[Closed] What's your Christmas dinner menu?

Battered haddock goujons with a creamy curry sauce

Roasted rack of local salt marsh lamb with roast potatoes in garlic and rosemary, roasted beets, roast carrots (in honey and whole grain mustard) and freshly minted peas

A huge Christmas pudding soaked in Madeira and spiced orange juice served with clotted cream

Nom nom nom

And I shall be cooking it with a large glass of red wine in my hand. I can assure you it will all reach the table in better condition than I will.

Whatever my sister is cooking 🙂

whatever my sister in law i cooking + a heap of BOOZE

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we are having lamb this year. turkey bores me.

we are having lamb this year

how are you doing it?

I have to endure the mindless roasting of some minging turkey that apparently is so "lovely" that they only eat it once a year!

enough to turn me veggie for the day

Beef Wellington here, lots of roast veg, dauphinoise potatoes, and probably a fine burgundy

whatever Disney's Contemporary Micky Buffet is serving 🙂

Battered haddock goujons with a creamy curry sauce

yossarian details please!? 🙂

Duck. Probably. I'll be the only carnivore so a duck is approximately one portion, but Christmas day tends to be something I plan for on christmas eve. Got a bunch of silicon cake moulds I used for some props I made earlier in the year for a science telly thing, so might do some novelty shaped yorkshire puds. I'm quite happy with turkey if its a good, slow grown, small one.

God knows yet. Flying out to the future in-laws in Estonia for Christmas, I have no idea what to expect. All I know is its going to be effing cold.

Vegan one for me

You sure you want to know what it will all be 😉

We are having pork belly! Can't wait, yum.

Nut roast. I shall be making it on Sunday after the cross at Hillingdon.
Maybe also some roasted sweet potato slices done Ottolenghi style. With sprouts, and other nice things.
Eaten in the evening, after a good 60 mile road ride in the morning.

An airline meal on a charter flight. It'll be worth it to be away.

I'll be working on Xmas eve, Xmas day, and Xmas night- so I might have a bit of pizza or something.

@albanach

I'll need to look out the recipe to remember it exactly but it's something like haddock fillet cut into long thin strips, rolled in normal flour then coated in a batter of self raising flour and whisked egg and deep fried in a mixture of low salt butter and oil. The curry sauce is mild, Kashmiri affair with yoghurt and almonds. I seem to remember adding some ale to the batter last time which was great, a strong dark porter I think.

Were along the same lines as Lionheart, but Venison wellington, packed around with either veggie haggis or the Stornoway black pud, Roast veg etc etc...

Cheeseboard and port possibly to follow...

cheers yossarian sounds class...if you find the recipe can you pass it on please?

We're having a big **** off chicken (we live on chicken in this house) It'll be like a posh Sunday dinner but posher. No pud though cos I'll be too full of chicken & stuffing & sausage meat & chipolatas wrapped in bacon & sprouts & roast taties & turnip & peas & mash & Yorky puds & gravy &....EVERYTHING!
I think.

turkey
roasties in goose fat
roast parsnips
carrots in clementine juice
braised red cabbage with apple
shredded Brussels sprouts with panchetta and peas
white onion puree
white wine gravy
chestnut stuffing

and i have to cook the bastard lot for 16!

Turkey, all the trimmings.
I love turkey, one of the nicest meals, if done right.
Have it quite regularly.

Not having turkey is a bit of an affectation, a sad attempt at misguided individuality, like pretending not to like The Beatles. 8)

Since we're not having a house full of relatives this year a turkey crown with all the trimmings washed down with a nice red and some good cheeses for later and a good port.

Will be Roast turkey and Roast beef.
Roast spuds and parsnips
Boiled carrots,Cauliflower,Cabbage,Sprouts
Plenty of Gravy.

And then a Skin full of whisky

A picnic including a flask of proper coffee, on an empty trail somewhere but with a view obviously. 8)

Turkey (Brined and roasted)
Roast potatoes
Sprouts with pancetta, chestnuts and madeira
Carrots, probably roast
May do cauliflower cheese
Mashed celeriac with garlic and chilli
Stuffing
bread sauce
gravy
sausages

Not sure about pudding yet.

swan

Surely eating turkey in the UK only started in the mid/ late 70s. I guess it's an age old tradition now, a bit like scotchmen, tartan and kilts.

we're going for goose again this year
roast new potatoes,carrots,parsnips,kale and redcurrant jelly.
lots of claret and whiskey 😀

Whatever the inlaws are cooking. Probably salmon starter followed by turkey.

2 bags of seabrook crisps and half a jar of pickled onions(silverskin) i've been saving...I am not joking 🙁

Family gathering at my elder daughter's; turkey with all the trimmings, pigs in blankets, etc., plus yorkshire puddings 🙂

I have managed to get to 37 years old never having had turkey for christmas dinner. This year will be the first. Turkey, a ham and all the lovely trimmings.

tbh, I get most excited about eggs benedict for breakfast!.

Prob melon to start with and being vegi i guess i'll be having a nut roast along with whatever veg my mum is doing, brussels, carrots, parsnips, sweetcorn etc, roast tatties, vegi gravy, followed by pavlova or i may make dark chocolate profiteroles depending on how pissed i get on veuve beforehand.

Smoked salmon with Macon Verze Domains Leflave 09
Daube of beef with everything - roasts,carrots , dauphinoise pots,broccoli,sprouts with bottle or two of Gevery Chambertain Domain Trapet 08 and some psi ribera del duero 2009
Christmas pud with a glass of lustau pedro ximenez sherry
Then a trip to the hospital for an artery flush out......

Turkey. Roast breast down on a lower heat for longer, don't totally stuff it so the airflow is good, and even the meanest bird is generally quite tasty.

Chestnuts
Greens with smoked lardons
Home-made curry spice sausages

and i have to cook the bastard lot for 16!

i salute you...

but sod that this year, were off to the local 5 star hotel for 6 courses... 🙂 yes its not the same as having it at home but one million times less stressful.

Kid (goat). As cooked by my mother-in-law.

I might make the dessert.

lobster to start
Three meat roast (Turkey/Pork/Chicken with all the usual stuffing, roasties and veg
Not sure on the pudding yet =- kids to tell me what the choice is

Drinks will be from wine, champagne, sparkling water and various fruit juices

Looking forward to it

Homemade sourdough pizza and a bottle of Chateauneuf followed by Eton Mess. Leaves plenty of family time and no dishes and it is delicious too.

We do have a very nice continental breakfast in the morning and on Christmas Eve we always have Lobster Thermadore & other shellfish with a nice bottle of petit chablis.

We try to spread the occassion out a bit.

Vegan one for me

You sure you want to know what it will all be

Yes, please.

white onion puree
white wine gravy

They're new ones on me. *goes to google*

I think I'll be doing a roast on Boxing Day rather than Christmas Day, for long and boring reasons. Just me, OH and my mum.

Probably some sort of veggie roast, might try doing a nut roast from scratch. I might chuck some pre-cooked Tesco chicken in the oven for the other two if I'm feeling generous.

Roast veggies; spuds, carrots, parsnips. Yorkies, peas, sweetcorn, caramelised onion and red wine gravy.

Afters, not sure yet. Oh, wait, yes I do, OH's got some Heston Bloominhell pudding or other. *dubious*

I love cooking for Christmas.
I rarely do a big roast though, preferring to do lots of small courses stretched over the whole afternoon. This year it's

Carpaccio of beef filet with parmesan
My homemade Gravadlax with dill sauce
Mini decadent fish pie with asparagus
Herbed Potato cake (with something I havent figured what yet, maybe samphire)
Dad's 2year old xmas pudding
A cheeseboard of Stilton, aged comte, a brie that's making a bid for freedom and if I can find some a Sparkenhoe Red Leicester.

And Im raiding the wine cellar for the good stuff. Got a collection of White and red Burgundies, a Bordelaise and a couple of Savennières Im looking forward to.

i think we're planning on mexican themed vegan food for this year.

tamales of some description. and either enchiladas, or a chilli sin carne. and some form of green veg side dish, probably with chilli cornbread instead of more traditional carbs.

Turkey is crap, which is precisely why nobody eats it for the rest of the year. So we're having beef, among other things

We've got a veggie round for christmas dinner with us, Mrs Binners is getting in a tiz about what to do for her. I have clearly stated that we should stick with time honoured British tradition, and offer to rustle her up on omelette 😉