What do you have on your christmas day menu

nesssie1702

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

debtfreein4years

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

lil_me

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.

MadDogWoman_2

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.

MDW

Churchmouse

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 )

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 No honestly, that's not the reason I'm fat, I have a slow metabolism:rotfl:

skintchick

As I got married this year, it is just me and hubby for Christmas this year (well, plus bump )

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

Churchmouse

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

greenbee

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

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:

skintchick

greenbee - he loves trifle so maybe I could do that. That can be done in advance too, yes?

Love the nibbles idea, too.