What will you be having for Christmas Dinner??

13 Dec 2007

What will you be serving up for christmas dinner this year.....traditional turkey and all the trimmings?
Will you go for different meats, a vegetarian option, something wildly different, or are you not bothering this year and will go for egg and chips??
Are you having loads of courses, or just the main meal, what are you dishing up for starters and or dessert?
And whats for drinkies with it all, water, wine, bubbly or a good old british cuppa?
Will you sit at at table or have it on your knee in front of the queens speech?
Do you go the whole hog and decorate the table, and dress up in your finery or just stay in your casuals or PJ's and chill?
Tell me all about it, cos I love hearing peoples different experiences biggrin

:D :D

13 Dec 2007

When I was a kid, christmas morning started with egg and bacon butties lol

quickly followed by something from our selection boxes. Lunch was turkey and another meat, pork bleugh! or beef. Christmas pud followed. My dad ALWAYS fell asleep after that then Mum would start and make tea around 5pm which was cold meats, salad, christmas cake and yule logs.
Now as an adult we'll start with a bacon buttie but then I'm lucky if I can manage my christmas dinner which will consist of turkey only and filo pastry parcels filled with ice cream and christmas pudding (made my moi following my fav chef James Martin wink

)- and that's it, nothing much more after that.
Where did our appetites go? even my daugher cannot eat like we did as kids.
I always make a lovely 'christmas' dining table and will dress smartly but not OTT, no slobbing around in PJ's ... that's for boxing day! :wink:

13 Dec 2007

Breakfast will be left over cake and things from Christmas Eve, possibly a bacon sarnie :thumbup:
I think my Mum is cooking this year so it will be turkey and beef with all the traditional trimmings biggrin

Followed by Christmas pudding which my Mum made with the kids and my Dads brandy sauce.
I'm hungry now :P

13 Dec 2007

Quote by Dawnie
Breakfast will be left over cake and things from Christmas Eve, possibly a bacon sarnie :thumbup:
I think my Mum is cooking this year so it will be turkey and beef with all the traditional trimmings
Followed by Christmas pudding which my Mum made with the kids and my Dads brandy sauce.
I'm hungry now :P

I'll refrain from eating breakfast till we get to yours then ;-)
As for our dinner I suspect it will be the usual over the top offerings of huge amounts of this that and the other when a decent roast will more than suffice.

13 Dec 2007

Full english brekkie then off to Mum's with the troops and armed with pressies.
We all pull our crackers, don our stupid paper hats which never fit, tell even stupider jokes then do the family toast 'To absent friends'
Lunch will be home made soup followed by roast turkey, roast pork, about 25 veg ( knowing my Mum rolleyes

) with fab gravy made by yours truly :smug:
Mum's xmas pud with lashings of brandy sauce for dessert then coffee and cheese and fruit.
**note to self** wear trousers with expanding waist this year confused

13 Dec 2007

im cooking my first ever xmas dinner this year and to be honest i aint got a clue lol
Beans on toast knowing me lol

13 Dec 2007

since I am on my own this xmas ..... awww from the audience please (my entire family are running off to the caribbean on saturday) i haven't decided what i am having.....
got it down to duck or goose this year i think...... at least it meants i don't have to cook for 20 this year... leisurely me!!!!!
i'll just make me the whole trimmings......

13 Dec 2007

My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat confused

Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then lol

Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"? rolleyes

13 Dec 2007

brekkie for 4 days is bacon and egg sarnis all round 24th- 27th, xmas day we have chicken with all the trimmings as its only me and the son boxing day is all the trimming with turkey and a nice dessert not xmas pudding and a nice trifle with picky foods for tea on both days

13 Dec 2007

Quote by Mrcoupleseekfun
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffs

13 Dec 2007

Quote by X_fanny_x
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

yes ..send out for n indian..lol
xmas dinner is easy ffs

13 Dec 2007

Quote by robhambledon
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffsyes ..send out for n indian..lol
does ur indians open xmas day then cool

13 Dec 2007

Quote by X_fanny_x
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffsyes ..send out for n indian..lol
does ur indians open xmas day then cool

aye..ah mean yes ...and the chinese

13 Dec 2007

Quote by X_fanny_x
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffs
If its sooooo fookin easy you wont mind coming and cooking ours then huh? wink

13 Dec 2007

Quote by Mrcoupleseekfun
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffs
If its sooooo fookin easy you wont mind coming and cooking ours then huh? wink

im doing a takeaway xmas dinner service :wink: pick ups only though
its a dinner....... a dinner is.....meat and veg yes
how hard can it be ffs

13 Dec 2007

Quote by X_fanny_x
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffs
If its sooooo fookin easy you wont mind coming and cooking ours then huh? wink

im doing a takeaway xmas dinner service :wink: pick ups only though
its a dinner....... a dinner is.....meat and veg yes
how hard can it be ffs banghead

13 Dec 2007

lamb and beef then off to look thru minxs tent window to watch them eat there leg of mince lol

13 Dec 2007

I know some of you have heard it before but.....
A few years ago, on xmas eve, our oven died. Totally. It died minutes after the shops closed.
I had been about to roast some pork, so I could cook the huge chicken (not turkey lovers) the next day.
"Oh, bollocks" I do believe was the phrase I uttered.
But then I got on with it. I got the apple schnapps from the cupboard, and marinaded the pork in it overnight. Next day, the veg was cooked on the hob- and the pork was microwaved.
Result? I didn't spend the day in the kitchen, and got to enjoy time with the family. Come lunchtime, no one expected perfection- so thats pretty much what it was, perfect.
That year, we realised that stuffing-yerself-silly- wasn't necessarily the recipe for a good time. All that excessive food & drink that goes to waste is just that- waste.
On boxing day, we decided that we'd do something different the next year. By mid afternoon- surprised at how relatively cheaply it could be done- we'd made contact with the owners of a farmhouse in the French Alps which had been converted into apartments. They're normally booked up for xmas a couple of years in advance- but did some ringing round and confirmed that we could book for next year.
That was that, the next year- xmas was white, stress free, and wonderful! We went out again 2 years later to try skiing......and are off again in 8 days time :bounce:
Erm. What was the question?? lol

Oh yeah, dinner will be whatever I can pick up in the little French Supermarche! biggrin

13 Dec 2007

Chicken, stuffing, potato, veg etc.
Xmas pudding with hopefully custard, (no chance of any cream here)
biggrin

13 Dec 2007

Quote by Mrcoupleseekfun
My missus is on strike this year after me and our son were taking the piss out of her sat in our car about a month ago.....hence i now cook it or we dont eat
Dont get me wrong, i can knock up a chilli or spag bol no probs, but i havent got a scooby where to start for a christmas dinner.
Chicken & mushroom pie, chips & beans it is then
Anyone have "an idiots guide to cooking xmas dinner"?

xmas dinner is easy ffs
If its sooooo fookin easy you wont mind coming and cooking ours then huh? wink

im doing a takeaway xmas dinner service :wink: pick ups only though
its a dinner....... a dinner is.....meat and veg yes
how hard can it be ffs banghead

does the quote" its only easy if ya know how" come into this boink

13 Dec 2007

light breakfast if i can stop the kids indulging in their selection boxes, then prawn cocktail for starters, beef, chicken and pork, with all seasonal veg, yorkshire pudds stuffing etc, followed by everyone else bloody washing up cos im going on strike the second i have served dinner lol sweet will be served much later because no one can move after dinner lol whatever your having, enjoy, and have an excellent day xx

13 Dec 2007

For us , as there will only be me and hubby this year I will be cooking duck breasts with homemade cranberry sauce a few vegies n roasted potatoes, then if he has any room left he may have some ice cream. Tea will be watever is in the fridge.

13 Dec 2007

tatty pie and red cabbage

13 Dec 2007

Lots of stuffing...................... :shock:

13 Dec 2007

what ever jay the cooks.....!! having my first.. xmas in 7yrs.. dont celibrate or havent done in a long time last year had poker night till boxing day .. lol.. but my house mate is cooking chrimbo dinner so it should be wicked .. hopefully with all the trimmings! ... even put up a tree ffs...! smile

13 Dec 2007

Quote by Mistress_39
Lots of stuffing...................... :shock:

shouldn't this be in the flirting thread? wink

I'm on my way bolt

13 Dec 2007

I shall be working throughout, so I'm currently toying with the idea of mixing a nice cocktail from the medicine cabinet...
lp

13 Dec 2007

Quote by LondonPlaything
I shall be working throughout, so I'm currently toying with the idea of mixing a nice cocktail from the medicine cabinet...
lp

Would that be the 'night-nurse wallbanger' then LP lol

:lol:

13 Dec 2007

a long slow diazepam against the wall
no ice!
lp

13 Dec 2007

Quote by LondonPlaything
a long slow diazepam against the wall
no ice!
lp

sounds good to me LOL lol

:lol: with a prozac chaser too :lol: