What’s on your Christmas Day menu?

[Emoji]

What is everyone planning on having to eat on Christmas Day?
How many courses are you having?
Are you cooking or someone else?
Please share your menus so I can steal some of your ideas

 

[MrsSoprano]

We have prawn cocktail starter, turkey,pork and ham and all the trimmings, homemade stuffing. For dessert it changes I’m not sure what to get this year! My fav part about Christmas is the food!
oh and we will be having those star brioche things from Aldi for breakfast with Buck’s Fizz

 

[Saddlesoap]

Decided to eat on Christmas Eve this year, mix it up a bit.

Crudités.
Nutroast, mash, roasted sweet potatoes and parsnips, roasted brussels with chestnuts, Yorkshire puddings and cranberry sauce.
Sticky toffee pudding.

Christmas morning
Danish pastries and croissants, fruit and bucks fizz

Rest of Christmas Day will be spent snacking on cheese, cake and chocolate.

ETA Will only be me and husband.

 

[Emoji]

We have prawn cocktail starter, turkey,pork and ham and all the trimmings, homemade stuffing. For dessert it changes I’m not sure what to get this year! My fav part about Christmas is the food!
oh and we will be having those star brioche things from Aldi for breakfast with Buck’s Fizz

Sounds good. I haven’t seen or heard about the brioche before, I might pick one up for the family if I can get hold of one

Decided to eat on Christmas Eve this year, mix it up a bit.

Crudités.
Nutroast, mash, roasted sweet potatoes and parsnips, roasted brussels with chestnuts, Yorkshire puddings and cranberry sauce.
Sticky toffee pudding.

Christmas morning
Danish pastries and croissants, fruit and bucks fizz

Rest of Christmas Day will be spent snacking on cheese, cake and chocolate.

Your menu sounds delish. Do you make your own nut roast or buy one?

 

[Saddlesoap]

Sounds good. I haven’t seen or heard about the brioche before, I might pick one up for the family if I can get hold of one


Your menu sounds delish. Do you make your own nut roast or buy one?

Make my own, I actually made it today and it's in the freezer.

 

[Octopies]

When I went to my boyfriends for Xmas dinner the other year I was shocked by the prawn cocktail starter! We only really have a main/desert.

In the morning we all (extended family) meet for breakfast - a family member hosts - bacon butties! This is at 10am ish.

We don’t eat until 5ish so can afford a decent breakfast without feeling full! Less of us this year so we’ve got a capon, veg, roasties etc. Just traditional. We aren’t fussed for turkey dessert will be stuff like cheesecake / cream / Yule log etc.

I’m pregnant but usually spend Xmas day getting drunk to be honest! Think those days are gone now and it’ll be all about the little one

 

[Pinkblush]

Its a mixed bag for breakfast. Croissants, fruits, yoghurts, bacon sandwiches.

No one wants starters in my house. They just want a tummy full of roast. I've even offered to do the starter and hour or so before dinner but its just not welcome.

Roast beef with all the trimmings - no one likes turkey in our house. In fact its not very christmassy at all food wise. No one likes brussels sprouts, mince pies, stollen, christmas pudding, christmas cake pannetone etc

Nothing stodgy after a roast so always strawberry trifle for pud.

Then a buffet of nibbles for the evenings tv viewing.

 

[Itsalwayssunny]

Breakfast I have smoked salmon and egg with bagel, the rest of my house have bacon sandwiches

I do our roast for 1pm, starters is a choice of melon balls or pate
Then the main event is Turkey and Gammon, potatoes, parsnips, stuffing, pigs in blanket, sprouts, carrots, cauliflower cheese, maybe cabbage. Then gravy, bread sauce and cranberry sauce

Pudding normally happens later and I offer Christmas pudding, yule log, mince pies or Christmas cake

IF anyone is hungry later in the evening we have cheese and crackers

 

[Giggling Squid]

I’ve no idea and it’s stressing me out! We’re going to my sister and her husband’s, they’ve never hosted before. She’s a vegetarian and I hope to god that he will win and we will be eating some form of meat!

 

[Petulant_vlogger]

It's just me and the baby this year; big kids are with their mum and hubby is at work. So I'm not going to spend all day cooking a big roast. Probably just some party food for us to graze on through the day. Sausage rolls, carrots and hummus, chicken dippers etc.

 

[Heybooboo]

Roast chicken, pigs n blankets, stuffing, roasties, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire’s and sprouts for mains. I got a salted caramel Christmas pudding from M&S to try too maybe with a little clotted cream or ice cream. My first year cooking the dinner I’m nervous haha

 

[Petulant_vlogger]

Roast chicken, pigs n blankets, stuffing, roasties, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire’s and sprouts for mains. I got a salted caramel Christmas pudding from M&S to try too maybe with a little clotted cream or ice cream. My first year cooking the dinner I’m nervous haha

Sounds incredible!! How many are you cooking for?

 

[JoeBloggs]

We do Buck’s Fizz with salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Then a starter of prawn cocktails and baked Camembert at about 2/3pm. Then at about 4 we do roast with turkey for my dad (he refuses to accept a Christmas Day without it), gammon for me and my mum and my husband likes duck. All the trimmings, leek sauce etc. Then presents and games with desert of xmas pud, cake and I make a Bailey cheesecake but this year I’m doing Bailey roulade. My husband works in a supermarket so always brings home cheap goodies on Xmas eve. We nibble on nuts, crisps and sweets too. Keeps us going for days!

 

[Heybooboo]

Sounds incredible!! How many are you cooking for?

5 and doing 2 plates for relatives for their Boxing Day dinner

Leek sauce sound interesting!? Never heard of it before

 

[Magee]

Growing up, we always had a full English for brekki, opened presents, went to both sets of grandparents/aunties then ate at around 4pm! I haven’t managed to find anyone else that has a full English on Christmas Day! X

 

[Petulant_vlogger]

5 and doing 2 plates for relatives for their Boxing Day dinner

Leek sauce sound interesting!? Never heard of it before

I'm sure it will go great. Good luck!

Growing up, we always had a full English for brekki, opened presents, went to both sets of grandparents/aunties then ate at around 4pm! I haven’t managed to find anyone else that has a full English on Christmas Day! X

My mum used to make us a full english on xmas! We had to eat a good breakfast before we could have any presents!

 

[~vix~83~]

We were originally going to my in-laws for a microwave dinner!! What I mean is, the meat is cooked the day before n the veg boiled to death first thing and then all dished up on the table ready to go in the microwave when we are ready to eat!!
But thankfully plans have changed and we are going to sis in laws where she cooks fresh but mother in law will still put her dinner in the microwave!

 

[Lizzie Mintdrop]

Normally for Christmas I cook everything from scratch, my partner is vegan so in years gone by this was a necessity. Usually I make a nut roast with breadcrumbs, crushed mixed nuts, chestnuts, sage, onions, mushrooms and cranberries along with roast potatoes, maple syrup and wholegrain mustard roasted parsnips, roasted carrots, broccoli and sprouts with onion gravy. Partner doesn't normally have pudding but I usually do, this year I'm having salted caramel bombe with cream. However, this year because I have done so much cooking due to not eating out (thanks rona) and the fact that there are many great vegan dishes in the shops now, I think I might get everything ready made that I can just bung in the oven. Partner is very fussy though, so I think I will still make the nut roast because I know he will eat that. I'd love to eat out on Christmas day but that just isn't an option where we live

 

[NP]

Cooking for the 4 of us. Eldest has requested waffles and bacon for breakfast so that’s what the kids will have. I really fancy a smoked salmon and egg bagel so I’ll probably do that for me and the other half.

I never do a starter. Prefer to save room for the dinner. I’m doing turkey (Nigella’s brined turkey), pigs in blankets, chestnut bacon & cranberry stuffing balls, sprouts & pancetta, carrots, peas, roast potatoes, parsnips and Yorkshire pudding. Plus gravy & cranberry sauce.

I’ve ordered a black forest gateau from M&S for dessert.

Food is my favourite thing about Christmas

 

[Happy35]

I am cooking for 5, we will have breakfast on our own so probably croissants.

lunch will be prawn cocktail x3, soupx1-made day before and breadsticks And dipsx1. Turkey, gammon and nut roast, roasties, mashed turnip, sprouts,cauliflower cheese, carrots, peas , braised red cabbage. Then there is a choice of raspberry and Prosecco trifle, a cheesecake of some sort or sticky toffee pudding left over from Christmas Eve, I will prep as much as I can and make desserts on Christmas Eve.