The Christmas Lunch thread

[TVC]

Groan....another assumption to dismantle......

I live in Leeds. I'm not from Leeds.

I used to live in Leeds, but I'm not from Leeds. My brother lives in Leeds, dangerously close to Colly, but he doesn't know it.

 

[fossyant]

Duck and Turkey and the usual trimmings. We're at the outlaws, but nephew (chef) is cooking for 15 of us. Were making soup.

 

[Keith Oates]

Not sure what it will be on Christmas day as 'the boss' has got a leg of Lamb, Pork and Beef joints in the fridge ready for preparing and cooking but for sure it will be with Roast potatoes and plenty of different vegetables. This will be my first Christmas in the UK for 22 years and my brother has come up from Cornwall, so it will be family only with the SIL and her family joining us for the Christmas Lunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Time to wake up and start stuffing the bird

 

[Noodley]

I am just about to start cooking for about 20...there's only 4 of us

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Just gone in on a low heat

 

[Nearly there]

Would love a curry but have to make do with boring turkey ill just shut up and eat it however a full english will sort my hangover out

 

[derrick]

Roast leg of lamb, and all the trimmings, don't normally have a roast weekends cause we are always out on the bikes, so am really looking forward to this one. Turkey boxing day at my daughters, not a lover of turkey but will suffer it tommorow,
LanguagePhrase
Afrikaans Smaaklike ete! Lekker eet!
Albanian T'boftë mire!
Amharic Melkam Megeb
Arabic (Egyptian) (bil hana wish shifa'!) بالهنا و الشفاء!
response - (allah yihanneek/i) الله يهنّيك
Arabic (Modern Standard) (bil-hanā' wa ash-shifā') بالهناء والشفاء / بالهنا والشفا
may you have your meal with gladness and health
Armenian (Eastern) Բարի' ախորժակ: (Bari akh.orzh.ak)
Aromanian Oraxi bunã! S-vã facã ghini!
Azerbaijani Nuş olsun
Basque On egin!
Belarusian Смачна есьці! (Smachna yesci)
Bhojpuri स्वादिष्ट खाना (swadist khana)
Breton Kalon digor! Debrit ervat! Debrit a galon!
Bulgarian Да Ви е вкусно! (Da vi e vkusno!) frm
Да ти е вкусно! (Da ti e vkusno!) inf
Добър апетит! (Dobãr apetit!)
Да Ви е сладко! (Da vi e sladko!) frm
Да ти е сладко! (Da ti e sladko!) inf
Приятно хапване! (Prijatno hapvane!)
Приятно ядене! (Prijatno jadene!)
Catalan Bon profit! Que vagi de gust!
Chamorro Buen prubechu
Chinese
(Cantonese)食飯 (sihk faahn) - eat
Chinese
(Mandarin)慢慢吃！ (mànmàn chī!) - eat slowly
請慢用 [请慢用] (qǐng màn yòng) - please eat slowly
請入席 [请入席] (qǐng rù xí) - please be seated - frm
Cornish Omlowen dha bos!
Corsican Bon Appetitu
Croatian Dobar tek!
Czech Dobrou chuť!
Danish Velbekomme!
Dutch Smakelijk eten! Eet Smakelijk!
Efik Dia!
English Bon appetit! Enjoy your meal! (frm)
Enjoy! Tuck in! Get stuck in! Eat already! (inf/slang)
Happy eating! Get your laughing gear round this! (inf/slang)
Esperanto Bonan apetiton!
Estonian Jätku leiba! (used when joining the table)
Head isu! (used when leaving the table)
Faroese Vælgagnist
Fijian Da kana!
Finnish Hyvää ruokahalua!
French Bon appétit !
Friulian Bon pitìc
Genoese Bon pro'!
Georgian გაამოთ! (gaamoth) - frm გაამოს! (gaamos) - inf
გემრიელად მიირთვით! (gemrielad miirthvith) - frm
გემრიელად მიირთვი! (gemrielad miirthvi) - inf
German Guten Appetit! Mahlzeit!
German (Swiss) En Guete!
Greek Καλή όρεξη! (Kalí óreksi!)
Greenlandic Nerilluarisi
Haitian Creole Bon apeti
Hausa A ci abinci lafiya
Hawaiian E ʻai kāua (dl), E ʻai kākou (pl) - Let's eat!
Hebrew (b'tayavon) בתיאבון
Hindi आप का खाना स्वादिष्ट हो (āp kā khānā svādiṣṭa ho)
Hungarian Jó étvágyat!
Icelandic Verði þér að góðu
Indonesian Selamat makan!
Inuktitut ᐊᑏ ᓂᕆᓕᖅᑕ (Atii niriliqta)
Italian Buon appetito!
Japanese どうぞめしあがれ (douzo meshiagare)
= 'enjoy your meal' - said by the cook/chef
いただきます (itadakimasu)
- said before a meal by those eating it
ご馳走さまでした (gochisōsama deshita)
- said after a meal by those who have eaten it
Jèrriais Bouan appétit!
Kannada ಶುಭ ಭೋಜನ ಅಥವಾ ಊಟ ಎಂಜಾಯ್ ಮಾಡಿ
(shubha bhojana athavaa oota enjaay maadi)
Kazakh Ас болсын! (As bolsın!)
Korean 잘 먹겠습니다 (jal meokkesseumnida) - before a meal
잘 먹었습니다 (jal meogeosseumnida) - after a meal
맛있게 드세요 (masitkke deuseyo)
Klingon yISop! (sg) peSop! (pl)
Latin Bonum appetitionem!
Lativan Labu apetīti!
Lithuanian Gero apetito! Skanaus!
Lojban a'o.e'o lo sanmi cu xamgu ko
Luxembourgish Gudden Appetit!
Macedonian Пријатно јадење (Priyatno yadenye)
Malay Selamat menjamu selera! (Please treat your appetite)
Jemput makan! (Please eat!) Makan makan! (Eat eat!)
Malayalam രുചിയോടെ ഭക്ഷണം ആസ്വദിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയട്ടേ
(ruchiyode bhakshanam aaswadikkan kazhiyatte)
Maltese L-ikla t-tajba
Māri Kia mākona
Marathi रूचकर जेवण (ruckar jevaṇ)
Mongolian Сайхан хооллоорой (Saihan hoollooroi)
Norwegian Vær så god! Vel bekomme!
Occitan Bon apetís!
Persian (befarma'id) بفرماييد (nooshe jan) نوش جان
Polish Smacznego!
Portuguese Bom apetite!
Punjabi ਮੌਜਨ ਕਰੋ / مجان کرو (maujan karo)
Romanian Poftă bună!
Russian Приятного аппетита! (Prijatnovo appetita)
Sabethir (Endiaré'hysil)
Samoan Ia manuia le tausamiga
Scottish Gaelic Ith gu leòir! (Eat plenty!)
Serbian Пријатно! (Prijatno!)
Slovak Dobrú chuť!
Slovenian Dober tek!
Somali Ha kuu macaanaato
Spanish ¡Buen provecho! ¡Buen apetito! ¡Que aproveche!
Swahili Ufurahie chakula chako (sg)
Furahieni chakula chenu (pl)
Swedish Smaklig måltid!
Tagalog Tayo'y magsikain (frm) Kainan na! (inf) - Let's eat
Tamil மகிழ்ந்து உண்ணுங்கள் (magizhnthu unnungal)
Tatar Tämle bulsın
Tetum Serbida / Han ho gostu
Thai ขอให้เจริญอาหาร! (kŏr hâi jà-rern aa-hăan!)
Tigrinya ብላዕ (blaˋ - lit: eat!)
Turkish Afiyet olsun!
Ukrainian Смачного! (Smačnoho)
Üqoi Kaj'ëëj'ëëvoghjaeti akavigo! U'uz'öghjaeti abzoohä!
Urdu (maze karein) مزےکریں!
Uzbek Yoqimli ishtaha!
Vietnamese Ăn ngon nhé / Chúc ngon miệng
Welsh Mwynhewch eich bwyd!
Xhosa Ukonwabele ukutya kwakho
Yiddish (Es gezunterheyt!) עס געזונטערהײט
Yorùbá Ounjẹ ajẹye o / Yoo gba ibi re
Zulu Thokoleza ukudla!

 

[craigwend]

We're having a 'brace of roast quorn*' with stuffing, roast spuds and large array of veg to hopefully make bubble & squeak tomorrow...

* no animals were harmed in the making of this meal

 

[gbb]

The full and usual christmas dinner, Turkey, roasts, sprouts etc etc.
We tried doing the roast potatoes etc (for the first time ever) last year in goose fat...hated it...all of us. Either we did something wrong...or using goose fat is overrated..or we just dont like it, it won't happen again.
Sons, daughers, grandson and grandaughters round for dinner , plenty of hilarity over the table, lots of noise and gabble.
Cheap crackers....brought some expensive ones once, still a waste of money considering how much they cost, at the end of the day, they're still filled with useless or worthless tat.

This years Turkey wasnt as good as usual (i wont tell the wife and spoil all the effort she put in). It was ok, but just not as good. I'd love to know how our local carvery does theirs..its always lovely and juicy and carves beautifully, mine just disintegrated. It was ok though.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It was very nice, I'm still stuffed and we ate at 1 o'clock

 

[Lisa21]

Quiet day for two here. Brunch will be muffins with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, and dinner is roast gammon, creamed potatoes, bread sauce, cabbage, honey-glazed carrots and parsnips with stuffing balls and gravy. Pudding will be a fruit sponge pudding with custard and cream. After a couple of hours doing beached manatee impressions, we'll hopefully have enough room for cheese and crackers

On Boxing Day we'll have bacon sarnies, then a friend will be coming over for dinner, bringing "mystery meat" from the depths of his freezer (last year it was delicious pork, but until it defrosted we couldn't tell if it was turkey, or possibly even baby), complemented with with bubble and sqeak form the previous days leftovers (if we have any), plus carrots, parsnips, chestnut stuffing and gravy. No pudding plans as yet

Oh come on Baggy.......dont let me down, I thought better of you

 

[Baggy]

Oh come on Baggy.......dont let me down, I thought better of you

Don't panic, I managed to buy some Christmas Pudding ice cream yesterday!

 

[JtB]

Lobster to start, salmon for main and Christmas pudding for pudding. Finished just in time for the Queen's speech (never before seen the Queen's speech, but quite liked it). Spent most of the afternoon dozing and only just roused myself to put up my Christmas avatar (now that its officially Christmas).

 

[Fab Foodie]

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It was very nice, I'm still stuffed and we ate at 1 o'clock

Cracking photo, looks fab!
We were out walking at 1, I think 'lunch' was around 4pm .