What do you have on your christmas day menu

bargainaddict

My hubby doesn't get out of bed till he's opened his stocking and eaten the jelly babies (has to be bassetts) our youngest has bought him! then its up for normal breakfast of tea/cereal/toast. Off to Church leaving the chicken roasting slowly. We don't like turkey. Have all the usual trimmings but ALWAYS hm yorkshires, daughter veggie so it fills her plate up. I think a roast is naked without yorkshires! Pudding is something light like a vienetta. still got a christmas pud in the cupboard from last year.

Tea is whatever we feel like and is ready at hand in the fridge, usually involves salad and cold meat or prawns etc. Not forgetting generous amounts of chocolate throughout the day.

Poppy9

Homemade gravy. I haven't made this for over 15 years (I love instant). However a few sundays ago I had run of instant and couldn't remember how to make proper gravy. Please can someone enlighten me.

Vaguely remember hot juices from meat in pan on hob - then add flour and veg. juices but tasted like something (well a lot) missing. It wasn't salt as I don't cook with it.

Trow

It will be salt - you say you don't cook with it, but you are using instant gravy - check the packaging!

Poppy9

I know salt is in the instant stuff but the gravy I made needed more than salt to help it;) It was pale, fat, greasy and floury.:eek:

Pooky

When I lived at home it was a cooked breakfast and then turkey and all the trimmings.

Now it's more like...coffee and stockings.....coffee and under the tree pressies, coffee and family pressies. This year we'll be on our own with DD's for the 2nd year (can't wait) we're having a pj day, we're cooking a turkey and a pot roast beef on xmas eve and we'll either do roast pots and the trimmings or chips...depending on what we all fancy. We won't bother with tea.....can't ever remember eating tea on xmas day.......once the kids are in bed it will be a nice bottle of wine and a delve into what ever sweets we've been given.

It's one of those days that I think needs to be spent with the kids - we devote the entire day to them and their pressies......that's what christmas means to me.

greenlogo

Poppy - it sounds like you didn't brown off the flour in the fat enough before adding the liquid, it should be really well cooked off or you'll get the separate flour/fat tastes rather than the nummy gravy taste - if you keep stirring it it can go really quite dark brown before it would burn, and it should definitley be quite a lot darker than when you started.

I always go back to my Mum and Dad's for Christmas, but it's me that insists it's always the same (it's not Christmas otherwise, is it?!) and we have:

breakfast
Bucksfizz/fresh orange (I'm not a fan of Champagne..)
Little salmon nibbly bits

Lunch
Soup and a sandwich
or a bacon roll

Dinner
Smoked Salmon with nice bread and dill and mustard sauce
Roast Turkey, 2 types of stuffing (one my Mum's now been making for 35 years...), Roast potatoes, little sausages, brocolli, carrots and a.n.other veg, M&S Poultry gravy (so tasty and it's only for christmas day!), Gallons of Cranberry Sauce
Christmas pud and custard

Supper
if we can move
Christmas Cake and a Cuppa


I LOOOOOOOOVE christmas so much... I can't wait til I can start planning my pre christmas party

elvis_bloggs

A turkey is just for Christmas, not for life.

Bennifred

My OH works rotating shifts, and quite a few years ago it so happened he wasn't going to be about for the big meal on Christmas Day, so I asked the kids what they would have if they could choose whatever they wanted to eat, and they all said..............CRISPY DUCK PANCAKES!! :eek: So that is what we had that year, and every year since :rotfl:


Only trouble is when they do their "What I Did Over Christmas" essays for school they write that they had Chinese for their Xmas lunch, without making it clear that it was not, in fact, a takeaway!!

squeaky

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BrokeBrokeBroke

Breakfast-
Pancakes, strawberries and cream
Bucks Fizz
Then pressies.... and more Bucks Fizz
Lunch (around 3)
Turkey
Ham
HM Stuffing
Sausages and Bacon
Sprouts
Roast Spuds
Roast Parsnips, Carrots, Squash and Sweet Potatoes
Gravy
Cheese & Biscuits
Chocolate pudding

Xmas Tea
Turkey butties with stuffing and mayo!!! Yummy!
Cheese & Biscuits
Lots of chocs.

Then nothing for the next week!