Your Xmas dinner!

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:29AM #1

Just talking with a friend about the main thing about Xmas.........the dinner

What do you have for your Xmas meal?
What is your favourite part of the Xmas meal and what could you do without/or really love with it?

Here's mine

Turkey(white meat only)
Ham (Boiled and not baked)
Mashed Spuds(lashings of butter and salt on)
Roasties
Croquette potatoes
Stuffing
Sprouts
Carrots
Turnips
Parsnip
Mushy Peas(:eek: don't ask :P)
Gravy(no thanks)
Mustard for the ham.

Desserts
Trifle
Xmas Cake
Xmas Pudding
Mince pies
(of which I eat none)

Slicemeister · 07-12-2014 02:31AM

Depends on the dole bonus, duck stuffed with truffle worst case scenario.

Kevin McCloud · 07-12-2014 02:32AM

Im having swan this xmas anyway.

07-12-2014 02:35AM

Prawn Cocktail

Vegetable Soup

Turkey
Ham
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Roasties
Yorkshire Puds
Brussell Sprouts
Carrots & Parsnips
Roasted Parsnips
Pigs in blankets
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce

Christmas Pudding with brandy cream
My mums chocolate dessert with fresh cream
Lemon Meringue Pie

Cheese board

Champagne
Wine
Port
Irish Coffee

Nuts and quality street

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:36AM

Feck, forgot the sprouts! Thanks SM

shruikan2553 · 07-12-2014 02:38AM

Dunno what Im having this year. Last year was free range chicken. Couldnt tell the difference between it and normal chicken.

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:45AM

I didn't include drinks on mine as I don't drink much but it wouldn't be Xmas dinner without a Guinness

I might have a couple of beers that night watching a movie when the kids are in bed.

07-12-2014 02:45AM

Numerous roasties
Big slices of white turkey meat
Giant slab of baked ham
Mound of mash
Roast parsnips and baby onions
Token croquette
Big pile of baby carrots
Slurry of parsley sauce on the ham
Deluge of gravy on the potatoes

Big helping of trifle topped with too many flakes
Chocolate pudding with whipped cream

Chocolates to keep me going until the sandwiches a couple of hours later.

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:46AM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Dunno what Im having this year. Last year was free range chicken. Couldnt tell the difference between it and normal chicken.

I know a few people who have chicken as their Xmas dinner(they don't like turkey) and another few who have beef.

To me, it wouldn't be Xmas dinner if it wasn't turkey and ham

It would just be, well.....dinner

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:47AM

Candie wrote: »

Numerous roasties
Big slices of white turkey meat
Giant slab of baked ham
Mound of mash
Roast parsnips and baby onions
Token croquette
Big pile of baby carrots
Slurry of parsley sauce on the ham
Deluge of gravy on the potatoes

Big helping of trifle topped with too many flakes
Chocolate pudding with whipped cream

Chocolates to keep me going until the sandwiches a couple of hours later.

Sambos are the best part of the day

07-12-2014 02:48AM

Smidge wrote: »

Sambos are the best part of the day

Best part of any day Smidge.

lertsnim · 07-12-2014 02:49AM

Steak and chips probably.

In Lonesome Dove · 07-12-2014 02:50AM

Last year we had a turkey. We usually go for turkey.

This year we are keeping it low key. We don't usually do starters. For the main meal this year it will be a large chicken or salmon. My fave part of the dinner is the veg - carrots, parsnips, turnip, Brussels sprouts (my favourite), stuffing and gravy too.

I usually look after desserts. I have the ice creams done and sitting in the freezer. I will add in jelly, dream topping, custard and cream in my food shop. On Xmas eve, I hope to visit a bakery to pick up some tarts and cake.

A tub of sweets too - will be heros or celebrations.

I'm the only drinker in the house (not that I drink often or much) but I'll probably go for the aldi own brand of baileys.

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:51AM

And the Christmassy box of King crisps.
At no other time of the year would there be a necessity for an entire BOX of crisps. :P

07-12-2014 02:53AM

What time do you have dinner at? We have ours about 3.

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:54AM

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

Last year we had a turkey. We usually go for turkey.

This year we are keeping it low key. We don't usually do starters. For the main meal this year it will be a large chicken or salmon. My fave part of the dinner is the veg - carrots, parsnips, turnip, Brussels sprouts (my favourite), stuffing and gravy too.

I usually look after desserts. I have the ice creams done and sitting in the freezer. I will add in jelly, dream topping, custard in my food shop. On Xmas eve, I hope to visit a bakery to pick up some tarts and cake.

A tub of sweets too - will be heros or celebrations.

I'm the only drinker in the house (not that I drink often or much) but I'll probably go for the also own brand of baileys.

Same here.
The veg are my favourite part of the meal(apart from the horrendous mushy peas)
I could eat a plate of sprouts dosed with cracked black pepper and just nicely smushy

djerk · 07-12-2014 02:54AM

prawn cocktail for starters.. its just a tradition at this stage and we live close to the sea so its usually a nice treat (not the crappy defrosted kind)
various cheese crackers, dry cured meats and wine

turkey (stuffed ofc) - my mothers away this year and were cooking for ourselves so i suggested something different but nearly got nailed for it so, turkey it is! have to say im not overly keen on turkey but i love the sandwiches and leftovers for making soup in the days that follow.
gravy.
ham (boiled in cider, finished off in the oven with cloves/mustard/honey/sugar etc)
mash
roast spuds
yorkshires
stuffed roasted peppers with couscous/herbs and spices
carrots and turnips, boiled and roasted
celery (my mum has an obsession with celery)
sprouts. para boiled and then fried with pine nuts
broccoli
cheese sauce (+cauliflower)
bread sauce
cranberry sauce

for desert.. for anyone left standing.. usually a trifle or a christmas pudding fired up with some brandy and served with custard and/or cream

ratmouse · 07-12-2014 02:54AM

As long as there are sprouts, roasties,mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy on my plate, then I don't worry about the rest in terms of what type of meat.

07-12-2014 02:55AM

Dinner at around four or five, sandwiches at 9ish.

No breakfast to take the edge off either!

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:55AM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

What time do you have dinner at? We have ours about 3.

Doesn't everyone have it at 3pm?

I know someone who has it at 1pm :eek:

Smidge · 07-12-2014 02:58AM

djerk wrote: »

prawn cocktail for starters.. its just a tradition at this stage and we live close to the sea so its usually a nice treat (not the crappy defrosted kind)
various cheese crackers, dry cured meats and wine

turkey (stuffed ofc) - my mothers away this year and were cooking for ourselves so i suggested something different but nearly got nailed for it so, turkey it is! have to say im not overly keen on turkey but i love the sandwiches and leftovers for making soup in the days that follow.
gravy.
ham (boiled in cider, finished off in the oven with cloves/mustard/honey/sugar etc)
mash
roast spuds
yorkshires
stuffed roasted peppers with couscous/herbs and spices
carrots and turnips, boiled and roasted
celery (my mum has an obsession with celery)
sprouts. para boiled and then fried with pine nuts
broccoli
cheese sauce
bread sauce
mint sauce

for desert.. for anyone left standing.. usually a trifle or a christmas pudding fired up with some brandy and served with custard and/or cream

I have family members who have the "starters"
Melon, prawn cocktail or soup.
The stuffed peppers are an unusual addition

I wouldn't enjoy the "main event" if I were to have that

ratmouse · 07-12-2014 03:00AM

Smidge wrote: »

Doesn't everyone have it at 3pm?

I know someone who has it at 1pm :eek:

Yeah, we have ours at about 3-3.30. Anything earlier would be too soon after the fab fry up we have! Good food, everyone happy and healthy is all I want for Xmas. Simple mantra eh?!

Smidge · 07-12-2014 03:00AM

Candie wrote: »

Dinner at around four or five, sandwiches at 9ish.

No breakfast to take the edge off either!

I'm afraid lives would be lost if I had to wait till 4 or 5 for the dinner

djerk · 07-12-2014 03:00AM

oh.. i forgot the round of tequila! very important that one

07-12-2014 03:01AM

Smidge wrote: »

Doesn't everyone have it at 3pm?

I know someone who has it at 1pm :eek:

My first christmas away from home was at my exes and they had dinner at 1pm, they made stuffing with just breadcrumbs and onions and when I asked to be passed the cranberry sauce, they had none!

Everything about that dinner was wrong.

Worst
Christmas
Ever
:mad:

Smidge · 07-12-2014 03:01AM

ratmouse wrote: »

Yeah, we have ours at about 3-3.30. Anything earlier would be too soon after the fab fry up we have! Good food, everyone happy and healthy is all I want for Xmas. Simple mantra eh?!

No fry up for me. No messin'. Just the dinner, thanks :cool:

Smidge · 07-12-2014 03:02AM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

My first christmas away from home was at my exes and they had dinner at 1pm, they made stuffing with just breadcrumbs and onions and when I asked to be passed the cranberry sauce, they had none!

Everything about that dinner was wrong.

Worst
Christmas
Ever
:mad:

That's why it should be at 3pm

Otherwise its just sad stuffing

07-12-2014 03:03AM

I have to go eat something after reading all this.

07-12-2014 03:04AM

My mum makes my stuffing for me and my dessert (seeing as my daughter says my version doesn't meet the grade)

djerk · 07-12-2014 03:04AM

my parents have been seperated for years.. so christmas dinner was always a bit of a touchy subject.. we agreed that the siblings would have a big fry up at da's and we'd have dinner later at mums house. after a few trial rounds of this (year before last we force fed ourselves christmas dinner at 11pm!..) we finally settled on having the fry on the christmas eve

go family!

ratmouse · 07-12-2014 03:04AM

Candie wrote: »

I have to go eat something after reading all this.

Just about to do the same myself!

Your Xmas dinner!

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