Christmas Dinner?????

What are you doing for the big day?
This is our menu, cooking for 8!


Starter

Melon Cocktail

Main Course

Chipolatas
Yorkshire puddings
Gravy
Roast Parsnips
Roast potatoes
Vegetable Bake (Potatoes, Cauliflower cheese, cabbage, onion, carrot, green beans, cream, cheese.) British King Edward Creamy Mash
Button Sprouts
Stuffing Balls
Beef
Lamb
Gravy

Desert

Raspberry Trifle

Cheese & Biscuits

Where's the turkey?

We always eat the same thing from Christmas Eve tea time through to several days after Boxing Day, with small adjustments, but I mever have to think about it for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Eve tea time:
smoked salmon sandwiches, mince pies, M&S Yule log, satsumas

Christmas Day
Roast turkey, sausages, roast potatoes, sprouts and chestnuts, carrots, bread sauce, cranberry sauce
Christmas pud, mince pies, rum butter and cream

Miss JG is having "mock goose"

We always have SS sandwiches for "brunch" about 11 am usually.....and hit the sherry!

CG gets to eat some ceral or toast at about 8 am....!

After brunch, open presents in front of fire, with carols on to accompany....

Play games, read books etc for a bit and drink coffee and eat florantines which I make..

Festive meal...about 2 pm (ish)...ish means may be an hour or so later....

Meat ( might be Turkey, or Goose or multi ribs of Beef....haven't quite decided and in past we have had any of them...)

but always....roast spuds, parsnips.......sprouts, carrots, mashed swede and parsnip. Mashed spuds

yorkshires, chipolatas, stuffing, bacon rolls etc, depending on meat ...

some other veggies...leeks, cabbage, kale, tomato and courgette, roast pumpkin...only proviso is ALL veg comes from the garden!

Various sauces...bread, cranberry, horseradish etc..gravy from meat juices.

Pudding made by CM with cream, custard, white, brandy sauce.

Sherry first, Red wine with meal, sweet wine with pud.

Later on...( when Dr Who is on, or Wallace and Grommit!)

Cheese and biscuits...all local, from around 10 miles of here...
mince pies, xmas cake...home made by me and CG ..and CM makes the cake......but marzipanned and iced by CG and I on Xmas eve...

Lots more drink...(port etc...) and celery and nuts..

Boxing Day leftovers, fried up spuds and veggies with stuffing or suchlike...

and A VERY long walk!!!!

All this has become a tradition...which is lovely

I forgot the sherry - we always open Harveys Bristol cream at lunchtime on Christmas Eve. For some years we had spaghetti bolognaise, then we moved on to hot gammon as it needs cooking sometime... but last year went back to spag bol.

I love tradition

Me too!

Thats the nice thing..if you do something more than once, it can become a family tradition!

CG remembers things with frightening accuracy ( as children do..) so we are made to have traditions....which is actually lovely!

I'm feeling hungry...