What are your festive menus?

shimmigirl

didn't say what we will be having!!
Christmas Eve: My Mum, Sis and niece come for dinner.
I do something homely and warming usually and that everyone can help selves if seconds wanted.
Not sure yet but lasagne or pasta bake or pasta bolognaise probably. salad, garlic dough balls / bread. And probably a ready made pud from iceland - cheescake or gateau.

Xmas Day: At MiLs, SiL cooks and there is usually 7 adults and 3 children (plus my new bubba) for lunch, plus 2 more adults and 2 more children for tea.

Breakfast: Muffins, Crumpets or Bacon sarnies oh and selection packs !!

Lunch: no starter needed as too full of choc and sweets!!
Main - Turkey, beef, cocktail sausages, stuffing, peas, carrots broccoli, parsnips, Brussels, (and yorky puds and cocktail sausage rolls for the picky eaters that don't eat any veg!)
Pudding: sherry trifle, xmas pud, or gateau

Tea: cold turkey, beef, gammon, salad stufff, various party canapés for buffet, crisps, cakes / biscuits.

Boxing day: At MiLs again. 8 (maybe 9) adults 5 children (plus bubba and maybe new nephew!)
all food the same but with gammon as well for main, and different veggies eg cauli instead of brocolli.
Different canapes for tea.

New years - we are probably still eating leftovers at our house as we still buy plenty for xmas even though we spend the two xmas days at MiLs!!

Trow

I'm surprised how many people have a lunch and tea on Xmas day - we do the following:

Breakfast: croissants, orange juice

Snacky bits (nuts, fruit, crisps)

And we have our Xmas Lunch/dinner combined about 3pm - there is so much food no need for another meal!

Starter is usually melon with ginger, cos its easy and can be prepared well in advance of the main cooking.

Either - turkey, or a duck and a capon, or a leg of lamb and a capon - some combination of the above
Chipolatas, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, roast carrots & parsnips, brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, stuffing, maybe cauliflower cheese if I can be bothered making it!

Dessert is different each year - had a chocolate and giner cheesecake one year, a chestnut chocolate cake one year, pomegranite mess, pavlova, butterscotch meringue flan - it varies depending on my mood nearer the time!


Boxing day is my day of leisure, where people get leftovers zapped in the microwave, or sandwiches.

Trow

TNG wrote: »

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.......

Just a word of advice - I don't know how many of you there are, or if you had goose before, but goose doesn't go terrible far, so make sure you have plenty to cover boxing day in case there isn't a lot left!

Essex-girl_2

Shimmigirl my Xmas food is quite similar to yours

Xmas Eve probably go for lasagne, not sure if we will have people coming round.

Xmas morning - ham and poached eggs - OH's tradition
Xmas dinner - no starter, turkey roast & mash pots, brussels carrots & peas. Chipolata sausages with bacon. Xmas pudd for dessert.
Xmas tea - leftover ham & turkey, fresh hm bread prawn in cocktail sauce smoked salmon, salad and other party bits - vol a vents.

Boxing day - we are out this year but normally - ham and egg for breakfast again, turkey, ham & pickles with chips for oh & kids, bubble n squeak for me.

SugarSpun

Christmas Eve is dinner like any other evening, unless we're naughty and sneak out to the chip shop.

Christmas Day:

Breakfast - eggs benedict with smoked salmon.

Lunch - turkey, Quorn roast, roast potatoes, broccoli, sprouts, carrots, parsnips, Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce. Christmas pudding if anyone feels the need for it - usually only my brother, whose legs are remarkably hollow.

I have just come back from finding an ice wine on special offer - I paid €24 for it last year and found it for €13, so that might go instead of dessert. If I don't drink it today while doing my mountain of baking.

Dinner - sandwiches, salad, bread, pate, cut up vegetables, whatever snack foods are available and haven't been inhaled already by the demon eater.

Mrs7ones

I love to hear what everyone else does for Christmas food...
Here's mine:-

Christmas Eve will be something easy for lunch as it's our prep day (we make the cranberry sauce, apple sauce, mince pies, Yule log, roast the gammon and make a meat loaf roll out of the turkey legs.
Then we have a buffet tea for us and our 3 kids.

Christmas Day will be bacon sarnies for b'fast. Trad Christmas lunch with all the trimmings and Xmas pud or icecream for afters. IF anyone wants tea, they can help themselves to buffet leftovers plus turkey from the fridge.

Boxing day we go to MIL's. It's turkey and home made chips for lunch then a huge family buffet for tea.

New Years eve tea is usually a take-away chosen by the kids.
I do another Christmas lunch on New Years Day for my parents, and then a huge buffet for my side of the family for tea.

It's my birthday on Jan 3rd, so them I get spoilt by DH for all the hard work I've put in over Christmas and the New Year !!

debjk

Heres mine
Xmas eve chippy if they think I am cooking Christmas eve too!!!!! sorry have 4 kids and everything is left to me to sort out so christmas eve I am refusing to cook!

Xmas day

breakfast
get it yourself I am cooking the turkey and preparing veg :rotfl: which usually means for the kids as much choc as they can stuff in their faces :rotfl:

Lunch
probably prawn cocktail as there are too many people who say I dont like that I cant eat those :mad: I think prawn cocktail is safe

Turkey and pork, pigs in blankets, roast pots, roast parsnips, sprouts cooked in oxo with bacon and onion, carrots and cauli

Dessert will be a christmas pudding that yet again will not get used because everyone is too stuffed to eat it and some time in the summer next year I will find it in the back of my cupboard out of date and throw it away :rotfl:

Tea turkey sandwiches and pickles and more chocolates:D

Boxing day I usually have family around for a tea party and fill my table with the contents of a tescos warehouse then have loads left over for the dog to feast on:rotfl:

meerustar

Xmas Eve

We have 'party for tea' which is sausage rolls, cold meats, pickles etc, then go to church for xmas mass and then settle down for a xmas movie with homemade choccy biccies and milk. (I say xmas movie but I prefer Shrek, lol)

Xmas Day

Breakfast - Bacon Butty, cup of tea and half a selection box

Dinner 3pm ish (so we don't have to watch the queen )

Starters - Prawn cocktail (I can't rock the boat either, lol)

Main - Turkey, beef, mash potatoes, roast potatoes, carrot, swede, sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, yorkies, stuffing, gravy, mint sauce, apple sauce and cranberry sauce, lol (we all differ)

Pud - Trifle or xmas pud.

Boxing day - Leftovers fried up in a pan ... mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Mum does the Turkey and Trifle, MiL does the beef and so we just have to do the veg and get it to the table hot.

Later in the day - more selection boxes

Well, it's only once a year innit


EDIT TO ADD: Youngest is getting a Wii this year, so not sure if anyone will get fed :rotfl: :rotfl:

iwanttosave_2

We have...

Starter.

Brocoli and stilton soup.
Prawns in that pink sauce I forgot the name of.
Goose liver and garlic pate with french toast.
Melon and fruit for the one who don't like the above.

Mains.

Turkey, mustard and peppercorn gammon joint, roasties, parsnips, carrots, brocoli, sprouts, cranberry sauce, stuffing and gravey. (I just realise we don't have yorkies...Will sort that out this year!)

Pudding.

Christmas pud, chocolate mini puds, cheesecake or trifle, mind the trifle never gets touched.

Cheese and biscuits.

Coffee, tipple and mints.

We pull crackers before we eat and must all wear our hats

In the evening, I normally have stuffing butties with some salt on.

Boxing day is normally leftovers in some form or other. I always make my gran make an industrial size tub of stuffing cos hers is gorgeous.

Trow

iwanttosave wrote: »

Prawns in that pink sauce I forgot the name of.

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