What do you have on your christmas day menu

lauradora

Call me mad but....

Our (well ok, my) plan is to go to Asda on xmas eve morning and see what they've reduced!!

I knoiw by the time ive got through the shop doors i'll want to kill everybody but i'll risk it for the sake of getting something cheap!!
Also it adds a but of mystery to it all......lets just hope theres more than black pudding left!!

Ms_Chocaholic

ciderwithrosie wrote: »

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.

Do you have a recipe for the cheesecake, I'd love to have it if you do

JBD

This year it will be me, my 2 younger children [15 and 11] and their Dad [my ex].
Breakfast -bacon butties for them. Probably yoghurt and fruit for me [Iam a vegetarian]
Dinner - we never have starters. So main course -
roast pork or chicken [I buy the mini roasts in the foil tray], nut roast for me
roast potatoes
stuffing
sprouts, carrots, peas, cauliflower cheese, gravy
For afters probably chocolate ice cream . And after 8 mints.

For tea - sausage rolls, party eggs, crisps, cheese and biscuits [I'm looking forward to a nice bit of stilton]. I will put a few homemade mincepies out. My son and I are going to do the 'converting a swiss roll into a yule log' thing, but we may do that on Boxing day. We don't have Christmas cake or Christmas pudding as I am the only one who likes them and I don't want to end up eating thousands of calories.
Everyone else will probably be having a few sweeties through the day as well.

chirpychick

Just hubby and i this year.

Christmas eve with be gammon and wedges with maybe sweetcorn and some other kind of veg
Christmas day
Breakfast : yellow sticker christmas tree croissants with ham & cheese
lunch: chicken, carrot & swede, parsnips, peas, butternut squash, leeks in white sauce, pigs in blankets, roasties, stuffing, gravy
Pudding: Mince pies or apple pies with custard

im trying really hard to not get in too much junk food!! Though we will have a few bits.

Paulie'sGirl

This year we have my much bereaved best mate staying with us, and OH's Kids just for Boxing Day, so....

Xmas eve - cola gammon with toffee glaze, red cabbage, veg and something simple with potatoes
Xmas day - roast sirloin of beef, yorkshire puds, roasties in goose fat, carrots, sprouts, mashed swede and something else green. Followed by Xmas pud with cream or brandy sauce
Boxing day - roast chicken (cold cuts from the gammon and beef), roasties, carrots, red cabbage, some other fresh veg. Probably a choice of Xmas pud or sticky toffee pud

The cold cuts from the 3 joints should see us well into the following week with salads and in sandwiches with soup. Nice and easy for the rest of the week

PGxx

Cat501

No breakfast, I like to save myself for dinner, but if anyone wants it they can have toast or cereal or, more likely, chocolate;)

Dinner at M&Ds, turkey with trimmings followed by trifle, glass of sparkling wine or two, no more.

Back home around 5 or 6 with a tub of leftover turkey to have in a sandwich later on, might have a proper drink then, and that's about it!

ciderwithrosie_2

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Do you have a recipe for the cheesecake, I'd love to have it if you do

I've not found the Wagamama's recipe, a few that claim to be 'exactly like it' but they're not, I can tell just from reading the recipe. The Wagamama's one is very light and fluffy - almost mousse like and I don't believe it was baked. I was going to use Tesco stem ginger biscuits for the base, and white chocolate, ricotta, cream, whisked egg whites, gelatine and stem ginger in syrup (finely minced). It also had a toffee and chilli sauce with it. I thought this recipe was probably closest to the cheesecake I'm after (with the added ginger and without the pomegranate!)

Willow92

This year it's just me and my OH. Breakfast is bacon sandwiches then we're having a traditional christmas dinner but with chicken instead of turkey. This will be followed by a syrup sponge pudding for him and christmas pudding (with LOADS of brandy cream) for me.

No doubt there will be lots of chocolate and nibbles throughout the day.

Blackpool_Saver

We are starting with prawn cocktail without the prawns, roast pork with crackling for my son and a quorn roast for me, all the extras and veggies, followed by christmas pudding and whipped cream, later on it will be leftovers and pickles.
Boxing day will be bubble and squeak from yesterdays veg, cheese and bics etc, home made sherry trifle with glac! cherries, ooooooooh I could eat it now ha ha

merlot123

Christmas Eve:

Salmon Fillets with herby potato and leeks served with a dill and mustard sauce.

Millionare shortbread tart with lots of single cream. (Shop bought).

H M Tablet and whisky when the children have gone to bed. Will leave some of out for Santa too.

Christmas Day:

Breakfast: Croissants with bacon and brie. Cranberry sauce on the side. Champagne. Orange juice for children.


Lunch:

H M Carrot soup with warm bread.

Chicken, stuffing, pigs in blankets, carrot batons, sprouts in butter with bacon lardons, cauliflower cheese, potato croquettes, mash potato and gravy.

Melting chocolate pudding with whipped cream.

A bottle of chablis of us, and shloer for the children.

Evening: Cheese & biscuits. Red Wine for us, Shloer for the children.

Boxing Day:

Breakfast: Bacon & Sausage omelette. Lots of toast (with my new toaster my husband has bought me as a surprise;) The wally left it under the bed unwrapped.

Mid Afternoon: Buffet.