Favourite Part of the Christmas Day Dinner?

Stuffing!

I'd eat a dinner plate of that alone. And more for dessert.

If there was one part I'd have it all the time and it wouldn't just be for Christmas. So it's the combination of everything. But the most important part of Christmas dinner for me is family ❤️

There's nothing in a Christmas dinner we don't eat throughout the year, we just wouldn't eat them all at the same time. For me what makes it the Christmas dinner is the turkey though, we only get a full crown once a year and I love it. When cooked properly its delicious.

The Turkey since I wouldn't have it very often.

Stuffing with lovely gravy preferably homemade. Its the only time of the year I have either of these food items.

Definitely sausage-meat stuffing 🤤🤤 When we were kids (& even now as adults), we literally be fighting over the left over stuffing 😅

Homemade sausage stuffing and homemade cauliflower and cheese, couldn't choose between them.

All of the above, and yes, I'm hungry too now.

While Christmas dinner at home is just about my favourite meal, bar none - turkey and ham on catering/banquet scale is up there with the most disappointing meals in the world, bar none!

I've never had sausage-meat stuffing, it sounds bizarre - I love stuffing (which for me is breadcrumbs with herbs), and I love sausages - but the two together with chicken/turkey??? Dunno about that!

Hi Cork Lass, is there no breadcrumbs in this stuffing recipe?

No - absolutely none. It's more like a meatloaf but is delicious. It's a Delia Smith recipe that I've used for years.

Good call. I love bread sauce and always have it with Christmas Dinner... none of my inlaws had ever tried it before I put it on the table for Christmas Dinner just gone, one or 2 tried it but said they preferred gravy and left me to eat 90% of it. Happy days.

My family always had it and we're all Dubs... though we have family in kilkenny too... but never associated it as being a regional thing.

Half of my inlaws are from Yorkshire and they put gravy on corn flakes 😅

My 10 year old said he's be happy enough if we just served him a massive lump of ham! Must be done in cider though and baked with a glaze to finish. I think we're spoiling him a bit.

lol I over looked your post apologies.. funny you should mention bread sauce.. I created a thread about this last Christmas; we are from the NE but live in the South now.. and last Christmas was our 1st here.. and we always have bread sauce at home with turkey.. but we couldn't find it anywer here.. and I asked a load of my mates down here had they ever heard of it - and they hadn't..

I don't like it myself but himself loves it..

We didn't think of it Christmas gone.. our hearts weren't feeling v festive as we had been bereaved a few mths beforehand..

is it a regional thing?

none of my mates down here in the South had ever heard of it - but its v popular at home in the NW

Don't know, I'm from Meath and apart from living in Dublin for about 7 years about twenty years ago I haven't exactly moved around a lot 😃

It must be popular enough when the likes of Knorr, Colman's, Schwartz etc make it, maybe it's originally an English thing?

that explains why its popular where i'm from - the last county to be planted.. like, the same reason why we eat potato bread (divine)..

Bread sauce galore in Aldi this morning. They had their own brand and the Shwartz brand - they were marked as seasonal sauces but there was a lot of them left. the Shwartz ones were reduced to 49c.

Don't be anywhere near an M&S Sporina so can't help you there, but I did make some Colman's bread sauce with the dinner yesterday as we had a ham fillet, it's not everyone's cup of tea but I love it.