What is your Christmas menu?

[Thingiebob]

Sorry if done before.

I noticed a lot of people mentioning Yorkshire puds for Christmas. Unless I'm serving beef I've not done Yorkshires with turkey. Also, do people make their own stuffing or is it a packet of Paxo?

I'm interested in all the different variations on the Christmas dinner theme! Does anyone have anything traditional they always do

We are having this year

Turkey
Possibly pork with crackling or a festive ham (either way one of them will be served for Boxing day)
Roast potatoes cooked in goosefat
Roast parsnips and carrots roasted in olive oil and fresh thyme
Brussels cooked then fried with pancetta and chestnuts
Fresh stuffing bought from supermarket
Pigs in blankets - bought as I want to make some shortcuts
Cranberry sauce from out of a jar
Homemade gravy

For pudding and snacks

Choice of
homemade christmas cake made by my mum
mince pies with brandy butter or chantilly cream
christmas pudding with brandy/cream
Cheeseboard and crackers
massive sticky Yule log purchased from supermarket

fruit/nuts/chocs

To drink
choice of
Wine
Champagne
Beer
or soft drinks

It sounds a lot but then we are all quite greedy

[Northernlebkuchen]

I don't know what to do about stuffing. I might have a shot at doing my own.

[Heqet]

nibblies -
brie and cranberry parcels
twisty bread thingies & a selection of dips
little quinche/tart thingies.
fruits dipped in choc (the kids love that!)
sausage rolls. This year I'm going to do pork and onion, pork and apple and beef and tomato.
If I have extra pastry I tend to grab a load of choc, wrap it up and stick it in the oven. Rather nice.

Meats I'm going traditional this year!
turkey (with bacon over top) with cranberry stuffing
pork with honey, mustard and apple sort of glaze (not sure yet, it's my grandad's reciepe and I've yet to ask him exactly how it's done!)
beef and horseradish sauce

and of course the roast potatoes (in the obligatory goose fat!)
veg
brussels, chestnuts and bacon
honeyed parsnips
pigs in blankets
gravy

puds -
rice crispie bars (I make lovely ones if I say so myself! - toffee, marshmallow and nuts!)
white choc and blueberry flan
mince pies with brandy cream
xmas pudding with brandy sauce
3 choc mousse (dark choc and crushed biscuit base, milk choc whisked with extra thick double cream over that then orange choc whisked with same cream over that, then whipped cream and topped with choc shavings)
ice cream brandy baskets topped with mixed berries.

[Heqet]

oh yes, and booze and stuff

I think I'll just buy the yorkshire puds. I am TERRIBLE at making them. Really. They are horrible!

[pagwatch]

I don't know. Dh has neither bought it nor made any of it yet.
we have two cases of champagne and about three and a half cases of wine so that is a start. Oh and I had my first Snowball the other night.

But he always does us proud


Surprisingly I am not joking.

[claraquack]

Cripes is it just me who is thinking vaguely perhaps some roast beef in the late afternoon, hadn't even thought about veg and as for pud well it depends if I get a chance to make any mincepies and/or cup cakes?

Or am I the only un-organised mum in the entire universe?????

(although we have bought two bottles of champagne so we'll have one of those)

[Hulababy]

Some of you are having so much food!!!

I am serving:

Chateaubraind - for DH and DD
Mushroom wellington - for me
Honey glazed roast potatoes, parsnips, red onions
Steamed carrots and peas
Yorkshire puddings - they go with anything round here
Gravy

Dessert will be steamed Christmas pudding and custard for me and DH; chocolate pudding for DD.

Champagne will be drank with breakfast, good wine rest of day.

[GloriaInEccentrica]

This year - If I am expected to cook we will be having



Marmite sanwiches and cake.

However - as DH will be cooking I will be expecting the full works.

[chopstheduck]

riven - who is open on xmas day?

[Thingiebob]

Ah - big family y'see

Plus I will be 37/8 weeks pregnant so I've sort of organised what we are having now and everyone has specific jobs in preparation.

Yes we have a lot of food but realistically it is to last us for some days.

[MarthaFarquhar]

very conservative here.
canapes:
Bruschetta (with parma ham and pecorino, and mozarella and anchovy)
Cheese stars
smoked salmon

turkey and stuffing
chipolatas
roasties
braised red cabbage
sprouts
carrots
maple parsnips

chocolate truffle torte
colston bassett, kirkham's lancashire, gubbeen and crackers

[chopstheduck]

oh riven, that could be sooo tempting!

[BrianGiggs]

no to a starter

[BrianGiggs]

im not cooking
so i dont know

ard

[merrycompo]

Agree no starter
dh cooking
turkey, roasties, sprouts, carrots, chipolata thingies, stuffing , think that's it
don't go mad we're porky enough as it is

[BrianGiggs]

compo!!! hellow
come to the pissers thread

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

Nut roast
Roast chicken
Roast potatoes
Carrots in honey
Peas
Sprouts
Red cabbage in red wine/balsamic vinegar
Stuffing (packet from Chatsworth farm shop, looks nicer than Paxo)
Bread Sauce
Yorkies

Xmas pudding
Marzipan stollen

[mumonthenet]

oh god, I'm drooling over the stuffing and the roasties, and the chipolatas.

Literally my mouth is watering

[Lovecat]

We don't do starters as we don't have breakfast til after mass, which consists of choccy croissants and a bottle of pink Laurent-Perrier, keeps us going whilst prezzie unwrapping.

Lunch at 2pm:

Roast turkey - usually a butterball - neither of us like dry meat
pigs in blankets (purchased in)
home-made bread sauce
smooth cranberry jelly out of a jar (can't be doing with lumpy cranberries)
home-made sausagemeat stuffing
roast spuds done in goose fat and dripping
mashed potato (DH's family weirdness)
Birds Eye frozen mushroom vegetable rice (my family's weirdness, from my South African father - goes really well with a roast, actually!)
Yorkshire pud (DD's weirdness, she won't eat a roast without yorkies!)

and a selection of:
sprouts
parsnips in honey and ginger (usually some kind of 'finest' variety from a shop)
mashed swede & carrots
peas
cauliflower & broccoli
creamed leeks

we don't generally have room for pudding!

[TheArmadillo]

we don't do puddings or starters cos no one eats them.

I am doing
turkey,
sausagemeat stuffing balls wrapped in bacon,
roast potatoes,
yorkshire puds,
roast parsnips,
carrots, broccoli, sprouts, peas
gravy and bread sauce.

At teatime we'll have a buffet with the puddings (ILs coming over).

Alcohol wise it will be bucks fizz first thing, then nothing for me, dp and his sis will probably have beer and his granma may have some wine.

[jumpyjan]

We dont have a starter as couldn't fit it all in.

We are having:

Roast turkey
Stuffing (m&s)
Sausages and bacon (m&s)
Potatoes roasted in goose fat
Maple glazed carrots
Sprouts and chesnuts
Gravy
Bread Sauce (m&s)
Cranberry sauce (jar)

Christmas pud and brandy butter (tescos)

Prob have stilton and crackers, choccies etc in evening.

We have bucks fizz for brekkie with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and red wine with dins.

Am hungry now!

[cathers]

We ARE having starters ( fat Bas**rds!)

Champagne and seafood tartlets or blinis (Waitrose)

Homemade soup and rolls

Turkey with citrus breadcrumbs, Gravy and Cranberry Sauce
Roast Potatoes
Honey and Orange glazed carrots
Sprouts with toasted almonds
Chipolatas and bacon

Homemade christmas pud to find the £2 coin!
with cornish clotted cream or local ice cream

Cornish Yarg, Somerset Brie, Silton and biscuits

In the eve, all of the above cold plus an awesome whole roasted ham with homemade chutneys.
We then sleep for approx 16hrs!

[cathers]

We ARE having starters ( fat Bas**rds!)

Champagne and seafood tartlets or blinis (Waitrose)

Homemade soup and rolls

Turkey with citrus breadcrumbs, Gravy and Cranberry Sauce
Roast Potatoes
Honey and Orange glazed carrots
Sprouts with toasted almonds
Chipolatas and bacon

Homemade christmas pud to find the £2 coin!
with cornish clotted cream or local ice cream

Cornish Yarg, Somerset Brie, Silton and biscuits

In the eve, all of the above cold plus an awesome whole roasted ham with homemade chutneys.
We then sleep for approx 16hrs!

[GooberAndTinsel]

Start: Baileys.

Main: Spaghetti bolognaise.

Desert: After 8s.

Coffee.