What's for dinner on Christmas Day?

[Sam Vimes]

Since retiring I've shared the cooking with Mrs V. but I always cook Christmas Dinner.

This year it's Mushroom, Lentil and Red Wine Wellington. Plus roast potatoes, stir fried Brussel Sprouts and buttered and peppered carrots.

Vegetarian but not Vegan

Care to share yours.

 

[GUMPY]

Excellent choice.
I don't cook so I am limited to peeling the veg🤔
Sprouts are just the best veg apart from potatoes 😲
I've been trying some nice vegetarian Wellington's from Aldi, haven't yet decided which one I will be having for my Xmas dinner.

I've been off the meat since 1982.

 

[Dustydog]

Baked brown sugar glazed whole gammon , par poached in cider black peppercorns , onions and bay leaf. Roasted with studded cloves English mustard and brown sugar.
Sorry no turkey👍

 

[otherclive]

We go out for lunch with the family to a rural Butcombe pub. The last time my wife cooked Christmas Day lunch there were three meats, a vegetarian dish and nine varieties of vegetables to satisfy the “guests” demands. Absolutely ridiculous, so since then it’s been Christmas Day lunch out.

 

[Mr Plodd]

Roast rolled and stuffed (de-boned) leg of lamb, with all the usual trimmings.
A small turkey, a gammon and a large pork pie for cold cuts Boxing day onwards

 

[Hutch]

We are having a Cockerel, again, Turkey is not for us. All the trimmings,
With a plum and apple pie , dessert.
Apparently Capons are no longer available, they are not allowed to be Castrated, so Cockerel it is.

 

[JTQ]

Pyromid outdoor cooked whole duck with steamed vegetables done indoors, taken with a good Malbec, well that's the intended plan at present. We might be in for a surprise invite but that would be a surprise, though a welcomed one.

 

[otherclive]

We are having a Cockerel, again, Turkey is not for us. All the trimmings,
With a plum and apple pie , dessert.
Apparently Capons are no longer available, they are not allowed to be Castrated, so Cockerel it is.

When we were first married we decided to have a capon thinking it was duck. On eating it I said “ tastes like chicken”. But it went very nicely with our Sauternes. Such was our worldly knowledge.

 

[Buckman]

We go to the daughter for Christmas and turkey is definitely off the menu. We have eaten turkey for years. Horrible piece of meat with no flavour.

 

[Mr Plodd]

We go to the daughter for Christmas and turkey is definitely off the menu. We have eaten turkey for years. Horrible piece of meat with no flavour.

Clearly not been cooked properly then!

 

[Buckman]

Clearly not been cooked properly then!

Then I guess various professional chefs cannot cook turkey either? Not sure why people rave about turkey or pay the silly prices for a fowl, but that is their choice and good luck to them?

A nice piece of fillet steak like a Surf & Turf is a lot tastier. For many years we simply had a BBQ instead of turkey. Much more fun. LOL!

 

[otherclive]

Then I guess various professional chefs cannot cook turkey either? Not sure why people rave about turkey or pay the silly prices for a fowl, but that is their choice and good luck to them?

A nice piece of fillet steak like a Surf & Turf is a lot tastier. For many years we simply had a BBQ instead of turkey. Much more fun. LOL!

Whilst we have a turkey crown at Christmas it along with the home cooked gammon are for Christmas Eve buffet and then Christmas Day breakfast and onwards till the dog has the remnants. I’m not a great fan of turkey anyway, much prefer roast rib of beef or lamb.

 

[Mel]

Turkey dinner. The whole point of Turkey is the stuffing, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce and Turkey curry on Boxing Day. 😋

 

[Buckman]

If we did roast a turkey, as there is only the tow of us we would feel right turkeys still eating it in the New Year. LOL!

 

[audiorob]

Traditionally home cooked gammon joint slices with boiled eggs and brown bread and butter for Christmas Day breakfast, the turkey with all the trimmings after the King’s speech! No-one in our household is a Christmas pud fan though!

 

[Buckman]

Not fussed on gammon although I do prefer it to turkey. Christmas morning breakfast is smoked salmon, scrambled egg, mushroom and a slice of home made bread.

 

[otherclive]

Traditionally home cooked gammon joint slices with boiled eggs and brown bread and butter for Christmas Day breakfast, the turkey with all the trimmings after the King’s speech! No-one in our household is a Christmas pud fan though!

Our Christmas Day breakfast consists of gammon, Turkey, Dickinson’s Melton Mowbray pie, Stilton, Red Leicester other cheeses , smoked meats and fish plus chutneys, pickles and breads. etc. But there’s discrimination as the ladies tend to have cereals and croissants etc while us chaps have the above. Problem is with going out for lunch we’ve tended to cut back on the breakfast and it rolls over to Boxing Day and beyond. 😂

 

[JTQ]

By choice breakfast would be Arbroath smokey , second place haddock kedgeree, and third a proper kipper, but reality is it will likely be porridge as for nearly every of the other 365 this leap year.

 

[Sam Vimes]

Excellent choice.
I don't cook so I am limited to peeling the veg🤔
Sprouts are just the best veg apart from potatoes 😲
I've been trying some nice vegetarian Wellington's from Aldi, haven't yet decided which one I will be having for my Xmas dinner.

I've been off the meat since 1982.

Seems we're in a minority here

We went meat free about the same time as a result of our young daughters asking mummy what it was they were eating and deciding they didn't want to do that any more.

Don't miss it one bit - although the smell of bacon sandwiches has a certain siren call.

A few years back we did go back to eating fish as we found it hard when out to dinner with friends to find something on the menu other than dried up nuked pasta.

 

[Dustydog]

We are having a Cockerel, again, Turkey is not for us. All the trimmings,
With a plum and apple pie , dessert.
Apparently Capons are no longer available, they are not allowed to be Castrated, so Cockerel it is.

Christmas on my Uncle’s farm in the late 50s was a capon. It still looked like a Cockerel . I see the cockerels today sell between £50/ £70 .Not cheap but probably far fresher than the frozen Turkey from the supermarket.
As an aside , my mum always cooked beef or lamb Sundays. Chicken was the most expensive meat and only bought for very special occasions.The massive joint of beef gave us Sunday roast, cold beef and chips Monday , cottage pie Tuesday and if you were lucky dripping with the gravy bit on toast.

 

[Buckman]

As an aside , my mum always cooked beef or lamb Sundays. Chicken was the most expensive meat and only bought for very special occasions.The massive joint of beef gave us Sunday roast, cold beef and chips Monday , cottage pie Tuesday and if you were lucky dripping with the gravy bit on toast.

Strangely even in SA chicken was a luxury and only served once a month on a Sunday. Both my brother and myself dislike prunes served with custard, but we had no choice except to eat it!

 

[toad a caravan]

I don't cook a Christmas dinner I wait till new year as the gaffer works over Christmas as she's a health care worker,thus those with kids can have the Christmas together.However all is not lost as I go to my son's,, I'm not fussed what's on the menu,just like winding grandkids up

 

[Sam Vimes]

Strangely even in SA chicken was a luxury and only served once a month on a Sunday. Both my brother and myself dislike prunes served with custard, but we had no choice except to eat it!

Prunes and Custard..... A regular feast eh!

 

[RogerL]

Seems we're in a minority here

We went meat free about the same time as a result of our young daughters asking mummy what it was they were eating and deciding they didn't want to do that any more.

Don't miss it one bit - although the smell of bacon sandwiches has a certain siren call.

A few years back we did go back to eating fish as we found it hard when out to dinner with friends to find something on the menu other than dried up nuked pasta.

We'll be meat-free - my wife has been vegetarian for many years so I go along with that most of the time - so probably a festive nut roast for the day itself.

Strangely for a vegetarian, my wife loves the smell of bacon on campsites but no chance of me having that in the caravan!

 

[Buckman]

We'll be meat-free - my wife has been vegetarian for many years so I go along with that most of the time - so probably a festive nut roast for the day itself.

Strangely for a vegetarian, my wife loves the smell of bacon on campsites but no chance of me having that in the caravan!

Bacon, sausage, baked beans, mushrooms and egg best breakfast to have in the caravan on a weekend.