What do you have on your christmas day menu

Churchmouse

skintchick wrote: »

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:

:rotfl: :rotfl: You may have to delve a little deeper to find some bits worth preserving and passing on then But I like the idea of duck being your tradition. I just adore turkey so am happy to go with that one.

Incidentally, next year when the bump is a little person, you'll have traditions about pressies, Father Christmas etc to address. Great fun:D Our last Minister but one ( I'm Methodist) used to tell the children on Christmas Eve that Father Christmas would be through by 5 am, until the year I said they'd ring and tell him what they'd got. He adjusted it then to 6.30 am:rolleyes: :rotfl:

Pink.

Hi skintchick,

There's a current thread on cooking duck for Christmas dinner that may help:

Duck for Christmas dinner help !

For starters this Old Style thread may give you some ideas: Starters and there are lots of good suggestions on these threads on the special occasions board:

Christmas Day Starter

What starter do you have xmas day?

For dessert trifle is a good alternatives a good alternative but try this thread for more ideas: Pudding and dessert recipes

This year's festive menu thread might give you some inspiration too:

What do you have on your christmas day menu

I'll add your thread to that one to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

moggylover

My own favourite recipe for duck:

pr1ck skin all over, place duck on a grill tray over a meat tin of boiling water on the hob, cover with cooking foil and steam for 30/40 mins.

Remove from heat, allow duck fat to cool on top of water and scoop off for cooking roasties.

Whilst duck is steaming prepare a marinade of: soy sauce, sherry and five spice and pour this over the duck and rub well in to skin. Place duck on rack above meat pan, cover very lightly and place in a pre-heated over (200 deg) for about 20 mins, then remove cover and allow another 20 mins (approx times only, check for skin crispness etc. to your own taste) to brown up and crisp the skin.

Serve with a medley of stir fried chinese vegetables with ginger and spring onion, and roast potatoes! Novel but georgeous:drool: .

OrkneyStar

Brekkie: HM rolls with bacon and/or a nice fried egg! Juice or tea (or milk for DS).
Lunch: Turkey crown wrapped in bacon, chipolatas, sausage meat stuffing, oatmeal stuffing, sprouts, carrots, peas, baked onions, gravy, cranberry sauce followed by a small bit of Christmas pud and cream. Wine, juice, fizzy juice (treat type nice stuff!), milk for DS.
Supper: HM garlic bread, crisps, cheese, grapes, HM truffles/tablet. Juice, tea, milk.

EssexHebridean

Breakfast here is just toast or toast and eggs for my Dad.

Lunch will be a free range turkey with my Mum's gorgeous roasties, my spiced red cabbage, and carrots / peas and sprouts. Also the usual trimmings - stuffing balls, pigs in blankets, gravy, cranberry sauce. Pudding is undecided as yet - might be a fresh fruit salad.
Tea is "bits and pieces" - depends what Mum and I get round to making but quiches, sausage rolls, cheeses, pate, smoked salmon, crisps, fresh made bread.....We're having sachertorte instead of christmas cake this year so that'l be a change.

blueberrypie

Christmas Day menu is non-spillable breakfast on my bed in the morning (while the kids empty their stockings), followed by leftovers from Christmas Eve for the rest of the day - we'll have our Christmas Dinner in the evening on the 24th. Works better for us for a variety of reasons.

Christmas Dinner is pretty traditional:
roast turkey
roast ham
roast potatoes
mashed potatoes (with additions - this year it's herbs and parmesan)
roasted veg (sprouts, carrots, shallots, beetroot - all in one dish, fab recipe from a Sainsbury magazine years ago)
roast parsnips
cocktails sausages wrapped in bits of bacon
two kinds of stuffing (one that we've had before, plus a new one to try - the former is in case we don't like the latter LOL)
gravy
cranberry sauce (home-made - so much better than shop stuff!)
erm...there's usually a dessert of some sort but we're all too full, so it gets eaten the next day

Peartree

After many, many years of the traditional Christmas dinner, some truths started to emerge a couple of years ago - none of us really like sprouts, my Dad has never like carrots in his life (which came as a bit of a surprise to my Mum after 50 year of marriage) and, if we are going to spend a shed load of money on a piece of meat, overpriced turkey wasn't on the top of anyone's list. In any case, after a couple of christmas dos we've all had our turkey quota for the year.

So last year, and this year, we are having a very nice rib of beef. Having done the accompaniments for turkey for so many years it has taken a bit of time for me to get my head around what to do to go with it but one can adapt! And the leftovers are so much nicer!

And, of course, you can pick up a nice turkey crown reduced after Christmas to get your seasonal turkey fix for the new year.

Bambywamby

This year we are having:

B/fast - bacon toasties and bucks fizz
Lunch - Roast Pork, apple and sausage meat stuffing, sage and onion stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, sprouts and HM gravy. Chrissy pud and cream or chocolate eclairs.
Tea - Tomato soup and HM bread cakes, mince pies.

MrsE_2

mumof3mk wrote: »

what about Yorkshire Puds.. lol

christmas dinner is not complete wivout the help of aunt bessies yorkiessYUM YUM!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yorkies are for beef, not turkey

SunnyGirl

We are having:

Breakfast - Usual toast or cereal while the kids try to negotiate how much chocolate they can eat

Lunch - Starter - Melon boats for the kids, avocado prawn for me, smoked trout & prawn salad for dh, mum & dad. very retro but we love it

Main - Roast turkey, roast pots, steamed carrots with caraway seeds, steamed sprouts than pan fried with bacon, sesame seeds & walnut oil, lemon & rosemary stuffing (nobody likes sausagemeat), sausages & bacon, cranberry sauce & gravy.

Dessert - Very small christmas pudding for dh as only he likes it, lemon torte, chocolate log, fresh fruit salad or trifle. All with optional fresh cream, ice cream or custard.

Tea: We don't usually have any just bits of pudding if nobody fancied it after lunch. Kids get sandwiches and whatever they fancy picking at.

My mum & dad make all of this from scratch its brilliant. They work so hard all day christmas eve to make it special for us all. Leftovers usually come home with me where they are used to great effect

I hope that everyone enjoys their own christmas lunch whether they are having the traditional one or beans on toast. Happy Christmas!