmother visiting, so we did christmas day all over again, only this time with turkey, which was stuffed with proper stuffing, otherwise, mostly the same (all over again) as christmas day, including the christmas pudding.

Thats pretty much what we'd done for the last couple years - After that i would go on strike, and plan for it, so the fridge was full to bursting and the attitude was: if you want anything, get it yourself, which was very easy to do as there was lots of leftover meats and cheese and stuff, and there were all the chocolates and crisps and stuff... it was bliss. Unfortunately last year, the day after the day after boxing day (28th Dec in other words) we jetted off to the Netherlands to spend New Year with my OH's family (the dutch know how to do new year big style - they let off as many fireworks in the hour after new year has gone as we do on the whole of November 5th i think!) so everything had to be either eaten by 28th or something that would keep long term!!! argh! between that and packing, it was somewhat stressful to say the least.

hopefully this year will be somewhat more relaxed!

keth
xx

furrypig

Thanks everyone for starting this thread and giving your ideas.
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This is my first ever Christmas at home (and I'll be 41 this year!) and I have never cooked Christmas or Boxing Day and I have ideas but it's nice to know what others do!

ashli_2

Christmas pudding icecream might be just the thing...thanks!!


I am definately going to try that salmon pasta recipe, yum!!!

Ishtar

We generally don't do anything special on Christmas Eve - we're usually visiting the relatives all day, so pretty shattered when we come home. Often it's a takeaway, or microwave jacket potato.

On Christmas Day we start with croissants, proper coffee and bucks fizz. Then for lunch it's roast turkey with all the trimmings, followed by HM christmas pudding, HM mince pies and coffee (if there's room!).

We generally don't have a big tea, usually just a slice of HM christmas cake and a cuppa.

For a late evening snack we might break out the cheese board and have some port (after DD has gone to bed....!).

We've done this most years - and we avoid seeing any of our relatives on Christmas day....

D.

sandy2_2

When I was younger....and first married I used to hate christmas..it was always christmas day at mothers, then boxing day at mother in laws, the following year it was the other way round. We never spent christmas in our own house.