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What do you have on your christmas day menu

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  • We'll be having

    Salar hot smoked salmon, prawn & avocado salad

    Roast Beef, Roast turkey, roasted vegetables (carrot, onion, garlic, parsnip, butternut squash, turnip, peppers and tomatoes), brussel sprouts, prunes and bacon rolls, chipolatas, gravy

    Pudding, a rich chocolate tart

    If anyone's hungry in the evening, we'll have cheese and biscuits and port :)
  • going to my mum and dads this year so will be bacon sarnies in the morning once brother has got up complete with hangover (may be joining him this year)

    then sausages in bacon to start and stuffing balls around 2pm.

    main is 3 bird roast with roast veg and yorkshires

    pudding is left till we can move

    if im doing it at mine for me and oh, then we have breakfast in bed with bucks fizz and bacon sarnies.

    we tend to have lunch around 1, but it tends to be a chinese banquet part homemade part bought in marks and sparks

    then more alcohol and chocolate and bed

    love christmas :D
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  • lil_me
    lil_me Posts: 13,186 Forumite
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    Think I will join in too

    Just the 4 of us hopefully, I have declined lunch offers from several.

    Breakfast/lunch - bacon sandwiches for DP and fruit salad for me and the boys (as they requested)
    Dinner - as late on as possible but need to finish by 4.45pm. Going for beef instead of turkey as we prefer it, might do a chicken too but more so we have plenty of cooked meats left. As we're having beef I think a yorkshire with gravy starter might be in order. Little sausages in bacon I think I will still do. Veg depends what I pick up but mainly for me as have a fussy family.

    I do have Christmas pudding but we tend to have that late evening when we get back from visiting, this year trying to keep on the day visiting to a minimum, being to DPs Dad's house.
    One day I might be more organised...........:confused:
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  • Christmas Eve Tea - I've promised DH steak!

    Breakfast -
    DH - Cereal (he's working)
    Me and DD - bagels and fruit

    Lunch - hopefully bacon butties at my brothers house, DD and I will visit after church.

    Christmas Dinner
    Organic chicken - a treat, a turkey is too big for 3 of us.
    Roasties
    pea, carrots, sprouts (for DD)
    sausages in bacon
    stuffing - homemade
    sausagemeat - homemade
    cranberry sauce
    gravy

    Pudding is a sticky toffee pudding from the farm shop with ice cream - neither DH or I like christmas pud.

    Christmas Dinner will be served about tea time with DH at work until 2pm.

    Boxing Day will be a repeat of Christmas Dinner.

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    3 years 9 months and proud of it
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  • I'm hopeless at menu planning except for this one day a year when I can join in:D

    Breakfast will be fruit juice, coffee, maybe a bit of toast and some choccie off the tree:D DH and DSs will have bacon sarnies, that's tradition.

    Christmas Dinner (eaten as a late lunch;) about 2.30pm)

    turkey
    gammon
    pigs in blankets
    forcemeat stuffing
    chestnut stuffing
    roast potatoes
    roast parsnips
    brussels
    carrots
    mashed swede
    cauliflower
    peas
    broccoli
    cranberry sauce
    gravy

    definitely no yorkies, no bread sauce (yuk!!!)

    About an hour later, Christmas pud with brandy butter, brandy cream, and clotted cream;) ( This combo is a staple at every Christmas meal (for me:o ) for the entire festive period, until it all runs out :D )

    tea, served about 8.30 - 9.00 pm is on another thread and is salad, cold cuts etc. I'll probably pass on that and partake of Christmas pud, brandy butter..............:o :o No honestly, that's not the reason I'm fat, I have a slow metabolism:rotfl:
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  • skintchick
    skintchick Posts: 15,114 Forumite
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    As I got married this year, it is just me and hubby for Christmas this year (well, plus bump :D)

    I have ordered a duck as I don;t like turkey, and the butcher is getting me a 5lb one which he said we'd need (sounds huge to me though).

    Anyway, what should I do with it? Should I do a starter and if so what?

    We neither of us like Christmas pudding so what can I do as a dessert?

    Awkward things:
    OH won;t eat melted cheese, or cream, or butter
    I won;t eat fruit sauces with meat
    I can;t have alcohol cos of bump

    Any ideas? I don;t want to be cooking all day and as we won;t get back from church till after midday and want to eat by 3pm it can;t take hours and hours!

    Please help me prove what a great festive wifey I am :p
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  • No advice on menu as such, skinty, but just to say you'll be surprised how little meat will come off a 5 lb duck;) honestly you won't be eating leftovers for days:D

    As for the alcohol aspect, anything that involves alcohol that is cooked, the alcohol will evaporate, leaving only the taste, so no need for you to avoid it completely;)

    It's your first Christmas as a married couple, time to start your own family traditions, but do try to incorporate some from each of your family's, that's what traditions are for. Have a lovely day:D
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  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,762 Forumite
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    If it's just the two of you, then do your favourites.

    A 5lb duck should give you plenty of meat. If you're having roast potatoes (save the duck fat for these), parsnips, sprouts, red cabbage (great with duck, which is quite a fatty meat) etc, then you probably won't need a starter, but you might want some nibbles to have with a (non-alcoholic) drink when you get back from church to keep you going until you're ready to eat.

    We usually have friends back after church (coffee & mince pies) or before lunch (our main meal is in the evening, so timing isn't an issue as we have ham & baked potatoes for lunch) when we'll do little bits of cream cheese & smoked salmon on rye bread, pate on tiny bits of toast. Bits to pick at really, which won't ruin your appetite but will give you some flexibility with the timing.

    For pudding, have something you both like, but don't often treat yourselves to. There are plenty of ideas out there. I was looking at old magazines today, and saw a lovely chocolate & apricot sponge (yummy!). Trifle is good too, or oranges with cointreau if you want fruit, or pavlova (obviously a problem for OH with the cream - maybe have fruit with sticky meringue, or apple meringue pie..).

    Whatever you do, have a fantastic first family Christmas!
  • skintchick
    skintchick Posts: 15,114 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    I think duck will be our tradition. If family ones are anything to go by, we can choose between staring at the TV not talking (his family) or arguing over what games to play and sulking when the men win with playing cards for money (my family). :rotfl:
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  • skintchick
    skintchick Posts: 15,114 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    greenbee - he loves trifle so maybe I could do that. That can be done in advance too, yes?

    Love the nibbles idea, too.
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