Whats on the menu for Christmas and New Year

[Kaylz]

Christmas will be - Turkey with bacon, roased onions, brussel sprouts, garlic and maybe a potato, sausagemeat stuffing, skirlie, and gravy and for pud salted caramel gateux
New Year will be - Silverside, the same roasted veg as above and yorkshire puddings with pud being black forest gateux
Evening eating on both occasions will be - a few cocktail sausage rolls, cocktail cheese and onion rolls and chipolatas wrapped in bacon
x

 

[Northerner]

Well, that's me sorted then - I'm coming round to your place for mine! 🙂

 

[Amigo]

I might open a tin of Pek chopped pork!

 

[Martin Canty]

Prime rib for Christmas, roast green veggies.... like the sound of the roast Onion, not had one in years..... Cheese board for appetizer.... Home made Egg Nog plus a little something for the Wife's drinks (just red wine for me)

 

[Mark Parrott]

We are having beef rib for Christmas day, with veg (some boiled & some roasted) Yorkshire pud (made by a Yorkshire woman) & pigs in blankets. Starter will be pate & toast (using the Lidl low GI cob for that). Dessert will be a low carb Yule Log (I posted it in the recipes section). Breakfast will be poached egg & bacon on half a toasted English muffin.

 

[Ibby]

Chicken sweet potatoe roasties( never done them before so hope there ok) sprouts cauliflower cheese and swede and carrot mash. No pud.
Breakfast may be a bacon sandwich or shredded wheat.
Got to be good as having my hb1ac done after Christmas

 

[Stitch147]

Christmas day - turkey with all the trimmings and we have bought a Kir Royale dessert thingy for after. The cheese board will be out in the evening for us to nibble on.

 

[Deleted member 16779]

Prime rib for Christmas, roast green veggies.... like the sound of the roast Onion, not had one in years..... Cheese board for appetizer.... Home made Egg Nog plus a little something for the Wife's drinks (just red wine for me)

Roasted Shallots are just fabulous, much more flavour than roasted onion.

 

[Deleted member 16779]

Homemade bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon for breakfast with a glass of Bellini.
Roast beef with Yorkshire puds, Turkey Crown, Chicken, some vegan roast thing, roast potatoes, roast celeriac, sprouts, kalettes, roast carrots with a lemon butter glaze, roast parsnips in maple syrup, chestnut stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce. Christmas Pudding for afters with some chocolate dessert. (We have a lot of fussy-eating family members, one of whom insists on bringing a turkey which no-one eats to our perfectly catered meal each year - the bread sauce suffers a similar fate)

If anyone hasn't tried Kalettes yet, they're definitely worth a try, they're like sprouts, but taste of kale, and are more frilly, AFAIK, only available in Lidl.

 

[HOBIE]

Salmon

 

[Amigo]

Homemade bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon for breakfast with a glass of Bellini.
Roast beef with Yorkshire puds, Turkey Crown, Chicken, some vegan roast thing, roast potatoes, roast celeriac, sprouts, kalettes, roast carrots with a lemon butter glaze, roast parsnips in maple syrup, chestnut stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce. Christmas Pudding for afters with some chocolate dessert. (We have a lot of fussy-eating family members, one of whom insists on bringing a turkey which no-one eats to our perfectly catered meal each year - the bread sauce suffers a similar fate)

If anyone hasn't tried Kalettes yet, they're definitely worth a try, they're like sprouts, but taste of kale, and are more frilly, AFAIK, only available in Lidl.

Sounds delicious! 🙂

 

[Amigo]

I'm keeping ours fairly simple this year as there's just the 3 of us. We have Christmas nibbles with the morning mulled wine and Bucks Fizz when family call. Duck spring rolls with hoi sin sauce and prawns in filo pastry.

Lunch is likely to be roast pork and I'm probably getting a piece of beef too for sandwiches later (they don't like turkey). Sprouts, buttered carrots, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, home made sage and onion stuffing and roast potatoes with gravy and apple sauce. I rarely eat much Christmas dinner.
I've got a Christmas pudding with brandy sauce but I may just have a tablespoon of that. Like Stitch, it will be a cheeseboard later with caramelised hummus and celery sticks. No mince pies, cake or Yule Log this year!

 

[Robin]

Here goes.
Breakfast. may have a cappuccino after all the present opening.
Lunch. Smoked salmon sandwiches and a glass of Cava.
Long Walk before it gets dark, to walk off alcohol and work up appetite.
Dinner. Goose, stuffing, roast potatoes and parsnips, stir fried sprouts, glass of red wine.
Xmas pud, full pyrotechnic effect with flaming brandy, rum sauce, small glass of dessert wine.
Will leave the other bits and bobs, like mince pies, cake, chocolates, til we get bored with cold goose or goose stock soup, some time between Christmas and New Year.

 

[Kaylz]

Well, that's me sorted then - I'm coming round to your place for mine! 🙂

@Northerner I mentioned that to the cook (my mother) she just laughed, you would maybe have to share a wee bit of the turkey with the cat too though to keep him happy lol x

 

[trophywench]

I haven't roasted an onion (or shallot, for that matter) for donkey's ages. Got me drooling now so I will have to revisit that delicacy - soon!

Me and the Mk I husband were about the only people either of us ever met other than both our parents, who actually like bread sauce. Have to say, I leave the onion in it though, though I fish out the cloves, before smashing it up in the milk before adding the breadcrumbs. A lot nicer with chicken than turkey, though. I like chicken, and don't partic like turkey. Doesn't really taste of much, does it?

 

[Martin Canty]

Doesn't really taste of much, does it?

I actually brine our turkeys:

• 2 cups kosher salt
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 liters chicken broth
• 2 liters apple juice
• 6 pack of beer
• herbs & spices to taste

Stuff the bird in a bucket, pour in the brine (topping up with water if necessary) cover & leave in a cold place for 3 days

For chicken I make a simple Kosher salt brine & brine overnight.

 

[Kaylz]

I haven't roasted an onion (or shallot, for that matter) for donkey's ages. Got me drooling now so I will have to revisit that delicacy - soon!

Me and the Mk I husband were about the only people either of us ever met other than both our parents, who actually like bread sauce. Have to say, I leave the onion in it though, though I fish out the cloves, before smashing it up in the milk before adding the breadcrumbs. A lot nicer with chicken than turkey, though. I like chicken, and don't partic like turkey. Doesn't really taste of much, does it?

Looks like roasted onion is a hit for a few people i love it haha x

 

[weecee]

Probably a bacon sandwich for breakfast. Slow roasted rib of beef with veg (with one potato) and Yorkshire with gravy for dinner. Have apple tarts in freezer made with our apples and blackberries this summer so that's dessert sorted, with some fresh vanilla cream. Plenty of fizzy water and lots of tea and coffee. Probably cheese and crackers if we feel like a nibble. Might even stretch to a glass of vintage Port

 

[khskel]

Turkey, pigs in blankets, roasties in goose fat, carrots sauteed in butter, sprouts with bacon and chestnut, proper gravy and christmas pud to finish. Christmas eve pan fried salmon new pots mixed green veg and trifle for afters

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Lunch will be salmon cooked in a honey sauce with spuds and peas, only because landlords family never invite him to dinner and he loves salmon. If it were my choice it would be a ham sarnie as can't be bothered with any of it. Bah humbug.