What do you have on your christmas day menu

baza52

Aarons_mummy wrote: »

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!

Sounds perfect

JulieGeorgiana

Breakfast:

Fried Eggs, Bacon, Chipolatas, Black Pudding, Fried Bread, Beans, mushrooms and hash browns

Lunch:

Mains: Chicken Breast, Stuffing, sausages wrapped in bacon, roasted potatoes, carrots and parsnips, Petit pois & baby carrots, bread sauce and cranberry jelly.

Dessert: Yule Log

Dinner:

We never end up eating anything

After Christmas:

Leftover Pie (bacon, sausages, mushrooms, chicken, stuffing, carrots, petit pois and baby carrots and cranberry jelly)

esmf73

This will help me work out what I need to get out of the freezer when!!!

Christmas eve is always easy - rudolph pasta with tomato sauce (bottled - less stress) and cheese with fruit.

Christmas day will be normal breakfast as we've not got overnight guests! Then lunch will be Finest smoked salmon (yellow stickered!) soda bread (also stickered!) then turkey and trimmings - potatoes, red cabbage, sprouts, carrots, parsnips, peas, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, pigs in blankets, gravy etc - some bought by my mum when she arrives, Christmas pud with brandy sauce, cream and icecream. Dinner will be leftovers and cheese!

yummy

jc2703

Reading all your lovely menus has made me long to fast forward a week!

Breakast for the kids will be chocolate and bacon sarnies for those that want them. Year before last we did the full fry up but we were all that stuffed we weren't ready for dinner!

Christmas dinner will be about 1:30 and we will have Prawn & Salmon (mouse in shapes with salmon edge) salad or HM Vegetable Soup for the prawn-dodgers, Turkey, Ham and all the trimmings including honey & mustard cocktail sausages and dessert will be ice-cream, flakes & sauce for the kids, DH will have Sherry Trifle that his Nanny makes for him every year and I will a warm mince pie with brandy cream

I anyone wants to eat later it will be sandwiches of turkey, ham, stuffing and little sausages (with a dollop of cranberry sauce in mine!)

Haven't thought much about the other meals for the weekend - we usually have a takeaway on Christmas eve (as I do all the prep or xmas dinner then and cook the ham so I can use the stock or the vegetable soup) and I have a lovely joint of beef in the freezer which will do for boxing day either as a roast dinner or for a picnic tea (leftover meats, pickles, salad, coleslaw, bread etc)

Is it wrong that I want to eat turkey at half eight on a morinng? lol

2012ismyyear

It's really lovely to read about everyone elses xmas there are some great menus! So i thought i would join in. here goes

Xmas eve tea
We go to OHs nanans house and meet santa as he rides down the road on his sleigh, gives the kids a pressie and has a chat with them. Then it is followed by a buffet gammon/ pork roast sarnies and nibbles, then the best trifle i have ever had:)

Xmas day
brekkie - bacon and egg sarnies/ sausage and egg for son
Dinner -Prawn cocktail, trying the 4 bird roast from aldi this year with root veg mash, roast carrot parsnip and potatoes, cabbage, my hubbys HM yorkshire puds yum yum and stuffing. For pudding vianetta and a warm mince pie.
Tea - My mum and dad come later on in the day and we have a small buffet the boys usually have a sarnie made of the dinner roast and the girls just usually have sausage roll, crisps, dips, cheese and onion and the like _party_
late xmas night - a rennie soft chew he he

I LOVE XMAS have a good one everybody !

ubamother

Preparation is everything - things underlined are either fully prepped or have the various components prepped and in freezer.

Christmas Eve - brunch - cheese and mushroom plait, h/m coleslaw, gruyere puffs, salads; early dinner: Rudolph pie, pommes dauphinoise, green beans followed by chocolate orange cheesecake/homemade vanilla icecream; post-panto: baked camembert, french bread, mince pies

Christmas Day - Breakfast - complex discussion and negotiation still underway; Post-church and while opening pressies canapes: crab balls, h/m salmon mousse on little gem lettuce leaves, smoked salmon, sour cream and dill on h/m blinis, mini-bruschettas topped with marinated tomato/olive type mixture, champagne cocktails;

Late lunch: Turkey, 3 types of h/m stuffing, hasselback potatoes, broccoli, stuffed roasted onions, carrots cooked in orange juice and butter, roast parsnips, swede, sprouts with chestnuts and parsley, peas, h/m cranberry sauce, oceans of gravy followed by christmas pudding and/or pear and ginger trifle.

Various other additions such as homemade meringues, chocolate orange cake etc.

Hate the shopping, but love the cooking and preparation, love the eating, and somebody else does the washing up!

redkids1972

Hi some nice menus posted
our menu will be
Xmas eve Buffet with a gammon, crisps and bits and bobs of party food

Xmas day- Breakfast will be croissants with Bacon or jam for those that prefer with OJ
Lunch -starter will be Chicken Caesar salad which is a firm family favourite
Main Turkey/Gammon (from Xmas eve buffet) all the trimmings
Dessert- Trifle
Xmas evening - sandwiches and leftover party food

Boxing day will be bacon and egg sandwiches and hopefully a free lunch elsewhere lol

Rainy-Days

We are spending Christmas Day with DH parents so for us it will be just something simple for breakfast as they go a bit mad with Christmas food - in a nice way, usually a choice of starter, melon, prawn cocktail or pate with melba toast. Main course, turkey and all the trimmings, then dessert is usually, Christmas pudding, trifle or cheesecake so it's gets a bit loaded.

Boxing Day, I am cooking a main Christmas meal for us which will be goose, roast potatoes (done in the goose fat), sprouts and roast parsnips with pigs in blankets and stuffing. Then usually in the later part of evening we have cold cuts, pickles, pate, cheese and biscuits, but it's something along the lines of we will wander into the kitchen and prepare it ourselves rather than lay out a full blown spread IYKWIM. Sometimes, I feel so stuffed I usually just have some trifle followed by a few G&T's and that us really. To be honest when it comes to Christmas I don't tend to have anything at breakfast, sometimes it's a banana and a cup of coffee, because I tend to ruin my main meal - the same goes with starters as well.

The most important thing is what works for you on Christmas Day and sometimes, not following the crowd can be liberating - such as the other poster who is doing an Asian food spread. Personally, I do enjoy cooking so I am happy to be a bit of a sheep

fletch3163

2012ismyyear wrote: »

late xmas night - a rennie soft chew he he

Hilarious:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm just loving all your posts. I think I'll make a bigger effort with Christmas Eve. Husband has to go to work at 5pm on Christmas Day (am huffy about it ). We normally eat about 4pm but I'll need to start a lot earlier so will probably miss out on my canape heaven. Sometimes I think we should just have a feast of starters instead.

I used to do my tatties in goose fat too until either Nigella or Jamie (think the latter) introduced me to half olive oil, half butter. OMG, it's not for the faint of heart but beautiful.

Reading of the yellow stickers I have a huge joint of pork yellow stickered in the freezer. Any ideas how to Christmassy it up?

mummyroysof3

we having a little buffet on xmas eve which will be mostly party food from tesco i think

christmas dinner is about 1pm we having turkey, stuffing, roast pots and parsnips, mash,carrots, peas, brussel sprouts, pigs in blankets and yorkshire puds and pudding is christmas pudding or rocky road cheese cake...tea will be sandwiches

boxing day tea will be left overs, jacket pots, cheeses and crackers etc