What you having for Christmas dinner?

[SteCenturion]

I am leaning towards skipping it this year, the only day of the year where family eat tea at 2.00-3.00 pm.

Fancy a shortish ride in the woods & then maybe a couple of liveners in a boozer followed by bad tv & general laziness.

 

[MikeG]

Liver* and fava beans with a nice chianti, of course.

* I won't say whose.

Surprised no-one picked up the reference.

We're actually having turkey, roast potatoes, home-grown brussels, and a whole lot of other traditional stuff as a precursor to the most important part of the meal: the christmas pudding. A proper homemade traditional steamed christmas pudding, with custard or brandy butter.

 

[raleighnut]

Surprised no-one picked up the reference.

We're actually having turkey, roast potatoes, home-grown brussels, and a whole lot of other traditional stuff as a precursor to the most important part of the meal: the christmas pudding. A proper homemade traditional steamed christmas pudding, with custard or brandy butter.

You grow your own Brussel Sprouts , next you'll be saying that there is a Chestnut tree just down the road.

 

[summerdays]

Not sure what the main meat will be.... sometimes duck, sometimes chicken. Then we will also have gammon, roast potatoes, roast veg (carrots, butternut squash, beetroot, peppers, parsnips), cranberry sauce, stuffing balls (made once we have made the cranberry sauce as some goes in the balls), pigs in blankets. No pudding or starter. We eat mid to late afternoon and then just snack on left overs if we feel like it later. All the family get involved in the peeling etc, it's part of the day. And we usually have a snowball to drink .... at the start of the day.... then the bottle sits unused after Christmas until I use it up in a recipe or so!

 

[vickster]

Tomato soup

Not Miss G

 

[vickster]

Surprised no-one picked up the reference.

We did but it really is quite an old joke nowadays

 

[MikeG]

You grow your own Brussel Sprouts , next you'll be saying that there is a Chestnut tree just down the road.

Yeah, our brussels are great. We'll also be using our own potatoes...we've more than enough stored to see us through to the arrival of the first of next years crop. And yep, there are hundreds of chestnut trees within 5 minutes walk.

 

[Bazzer]

Just what we normally have on the day:
Sesame roast potatoes, carrots cooked in cider, mushroom and nut roast, "stuffing" made of cranberries, onion and breadcrumbs and a mushroom and port sauce. Wife and offspring will also have sprouts
Vegetarian Christmas pudding.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Song thrush with a side of baby seal flipper

 

[raleighnut]

Song thrush with a side of baby seal flipper

Grated Puffin on top?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Grated Puffin on top?

I'd have thought that didn't require stating, I'm a traditionalist so yes.

 

[Drago]

The traditional turkey dinner (not really traditional, then idea was pinched from the Americans) at the Chain and Sprocket PH in the village. I can't cook, and it wouldn't be fair for Mrs D to miss half of her Christmas day through cooking, and its not that expensive.

Other advantages is the draught Guinness, and I won't be eating Turkey sandwiches until May.