What's your Christmas menu?
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Prime rib, brussels or maybe green beans, potatoes, some sort of dessert that is not yet decided.
My dad usually makes Christmas breakfast -- pancakes and bacon, typically, sometimes waffles.0 -
Prime rib, baked potato, baked beets, spinach salad, broccoli. Yum!0
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Traditional British here,
Breakfast - Bucks fizz, croissants, maybe scrambled egg
Lunch
Smoked salmon with brown bread and butter
Roast turkey, with sage and onion sausagemeat stuffing
Roast potatoes
Braised red cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Peas
Carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Maybe mashed swede
Pigs in blankets
Bread sauce
Giblet gravy
Cranberry sauce
Christmas pudding
Brandy butter
Clotted cream
Dessert wine
Maybe Port and Stilton, cheese and biscuits later on.
Tea, if we can fit it in will be ham rolls, Christmas cake, stollen, mince pies. More cheese.
I'm sure there will be a tub of Quality Street/Roses/Celebrations on hand throughout the day, too!
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Traditional British here,
Breakfast - Bucks fizz, croissants, maybe scrambled egg
Lunch
Smoked salmon with brown bread and butter
Roast turkey, with sage and onion sausagemeat stuffing
Roast potatoes
Braised red cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Peas
Carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Maybe mashed swede
Pigs in blankets
Bread sauce
Giblet gravy
Cranberry sauce
Christmas pudding
Brandy butter
Clotted cream
Dessert wine
Maybe Port and Stilton, cheese and biscuits later on.
Tea, if we can fit it in will be ham rolls, Christmas cake, stollen, mince pies. More cheese.
I'm sure there will be a tub of Quality Street/Roses/Celebrations on hand throughout the day, too!
Forgot the parsnips!0 -
Traditional British here,
Breakfast - Bucks fizz, croissants, maybe scrambled egg
Lunch
Smoked salmon with brown bread and butter
Roast turkey, with sage and onion sausagemeat stuffing
Roast potatoes
Braised red cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Peas
Carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Maybe mashed swede
Pigs in blankets
Bread sauce
Giblet gravy
Cranberry sauce
Christmas pudding
Brandy butter
Clotted cream
Dessert wine
Maybe Port and Stilton, cheese and biscuits later on.
Tea, if we can fit it in will be ham rolls, Christmas cake, stollen, mince pies. More cheese.
I'm sure there will be a tub of Quality Street/Roses/Celebrations on hand throughout the day, too!
Mmmm. I used to have Quality Street when I was growing up. Ate all the caramels in one day...0 -
Smoked ham (I'm brining and smoking my own ham for the first time this year!)
Roast Turkey
Prawns with cocktail sauce
Random salads (probably a potato salad, a couscous salad, a green salad)
Stuffing, turkey gravy and cranberry sauce
Fresh bread rolls
Assorted sweets (florentine slice, after dinner mints, eckels cakes, mince pies etc)0 -
Homemade ramen! I've wanted to make it since the first time I had real ramen. Found a recipe; it takes forever. Then, someone gave me beautiful soup bowls as a gift! Now I have to try my hand at it. We'll be home all day so we might as well.
Trying to decide what to make for breakfast. Someone mentioned cinnamon rolls. That sounds great!0 -
We do Christmas Eve. This year's menu includes:
A vegan soup
Sliced roast turkey roll on ciabatta rolls with choice of cheese
Shrimp tray
Crackers with pepperoni dip
Vegan eggnog
Mulled wine
Cheesecake and brownie bites for dessert.0 -
Tamales for Christmas Eve. Roast Beef and a Ham for Christmas Day. Haven't figured out the side dishes yet.0
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Tamales and probably cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning.0
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We're dining out, but here is what I have planned from the menu.
Christmas Eve brunch:
Monkey bread
Eggnog pancakes
Goat cheese egg white omelette
Bacon
Christmas Eve Reveillon dinner:
Country ham and Carolina gold rice perlau
Some fancy yummy home-made bread w/ butter and fig preserves
Beets
Butter lettuce salad
Stuffed trout and crawfish boudin entree
Rum and nutmeg bread pudding
Christmas Day dinner:
A four course meal at a South American restaurant. (Too lazy to list it all)
Can't wait!0 -
Christmas eve will be stuffed shells, salad, and garlic bread.
Christmas morning probably something light - cereal or toast.
Christmas dinner is a repeat of thanksgiving dinner:
- brie en croute with crackers
- bacon wrapped smokies
- veg tray with ranch
- Turkey, homemade gravy
- stuffing
- mashed potatoes
- sweet potato casserole
- green bean casserole
- cranberry sauce
- corn
- rolls, butter
- pumpkin pie
- Christmas cookies
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No clue. I'm going to a broadway show christmas night. Will probably go out to dinner before hand and eat whatever I want.0
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Turkey
And a whole heap of veggies of different types.
My sister-in-law and partner will be doing the turkey. My husband and I will be bringing the veg.
Plus ... Christmas pudding, fruit cake, pavlova, chocolate cake, cherry crumble, chocolates, halva, banana bread, shortbread, mince tarts, and whatever else happens to catch my eye or that I feel like making.
I'm taking a diet break for 2 weeks over Christmas and eating it ALL! 0 -
It's probably going to be the same old boring Christmas turkey, potatoes, tourtiere and salad. I keep trying to talk people into spicing things up with a pot luck Christmas, but no one seems keen on it. Although I think I will make some deviled eggs and bring them along.0
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As long as I get pavlova I don't care about the rest.0
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What a fun thread! I'm enjoying reading all the different menu options!
For Christmas Eve, we always did something my kids wanted like spaghetti, lasagne or pizza. No kiddies this year so not sure what we'll do. Maybe just get take out Vietnamese Bun or Pho.
Christmas Day, we'll have a smallish group of our kids, parents and one toddler. My plan so far:
Appetizers -
hummus and veggies, cheese and sausage plate, chips and guacamole, olives, whatever else I think of
Dinner -
Rib Roast
Romanoff potatoes
Brussel sprout salad with pomegranates
Mixed fruit salad
Dessert -
Whatever my mother brings
Chocolate cake and ice cream
Christmas is my oldest son's birthday, so we always have birthday cake with ice cream and candles!0 -
Traditional english here too.
Xmas eve: steak sandwiches and champagne ( new tradition)
Xmas day
Breakfast - Bucks fizz, croissant. Bacon sandwich for the hubby.
Lunch
No starters but if we do its liver pate and toast points.
Roast beef
Yorkshire pudding
Roast potatoes
Brussels sprouts
Peas
Carrots
Courgette dish and leek dish that my mum loved
Roast parsnips
Gravy
Good red wine
Christmas pudding
Brandy sauce
Champagne
After eight mint chocs and coffee
Maybe Port and Stilton, cheese and biscuits later on.
Tea, if we can fit it in will be a buffet of ham rolls, baked gammon, Christmas cake, mince pies. More cheese. Pickled gerkhins Cauliflower and onions. The best bit is the home made trifle!
Tub of Quality Street/Roses/Celebrations on hand throughout the day, too!
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Snowballs for breakfast (advocaat, lime juice and lemonade), maybe smoked salmon scrambled eggs.
Lunch will be a five bird roast, yorkshires, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts in a creamy sauce with pancetta and bread crumbs, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls and plenty of gravy. Probably sparkling wine for me, Coke for him.
More Snowballs, maybe some doughnuts or cookies, maybe some cheese.0 -
I just can't imagine all that food!! I keep it simple here...a meat, a veg, a potato or squash, a bread for the few that eat it, and a desert. It's usually Christmas cookies at this point, but could change in the future. We may have a tray of cheese and meats, or shrimp cocktail for appetizers. I cook by feel and taste and I never bake, so I make the hubby do that because he can follow an exact recipe but cannot cook! lol0
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We almost never have just one vegetable with our main meal - one good thing about Christmas dinner is that we get at least 6 servings of fruit and veg in one meal! We don't have Thanksgiving in the UK, so Christmas dinner is the biggest meal of the year and even so, it's just an extra special roast dinner!0
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I'm hosting Christmas dinner but since I have to work all week, I need to keep it simple:
Baked chicken
Sweet potato casserole
Potato salad
Broccoli
Yellow rice
Dinner rolls
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I'm amazed at people who make a nice breakfast for Christmas... We definitely don't have time here with the kids! We usually just end up having eggs or something... (except the year we had people staying here and we made eggnog pancakes).
For breakfast, I usually do something I can prep the night before and just throw in the oven like overnight French toast or a casserole with eggs/sausage/hash browns, etc.0 -
AngryViking1970 wrote: »I'm amazed at people who make a nice breakfast for Christmas... We definitely don't have time here with the kids! We usually just end up having eggs or something... (except the year we had people staying here and we made eggnog pancakes).
For breakfast, I usually do something I can prep the night before and just throw in the oven like overnight French toast or a casserole with eggs/sausage/hash browns, etc.
Sounds good, but my kids wouldn't eat it, lol. So I'm not even going to sweat it...0 -
We're having lasagna, salad, french bread garlic toast, and red wine for the grown ups / "kid wine" (Welch's sparkling grape juice) for the kiddo.0
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AngryViking1970 wrote: »I'm amazed at people who make a nice breakfast for Christmas... We definitely don't have time here with the kids! We usually just end up having eggs or something... (except the year we had people staying here and we made eggnog pancakes).
For breakfast, I usually do something I can prep the night before and just throw in the oven like overnight French toast or a casserole with eggs/sausage/hash browns, etc.
Yup, I make cinnamon rolls the night before once the kids are in bed, and the rise in the fridge overnight. Fruit salad is cut up in the morning, baked eggs are just precooked bacon and eggs dumped in muffin tins and baked.0 -
It's really interesting to see the different things people eat for Christmas, I didn't realise Americans didn't all have turkey for Christmas dinner like we do in the UK!
I'll be having croissants for breakfast, Turkey with potatoes roast in goose fat, brussel sprouts and some other veg for lunch.
Then probably smoked Salmon sandwiches in the evening...plus lots of chocolate.
What's monkey bread? I've seen a few people mention it and I've seen pictures but can't work out what it is
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smotheredincheese wrote: »
What's monkey bread? I've seen a few people mention it and I've seen pictures but can't work out what it is
Monkey bread is a sticky gooey pull-apart sweet dough usually baked in a tube or bundt cake pan. Lots of different recipes out there online. If you get it from the market it's usually called cinnamon pull-apart bread or something like that.
My simple recipe (made for years for Christmas morning because you can prep it the night before).
Rhodes bread dough rolls (frozen)
Butterscotch pudding mix (NOT instant)
Butter, lots of butter
Grease the tube pan. Put in about 9-10 frozen rolls. Dump dry pudding mix all over the frozen rolls. Dot with lots of butter. Cover with a tea towel and let rise on kitchen counter overnight. Pop in the oven in the morning and bake about 20 minutes at 350. It will look like you don't have enough of the rolls in the pan, but once they rise it will fill up. Crazy simple, not low-calorie, but fun and yummy. Super kid friendly, as well!0 -
I cook on Christmas Eve for my in-laws (5 of us total). This year I'm doing boeuf bourguignon with mushrooms and pearl onions over egg noodles, green beans with shallots, crescent rolls and of course lots of Christmas cookies for dessert.0
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