What's on your Christmas Day menu?

Roast Pork
Roast Turkey
Veggie Roast (we have veg family)
Roast Duck (this year we're going to try and go goose)

Crispy Potatoes cooked with garlic & rosemary
Garlic Potato Gratin
Brocolli Steamed
Honey Carrots
Roast Asparagus

My Trifle
Pudding & Custard

Egg Nog
Shortbread
Apricot Balls
Royal Puddings
Candy Cane Chocolate Bark

Ham off the bone
Fresh Prawns
Dips/Antipasto/Cheeses etc
(Last year we had Pierogi)

LOTS OF CHAMPAGNE!

ETA: Forgot breakfast! Creme Brulee Croissant Pudding with mountains of fruit salad :D

I'm coming to your house rouge :D

My pudding is currently boiling away on the stove!

I also have 13 for dinner (7 for lunch) that's not including us so it's going to be busy. Dinner will probably be more cold meats etc

We're going out for lunch in Albert Park. This will probably be our last family Christmas as parents hate the cooking/home do & me and DH hate going out. It's so freaking expensive too I could not only buy Christmas lunch but trial it the week before too.

I'm subscribing so I can steal some of these menu ideas hahaha. Yum!!!


Sent from my iPhone more than likely while I should be doing something else!

We're having a BBQ with some roast chickens and a ham with salads this year :)

I have 13 adults and 9 kids at my place this year and we do the whole traditional thing so;

Roast pork and apple sauce
Roast turkey with stuff and cranberry sauce
Honey glaze ham
ALL the roast vegies
Salads
Some traditional Estonian sausage rolls
extra side bits like eggs, pickles and other weird assortments that have become traditional over the years for DH's family

Dessert is pudding and custard
Lemon curd cheesecake
Homemade icecream cake for the kids

Lots of extras like almond crescents, choc peppermint slice, chocolate balls (no rum likers), biscotti, etc etc etc Probably lots of chippies and stuff for the kids too.

All in all, enough food to feed a small African nation for a month and no doubt we will all be eating leftovers for the next week.

My parents will be over on Boxing Day for lunch and then we'll have a seafood bbq and salads

We used to bring different bits of stuff each but it became a bit of a nightmare so now the person hosting does it all, except a SIL usually likes to do the turkey. Should be a piece of cake between all day morning sickness and getting back into the country two days before . . .

Ham with apple sauce
Smoked chicken or turkey with cranberry
Potato salad (DH's evil version)
Coleslaw
Garden salad
Beetroot
Seafood (under decided as yet, hoping the In-law oblige)

Trifle
Christmas pud and custard (still debating the recipe, MIL is over so we may do hers, otherwise I have been given one dating back to 1779)
Vanilla snow pavlova with passionfruit

Baileys - lots of Baileys
Christmas nibblie stuff - rum balls, pretzels

I am salivating reading all of this!!

I always buy one of the 2kg turkey rolls from Aldi, as cheap, feeds alot and is very easy to cook and carve.

Does anyone know is Christmas Ham different to normal ham? as in, I'm pregnant so can I eat it?

Wow!! There are some impressive sounding menu's there!!

I have decided to do...

Herb and walnut cheese roll
Guacomale Dip
Homemade truffles

Cold ham
Roast chicken and turkey
Roast veggies (potato, carrots, sweet potato, pumpkin)
Fresh, steamed corn cobs, buttered beans
Gravy and homemade cranberry sauce

Strawberry, passionfruit and banana pavlova
trifle

Those of you doing seafood = when do you get it?? We are doing dinner - 4:30 onwards on Sunday with DH's family, and are doing the shopping either later tonight or early tomorrow morning so a bit worried about freshness and might end up ditching the idea.

Tan we bought our prawns today. They are frozen and currently defrosting in the fridge.

It'll be fine if you buy them tonight or tomorrow. You'll be fine.

We got some prawns today too. If they are brought very fresh or are frozen, and stored correctly until you eat them, they will be fine for chrissy day.

Hmmmmm... Well we have a mix of ethnicity in our family group. So step mother is Thai, so we do t do traditional menu's. This year DH and I will be providing a fresh cray fish that I will be making into a seafood c**ktail type thing. Then we are also making Peking duck and serving it in those little pancakes. It will be lovely and fresh and cool. Plus cold ham I think. Step mum will no doubt cook up lotsa tasty things cos she always does.

We will have a gorgeous cheese platter too... Mmmmm. Oh and DH and I will start the day with smoked salmon, goats chèvre cheese and poached eggs with capers on toast, with a glass of champers :). Oh I love Christmas! I wish I could have more than one drink tho!

It has just been decided lunch is at my house for 16 (6 adults, 4 teenagers and 6 under 12)
I was doing for 9 anyway so not to many more :lol:

Nibblies;
Antipasto platter
Cheeses
Dip and bickies
Chips
Peanuts

Cold meats;
Ham
Turkey
Chicken
Prawns

Salads;
Rustic potato salad
Roast pumpkin and feta salad with pine nuts
Couscous salad
Potato bake
Coleslaw
Garden salad
Pasta salad

Extra;
Bread rolls
Turkish bread

Desert;
Pavlova
Trifle
Apricot nector cheesecake
Chrissy pudding
Chrissy cake
Optional custard and cream

Afters;
Mince pies
Little chocolate puddings

Limeslice I'm coming to yours!!!

This year I'm cooking (groan for morning sickness) there will be 5 adults and 2 kids

I'm doing roast chicken and roast beef with roast potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato
Then also coleslaw, bread rolls, home made potato salad and garden salad

For dessert (well just for me) is a home made trifle!!! Don't care what the others eat lol

Oh and of course nibbles (chips, biscuits)

My BBQ will be snags and rissoles. With coleslaw and potato salad. I should probably do greens but dunno if I can be bothered.

Plus grog.

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My BBQ will be snags and rissoles. With coleslaw and potato salad. I should probably do greens but dunno if I can be bothered.

Plus grog.

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Sounds awesome.
Forget the greens, they're over-rated!

As I am deemed unsuitable to host Christmas Day, I am hosting Boxing day for six adults and one Liebling. Nothing too fancy given we're out all day Christmas Day at BiL's house.

Starter: stuffed mushrooms.
Main: Salmon in white wine, lemon and parsley sauce (Liebling has sausages), served with roast potatoes, jacket potatoes, brocolli, roast carrots and parsnip, asparagus and peas.
Dessert: Sticky Toffee Puddings, Baked Peaches.
Cheeseboard (five normal cow cheeses plus one goat and one sheep cheese, 6 types of cracker)

For a supper, I was thinking the leftover jacket potatoes re-heated with sausages and a light salad. Or fresh potatoes. Or even chips, see how the mood takes me. I could do a rice salad if I fancied it.
We then have banana loaf, lots and lots of chocolates and fruit to eat. The supper may be unneccessary.

For drinks, we have red and white wine, two bottles of Asti and fresh orange juice.