Christmas dinner

[Piemaster]

So, what you having then?

This year it will the Portuguese cooks version of turkey & trimmings. Could be interesting as he has some unusual menu combinations. Curry, rice and broccoli. Pasta cauliflower and chicken - his 'white food' menu.

Last year as I was at home and doing the cooking it was.........bacon sandwiches. Kids too busy with presents to bother sitting down to eat and visiting in-laws later on for a huge buffet thing anyway.

Why do so many people seem to need to buy massive quantities of food more than normal? Nice to have seasonal treats (and I have a great deal of difficulty refusing mince pies) but the its the sheer volume I see being thrown in trolleys

 

[TVC]

As usual it's just me and the Mrs on Christmas day, so its home made pork patties in muffins for breakfast, dressed crab and salad for lunch, then a properly matured rib of beef for tea with roasties, yorkies and tons of veg.

 

[snakehips]

Lanson Black Label
Chateau Musar 2001
Sauternes small bottle/Muscat small bottle/Port

with some white Burgundy hanging around in reserve in case anybody insists on a still white wine

Snake

 

[HLaB]

Whatever my maw makes.

 

[Blonde]

Goats cheese and sun dried tomato tart. (I'll make the pastry on Xmas Eve to save time on the day, as I'll be out cycling before I cook on Xmas day)
Braised guineafowl, roast veg (potatoes, parsnips, carrots, red onion in olive oil with a little balsamic vinegar drizzled on afterwards), and red cabbage cooked in butter and red wine vinegar.
Homemade Xmas pud (with liberal dose of rum and flame) with single cream.
Some nice Rioja.

We are eating at tea time rather than mid-day. I prefer to eat dinner in the evening or it seems a waste of a (cycling) day off work.

 

[Willow]

So, what you having then?

This year it will the Portuguese cooks version of turkey & trimmings. Could be interesting as he has some unusual menu combinations. Curry, rice and broccoli. Pasta cauliflower and chicken - his 'white food' menu.

Last year as I was at home and doing the cooking it was.........bacon sandwiches. Kids too busy with presents to bother sitting down to eat and visiting in-laws later on for a huge buffet thing anyway.

Why do so many people seem to need to buy massive quantities of food more than normal? Nice to have seasonal treats (and I have a great deal of difficulty refusing mince pies) but the its the sheer volume I see being thrown in trolleys

When it was just us and the children we used to do dinner by candlelight christmas eve, and make a big thing of the meal which the boys enjoyed without the pressure of having toys to play with. Then christmas day we could make it their day and pizza or whatever for lunch but concentrate on opening and playing with presents. The oldies unfortunately prefer to eat at lunchtime so if we had guests we had to revert to the traditional arrangement. This year it's the boys and I and my ex is coming for lunch so I will cook a traditional turkey, one of my happy memories is the first christmas lunch I cooked for him, maybe he'll realised he's missed me when he gets fed!

 

[Maz]

Dhall. Probably.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Dhall. Probably.

sounds really nice for a no-meat dish. i'd love a really nice curry on christmas day, but as it is i'll put money on it being m&S turkey at the in-laws'…

 

[dan_bo]

Got the in-laws 'round- gravadlax(home made), turkey 'n' trimmings and lashings and lashings of vino rouge.

Can never be arsed with pud.


to be honest, i'd rather be having dall/dhall/dal/dhal etc. instead but it's not just about me is it?

 

[User482]

Lanson Black Label
Chateau Musar 2001
Sauternes small bottle/Muscat small bottle/Port

with some white Burgundy hanging around in reserve in case anybody insists on a still white wine

Snake

I actually prefer white wine with turkey - something like a viognier fits the bill.

I'll be contributing the champagne, and a '78 Colheita port to the family Christmas meal. I think it'll go nicely with the pud.

Forgot to say - in a right-on Hugh Fearnley doodah style, I hot smoked a side of organic salmon yesterday. Should be just the job for Christmas breakfast.

 

[Maz]

sounds really nice for a no-meat dish. i'd love a really nice curry on christmas day, but as it is i'll put money on it being m&S turkey at the in-laws'…

It's also a no-Christmas dish, as you're aware.
I tried turkey for the first time in my life about 5 years ago. It was delicious! Haven't had any since cos it's so difficult to buy halal.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

It's also a no-Christmas dish, as you're aware.
I tried turkey for the first time in my life about 5 years ago. It was delicious! Haven't had any since cos it's so difficult to buy halal.

turkish butchers?

 

[Maz]

turkish butchers?

Like it. Like it.
Whilst I'm there maybe I should hop over to Paxos for the stuffing.

 

[beanzontoast]

No starters.

Main - Turkey, mashed potato, roasties, sweetcorn, peas, beans (no sprouts - no-one in our family can stand them) sage & onion stuffing, little sausages wrapped in bacon, cranberry sauce, gravy.

Dessert choices -
Christmas Pudding
Apple pie with ice cream or custard

Served with a sparkling white wine (only time of the year we have it).

 

[ChrisKH]

The usual. Tiger prawns and smoked salmon for starters. Turkey & works. Xmas pud and lashings of double cream (obligatory) accompanied by a bottle of Pouilly Fume. I'm the only one drinking, so a post-lunch nap may be required.

Turkey and pickle sandwiches on brown bread, if peckish in the evening.