It's the 1st of December.....
Inspire me with your Christmas Dinner delights
Im going out for a Chinese with the outlaws 🙁 however I need some inspiration for a festive dinner on Boxing Day
Im going out for a Chinese with the outlaws
What sort of madness is this?
If I had my way, it'd be this..
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Going to the pub this year, all booked and paid for.
Fish pie for Christmas eve
Roast goat with roast veg etc
pudding tbc
The best part of the planning is choosing the wines to serve.........love it
Full roast turkey and trimmings here. Mrs_oab insists.
She is right on so many things.
Same as ever.
Roast Sirloin and a free-range chicken.
The best part of the planning is choosing the wines to serve.........love it
+1
Either a roast chicken & some of the trimmings or leg of lamb here I expect.
A well-aged Tim Adams Semillion for the former and a nice Douro for the latter.
Though my daughter asked for chicken stew and my son wanted spaghetti with meatballs.
😀
Home-smoked salmon
Slow roast rib of beef with bone marrow gravy
Christmas pud
We always have Champagne with our trad. turkey. Best meal of the year.
I saw quinoa on our menu 🙁
My sons want spaghetti and meatballs too... As I'm recovering from a broken jaw for me it has to be something that can be blitzed this year 🙁
Cannibalism ahoy! Roast Duck with the works for us.
Partridge*, with cherry sauce, etc.
(1 each)
roast goose here, and a ham, and possibly a chicken (depending on the fussy eating habits of the guests)
We always have Champagne with our trad. turkey.
Ah we start early. Buck's Fizz with the breakfast scrambled egg and smoked salmon.
Not sure about dinner. Tempted by pork stuffed with prunes but records show we had that last year.
Of course, the alcohol starts flowing well before that, but it's usually a G&T or a beer/cider 
Oh, and don't forget the annual family trip down to the local pub, xmas morning.
We shall be doing Turkey - but on the Webber - slowly cooked using an indirect method. Tastes amazing and leaves all the space in the oven for roast veggies/pigs in blankets etc!
I imagine a pork roast here, alongside some sort of game bird. There is an absolutely fantastic fishmonger at Cardiff Market that also sells game birds. We normally try to buy a few.
Mmmm.
Some sort of Mexican themed vegetarian meal here!
Rib of beef, a ham cooked in coke ( cola) pigs in blankets etc then Christmas pud.
No starter arranged yet, but I fancy black pudding and scallops.
Turkey and a side of beef wellington
Well santas "hopefully" bringing me a decent sized le creuset. Keep thinking a roasted leg of lamb would be best for a maiden voyage but I loved this thread so much last year iil keep an open mind ....
Festive dinner should be ok on the 26th but it's my pizza party on the 28th using my new Uuni2 which I'm looking more forward to
no skiing this year so instead Ribeye steak on the bbq .
Neighbours think we are nuts .
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We never have full roast as none of us like it! The children want sushi as a starter, maybe a light pasta dish for main, then a raspberry ice cream concoction that my wife makes that we all love!
Breakfast is scrambled eggs in toasted brioche, my daughter and I share the smoked salmon as my wife and son don't like it!
Going out for our big meal on Christmas Eve.
A Mexican Christmas banquet involving citrus and coriander stewed lamb, yucutan pork belly with spicy crackling, a variety of steaks, a huge range of chillies and lots of salsas.
And tequila. Lots of tequila. And Mezcal.
The holy day itself will be spent amidst vast amounts of cold meats, cheese and excellent bread.
Turkey crown for the traditionalists and lamb for... probably just me! 🙂
Havent decided on pud but a "raspberry ice cream concoction" sounds good!
Traditional in this house for Beef Wellington, roast vegetables and dauphinois potatoes - eaten at 1500 - best meal of the year! In the morning it's b'fast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon and then off to ride bikes or horse (gender dependent) back to finish preparing lunch, much having been done the day before.
I'm on shift so will be having something out of the microwave at about 8pm 🙁
Inspire me with your Christmas Dinner delights
buggering off to Italy/Sicily for four weeks..... might be my best plan ever.
Gazpacho Soup
Fresh Prawns and Oysters
Moroccan Pork Kebabs with BBQ'd Halloumi
Roasted Salmon with salad
Couple of deserts
Matched wines all the way
Couldn't face a Turkey at 30c
Suspect will be a ham, salmon, seafood and maybe some asian style kebab things this year. Had my turkey and trimmings for thanksgiving so not as fussed and as mike says its too warm!
Will be bubbly first with smoked salmon on sourdough and then beers, most likely little creatures.
Last year i had a cheese sandwich on Christmas day
Bacon rolls and Champagne for mid morning, just me and my wife. Then a couple of hours in the local and a walk to the curry house with some of the older singles on the parish so they aren't alone on Xmas day.
I can't stand any of the traditional Christmas dinner and Seasonal foods. Turkey, Christmas pud, mince pies, etc all minging.
Im going out for a Chinese with the outlaws
Likewise, but my outlaws will also be Chinese.
We were in Oz last year which was loads of salads, prawns and a huge snapper cooked on the bbq so this year we're going traditional with an organic free range turkey from the local butcher and probably a ham too. Something light and seafoody for a starter and nigellas white choc raspberry cheesecake for dessert which involves several killos of dairy!
Traditional turkey here too, followed by homemade ice cream.
Going a bit more traditional than I usually do this year (at the request of my sister-in-law).
Starter will be Yorkshire Pudding with onion gravy, warm pickled onions, crispy shallots and burnt onion.
Main is ballotine of turkey breast (stuffed with cranberry), pigs in blankets (with homemade turkey sausages), confit turkey thigh meatloaf, parmentier potatoes, spiced roast parsnip puree, parsnip crisps, warm 'pickled' sprouts, turkey gravy and crispy turkey skin.
Pudding is homemade Christmas pudding and brandy ice cream.
Jellied eels and lard cobs
M&S dinner in a box here, used to go all out, venison, pork for the gravy, dauphinoise, big bird. Would rather spend the morning playing with the kids these days. Still stuff our faces and loads of cheese and meats for a big buffet supper but 1/3 of the hassle
Nice turkey and baked ham, 2 kinds of spuds, 3 kinds of stuffing (wrapped in bacon, a meat and a bread), carrots, cabbage, parsnips.
We usually have pudding with tea several hours later which is all of my Mum's awesome baking plus a cheeseboard, cold meat platter etc.
I can't wait. My boys have never seen anything colder than an Irish summer's day and it's the first time my wife and I have been back in Blighty for Christmas for 7 years.
a walk to the curry house with some of the older singles on the parish so they aren't alone on Xmas day.
This poster is winning so far.
🙂
will be India on MTB trip so it will be curry 😀
Having found that Booths are doing delivery for the festive season, it's a Booths three bird roast and other bits n pieces.
Mrs JP does not eat meat which means I don't eat much of it. December means my body starts to shutdown from meat overload from all of the Cranston's Christmas baguettes so it is a welcome relief to avoid the stuff at home.
Christmas Eve: Shelfish in the evening
Christmas day: Pizza, garlic bread, Rioja and Eton Mess
My daughter is getting Scalextric this year 🙂 I will be buggered if we are spending hours making dinner and washing up
I cook the mains for the far too large family my sisters have generated
Traditional here; turkey, stuffing, brussels with bacon (farts ahoy!), roast spuds, buttered parsnips, vichy carrots, peas, bread sauce, red cabbage and a white wine gravy that i start at the same time as the turkey
Try to plan it so i get the faffy bits out of the way before the G&T's kick in
Outlaws doing a paella. should be good.
I have a stock of 2/6 project beer, concker spirit & mare gins.
Need more beers... Any ale suggestions for seafood paella?
We have the outlaws coming Christmas day - so I will (reluctantly) be doing Turkey as she started moaning at the very suggestion of something else.
I'm going to buy a small ready prepped Turkey parcel as it only needs to feed two adults and 2-3 kids.
(I hate turkey, my wife and her sister are both Veggies)
For the veggies I'm going to do a savory strudel with chestnuts, wild mushrooms and cranberry.
Won't do a starter, and desert will be the traditional crap.
Boxing day - my mum and dad are coming over.
I'll do a garlic tiger prawn risotto as a starter - and swap the prawns for wild mushrooms for the Veggies (wife and my mum)
I've already got a nice chunk of Aberdeen Angus topside to roast.
The veggies will be getting a variation on the previous days strudel, this time with walnuts, caramelised red onion and Gorgonzola.
My mum will bring desert, which will be a decent homemade trifle and something else.
I'm quite organised - pigs in blankets have already been wrapped and frozen, sausage meat parcel also in freezer.
I've even knocked up a garlic + chilli butter for the boxing day starter.
Its all good - especially if I don't run the blade of one of my very sharp kitchen knives across the back of my finger like last year...
We have the outlaws coming Christmas day - so I will (reluctantly) be doing Turkey as she started moaning at the very suggestion of something else.
You're a better person than me: I made it very clear that if I was cooking, I was choosing the menu.
Reindeer filets and roast root veggies
Chocolate and kilted sausages.
The rest is just a distraction.
We have the outlaws coming Christmas day - so I will (reluctantly) be doing Turkey as she started moaning at the very suggestion of something else.You're a better person than me: I made it very clear that if I was cooking, I was choosing the menu.
She's not the nicest (or most rational) of people, my mother-in-law.
The last time they came over I suggested we didn't have Turkey and she got a bit narky.
As much as I couldn't care less about upsetting her, I don't want to cause any issues for my wife, or spoil Christmas for my kids.
So if a £10 Aldi turkey parcel keeps the loons happy then so be it.
She has form for ruining Christmas - few years back they had a huge row and she stropped-off to bed at midday and wasn't seen again.
I don't need her doing this at my house.
Boxing day is the main event in my mind - a free hand to cook what I like, and a grateful audience.
Shredded sprouts FTW. Meat will be turkey as it's a present from the company at xmas time. I will be mainly trying to see if I can OD on pigs in blankets.