What are your festive menus?

lindadykes

Big family dinner at around 7pm on the 22nd for the Solstice:

Starter
Potted seafood - Mixture of lobster, crayfish and prawns in spiced butter served with melba toast
Or
For those who don't like seafood a fan of melon with a raspberry coulis.

Main:
Roast organic beef, roast potatoes, mash, carrots, stir fried greens (depends what comes in veg bag) with garlic and pine nuts, mashed swede with nutmeg, peas, yorkshire puddings, gravy and horseradish sauce.

Dessert: Baked baileys cheesecake.

Coffee: Irish or Baileys coffee and Lindt Lindor chocolate truffles.

Christmas day - (difficult one this year cos my dad died on Christmas day last year) so my middle daughter has offered to take the strain, I have offered to provide her with the meat so a stuffed boned duck and a free range turkey, but leaving the rest to her.

hostertlady

i am so jealous of all you people that have planned a lot of your menus in advance and its lovely that so many of you are doing things with the family..

i love all the traditions that we hand down from generation to generation..

p.s. they had no turkeys in asda today- i hope they have some in later this week!!!

ashli_2

lindadykes wrote: »

Big family dinner at around 7pm on the 22nd for the Solstice:

Starter
Potted seafood - Mixture of lobster, crayfish and prawns in spiced butter served with melba toast
Or
For those who don't like seafood a fan of melon with a raspberry coulis.

Main:
Roast organic beef, roast potatoes, mash, carrots, stir fried greens (depends what comes in veg bag) with garlic and pine nuts, mashed swede with nutmeg, peas, yorkshire puddings, gravy and horseradish sauce.

Dessert: Baked baileys cheesecake.

Coffee: Irish or Baileys coffee and Lindt Lindor chocolate truffles.

Christmas day - (difficult one this year cos my dad died on Christmas day last year) so my middle daughter has offered to take the strain, I have offered to provide her with the meat so a stuffed boned duck and a free range turkey, but leaving the rest to her.

So sorry for your loss, Linda. I can imagine it will be very difficult for you and yours this year. I hope you have a special day x

baileysbattlebus

well for us this year it will be
Christmas Eve - nothing special - something fairly plain and quick
Christmas Day - Breakfast - bacon sandwiches and bucks fizz all made by one of our daughters or selection box - usually age dependant !!
Starter - Prawn Cocktail (our kids used to make this themselves from the age of about 8, put it in the glasses etc, do the bread, then take it all to the table, they loved it - and we still do it)
Main - boned and rolled organic turkey, roast beef, roast and mashed potatoes, roast parsnip, mashed carrot & swede, sprouts, mushy peas (DH has to have them) brocolli & cauli (mainly for the youngsters), pig with and without blankets, stuffing, yorkshire pudding and gravy.
Pud - Xmas pud, home made trifle and home made New York cheesecake.
Coffee / mints / cheese / biscuits / port /
We usually sit down around 3, we normally have around 10 for dinner including 3 children.
Tea - you must be joking !!! Though about 9ish DH usually finds room for a bit of christmas cake and cheese

Boxing Day (don't cook - done enough Xmas Day).
breakfast / help yourself to whatever you like when you like
lunch - cold cuts of meat with home made pickled onions and home made pickled beetroot and anything else you fancy left over from Xmas day
dinner - bubble and squeak / cold meats pickles etc and anything else you fancy left over from xmas day.

New Years Eve - at a party from about 7:30
New Years Day - dinner - soup made with ham stock and grated carrot and swede, split peas, leeks and onion. Followed by gammon, baked potatoes and some sort of veg.

BREX

mines easy

christmas eve: at mother-in-laws

christmas day: dont bother with breakfast


dinner; normal roast of beef, roast potatoes and steamed veg

no pudding...noone likes it!

evening; ham sandwiches

boxing day; everyones working different hours so its a "make your own" and as everyones working no drink needed as all have to be sober:eek:

Katkin_2

Intead of prawn cocktail this year we're having lobster and king prawn tail cocktails instead, using lobster and tails from Lidls - dirt cheap and they even supply the receipe on their website. As for pudding - we're having traditional xmas pud or quick homemade chocolate mousse - Niggellas reciepe. Yum!

blackberry-rum

Blimey you lot!
Xmas eve - nothing special, didn't know it was meant to be a special meal.
Xmas morning - well perhaps a full English if I can be bothered, otherwise cereal and lots of yummy fresh coffee
Xmas lunchtime - pub, with all the blokes (there are many positive points to being a woman living alone - the prime one being YOU DON'T HAVE TO COOK XMAS DINNER FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND CAN GO TO THE PUB!)
Xmas afternoon - crispy duck and pancakes and a couple of glasses of red wine
Xmas supper - haven't thought about it.

Whooppeeeeeee I love my "alone" Christmas days!

brogusblue

Hello

We have my older sister and my 2 nephews coming for the first time, So here's my menu, We have no breakfast's or starters.

Christmas Eve

Rotisserie Chicken (in my new George Foreman Rotisserie)
Roast Potato's in goose fat
Yorkshire Puds
Homemade Stuffing
Peas
Mince pie and cream

Christmas Day

Boiled and Roasted Gammon (boiled in coke cola and an onion)
Roast Beef
Roast Chicken
Roast Potato's in goose fat
Yorkshire Puds
Homemade Stuffing
Pigs in Blankets
Peas & Carrots
Christmas Pud or Mince Pie & Cream or Costco Chocolate Gateaux.

Boxing Day - New Years Eve

Buffet and Leftovers

Cheers
Brogusblue :santa2: :xmassign:

Elizabeth_739

Years ago I did a Christmas Pudding Ice Cream for Boxing Day which was fabulous, made in a pudding basin it looked just like a white Christmas pudding. It was such a hit that for many years now I have done both a traditional and an ice cream pudding on Christmas Day, both served with brandy butter. It's a bit piggy but very much part of our traditional family day.There are 2 or 3 different ways you can make it, depending on how much time or money you want to spend!! Special way is to make a proper ice cream with cream, eggs and vanilla essence (perhaps with a drop of something stronger), stir in all the fruit, nuts and spices that go into the trad pudding. Absolutely gorgeous! If you want to take a short cut, get some ready made good vanilla ice cream and stir all the extras in. The really 'cut corners' way is to buy ordinary ice cream and stir in some mincemeat and cherries, a drop of sherry perhaps. Line a pudding basin with cling film, fill with the mixture and freeze. Turn out and top with a sprig of holly!!! Enjoy!!!

countrymusicfan

DS and I are both diabetics, so Cmas eve is always macaroni cheese. Breakfast is pancakes, but very few, and the big meal is at lunch time. Turkey, roast potatoes, chipolates and bacon, stuffing, brussel sprouts. The evening meal is trifle, or mincemeat pies. We are allowed to cheat one day a week, and we pick Cmas to cheat and have something sugary. But we must have 3 meals a day because of the diabetes.