What's on your Christmas menu?

[Minniespal]

of course, teh rest of the evening will be spent in a haze of Lindt and Baileys

Sounds like my sort of evening

 

[saratogagirl]

Breakfast will be cranberry juice and champaigne, neither of us are able to face eating breakfast but liquid is fine. Lunch will be Turkey with all the trimmings and creme brulee for afters washed down with something fizzy.
In the evening there will be nice wine and normally some cocktails, and if we get rumbly tumblies turkey sarnies with branston pickle - we are so classy LOL ....

 

[Goofyish]

Breakfast will be toast for DW and I while the kids will probably have cereal.

Christmas Dinner (cooked by me) will be:

Turkey
Stuffing
Sausage Meat
Roast Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Carrots
Peas
Sproats
Gravy
Bread Sauce (homemade)
Cranberry Sauce

Christmas Pudding and Fresh Whipped Cream

Asti Spumante

I cover the turkey in bacon whilst it's cooking and love to nibble at this when I remove it

Christmas Day Tea will probably be sandwiches, mince pies and chocolates.
I might make a triffle as well

 

[Mrs Night-Train]

Breakfast will either be cereal or tea and toast.

We're eating out at a local hotel this year which serves a 5 course carvery for Christmas Lunch. This is soup to begin with, then a selection of hot and cold starters, then main course is the usual turkey, ham, roast beef and roast port with all the trimmings. There are easily 50 desserts to choose from, which is very difficult as they all look so good, especially turkish delight cheesecake, crunchie cheesecake and baileys cheesecake!!!! Then to finish off either tea or coffee and mince pies.

Christmas evening tea will be finger foods in our house, with my mum, dad and brother.

 

[Funniebunny]

Breakfast will be croissants with strawberry and champagne jam and bucks fizz.

For Lunch I am doing a roast leg of lamb with veggies, roast potatoes, stuffing and sausages wrapped in bacon

For pudding I am going to make a chocolate and christmas pudding cheesecake.

In the evening we will just have a few nibbles.

 

[Minniespal]

For pudding I am going to make a chocolate and christmas pudding cheesecake.

That sounds yummy Emma

 

[saratogagirl]

For pudding I am going to make a chocolate and christmas pudding cheesecake.

In the evening we will just have a few nibbles.[/QUOTE]

I would love the recipe for this Emma - if you wouldn't mind sharing

 

[lexie32]

Xmas day

For breakfast - toast

Lunch - smoked salmon and prawn salad with some crusty brown bread ( home made)

Dinner -
Roast Chicken ( no point in a turkey for 2)
Stuffing
Sausage meat
pigs in blankets
yorkshire puddings
roast potatoes
broccoli
french beans
gravy

( that is if we don't get too tipsy like we did last year at the neighbours and forget the veg)

Pudding - lemon meringue pie ( hopefully as is home made and i've never tried before usually mum cooks one for me but she's in Australia this year )

Boxing day - very unedible totally overcooked roast beef and soggy veg at the MIL's

Alex

 

[Nubbedy]

Breakfast will be Scrambled Eggs on toast with Bucks Fizz.

Lunch will be
Turkey (for DH and DS) Quorn Fillet (for me)
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnip
Mashed potatoes
Peas
Carrots
Swede
Broccoli
Cabbage
Cauliflower Cheese
Pigs in blankets (and veggie ones!)
Stuffing
Yorkshire puddings (even though there's no beef!)
Gravy (Meat and Veggie)
Mint Sauce

The evening will be a Terry's chocolate orange and a couple of bottles of White Zinfandel!

Sara.

 

[Kath2003]

Christmas at my house:

10am - everyone hauled out of bed. Mum repeats "we're not doing anything until I've had a cup of tea" for the next 20 minutes. Sits down. Realises she wants weetabix. Gets Dad weetabix, which he didn't want or ask for. They sit getting soggy in the bowl.

10.30 - Having started her weetabix, realises she needs another cup of tea. Dad gets up and yells "Girls, anyone want a bacon sandwich?". Argument ensues in which Mum claims that the bacon was to go on the turkey (although recently she got smart and bought a spare pack of bacon to go on the turkey) and that he said he didn't want the weetabix, and now he says he's hungry? Dad and I try and explain the critical differences between weetabix and a bacon sandwich to Mum, fail, Dad and I have a bacon sandwich.

10.45 - Everyone sits down. Boxes of chocolates for me, DSis19 and DSis17 which we immediately crack into. Ensues nagging from Mum about us not eating our dinner.

11am - Mad panic from Mum as to whether the turkey will be ready for 2.30pm despite the fact that it says 2 hours on the box (it's a pre-prepared pre-stuffed pre-basted just-bung-it-in-the-oven-for-2-hours M&S job).

2.30pm - Sudden realisation that no one has set the table. Dad in trouble for eating the bacon from the turkey before its on the plates. DSis19, DSis17 and I stuffed from chocolate, not really wanting dinner.

2.40pm - Search for the corkscrew for wine.

2.45pm - Mum decides wine is "too much" for her, search for the lemonade to make her a spritzer.

2.50pm - Annual argument over how much wine DSis17 is allowed.

2.55pm - DSis17 realises she doesn't really like wine.

3pm - Annual argument about making Dad wear his Christmas hat from the cracker. It is also tradition that Dad recieves the piece of plastic jewellery from his cracker.

3.02pm - DSis19 complains that she hasn't got enough chipolatas.

3.05pm - Eat! Turkey, roast potatoes, chipolatas, sprouts, carrots, gravy, stuffing...

3.45pm - Mum tries to tempt people into Christmas Pudding.

3.50pm - Mum remembers that no one else likes Christmas Pudding.

4pm - Kath2003 cracks open the chocolate roulard.

8pm - Mum decides its not worth bothering with making some tea.

9pm - Kath2003 finishes entire chocolate roulard.

10pm - Kath2003 feels very sick.

10.10pm - Mum finishes lecturing Kath2003 on why she shouldn't have eaten the entire chocolate roulard.

11pm - Dad brings out the Walkers Sensations!

 

[TracyK]

Traditional turkey dinner for our family with a veggie option for me.

We live in New Hampshire in the USA, but my mother is from Cheltenham, so we will be having a very English Christmas again!!! (We all love it!)
For breakfast we start with dripping cakes/lardy cakes with some tea. For lunch we will have a nice roast with brussel sprouts, roast potatoes and all the fixings. For dessert we will have a triffle, plum pudding with Bird's custard and a chocolate torte. We always start our Christmas meal with Christmas crackers(the ones with the hats, jokes and toy inside)
Does anyone else use Christmas crackers???
I love this thread!!!
Happy Holidays to all!!

We always have crackers as do family and friends.

Tracy

 

[Lizzybear]

Breakfast for me is usually a selection box Maybe some cereal if I don't feel sick!
We don't really have lunch, just nibbles if anything. Need to save room for the dinner!
Dinner (6-7ish, quite late as we visit my auntie in the afternoon) is prawn and smoked salmon salad for starters, turkey with all the trimmings with veggie turkey aswell as veggie chipolatas for bf and Christmas pudding for afters We usually have cheese and crackers a bit later too.

 

[Cyrano]

Breakfast will be toast for DW and I while the kids will probably have cereal.

Christmas Dinner (cooked by me) will be:

Turkey
Stuffing
Sausage Meat
Roast Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Carrots
Peas
Sproats
Gravy
Bread Sauce (homemade)
Cranberry Sauce

Christmas Pudding and Fresh Whipped Cream

Asti Spumante

I cover the turkey in bacon whilst it's cooking and love to nibble at this when I remove it

Christmas Day Tea will probably be sandwiches, mince pies and chocolates.
I might make a triffle as well

Time, that's a great spread

 

[ely3857]

Great spreads everyone

Jodie

 

[Ware Bears]

especially turkish delight cheesecake,

I love the sound of this

 

[Funniebunny]

Here is the link to the Christmas Pudding cheesecake:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/christmas/recipeitem.shtml?rimmer_dessert

 

[wils]

Do you know what? - I don't have a clue as M-I-L is taking care of Christmas Dinner this year. It will probably be traditional turkey and trimmings

We are having breakfast at home so probably pastries and the usual for the kids!

 

[Minniespal]

Here is the link to the Christmas Pudding cheesecake:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/christmas/recipeitem.shtml?rimmer_dessert

Thanks for the link Emma ~ I really fancy making this one over Christmas

 

[carolfoy]

When I was married and a domestic goddess I used to make a christmas pudding ice cream that was lovely

line a pudding basin with brandy snaps (unravelled!) place chopped cherries and angelica in the bottom, make a simple ice cream and add chopped nuts, dried fruit, brandy, cinnamon etc and fill. Freeze, then to serve place the bowl in boiling water for a few seconds and turn up onto a plate, the chopped cherries and angelica make it look like an authentic christmas pudding. But oh, so much more delicious!

 

[Cyrano]

When I was married and a domestic goddess I used to make a christmas pudding ice cream that was lovely

line a pudding basin with brandy snaps (unravelled!) place chopped cherries and angelica in the bottom, make a simple ice cream and add chopped nuts, dried fruit, brandy, cinnamon etc and fill. Freeze, then to serve place the bowl in boiling water for a few seconds and turn up onto a plate, the chopped cherries and angelica make it look like an authentic christmas pudding. But oh, so much more delicious!

sounds great