What do you have on your christmas day menu

sillyvixen

usually as a veggie i make my own food and take it round to mums who cooks a traditional christmas meal - this year as i have visitors a few days after christmas - i am concentrating on home cooked food for them (needs to be in the freezer tomorrow - with veggie alternative for me) so i have bought a M&S nut roast for the first time since i learned to cook!! not very mse - but i am really too pushed for time- and my oven and hob will be full of stuff for my visitors 2morrow with me cleaning in between stiring and checking.

zarazara

Breakfast = porridge
Xmas lunch/dinner = beef wellington, roast potatoes,sprouts,carrots,gravy,horseradish sauce
christmas pud and brandy butter.
xmas tea = big pot of tea and cake ,cheese and biscuits

fallen121

We have all the usual, including cocktail sausages wrapped in bits of bacon, but am I the only person to have noticed an increasing tendency to refer to these as 'pigs in blankets' (first noticed this on my office canteen menu this year, then again in ASDA).

This is an Americianism which I personally cannot abide, although in all other respects I am very pro American and in fact have spent some very nice Christmases in the USA, although I find their attachment to mash potato with Turkey on Christmas day a little bizarre! :rolleyes:

Anyhow, as a foreigner living in Scotland (maybe less of an English Sassenach now I am a Mum of a small Scottish person) I have learnt over the last 24 years to refer to these cocktail sausage in bacon concoctions as 'kilties' or 'kilted sausages'. So yes we have kilties on Xmas Day. And if I have time, sausage meat hedgehogs, with eyes made out of cranberries and spines made out of parsnip.

PS We have Yorkshire Pud too - it started out because my daughter expected it with every roast, now it's a sort of tradition. Glad I'm not the only one

LittleTinker

mumof3mk wrote: »

what about Yorkshire Puds.. lol

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

aunt Bessies!!??? Soooo insulting to Yorkshire folk they are. They are Horrible!!

HariboJunkie

Hot smoked salmon (which was free :money: ) on HM wheaten bread with bucks fizz for breakfast.

Roast beef with yorkshires, glazed gammon, roast spuds, mashed carrot and parsnip, sprouts and chestnuts, spiced red cabbage, stuffing loaf, pigs in blankets and port gravy. :drool:

Christmas Pud about 3 hours later and no starter this year so we can actually stand a chance of making it to the pud.

At tea time I do cold cuts of the meat with HM pickles and bread.

All of the above is heavily diluted with prossecco and red wine (though not at the same time)

fallen121

LittleTinker wrote: »

aunt Bessies!!??? Soooo insulting to Yorkshire folk they are. They are Horrible!!

Aren't they a Delia 'cheat' ingredient? :rolleyes:

Bambywamby

If "pigs in blankets" is an Americianism...I love it. Perfect for the spirit of Christmas...just like sausage meat hedgehogs!

blueberrypie

fallen121 wrote: »

We have all the usual, including cocktail sausages wrapped in bits of bacon, but am I the only person to have noticed an increasing tendency to refer to these as 'pigs in blankets' (first noticed this on my office canteen menu this year, then again in ASDA).

This is an Americianism which I personally cannot abide, although in all other respects I am very pro American and in fact have spent some very nice Christmases in the USA, although I find their attachment to mash potato with Turkey on Christmas day a little bizarre! :rolleyes:

We're having mash - don't usually, but I found a new recipe that sounds really good and thought ah, what the heck ;-)

I think the US thing is probably because turkey is more typically a Thanksgiving food there, with something like ham being more common at Xmas.

Why does "pigs in a blanket" annoy you so much? (I'm only asking because I'm interested - I find it fascinating why certain phrases bother certain people.) I do like "kilties" though - easier to say than piab ;-)

wyebird

We are going the traditional route this year, but the other year there were 15 of us (and my house is the size of a shoe box), so we had an Australian Christmas and had a BBQ, wore shorts and generally convinced the neighbours we were barmy

hayley11

OMG christmas tomorrow!! Sorry...back to the topic...

We will probably just a brew and some toast for breakfast.

For dinner:

Turkey Crown
Roasties
Mash
Sprouts
Parsnips (maybe, might get some green beans instead)
Broccolli and Cauli
Yorkshire puds
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Turkey Gravy
Apple Sauce (don't like cranberry sauce but I love this!)

Merry Christmas