What makes up your Christmas Dinner?

We normally go with:

Starters: Prawn Cocktail or Melon & Parma Ham (for the non-fish eaters)

Dinner: Turkey, Ham (boiled in cider, then baked with a honey glaze), sausagemeat stuffing, sprouts fried with rashers, honey roasted carrots & parsnips, peas, goose-fat roasties, lashings of homemade gravy 🤤

Dessert: Varies between Christmas Pudding & Trifle...although I did say that I'm going to do a Tiramisu next year because I made one for New Year's Day & I had forgotten how amazing it was 😅

For us it's always turkey, ham, parsley & thyme bread stuffing, carrots, sprouts, roasties and lashings of gravy. I don't think I could fit anymore either on my plate or in my belly.

This is always followed by pavlova (with cream and fresh berries), Christmas pudding and then tea and chocolate fingers.

mmmm, we really should eat it more than one day a year.

Starter (well, lunch really): Turkey soup. Must be made by my Mum. Apparently I don't make it right.

Proper starter: Prawns and smoked salmon with maria rose sauce (sauce making duties assigned to eldest daughter, always)

Turkey, ham, roast potato, carrots, celery, marrowfat peas, green beans, brussels sprouts, stuffing (also must be made by my Mum. She has shared the recipe but it never tastes the same when I make it, so I suspect there is a secret ingredient she is hiding from us, maybe it will be revealed in her will or something), roast sweet potato, roast parsnip (the last two only ever eaten by my husband)

Cranberry sauce, gravy. Bread sauce if there is more than just the 4 of us. (I saw someone had apple sauce for the ham, which had never occurred to me, but I might add that next year)

Dessert: Christmas pudding, trifle

Mash potatoes, roast potatoes (duck fat) roasted turnip, cauliflower, sprouts and carrot, lamb , stuffing and gravy. Maybe some ham some years.

Starters prawn cocktail for everyone light party food bits for me I’m allergic to prawns

Turkey

Ham

York Cabbage cooked with bacon for flavour

Mash potatoes with butter and cream

Roast potatoes

Honey roasted carrots

homemade gravy

sage and onion stuffing

Dessert cheesecake of some sort or profiteroles with a side of fresh cream or chocolate millionaire

I think I’m the only one that mentioned cabbage ?

The local restaurant I get mine from provides loads of turkey and ham, stuffing, gravy, mash potatoes, roast potatoes, roast carrots/turnip/parsnip and sprouts. As long as they keep doing Christmas dinners I'll eat whatever they cook.