What do you have on your christmas day menu

anniemf2508

We've decided to start a new tradition this year as we have roast dinners every week anyway.
So our xmas day will be:
Breakfast: Waffles and syrup for the kids
Bacon sarnie for hubby.

Lunch will be BBQ ribs, buffalo wings, potato skins,coleslaw, corn on the cob and corn bread.
Hubby will be outside manning the bbq.

Dessert/afternoon tea will be lemon meringue pie.

fletch3163

Ah, so traditional moving over for modern eh!

I've added croissants to my breakfast too:T

That's what I mean really about being able to have fine food whenever (purse permitting of course), it somehow stops being special. I've a neighbour who buys new PJs for her and her teens and they have a carry out dinner too. They love it.

Yorkshirelass I too hate the stress of the big cook too but I am very traditional in that I buy the nice turkey with chestnut stuffing crown, red cabbage, sprouts et al and steak pie on Boxing Day. I just let M&S take care of it. I still find Christmas Day without turkey too much to take (though I'm scared of the whole bird episode)

angeltreats

This year we're spending it with my parents. My mum, bless her, is a terrible cook (although fantastic at baking, bizarrely). So we will be having no starter, dried up turkey, lumpy, overboiled carrots and parsnips mashed together with a fork, sprouts that will have been boiled for an hour, boiled ham (that'll be quite nice though, it's hard to mess up a boiled ham), Aunt Bessies roast potatoes and Bisto gravy. Followed by sherry trifle, which I hate. But there'll also be Vienetta which I adore

My mum gets incredibly stressed over Christmas dinner, I plead with her to let me do it but she won't let me. I think she kind of feels duty-bound. Plus she actually likes that awful babyfood pureed veg...

Last year we were at home. I had smoked salmon with home made soda bread, creme fraiche and dill for breakfast. Dinner was a roast chicken (prefer it to turkey) with proper gravy, lovely crispy roast spuds, braised red cabbage, honey glazed carrots, chestnut & sage stuffing and a few other bits and pieces. Pudding was creme brulee. And Christmas cake with a nice lump of cheese It was all very little effort, I had the veg and stuffing prepped, the cabbage cooked and the pudding made on Christmas Eve, so it was just a matter of throwing a chicken and some spuds in the oven, making some gravy and enjoying the day.

Oh yes - despite my mum's refusal to let me cook Christmas dinner at hers, I'm going to make some Norwegian-style cinnamon buns for breakfast. Or I might even see if I can manage to pack the waffle maker but with a 15kg baggage allowance it might have to stay at home.

mi_jardin

We have scrambled eggs with smoked salmon for a late brekkie, followed by an attack on the tin of biscuits. Then have our roast leg lamb at about 5pm with all the trimmings, probably no Christmas pudding as we are stuffed (back in the cupboard for another year no doubt, its already 2 years old!) but then the nibbles come out about 9ish.
Boxing day we have my family coming so I will cook the beef and gammon joints for cold cuts to go with leftover lamb and all the pickles, homemade pickled onions etc etc for lunch then a bowl of parsnip and stilton soup to warm the cockles after walking the mutleys. Then the chocs come out!

CH27

Bacon butties for breakfast
Turkey dinner at Dad's around 1pm yum yum
Chocolates & cae at MIL's
Nibbles at home in the evening whilst wearing PJs & watching Dr Who & SCD.

Jaxb_2

Full english breakfast
Prawn cocktail starter, Turduckin dinner and Christmas pudding for lunch
Leftovers and a small buffet for tea

cutestkids

Breakfast will be the usual cereal / toast as the kids are more interested in the new toys than eating at that point of the day.

This year we are trying a 3 bird roast, Turkey, Chicken and Duck with apricot stuffing, will be doing all the usual trimmings, roast potatoes etc.

It will be prawns to start with either seafood sauce for my Mum who wont have a prawn any other way or a sweet chilli marinade for everyone else.

I usually do Christmas pudding with custard and trifle for anyone who does not want Christmas pudding.

Boxing day is our nibbles day I buy lots of the party food such as spring rolls, pakoras, garlic mushrooms etc and we have a big buffet that we keep picking at all evening.

I would love to do the whole curry thing for Chrsitmas dinner as would OH and the kids but Mum and Dad come to us for Christmas and it is taking them all their time to get used to the idea of the 3 bird roast and not a 'proper' Christmas Dinner :rotfl:

cutestkids

angeltreats wrote: »

This year we're spending it with my parents. My mum, bless her, is a terrible cook (although fantastic at baking, bizarrely). So we will be having no starter, dried up turkey, lumpy, overboiled carrots and parsnips mashed together with a fork, sprouts that will have been boiled for an hour, boiled ham (that'll be quite nice though, it's hard to mess up a boiled ham), Aunt Bessies roast potatoes and Bisto gravy. Followed by sherry trifle, which I hate. But there'll also be Vienetta which I adore

My mum gets incredibly stressed over Christmas dinner, I plead with her to let me do it but she won't let me. I think she kind of feels duty-bound. Plus she actually likes that awful babyfood pureed veg...
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This could be my mum's idea of a Christmas dinner except she does frozen cheesecake for dessert which is usually still frozen in the centre.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sunflower76

Breakfast will be the usual weekend breakfast of poached eggs on toast from the chickens in the garden. We'll then munch through biscuits and chockies until lunch which will be a whole salmon, veggies and roast potates and maybe a dairy free trifle, christmas cake and dairy free custard or an eaton mess type desert with a sorbet instead of cream. Mum is coming and she's dairy free so puddings can be tricky.

If we have any tea it will be cheese and biscuits, fruit and left over salmon and mabe some bubble and squeak.

Aarons_mummy

Well this year will be the first I have had some control on the whole event so I am super excited.

We're spending Christmas eve watching christmas movies and spending time as a family then on the actual day we'll have square sausage toasted sandwiches then just picking whilst we do the presents and the wee guy has fun. Around 1pmish we're going to my mums where I'll help finish off the dinner which we'll probably have around 3pm.

Starter is soup chicken or tomato, main is turkey with trimmings and veggies and pudding gateux or cheesecake and there'll be sweets, biscuits and nibbles if we want them which we won't. I'll get to bring a ton of food home for boxing day and we'll have the nibble and pick bits I've made this week and it'll be a play day with yummy foods.

To be honest I am looking forward to a happy day, just relaxing and not manically rushing from house to house visiting 101 different family members, we'll have time to play and relax on the day which so far has been unheard of!