What's on your Christmas menu?

[cleo]

I'm nosing in on a thread I shouldn't really be adding to, but I have to say I've got some great ideas from reading your menus!

'Traditional' Christmas dinner sounds like our Thanksgiving dinner in the US. My family usually has crown roast, prime rib or standing rib roast with vegies, etc on Christmas, changing every year so it's always a bit different. But SimonV has turned us on to Christmas Pudding and those delightful little bundles of joy, Mince Pies. They don't taste anything like the mince pie I grew up with and I cannot tell you how much I love the addition of warm cream sauce! Too yummy!

 

[Spook]

Does anyone else have turkey jelly on toast. As my M & S turkey crown will not get cooked until Christmas Day this is now my Boxing Day treat. Everyone else I mention it to shudders, so do any Dis-ers like it?

Christmas dinner will just be the traditional stuff with enough veg cooked so that we can have bubble and squeak on Boxing Day. DH will have Christmas pud (as he is the only one that likes it (I have bought him an individual one from M & S and he is moaning that it is too small). Haven't decided what DD's and me will have - probably something that involves chocolate

Jan

 

[Minniespal]

Does anyone else have turkey jelly on toast

What is it?

 

[carolfoy]

I'm nosing in on a thread I shouldn't really be adding to, but I have to say I've got some great ideas from reading your menus!

'Traditional' Christmas dinner sounds like our Thanksgiving dinner in the US. My family usually has crown roast, prime rib or standing rib roast with vegies, etc on Christmas, changing every year so it's always a bit different. But SimonV has turned us on to Christmas Pudding and those delightful little bundles of joy, Mince Pies. They don't taste anything like the mince pie I grew up with and I cannot tell you how much I love the addition of warm cream sauce! Too yummy!

Then you really have to get him to introduce you to cornish clotted cream! the best in the world. Yum!

 

[Spook]

What is it?

Florence it's when the juices from the cooked turkey cool and become jelly. I have it on toast with a little bit of salt.

Jan

 

[Ware Bears]

I can remember my mum having this years ago. She always used to eat the dripping off roast beef in the same way!

 

[Minniespal]

Florence it's when the juices from the cooked turkey cool and become jelly. I have it on toast with a little bit of salt.

Jan

Thanx for that Jan Think I will pass though

 

[pixie dust 112]

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!

Aren't Christmas traditions wonderful!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Ok I've read through this whole thread and, being from the US, have no idea what any of you are having to eat this Christmas other than TUrkey and Florida Grapefruit. Can someone fill me in on this Fizz thing that so many of you are having at breakfast? What is it? Seems very popular! Oh that's right I know Baileys too. I'll have that Christmas evening for sure!

Also I know the origins of boxing day, but can someone explain to me how it is celbrated in the UK? Here the 26th is just a back to work day! Thanks!

 

[Claire L]

Ok I've read through this whole thread and, being from the US, have no idea what any of you are having to eat this Christmas other than TUrkey and Florida Grapefruit. Can someone fill me in on this Fizz thing that so many of you are having at breakfast? What is it? Seems very popular! Oh that's right I know Baileys too. I'll have that Christmas evening for sure!

Also I know the origins of boxing day, but can someone explain to me how it is celbrated in the UK? Here the 26th is just a back to work day! Thanks!

Here is some info about Boxing Day which is a Public/Bank Holiday for us.

As for the Fizz that is Buck's Fizz a mixture of Champagne and orange juice Personally I prefer it without the orange juice

Claire

 

[Minniespal]

Personally I prefer it without the orange juice

Me too

 

[Strommie]

Me too

Me three

 

[pixie dust 112]

Here is some info about Boxing Day which is a Public/Bank Holiday for us.

As for the Fizz that is Buck's Fizz a mixture of Champagne and orange juice Personally I prefer it without the orange juice

Claire

Thanks Claire! In the US we call Buck's Fizz a Mimosa! YUMMY! Whe we have a special occasion brunch we serve those.

 

[cleo]

Buck's Fizz is Mimosa in the US.

oops...we posted at the same time!

 

[Minniespal]

Buck's Fizz is Mimosa in the US.

I wish I knew that ~ I have declined them in the past because I was not familar with the name.

 

[UKDEB]

Lots of bah-humbug.

Why does that not surprise me?

my mother is from Cheltenham
Does anyone else use Christmas crackers???

We're from Cheltenham's (poor ) neighbour, Gloucester. Yes, we will have crackers. I hate the waste, but it's all part of dressing the table.


Kath2003 - . Reminds me of very a many happy Christmas spent with my parents!

Does anyone else have turkey jelly on toast.

Haven't ever thought to try it, but it sounds good. My Gran used to give me beef dripping on bread and I always loved that.

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For breakfast we'll be having scrambled egg and smoked salmon on toasted English muffins, washed down with Buck's Fizz (albeit that it will be a decent Cava as I can't bear the thought of tainting Champagne by adding anything to it ).

Christmas lunch will be:

Kelly bronze turkey,
Sage and onion stuffing (my Gran's recipe - no sausagemeat in sight),
Chipolatas wrapped in bacon,
Bread sauce (Delia's recipe - the best I've found - with a bit more cream for good measure),
Roast potatoes (potatoes from father-in-law's allotment given my secret treatment ),
Parmesan parsnips (Delia's recipe again),
Brussels sprouts (plain boiled - can't see the point in adding too many additional flavours),
Mashed swede (with a touch of nutmeg),
Mashed potato,
Duchy's Originals fresh cranberry sauce'
Gravy made with a giblet stock and juices from the Kelly bronze, lashings of wine and thickened with a beurre manie (or a bit of cornflour if I'm feeling lazy).

Dessert will be a Marks & Spencer Vintage Christmas Pudding (I've been buying them for years and I can't make it better) with a choice of cream or brandy butter.

We'll have champagne as an aperitif, then wine with lunch and a dessert wine with the pud.

For tea we'll force down a turkey sandwich and a slice of cake or a mince pie.

Boxing Day will be cold turkey and bubble and squeak. I enjoy this as much as Christmas lunch, but I can never choose between pickles or leftover gravy and bread sauce to accompany it.

 

[Harvestmooner]

What is a Chipalotas???

 

[Claire L]

What is a Chipalotas???

Its a sauage about half the thickness of a normal one but the same length.

Claire

 

[angel659]

Hi

My kids will more than likely have cereal for breakfast and dh and I will probably skip breakfast due to dinner and our tin of roses.

Lunch its traditional turkey, sausages in bacon, yorkshire pudding, roast potatos, roast parsnips, stuffing, brussells, brocolli and some other veg and turkey gravy. Pudding possibly be a trifle. We dont really like xmas pud.

Tea yep the typical turkey sandwhiches, biscuits with cheese and some other nibbles.

My main and new thing this year I am going to make Eggnog. Fingers crossed I will get this right.

 

[Minniespal]

My main and new thing this year I am going to make Eggnog. Fingers crossed I will get this right.

Hope it works out Michelle ~ How do you make it?