What do you have on your christmas day menu

sharnad

going to christmas hall to be with fellas family so there will probably be soup/prawn cocktail starter. Turkey, ham, gammon, pork, beef, chicken and veggie with all the trimmings as main course and christmas pud, trifle and cakes with custard/white sauce for dessert with mince pies and coffee. No idea what I will have for brekkie depends if I can get my fella to visit my family in the morning or if we do it at home, if we do it at home might make him bacon and egg sarnies but I will be too excited to eat.

tori.k

Im making life easy for myself this year as i haven't got a lot of time off work.
So it's bacon butties for the kids, and poched eggs on toast for DH&I
Lunch will be a full Christmas dinner but I will prep most my veg the night before and have opted for throw away trays this year so they can be rinsed and recycled...brought a small turkey crown for the kids and ready made pigs in blankets....been cooking over the last few weeks so fridge will be full of quiche, sausage roll etc and everyone can help themselve as they want..so my plan is about and hours cooking and im done for the day..someone else can do the dishes

suzybloo

This year I am having all the family at me so have started the prep this morning already - all the veg are prepared, along with the veg for the soup. they have been vaccum packed and will be popped in the freezer just shortly.

breakfast will be toast and marmalade
CHristmas lunch is
Pate and oatcakes with Beetroot and horeseradish jelly or homemade Scotch Broth soup, with HM rolls
Main is : Turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts with pancetta, carrots and parsnips, DD2 doesn't like turkey so she will have a steak pie instead,
PUdding is being made by DSIL, which will be Christmas Pudding or Cheesecake

For 'tea' if anyone is feeling like it we will have the cold turkey, and salad bits, cheese and biscuits and christmas cake

Boxing day and for about a week after will be all the leftovers in some shape or form ;-)

Luella-14_2

My father insists on cooking the Christmas day dinner, or at least host it at his house and allow me to do all the cooking. He's actually emailed the menu around for us, quoted below.
Preprandial fizz
Starter of caipirinhas and honeyed figs with goats cheese
Roast goose with prune stuffing, pheasants with apricot stuffing and parsnip roulade for my vegetarian brother. Usual roast veg and yorkshires, gravy and bread sauce.
Christmas pudding followed by cheeseboard.

I'm now feeling v hungry after reading all the replies!

valk_scot

Christmas Day. Toast and cereal for breakfast, going out for a huge Chinese banquet late lunch with my sister and family, cheese and cooked ham type buffet at sister's in the evening.

Boxing Day: Big fry up brunch, Roast dinner in the evening with free range chicken, all the usual trimmings, Christmas pud and or ice cream with toppings.


Hogmanay: Fish type dinner...probably a poached salmon and new potatoes etc etc, trifle. (We've got non-meat eaters coming.)

New Years Day: Chicken-a-leekie soup (The forum won't let me type !!!!-a-leekie!) followed by steak pie, what else? We are Scottish after all!

Rest of the time it's pretty normal meals, with a few fancy bits. I'd rather make several nice but not blow-out dinners over the entire holiday period than eat ourself sick on Christmas day, which is a bit of a waste of time and good food imho. I'd rather spread it out, especially with all of us here at home for a full two weeks and several groups of family visitors. I do buy or make the usual party food buffet, have cake and mince pie and all the wee things like dips and prawn rings biut they'll come out for the days we have guests and need to feed them too. I bake a giant ham on Christmas Eve and that will last right over the holiday week and work as the centrepiece for a couple of buffets, with salads and boiled new potatoes.

kjmtidea

Christmas Eve - Christmas dinner, we are having chicken and beef this year. Pudding will be trifle or Christmas pudding.

Christmas Day - Pancakes, bananas and maple syrup for Breakfast.
Prawn cocktail and buffet food for the rest of the day.

Boxing day will probably be buffet food for lunch and a proper meal for dinner, might make some chinese food.

Diflower

Christmas day there's just the two of us. The last couple of years we've said it's not really worth all the effort to do a proper Christmas dinner for 2. We're happy with leftover turkey as we love it, but to do it properly you want all the bits and pieces, and we don't want leftovers of everything else.

So we've decided to have a Middle eastern feast, which has been our favourite meal to have on New year's Eve but we'll have youngest ss then. We'll probably eat around 6, before that whatever we fancy but I shall have some smoked salmon and prawns as my treat as Oh doesn't eat fish.
Dinner will be hm walnut bread and pittas, marinated olives, hoummus, tzatziki, maybe another dip as well.
Then slow-cooked half shoulder of lamb with harissa, with tabbouleh, plus grilled aubergine slices brushed with pomegranate molasses & topped with yoghurt.
Not decided on pudding, but I think I may make our favourite orange & almond cake as that can be used up on Boxing day.

I'm feeling relaxed already, knowing I haven't got to worry about pigs in blankets, sprouts, stuffing, cranberry & bread sauces, etc,etc,etc!

Boxing day we will have Oh's boys plus eldest's girlfriend. I've got a turkey breast joint to cook in the morning, and a gammon joint that I'll probably cook on Christmas eve.
Lunch will be cold turkey & gammon, oven chips and lots of hm coleslaw & salad. In the evening homemade pizzas with everyone choosing their own toppings. Puddings will be Christmas pudding, ice cream & the orange cake.

cydney65

Xmas day it's bagels from Brick lane :T (bought when we went dahn sarf and frozen) with smoked salmon for OH and bacon for me, with bucks fizz. DD2 coming for lunch/dinner of party nibbles which should keep us going for a few hours.
Boxing day it's all round to Toby steakhouse for a proper roast with no washing up, then it's back to ours for a sleep!

balmaiden

Tradition all the way here. Christmas eve probably take away as late afternoon we meet friends for a few drinks.

Christmas day everyone to our house ( two daughters and families and my old Mum ) Dinner will be turkey and goose breast home made stuffing loads of sausages wrapped in bacon for the Grandkiddies, roast pots and honey roast parsnips, sprouts, calabrese ( again for Grandchildren as they do not like sprouts) cauliflower cheese, ms red cabbage, sweetcorn ( Grandchildren.. ). We delibarately do not have a starter as have to have room for christmas pud and cornish clotted cream.

Evening home made sausage rolls and mince pies.

Boxing day all the family again plus DB and family. Will be a buffet, platter of cold meats including cola ham, fish platter including smoked salmon and prawns and a cheese board. Plenty of home made bread, pickles and chutneys to accompany. Home made christmas cake and whatever else I make in the meantime.

rachbc

our feasting starts on christmas eve with a roast ham,mash and peas, some winter pimms or mulled wine whilst wrapping the presents and stuffing stockings.

Christmas day starts with eggs benedict, coissants and a bellini or bucks fizz around 10 ish then we have lunch around 2 - which will be baked camembert then full turkey dinner, bread sauce, veg, stuffing etc etc and bruleed lemon tart for pud.

Around 8/9 we'll have cheese and biscuits, pickles, mince pies and cake

Boxing Day is MIL birthday and we'll either have a buffet of cot cuts etc or I'll do a big steak pie. Pud will be a coffee meringue cake