Favourite Part of the Christmas Day Dinner?

Loughc · 08-01-2022 10:31PM #1

Not a tournament just an interesting question.

(Tournament coming tomorrow or Monday.)

If you could only pick one item, what would be your favourite part of the Christmas Day dinner?

HeidiHeidi · 08-01-2022 10:32PM

Stuffing!

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

A cup of te · 08-01-2022 11:11PM

Has to be the roasties!!!

Caranica · 09-01-2022 01:18AM

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 ❤️

Littlehorny · 09-01-2022 01:27AM

Wow, that is such a tough question. So many things need to be thought of here, how many times a year do you actually eat turkey? Roasties? Brussel Sprouts? Bread Sauce?

After giving it serious consideration I would go with stuffing because I make it from scratch and it brings the whole meal together where not everyone picks everything on the menu, they all put a good spoonful of stuffing on the plate.

DvB · 09-01-2022 10:57AM

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.

Loughc · 09-01-2022 01:47PM

Yeah same as you @DvB its the Turkey for me. We tend not to have Turkey throughout the year so for me it’s the difference maker.

Roast potatoes are on another level of amazing but I literally could have them all day everyday. I haven’t done that yet but I might haha.

Posy · 09-01-2022 04:29PM

Stuffing for me. There's no other day I have at least 3 types of stuffing! And cranberry stuffing is just nyom.

Turkey and Christmas crackers are also a must have, though. 😁

Loughc · 09-01-2022 04:39PM

3 types of stuffing? Bread, sausage meat and cranberry?

Do you make your own cranberry stuffing? If so share the recipe or where you get it from.

growleaves · 09-01-2022 04:39PM

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

TRS30 · 10-01-2022 08:11AM

Probably turkey for me. It's more the whole process around it, the hours of cooking, carving etc. I have turkey a bit during the year however never with all the ceremony like Christmas.

Jude13 · 10-01-2022 09:39AM

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

Cork Lass · 10-01-2022 09:46AM

Definitely the roasties for me - wouldn't have them that often but at Christmas they are always cooked in either goose fat or duck fat. Delicious 😍

CheerLouth · 10-01-2022 11:15AM

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

jellybear · 10-01-2022 11:48AM

Definitely stuffing for me...yum!!

Posy · 11-01-2022 01:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118444347#Comment_118444347

Yes, I love sausage meat stuffing balls, nyom. 😁

I have made cranberry stuffing in the past, but the last couple of years just get tesco finest cranberry, apricot and clementine stuffing, it's delish. 😋

AyeGer · 11-01-2022 01:35AM

The turkey and ham combo as i only have those together at Christmas.

con747 · 11-01-2022 01:38AM

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

Jude13 · 11-01-2022 06:42AM

Honorable mention to goose fat roasties.

God I'm starving now.

tscul32 · 11-01-2022 04:18PM

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

A cup of te · 11-01-2022 06:08PM

This thread is flippin' mouth watering 😋 I have to agree that sausage meat stuffing is fab. I don't get to make that though because my mam just likes ordinary stuffing which is also gorgeous too. Love the gravy too. The whole thing is gorgeous. My favourite dinner. I always said if I get married I know what the menu will be - turkey and ham!

HeidiHeidi · 11-01-2022 06:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456730#Comment_118456730

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!

Cork Lass · 11-01-2022 06:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456757#Comment_118456757

We always use sausagemeat stuffing - sausagemeat, chestnuts, apple, onion, egg and a bit of salt and pepper. My husband prefers it to any of the meat.

Littlehorny · 11-01-2022 06:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456790#Comment_118456790

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

BarneyJ · 11-01-2022 06:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118442220#Comment_118442220

I'm delighted you've mentioned bread sauce. For me, Christmas dinner wouldn't be Christmas dinner without bread sauce, but up here in Donegal no-one has ever heard of it and everyone just has gravy!

Cork Lass · 11-01-2022 06:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456876#Comment_118456876

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

Littlehorny · 11-01-2022 06:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456933#Comment_118456933

They are missing out so!

I work with some people from Donegal so I'll quiz them up on the bread sauce. 😃

DvB · 11-01-2022 09:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456933#Comment_118456933

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.

Loughc · 11-01-2022 09:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457861#Comment_118457861

Yeah I’m a bread sauce kind of guy too. None of the Dublin folk I know like it. They prefer gravy too.

Although I never had sausage stuffing until I came up to Dublin.

DvB · 11-01-2022 11:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457945#Comment_118457945

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 😅

freshpopcorn · 11-01-2022 11:54PM

We have turkey, ham, potato stuffing, sausage meat stuffing, another bread stuffing(Crumbs, herbs, onion, salt, pepper and bacon lardons or some of the Christmas ham chopped up, veg(Carrots, cauliflower, parsnips, sprouts, Broccoli), potatoes, bread sauce, gravy.

I'd day I my favorite part is the ham.

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