Christmas Menu...

MandM90

In laws are hosting me, DD, DH and my mum and sister.

As DH and I are vegan they're just doing a vegan meal as they're happy to have it, so we're having:

Wild mushrooms on toasted bruschetta with truffle oil

Beetroot and squash wellingtons with kale pesto, roasted potatoes, maple roasted carrots and parsnips, stuffing, sprouts and gravy

Christmas pud with ice cream (Swedish glace) and dark choc covered strawberries for those who don't like Xmas pud.

And BOOZE!

Slinky

We've never ever bothered with starters on Christmas day, unless you count chocolate...... Wastes space best reserved for the main event - turkey with all the trimmings.

Often there's no room for pudding, so this may be served later in the day around teatime.

Sayschezza

Christmas Eve is always Lamb casserole. Christmas breakfast is gammon and fried eggs with bread and butter. Dinner is several sherries for starters then the traditional turkey/chicken, beef, roast veg, sprouts/chestnut, yorkies, stuffing, pigs in blankets etc. Pudding is er pudding/trifle/mince pies/custard/cream. Rest of the days they can have whatever is left plus cake.

caronc

Christmas kicks off for us at 6pm on Christmas Eve with "Bloody Marys" followed by steaks, baked spuds and salad. Mince pies & stollen for afters.
Christmas Dinner is eaten in stages: Usually blinis & smoked salmon while opening pressies around 1pm, starters of prawn cocktail, HM trout pate, HM chicken liver pate and melon around 3ish. Mains about 4.30pm of turkey and all the trimings. Pud around 7pm usually trifle but we having a M&S Black Forest dessert this year. Cheese Board & Mince pies etc, around 9pm for anyone that wants. We love spreading the meal throughout the day. This year we may have a pesce guest who is having salmon on Christmas Eve and mushroom wellington on Christmas Day.

NewShadow

I'm not going to bother with christmas dinner this year - there's just me and I have 'roasts' quite often.

I'm going to two work's 'dos' on the 8th and 21st - one at Jamie's Italian where I'm having the steak, and one in a pub somewhere with the traditional roast and sides.

I'm at a friend's house for a buffet for New Year's eve/day and that will likely involve a lot of cold cuts and traditional leftovers.

It's the people that make the season, not the calendar :beer::j:beer:

trailingspouse

Breakfast - (any time from 5am, to be eaten in PJs and dressing gowns) cereal, toast, tea, coffee, fruit juice, chocolate, crisps, prosecco.

Dinner - prawns, smoked salmon and avocado for starters, turkey with roasted veg (parsnip, carrot, beetroot), roast and mashed potato, sprouts, sage and onion stuffing, chestnut stuffing, pigs in blankets, forcemeat balls, cranberry sauce, and enough gravy to sink a battleship. Then for pud we'll have a choice of Xmas pud with homemade brandy butter, or fruit salad, or cranachan (double cream whipped with oatmeal, honey and Drambuie, and raspberries folded into it). What usually happens is that people put the cranachan on the Xmas pud... Finish off with coffee and mints, and a glass of port.

At some point in the evening I'll offer turkey sandwiches and stollen. I'm not bothering with a Christmas cake, as no-one really likes it.

We did a vegan Christmas one year, as one of the daughters was vegan. You should have seen the look of horror on the other daughter's boyfriend's face when he realised...

thriftylass

Usually we don't have a starter.

For mains we serve goose, ham, and turkey to cater for different tastes and fill the bellies. Add stuffing, croquets, boiled tatties, roast tatties, Brussels with bacon and chestnut, roast carrots and parsnips.

Desert might be apple pie and black forrest gateau.

Ginmonster

MandM90 wrote: »

Beetroot and squash wellingtons with kale pesto,

That sounds delicious - I don't suppose you have a recipe do you? OH is looking for something to make me for xmas dinner. He's done a few different mushroom based things over the years so this would be something a bit different.

LameWolf

Our celebration day is Yule - the Winter Solstice, 21st December this year.

We don't have starter (I have a tiny appetite and struggle with two courses, let alone three.)
For mains, I have this year, at Mr LW's request, got a Qu0rn gammon-style roast. I've not had one of these before, so it will be interesting. We shall also have roast root veggies (spuds, parsnips and carrots) and Marmite gravy.
HM Pud for dessert, with custard.

There's only the two of us (unless you count canine guest Ronnie who will be staying with us; but he brings his own food) and we neither of us want to put back the weight we have worked so hard to lose, so I do the same size of meal as we'd have any other day of the year.

Should Mr LW want anything else, I have a fridge full of cheese, including some rather good Stilton, and plenty of crackers in the tin.

melanzana

I know it's tradition, but some of your plates must be size of manhole covers to fit in all that food! What's with all the veg too? So many different varieties. Why?? I suppose it's because you like them, but still four or five different veg sides. OMG.

But whatever you like, enjoy.

Ours is very simple, neither of us like huge portions of anything.

Scrambled egg and smoked salmon on bagels with fizz for breakfast. Yep fizz for breakfast. OK once a year I reckon!

Lunch/Dinner, homemade veg soup with cream and home made brown soda bread with REAL butter.

After an hour or so, salmon en crutches (en croute ha ha), roast, mash and croquettes, roasted root veg and that's it.

Cheese and bikkies to nibble at through the evening.

Plenty of wine and brandy to finish it (and us!) off.

Baileys coffee at some point.

Hic.

It's as much about the drinks as the food here as you can see!