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What do you have on your christmas day menu
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I just made early Christmas dinner today, because we have OH's daughter staying with us this week so it's our Christmas day with her.... no starter, then a big roast chicken (was meant to be a turkey crown but there were issues with Sainsbury's delivery
) honey glazed roast gammon, roast potatoes, roast maple glazed parsnips, pigs in blankets, cranberry and sausagemeat stuffing, braised red cabbage, sprouts with pancetta and pine nuts, leeks, broccoli, carrots, green beans, gravy of course. It was delicious but I am shattered now!
No pudding today as dinner was so huge; there are lots of chocolates to graze on and ice cream later if we want it. Tomorrow when we have the leftover cold ham and chicken with pate, smoked salmon, cheese, oat cakes, pickles and chutneys etc, I'll do the Christmas pudding for after that when we'll probably have more room!0 -
As for actual Christmas next week... Christmas Eve we'll be driving OH's daughter home (8 hour round trip
) so breakfast will be something quick - might make cranberry muffins the night before and we can eat them in the car. Lunch will end up being something from a service station and dinner will probably be pasta with a simple tomato sauce, as a bit of an antidote to all the food of the following day!
Christmas day OH and I will have a nice breakfast - probably smoked salmon bagels with champagne. Then to my mum's for dinner which will be turkey with all the trimmings. She'll do melon with summer fruits as a light starter, and Christmas pudding for after. There'll be no 'tea' at hers but we might have something when we get home - probably it will be time for the trifle.
LOVE all the food this time of year!0 -
xmas eve, lunch, hm parsnip soup, crusty bread. Mince pies. dinner, hm game pie, a ham cooked in gingerbeer ,red cabbage. Trifle,jelly,fruit,nuts,glace fruit.mulled wine.
xmas day,lunch Game soup and port, HM beef wellington with wild mushrooms and hm onion marmalade. Sprouts,carrots,potatoes. xmas pud. bottle of red wine.
Dinner, selection of cheeses,crackers,crusty bread,fruit,xmas cake,lemon tarte.
boxing day, not quite decided but most probably something involving eggs and salmon. Mince pies.0 -
Christmas breakfast will be bacon, egg & cheese muffins for OH & DS1. It will be wood smoked salmon & scrambled egg (made with cream, & mixed peppercorns) for me & DD1,2.
Followed by a load of rubbish, ie chocolate, christmas biscuits.
Lunch starter will be a mixed seafood hm platter, with prawn cocktail, smoked salmon wrapped around cream cheese & cream cheese bites with pepper or chilli kick.
Main lunch is beef marinated in garlic, mustard & soya sauce roasted, also a 3 bird roast with different hm stuffings. 3 types of veg, 3 types of potato. 2 x gravy, bread sauce, apple sauce, mint sauce, cranberry sauce. Yorkshire puddings & sausages wrapped in bacon. (a heartattack on the plate but it is christmas)
Dessert will be either chocolate torte or lemon cheesecake served with brandy infused hm cream or raspberry hm icecream. (personal choice, both available)
Evening will be mixed cold meats, cheeses, crackers, biscuits, breadsticks & party foods, prawn rings, samosas etc.
All washed down with a lot of spirits.
Boxing day will be leftovers then straight back to our normal diet to put the damage right:eek:Life is short, smile while you still have teeth0 -
The smartie family tradition is usually:
Christmas eve:
out for lunch as a family and then round to blockbusters to stock up on films to watch over the next 4 days
Christmas day:
Someone is the designated family pajama buyer (it was me last year). New pajamas and bedsocks on the end of everyone's bed for waking up and putting on after shower.
Brunch is bacon and brie baguettes for everyone else and minute steak sandwichs for me (as i don't eat pork) made by dad and some bucks fizz.
Dinner is usually an assortment of chinese and indian finger foods
dessert is always some type of chocolate cake and cream for most of us and christmas pud for dad
snacks: various tins of quality street/roses/heroes/celebrations; doritos and dip; cheese board and biscuits;
And we watch DVDs interspersed with the christmas TV offerings.
Boxing day is similar breakfast and snacks as christmas day. Dinner is usually cold meats, cheeses, bread, pickles, coleslaw etc.
We have a limited cooking rule over the holidays, because we cook proper meals most of the year round. Christmas is supposed to be a holiday, so we don't see why anyone should spend a large portion of it in the kitchen. All our indian/chinese bits are bought through the year from Wing Yip and frozen, just need to bung them in the oven.
In previous years when I have ordered in a chinese on christmas eve and put it in the fridge for christmas dinner.
This year, I will be waking up on christmas morning in my own house as the parentals' house is full of siblings. So I will be having HM warm apple and cinnamon rolls for breakfast before heading round the corner. Oooh it has occurred to me i will need to shop for boxing day at home!0 -
Xmas Eve - Its my evening buffet. Mini burgers, kofta's, tempura prawns, duck things (I got on whoops at Tesco's), cheese, pate, cocktail sausages, ham, mini victoria sandwiches and mince pies
Xmas Day - Probably just a smoothie for breakfast, Lunch is for starters melon with summer fruit cooli, then roast lamb, roast potatoes, braised red cabbage, carrots, yorkshire puds and a few sprouts and to finish a trio of chocolate puddings (white choc cheesecake, choc mouse and mini xmas pud cake pop), tea that night is raiding the fridge and whats left from xmas eve
Boxing Day - Only plan the evening meal as out for the day so pizza
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Xmas eve will be party foods, nibbles
Xmas day waffles and bucks fizz, homemade soup (being made by mum) pate and oatcakes, turkey and all the trimmings and xmas pudding and toffee roulade which Mil is bring, later on we will have sausage rolls or other finger food and will open a box of chocsSeptember GC 30th aug-4th Oct £332.74/£375 NSD 3
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I'm really sad but I plan this for months! I love cooking though and there's nothing better than having lots of people and parties to plan for :j
We have Christmas Eve Porridge (our usual porridge but with a slug of brandy and some cream, plus a sprinkling of dried fruit!) in the morning. For lunch I have always made soup the day before as I spend a lot of Christmas Eve prepping for the following day so like something quick and easy for lunch. We follow this with some Christmas Crumble Muffins, the rest of which I save for reheating on Christmas morning. In the evening, I'm making a hot buffet with wild rice salad, loaded potato skins, pulled pork sandwiches, winter coleslaw and salads. I always plan to take it easy on the rich food on Christmas Eve so I can indulge on Christmas Day but I've generally been sipping bucks fizz all day whilst cooking so this restraint goes out of the window and we settle down to watch It's a Wonderful Life (again) with a huge box of chocolates.
Christmas Day -
Breakfast
Croissants/Muffins and Bucks Fizz while opening presents
Lunch
Seafood platter with dipping sauces
then
Lychee and Lime Sorbet
followed by the main course of:
Turkey Crown/Quorn Roast
Roast Potatoes and Mashed Potato
Parsnip and Chestnut Croquettes
Carrots
Sprouts
Celeriac Dauphinoise
Brie and Cranberry Parcels
I have a fussy crowd so make 2 types of gravy and 3 types of stuffing - a chestnut stuffing roll, chorizo stuffing balls and a fennel and pine nut version.
Then it's Christmas pudding for the traditionalists and Chocolate Orange Cheesecake for the modernists. Followed by coffee, brandy snaps with grand marnier cream, mince pies and the only thing I buy rather than make from scratch - a nice box of after dinner mint chocolates! (currently have the M&S ones in the cupboard, we've been 'road testing' several types since October)
Everyone is understandably stuffed by this point but always find room for a cheese board, homemade chutney and cold cuts in the evening!
On Boxing Day I make a big brunch with fruit salad, french toast and a English muffins with sausages, eggs and bacon. There's a big pan of soup that's made up from leftovers of the day before and we exist for the next few days on that, snacks and chocolate!
We've done Christmas all different ways, eating out, convenience foods and it's generally worked out cheaper for me to make everything myself. It's loads of work but I love it!0 -
Christmas breakfast is HM bread, scrambled eggs and and smoked salmon, DD will have pain au chocolate and croisants. Earl grey tea with lemon or milk (DD).
Off to church where after the service we will have mulled wine and nibbles courtesy of congregation.
Home to drink champagne and put lunch on.
No starter this year - we have concluded we really do not have room - so straight into the main course - Turkey,sage onion, sausagemeat stuffing, chipolatas and bacon rolls, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots. Pudding Christmas pudding or HM Chocolate Log for DD. A bottle of something red and , Mr Spirit will really enjoy choosing - bit wasted on me really!
Evening - leftovers, mincepies, pickles, HM smoked salmon pate.
Boxing day we are going to a shoot so will take a picnic. Turkey rolls, a large raised pork pie (going to buy it in fortnums on Weds as a treat), hot sausages in a flask, non alcoholic punch in a flask, coffee and sloe gin. Mince pies. Christmas cake for elevenses.
Dinner will be coleslaw, gammon and jacket potatoes
We are out on teh 27th, then have friends staying on 28th and 29th. Main meals will be pheasant with red onions in red wine, with braised red cabbage and pommes Dauphinois followed by HM apple and black currant pie. The following day we have a choice of HM Steak and Kidney or chicken and leek pies (made the chicken and leek filling today) with baby potatoes, carrots, broccolli and cabbage with fruit salad for pudding.
There will be replenished Cheese board throughout - stilton, brie, three varieties of goats chese, cheddar - nuts, dates, olives along with green salads.0
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