What are your festive menus?

milkydrink

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PasturesNew

Good lord you're dead posh.
Most of that food I have never had in my entire life.

My festive menu is usually:

Xmas Eve - egg/chips

Xmas Day - normal Xmas dinner of turkey/stuffing/yorkshires/roast spuds/veggies; no afters.

Xmas Day tea - salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomato), some grated cheese, bread & marg and a bit of left over turkey if you fancy it.

Boxing Day lunch - turkey & chips

Breakfasts: none

PasturesNew

I've never known anybody to eat like that at Xmas.

Most people I know just do normal food up to the day, then Xmas dinner, a salad tea, then leftovers on Boxing Day.

Then it's back to normal.

Maybe you're posh and just don't know it. A lot of posh people are. It's all relative.

When I was a kid, Xmas "extras" just meant:
- we'd go to Woolies and get some broken biscuits as a treat
- we'd have 1 bottle of fizzy Corona drink
- we'd have a tin of Quality Street (usually a "family present" from a posh family)
- we'd have 1 pack of dates, some satsumas, 1 bowl of nuts.

It's not really changed much to be honest.

PasturesNew

Yes, I agree, it's all about food. But you do have to get out of the front door the day after Boxing Day to get back to work ... and if you can't fit, you'll have problems.

I live alone, and am a major pig and quick/junk food eater (healthy? pfft, bring on the pies I say!).

My Xmas is: popping over to mum's for Xmas Day. Apart from that I am just buying in:
- 1 pack of satsumas
- £2.99 tub of pick n mix from Woolies
- some chocolate coins for under my tree

That's "enough". Anything more and I'd never shift the weight again.

I'm not short of a bob or two, so it's not about money this year for me. In fact, I chucked in my job and finish next week as I figure it'd be nice to have 2-3 months off and have time to "prepare" for Xmas and relax after it. And I am not on a diet (love to be, just no will power). It's just about visualising what I've got in and drawing a line under an extra quantity that is "enough". And I figure that's it. However, I do weigh just 9 stone, so it would be easy for me to put on about 10 pounds and have trouble losing it (don't want to do that).

Yes, I'll go round the shops and look at all the nicely wrapped food... then I'll walk on. It's amazing just how long it takes to eat food once you've brought it into the house, or, worse, how frightening quickly it's scoffed without a thought. So I don't bring it home.

notsolucky_2

kimevans can i come to yours for christmas please???

Kzlnd

notsolucky wrote: »

kimevans can i come to yours for christmas please???

Me too?
Your menus are yummy! Sorry no dessert suggestions but you've certainly given me some ideas mmm

TNG

xmas day we'll be having goose, roasties, red cabbage & apple, parsnips (julienned and roasted/fried), hm gravy and hm stuffing with orange & cranberry

xmas evening ham joint, pickles and dips

boxing day - cold goose

That's about as far as I have planned.......

troll35

Well we can't be too adventurous (or offer too many options) on Christmas Day because we're cooking for either 17 or 19:D , so space will be at a premium. My plans are

starter - homemade smoked mackerel pate with french toast or melon. (has to be something that can either be prepared just before eating or doesn't take up too much fridge space)
Main - Turkey and roast beef, stuffing, roast and new potatoes, sprouts, crrots, parsnips, broccoli, cauliflower, mushy peas(don't go there - DH family fav), pigs in blankets, naked pigs, cranberry sauce, plus some bits I've probably forgotten. Sounds a lot but some things like the broccoli and cauliflower are mainly for the kids)
Pud - homemade Xmas pud and rum sauce or a quality icecream.

Thankfully we don't have to prepare everything. Everyone does their part, one relly will bring all the prepared sprouts, someone else the prepared potates etc etc. However I am glad that our turn for Christmas Dinner only comes round every 4 years!!

shimmigirl

new years day pudding - two fairly rich courses so how about a pudding to cut through the richness but still luxurious. Maybe:

Lemon Tart

Horn of plenty - knickerbocker style glasses with really good vanilla ice cream, mixed berries (great if you can warm them through to melt ice cream a bit and to create a syrup) and plenty of thick whipped or double cream cream.
This can also be done with brandy snap basket or with brandy snap curls (pud in martini / wine glasses) on the side if you don't have the right serving glasses.


or maybe a selection of exotic fruits cut nicely - kumquats, pineapple, some melon, mango, kiwi, papaya (if you like it, I don't!!) etc. Again serve with some nice cream, and a strawberry coulis and choccy sauce so people can dip as they wish?

TNG

kimevans wrote: »

Xmas lunch, we ALWAYS have prawn cocktails (served with buttered brown sliced bread) & to be honest I'm getting fed up it with. Its so bl**dy naff & old fashioned, but there may be a riot if I try to change it. I was thinking of deep fried camenbert with a cranberry sauce on the side or cajun style king prawns. Maybe I will save these for boxing day & new years day, to save upset;)

Last year I made a lovely butternut squash soup something different to consider.....

Wonder_Girl

Kimevans,

My plans look pretty much like yours. I know what you mean about the prawn cocktails tho, just ONCE i want something new! is that too much to ask? no i didn't think so either!

xmas eve - Not dicided yet, pron a nice beef stew or lamb shanks and mash

xmas

Breakfast - Pankcakes have been voted in this year i might have salmon and cream cheese on toast as i'm the only one who likes smoked salmon anyways

Lunch
Starter - Prawn bloody boring tail:mad:
Main - Turkey, probably a crown, roast spuds & parsnips, sprouts and 3 other veg, stuffing, pigs in blankets and sausdage meat balls as i won't be able to put it inside the turkey, Oh and yorkies, can't believe i forgot those!
Pud - Yule log and cream, cheese and crakers we don't like xmas pud in our house

xmas dinner, a bit of a buffet, left over turkey, quiche, cheese and crackers, cold meats, pigs in blankets etc

Boxing day -
Breakfast - full english
lunch - boiled gammon with a jacket or new spuds and veg
dinner - eat whever is left in the house until it runs out:rotfl: