What do you have on your christmas day menu

Northern_Princess

Our Christmas starts on Christmas Eve when we meet up with my family for a buffet. We take turns at whose house it's at. This year it's at ours and I'm doing chilli as well as lots of nibbly things.

Christmas morning we normally have home smoked salmon a friend makes with scrambled eggs from the chickens on the farm and toast with a cheeky buck fizz.

We're out for dinner this year, so meeting up with MIL and going to a nice hotel. It's the first year I've not cooked on Christmas Day, so looking forward to that.

Boxing Day we'll be having OH's family over for dinner and we're having:-

Lentil soup or Pate
Roast Beef, roast and mashed potatoes, sprouts, broccoli, carrots and peas, and yorkshires.
Trifle, profiteroles or fruit salad
Cheese board or Christmas cake.

ciderwithrosie_2

We have an open house Christmas Eve for family & friends (including the boys' friends) to call in and have a drink and a few buffet nibbles/HM mince pie. We often end up playing Buzz games on the playstation with whoever's still here.

Breakfast is either cereal or toast, as nobody much feels like eating, then the OH makes some mulled wine although we're going to have mulled cider this year and we get on with the dinner.

My parents come over so we still do the traditional turkey at 1pm, also cola cooked ham, roasties, maple syrup roasted parsnips, sprouts, carrots. bacon rolls, sausagemeat balls, chestnut stuffing, sage and onion stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce and turkey gravy. Nobody wants Christmas pudding so this year I'm making a Wagamama's inspired white chocolate and ginger cheescake.
Parents usually bring over some fizzy wine to go with dinner.

We don't eat again til about 9pm when we'll have turkey and ham sandwiches, crisps and pickles.

parsonswife8

It'll be salmon mousse for us, followed by roast goose, roast potatoes, stuffing balls, baby carrots, sprouts with lardons and chestnuts, bacon wrapped chipalato sausages and gravy, then Christmas pud and brandy cream.

lostinrates

well, we're having the simplest chrsitms meal ever as my plans stand...only three adults (dh, I and my dad). I'm not even planning a starter (though might well serve crudit before we get to the table, or christmsy salad with pomigranites and crunchy chicory or something.)

we'll eat in the afternoon, about four I hope,(we have stuff we have t do outside with animals, but the bulk can be done before 4 so its easier to cal it a day then rather than try and squeeze lunch in before 2:30ish) and be having roast beef (with rost potatos, tiberius parsnips, sprouts and chestnuts, stuffed tomatoes and maybe something else green, horseradish cream, yorkshire pudding.............) then christmas pudding and or poached pears. and cheeses.

We'll have a brunchy type thing.....probably kedgeree, and grapefruit maybe some home made yogurt with berry soup or aybe soe french toast. probably bloody marys ater the morning rounds, something delicious but not too filling.

after ''lunch'' everyone will grown abut how full they are, despite the lack of a starter, then we'll waddle out and check the animals in the yard and after about 45 mins back in the house (my dh is a hollow legged eating machine) dh will be piling a plate with leftovers to eat in front of the fire with me snuggled up in front of him an the cats on top of me.

On boxing day we'll be having left overs (including ham, which we'll have for supper n christmas eve with salads and new potatos) and because we'll want something cleaner tasting by then a special fruit salad, some fresh hm bread. robably a whisky out of a flask on a bracing walk wth the dogs. If its not t icey, we'll take the two very old horses out on the quite roads for a stretch legs as a bit of a treat for them.

SUESMITH_2

we will start the day with pastries and brioche with fruit juice and tea and coffee.

lunch will start with a home made game terrine, prawn cocktail or melon. then a 3 bird roast and a leg of pork with all the usual accompaniments then a praline semifreddo plus either a trifle or a key lime pie for pud. i have also got a christmas pud which i will zap as i think onmy my mil will want any

tea i will get the cheese and biscuits out and do a buffet with left over meat, salad etc.

cooking for 8 this year

CCP

I love this sort of thread!

I'm going to my parents' this year, as will my sister and her BF: my DF (who's a fantastic cook) seems to have got a little carried away with the extra guests so for Christmas dinner we're having roast chicken, roast beef, roast pork, boiled ham, sausages, nut loaf (for my sister, but doubtless we'll all end up having a bit as it's lovely), stuffing, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, and mashed swede. That will be followed by some of my grandmother's HM Christmas pudding with cream (possibly - I never usually have room ).

Of course the best bit is that, as I'm not the main cook, all I have to do to get this delicious feast is chop some veggies and keep a good supply of drink coming from the garage to the house.

ETA - oh, and Boxing Day is always cold meat with bubble and squeak - I have to confess that I actually prefer that to the main roast.

VJsmum

:TOoh lovely thread

We have MIL, SIL, Niece and Nephew coming on christmas eve so there will be 8 altogether

Christmas Eve is going to be ham cooked in coca cola, with HM bread, quiche and some bits - my mum and dad always did christmas eve supper and i always loved it so this year we are doing one.
Christmas day will be croissants or HM cinnamon rolls if i can find time to make them for brekkie
Lunch will be smoked salmon, pate or soup at around 1.00, dinner will be around 3 and this year we are having some Gloucester old spot pork with all the trimmings, pud will be at 5ish which will be christmas pud (whoopsied to less than half price last january) or sticky toffee pudding which is my speciality
After that people can have mince pies, cake or sandwiches with leftovers
Boxing day will be bacon sarnies for brekkie and cold leftovers with chips or mash for lunch with salad and pickles
They are going on the 27th!

mummyjane

We have my parents coming over in the afternoon. Will start the day with a brunch grill up (bacon, sausages,mushrooms, beans, egg and toast nom nom nom!). We're having our Christmas Dinner mid afternoon which will be prawn cocktails (been trying to get them to have something else for years but they love it), Turkey with veggies, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce and roasties followed by Christmas pudding with hm custard or hm vanilla ice cream. Later in the evening I have mince pies and cream/custard or cheese and biscuits plus we have dips and crudites if anyone wants them although I suspect everyone will be pretty stuffed by then

fletch3163

Thanks all for your replies. When I came onto MSE just now and saw the replies I got myself some tea and settled in to read. Does that make me weird being so voyeuristic (sp)?

Angeltreats - my mum too is not ideal with Christmas dinner. I remember one year being in the kitchen about 11am and she had the sprouts on a hearty boil. We weren't eating for another 4 or so hours yikes

Aarons mummy - your brekkie of square slice on toast used to be my Friday night, home drunk food:o

SUESMITH - homemade game terrine sounds awfully adventurous. DH had it once at a hotel we stayed at and he absolutely loved it. I wonder if I'm short-changing my lot. The closest I'll come to hard work cookingwise will be putting containers into the oven:rotfl:

I love getting a wee look into your Christmas Day. How nice.

lostinrates

fletch3163 wrote: »

SUESMITH - homemade game terrine sounds awfully adventurous. DH had it once at a hotel we stayed at and he absolutely loved it. I wonder if I'm short-changing my lot. The closest I'll come to hard work cookingwise will be putting containers into the oven:rotfl:

I love getting a wee look into your Christmas Day. How nice.

it does sound lovely doesn't it. But why not try on a later day in th holidays instead? then your husband gets to enjoy it, and you can worry about it after the first flush of christmas