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What's for Christmas dinner?
LilMissFoodie
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What are you all making/having (or what do you usually have) for Christmas dinner?
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Christams dinner.... what's that?????
In my family, that usually gets planned a week... maybe 10 days beforehand.... lol....0 -
Christmas at our house
is all the family come round for a big breakfast then we open half our pressies go to the pub to meet friends
and we eat at 6pm by that time a couple of family friends have arrived
game soup
turkey
pork
pigs in blankets
at least two types of stuffings
roast pots and parsnips
peas carrots and yes the dreaded sprouts ( I hate them)
bread sauce cranberry sauce and gravy
for the vegetarians I will get cheating roast and do a nut loaf
home made christmas puds
short bread
mince pies
cream and real custard
ice cream (homemade for those that dont like the pudding)
wine with each course
then we open the rest of our presents and finish off the wine0 -
Our traditions have crept over into Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. Christmas Eve is beef Wellington, Christmas Day is always porridge for breakfast and then traditional turkey dinner, trifle or Christmas pudding, and turkey and chutney sandwich with cake later (much later). On Boxing Day when it's our turn to host friends, leftover turkey and ham, a vegy main and lots of veg/salads. This year I'm doing the traditional Provencale 13 desserts which isn't as drastic as it sounds - will be various cakes and biscuits with dried fruits and nuts to make up the numbers. You don't HAVE to eat everything. I prefer cheese.0
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Its just me and my husband this year. He's making curry coz his curry is my fav meal ever. I don't eat meat and don't like roasts anyway. We're going to my parents house boxing day and will have a more tradional dinner there. I'm making a nut loaf for me. Wil have to try this before xmas though as i've not made one from scratch before.0
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Just hubby and I this year but still planning our normal big meals.
Breakfast: eggs, hashbrowns, bacon/turkey bacon, toast, grilled mushrooms, beans
Dinner:
Turkey, nut roast with parlsey sauce, stuffing (homemade!), potatoes, yorkshire puddings, mixed vegetables, gravy
Dessert: pumpkin pie!0 -
Christmas Eve is beef Wellington
Hi annemckee,
Could you share your recipe please?
kind regards
mcppsl0 -
Just ordered the Festive Feast from Marks and Spencer........delicious.....turkey crown and trimmings, panacotta, cheese & biccies....just need to decide on starter!0
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Last year was our first Christmas (me and hubby) in our own house. I was therefore doing the shopping. In the weeks leading up to Christmas I was buying bits here and there to put away for Chrimbo. I ended up having so many things left over after Christmas that this year I have resisted buying the boxes of biscuits, tins of quality street etc etc.
Hopefully this year it will just be a couple of days of not dieting properly rather than a couple of weeks.
Christmas day we are spending at my mum and dad's. It will be a normal breakfast at home. Followed by Christmas dinner which will most likely be Prawn cocktail to start, roast turkey and all the trimmings (including strangled willies - kilted sausages to normal people but my mum has always called them that so we all do too! LOL) Then I am not sure what for pudding.
I do have a Christmas dinner with work on the 15th too but that should be manageable. It is on a Thursday and I get weighed the following Wednesday and so I have almost a week to get it off again. As long as I stick to it properly. Hopefully I will. I do seem way more determined this year to do it over Chrimbo!!!0 -
The Hubster is the Chef at Crimbo and we have 6-8 round the dinner table
On Christmas day, I shall be having my scrambled egg with smoked salmon for breakfast, followed by a cheeky Snowball with the girlies when they pop round in the morning.
Then I'll be kicked out the house at 1pm to go to the pub for 2-3 halves of Aspall or a few flaggons of red wine.
And then back home to enjoy a veritable ****ensian feast with all the trimmings
This year we're having roast duck and a turkey crown served with sprouts tossed with bacon lardons and garlic butter, thyme-honey-roasted parsnips, roasties done in duck fat, yorkie puds, bread sauce with a tablespoon of single malt, red cabbage and sultanas in a red wine reduction followed by mince pies and custard or maybe even a bread & butter pud made with Bailey's. All that will be washed down with at least 2 bottles of Shiraz and probably have a large Bailey's over ice to finish the evening off while we play party games.
Then we do it all again on Boxing Day at our newly-wed friends' Christmas buffet. We'll have a few days off to recover and workout like crazy before we enjoy the Hogmanay bash at our Local and then another mega Roast dinner on New Year's Day.
Sure I might wipe out all the weight I lose in December, but I'm not sitting round eating crispbreads and lettuce while everyone else is stuffing themselves silly and getting merry! :drinker: :devil:0 -
We split it - one year with OH's family one year just the two of us.
When it's the two of us it would probably be
Something with smoked salmon for breakfast either scrambled eggs or blinis with a bottle of cava while we start cooking.
(homemade) Smoked mackerel pate starter
Roast Chicken probably cooked with garlic herbs and lemon, broccoli/cauli in cheese sauce and Yorkshire puds (OH is Yorkshireman) roast potatoes carrots and peas (chipolatas maybe too)
Shop bought trifle and then cheese course with port (with a long walk before the cheese!) And probably a lot of snoozing in front of the telly.
This year however we are going to India - Kolkata in fact so think it'll be slightly different. I think the hotel we're staying in has one of the best Thai restaurants in India so it may well be Thai...which will be novel!
Not sure what we'd have done if we were staying here - probably just gone easy on portion size, measured and stuff but really not sure how bothered I'd be...!0 -
This is my first Christmas cooking and it is just the 2 of us. I am going with lobster as a starter then roast goose and haven't decided on a dessert yet. I will probably bake something though.
The last 2 years we have gone to my in laws and they have roast turkey (although one year his Mum apologised profusely for not making turkey then was very excited about it the next year and I didn't have the heart to tell her I don't really like Turkey :P) with all the trimmings. I find bread sauce disgusting (not something I've seen before the UK) and the red cabbage thing is weird too. Not a fan of chestnuts either, ugh. But still, usually a good meal followed up with choice of desserts usually cheesecake, trifle, mince pies with cream - that kind of thing.
At home though, Mum would usually cook an absolute feast which we eat for days. A fresh giant leg of ham, roast turkey, chicken and pork - all served cold (cooked on christmas eve - which is always a really hot day and even hotter with the fuel stove on - we live on a farm and have an electric oven but using the 2 ovens is necessary for this feast). With that we have loads of salads, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, beetroot, pineapple, sweetcorn, gherkins, pickled onions, pasta and potato salads and more I'm sure. Oh and it's more party style - like there will be snack food on the table all day then at meal times Mum clears it off and puts all the meat and salads on there and makes it like a buffet.
When I have been to other's houses in Australia we have had yummy glazed hams (sometimes served warm) or seafood on the barbecue. So yeah, people tend to have their own traditions I think
It is kind of odd for me to have Christmas in the winter but I think I prefer it. Not really because of the food or anything like that but for me it's more the festive feel over here. The German Markets and all the other Christmas-y things to do and see.0 -
normal roast for me, roast turkey (or sometimes we get cockrel instead) but just with the addition of Brussel sprouts - i love them!!
see i do ok at christmas because i'm a relatively fussy eater i dont over indulge, well ok maybe on the wine LOL!!0 -
I suspect we'll be having the traditional turkey as we're going to my mother's house for christmas dinner. Christmas Eve I'll probably do something involving game. i haven't thought this far ahead yet.0
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Christmas Eve is beef Wellington
Hi annemckee,
Could you share your recipe please?
kind regards
mcppsl
I'm not sure how authentic this is but it's what we like. I either do one big one or individual ones.
Get the best fillet steak you can. Sear it/them (as much or as little as you want depending on taste - we like rare steak so I just seal them). and spread on some smooth pate. Other recipes use chopped mushrooms, wrap it in pancetta etc. I just use the pate. Wrap in puff pastry with the seal underneath, glaze and cook in oven till pastry golden.0 -
Christmas Eve is beef Wellington
Hi annemckee,
Could you share your recipe please?
kind regards
mcppsl
I'm not sure how authentic this is but it's what we like. I either do one big one or individual ones.
Get the best fillet steak you can. Sear it/them (as much or as little as you want depending on taste - we like rare steak so I just seal them). and spread on some smooth pate. Other recipes use chopped mushrooms, wrap it in pancetta etc. I just use the pate. Wrap in puff pastry with the seal underneath, glaze and cook in oven till pastry golden.
Thanks, I will give it a try.0
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