What are you having to eat for christmas?

blueakama

We've decided to have a roast duck this year, with roast veggies and crispy potatoes. I'm mostly looking forward to trying heston blumenthal pudding with custard.

Then we going to do it all again at both my relatives. The biggest danger is cheese and biscuits which will be on offer at my in-laws before lunch is served. So I've decided to take some veggie sticks and hummus along instead.

What's on your menu?

Alatariel75

Prawn cocktails for starters, then roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, baked ham, potato salad, roasted pumpkin, feta and baby spinach salad, some other salad we haven't decided yet, home baked bread rolls and mince pies and chocolates for dessert

Laurend224

Either a Celebration Roast, or a Harvest loaf, mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, sweet potato casserole, Brussels sprouts, broccoli. Fresh bread and figgy pudding! Along with assorted cookies and other treats.

dnamouse

We do Christmas a little differently here - it's the middle of Summer

Lunch is generally cold cut meats (ham, turkey, chicken, sometimes prawns) + salad and something cold for dessert, generally a pavlova & ice cream. It's often too hot to eat too much.

Dinner is a bbq (Aussie bbq are different to American bbq - normally just meat cooked on the hot plate, could be steak, sausages, chicken, fish, whatever we fancy), salads and again a cold dessert.

Beer, cider and other cold drinks flow freely throughout the day

cwolfman13

We're doing a ham this year. I usually do a prime rib, but with the cost of beef going through the roof and the number of people I have coming over, it's just not going to work.

Not sure about sides yet...probably my mom's chipotle roasted sweet potatoes...I'll probably make some candied carrots and I'm thinking about a mushroom risotto as well. My sister will probably bring some roasted brussels sprouts and my wife's parents will bring the plum pudding and brandy butter.

randomtai

We are gonna do a prime rib, a turkey, and ham. For sides we are gonna have macaroni & cheese, sweet potato casserole... not sure what else yet.

lemurcat12

Roast duck is fabulous.

My guess is rack of lamb, although my personal choice would be prime rib. With it, mashed potatoes, Brussels, fancy green bean (green beans with mushrooms and dill, my personal choice in lieu of green bean casserole), and some kind of dessert, depending on what my family votes for. I'm always pro pie, but last year they went with pumpkin cheesecake.

trivard676

Plain and simple traditional turkey dinner. We accidentally cooked one upside down one year, and it was so juicy and delicious, we've had turkey for dinner at Xmas ever since.

nicsflyingcircus

Cooking a ham on the bone (about 1000x better than those pre-cut hams), mashed taters, carrot and turnip mash, my homemade sage stuffing (kid's begged), green beans or brussel sprouts (sauteed with bacon probably). Also likely do a cheese/sausage/cracker tray and a veggie tray with ranch as nibbles for the afternoon. Maybe deviled eggs if I feel motivated (I may have to work Christmas eve, my "seasonal part time" job has ramped up to 40hrs next week, so it wouldn't shock me).

Breakfast is always cinnamon rolls and fruit salad.

mightygirlruns

This is the first year we are staying home. Just me, my husband and our two kids. No more spending the whole day in the car driving to and from the in-laws. Yay!
My husband is the cook in our house. He's thinking prime rib.

Alluminati

Christmas Eve:
Kimchee fried rice
Bulgogi
Honey soy salmon
Steamed dumplings
Veggie pancakes
Egg nog
Cherry cordials
Christmas cookies
Wine


Christmas Day:
Turkey
Roast beef
Stuffing
Sweet potatoes
Veggies
Meringue cake
Chocolates
Pecan pie
Wine

970Mikaela1

Smoked brisket
Cheesecakes
Baklava
Brown sugar sweet potatos
Chips dips
Tray of veggie
Smoked sausage
Crab legs
Shrimp cocktail

ruqayyahsmum

starter:
brie and cranberry parcels

main:
turkey
stuffing
pigs in blankets
roast potatoes
mashed potatoes
brussel sprouts
carrots
parsnips
sweet potato
gravy

dessert:
christmas pudding and cream
cheese board and crackers

Francl27

Ham, roasted veggies, probably some mashed potatoes, and a chestnut cream Yule log (going to attempt one for the first time).

martyqueen52

I'm just looking forward to cream horns and the ham. I just want the meat and sweets!

amusedmonkey

About 10 or so various salads (salad olivier, crab salad, chicken salad, cheese and garlic salad, fish layered salad..etc), 4 or so cakes and cake-like stuff (mousse cake, yule log.. etc), mashed potatoes, stuffed grape leaves and zucchini, turkey, and other odds and ends. in addition to drinks.

yesimpson

My mum and I have sweet French toast for breakfast; my dad and brothers have egg and bacon baguettes. Then Prosecco and shedloads of chocolate. Then Christmas dinner is about 4pm and this year for the first time we're having goose, with the usual roast potatoes, meat stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, red cabbage, broccoli, roast carrots and parsnips, and pigs in blankets. Pudding is either Christmas pud with custard or chocolate orange cheesecake (or both, if you're me).

SchweddyGirl

Christmas eve dinner is a beef tenderloin, Christmas day I believe my mother-in-law is making ham.

Lounmoun

Turkey or chicken legs, rice, a spinach dish, brownies.

I'm not sure if we will have that Christmas eve or day. We are pretty much just having regular meals either day not giant feasts.

sardelsa

Christmas Day is usually a roast of some kind, on Boxing Day we go to my Aunt’s for traditional Polish food . BUT Christmas Eve is my favourite meal of the entire year no doubt... we go to my mom's and have an Italian seafood feast, I am already getting excited just thinking about it!

Apps:
-Cold crab and pea salad
-Deviled eggs
-Shrimp cocktail
-Cheese and mushroom puff pastries
-Crispelli (Italian fried dough)
-Assorted hard cheeses and olives

Mains:
-Spaghetti in tuna sauce
-Zuppa di Pesce (seafood stew with monkfish, shrimp, mussels, squid, crab, and lobster) served with fresh bread
-Sautéed rapini
-Roasted red peppers
-Arugula and romaine salad
-Fennel salad
-Lots of vino

Dessert:
-Roasted chestnuts
-Cake, cookies, tarts, chocolate
-Espresso
-Grappa, port and Fernet

Marcel182

Meat fondue. We call it "Chinese fondue" here. It's basically a pot of hot soup, and you stick thin slices of meat into it with a long fork, cook it and eat it. There's various sauces on the side too. Those are the calorie bombs.