11 of us gathering at our youngest daughter & son in law’s house. There’ll be plenty of choice. No chips. Happy to eat whatever I can fit onto my plate. 🤣
This Saturday we’re having a pre-Christmas dinner with elder son, his partner and our granddaughter. There will be chicken, Yorkshire puddings, stuffing balls, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas and carrots. Chocolate peppermint ice cream and chocolate log for pudding.
Christmas Day with younger son and daughter - turkey, pheasant, bread sauce, pigs in blankets, gravy, stuffing, peas, carrots and roast potatoes. Christmas pudding with rum butter and custard. For tea, Christmas cake, Waitrose chicken, pork and ham pie and salad.
Roast turkey, roast potatoes and parsnips (hopefully home grown snips), mashed Swede, sprouts, glazed carrots, pigs in blankets with home made stuffing (my dad’s recipe), gravy from the giblets. Our granddaughter will have a vegetarian pie with veg pigs and blankets, all served about 2pm.
Mince pies, chocolate bread and butter pudding or viennetta with cream or custard will be eaten after a break for a few presents to be opened.
I’ll have cooked and glazed a gammon, Boxing Day will be cold meats, bubble and squeak with homemade pickles
Why on earth would anybody ever eat mashed potatoes and roast potatoes at the same meal? That’s like having fried eggs and scrambled eggs together, or apple crumble and rice pudding, or a cup of tea and a cup of coffee.
I only get roast potatoes on Christmas Day so they are a treat.
Babs03, another northerner here, there would be trouble if the yorkshire puddings were missing.🤣
Exactly the same as you Poppyred, well almost apart from double cream with the Christmas pudding.
Most of ACs are veggie, OH and I are not, also one AC is gluten free due to being celiac, so for Christmas dinner we have 'this isn't chicken' which is gluten free and veggie for most at the table, but OH and I have chicken along with one SiL, we also have gluten free stuffing, gluten free bisto gravy, gluten free Yorkshires - yes am from the North we do have them with Xmas dinner - roast pots and mash, plenty of vegetables roasted, and gluten free veggie sausages.
The reason we just all stick with gluten free is to avoid cross contamination and these days it all tastes as good as anything else.
We may also serve a gluten free nut roast instead of stuffing.
My husband and I will be on our own in Christmas day (seeing family on Boxing day). We're going to have chicken Rogan Josh, samosas, pakoras and naan bread, a couple of of Indian beers, then ice cream for dessert
I’d be strung up if there were no roast potatoes! Three rib beef joint and loads of veg for us.
I have gone through the Christmas dinner foods and reduced the offering to what people want and chucked out all the extras.
So it will be turkey, gammon, stuffing, sausagemeat and gravy. Those are what really matters. accompanied by sprouts and roast potatoes - no extra type of potatoes, no other veg. Just the basics.
There will be smoked salmon to start and Christmas pudding with brandy butter and cream to follow. By choice the non-Christmas pudding eaters have banana splits. Quickly assembled when required.
The Christmas lunch is all the cooking I do on Christmas day. and most of that is prepared on Christmas Eve. If people want anything else to eat, breakfast or supper they must forage in the kitchen for themselves. There will be plenty of salad, cheese and fruit they can eat plus, of course, cole turkey etc, mince pies, Christmas cake and anything else they may have brought with them.
A frozen, uncooked turkey crown, suggests on the packaging - 'do not reheat'. I can't eat a whole joint and was hoping after cooking to slice/cube the rest freeze and use again later (after defrosting) in casseroles another dinner sandwichs etc is this not possible?
Oh I forgot pigs-in-blankets (I would be persona non grata if I forgot these on the day)
I'm vegetarian, so no turkeys feature in my meal, but.. no roast potatoes ?? Sacre bleu!
There's just me, DH, daughter and a friend of hers who's she has known for years and will be on his own. We are having smoked duck, orange and brandy pate for a starter, then venison with roasts, pigs in blankets, cranberry and apple pork stuffing and some maple roasted mixed veg followed by Christmas pudding and fresh cream which I warm and add a bit of brandy. Enough servings for four of us.
Sorry I forgot to add that it will be roast turkey, stuffing, parsnips, sprouts, roast carrots, cauliflower cheese, broccoli and Yorkshire puddings for the GC (I know they are not all traditional, but the little ones would riot if I deviate 🤣) 🎄🤶🏻🧑🎄🎅🏻
We will have turkey, with stuffing (Irish granny's recipe and sausage meat), with both mash and roast potatoes, chipolatas, pigs in blankets. I am cooking the turkey, which is still running about, on a farm above our house!
I dare not deviate from this.
I'm not sure of veg, we are going to DS', DD will bring starter and DIL will make dessert.
We have 19 here on Boxing Day 🤷♀️🤶🏻🎄🎅🏻🧑🎄
No chips on Christmas Day, roast potatoes in Goose fat along with buttery mash.
Chips, Cheesy mash and pasta (plain and macaroni cheese) on Boxing Day to go with cold meats (Turkey, Ham and an assortment of Italian anti-pasta meats) pickles, salads etc.
Very traditional here. Turkey, roast parsnips, roast potatoes, mash, sprouts, carrots, peas, pigs in blankets, stuffing, cranberry and bread sauce and home made gravy. Followed by Christmas pud and white sauce. Yum!
I fancy a pie of some sort, with mash, and nice veg.
Turkey and cranberry pie, maybe.
Not yet decided as my husband and I are on our own. It will include alchohol though ha ha. so I can cope with all the 'family'ads!!
I'm going to my daughter's. We will have a choice of starter, then turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, Brussel sprouts, carrots, parsnips, peas, chipolatas, stuffing, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, gravy, Yorkshire puddings and then a choice of desserts. No chips!
We always have mashed potatoes, turkey, sweet corn, carrots, green bean salad and stuffing. Same menu always. If I veer off course, there is mayhem!
And a chocolate biscuit log cake for dessert.
I’ve been out all day and arrived home to hear the fascinating piece of news from DH that he had heard about a survey on Classic FM (he couldn’t remember who did the survey, or whether it was on the news) and the the survey had discovered that 90% of people under 40 were going to have chips instead of roast potatoes for their Christmas dinner, but 98% of over 65s were going to have roast potatoes.
What a fascinating piece of information!
Anyway, we’re going to our son’s house on Christmas Day, along with our other son and his family, and our daughter and her family, and we’re going to have roast turkey and all the trimmings, which will certainly include roast potatoes, and will definitely not include any chips. My son is 47. I’m not sure where he falls in the survey.
Whatever, it will be delicious, just as it was last year, and indeed as was the roast beef and roast potatoes and vegetables that he cooked for us last Sunday. Our other son has made the Christmas pudding. We’re all at his house on Christmas Eve, and they’re all at ours on Boxing Day, although we’ll do a ham, baked potatoes and salad, and definitely no chips!
We will be having a chip free Christmas. Will you? And what will you be eating over the Christmas period?
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