OT: What will your Christmas meal look like?

We had this topic last year and it was interesting to see what people prefer on their tables. Now that we have a lot of new members I’m sure we will also hear about some different meals. We will be having some cold cuts and salads seeing that it’s high summer here. My children and grand children will spend the day with us. The kids will receive their gifts on Christmas morning whereafter we will sit down for a meal which usually last about 2 hours.

I’m gearing up for roasting a large lump of lamb with assorted veg, spuds and Yorkshire puds. It’s what we always have. Good for keeping the cold out :slight_smile:

I’m roasting a joint of beef, Yorkshire puddings and cooking some ackee and rice & peas. My girlfriend is a vegan so she’ll be making a nut roast and cooking lots of assorted veggies.

I´m not cooking myself but rather join my parents for this. I don´t even have a clue what they´re up for, but I´m totally sure there will be a traditional hungarian x-mas fish soup.

We are going to my mother in law’s who is full Korean so we will have a mixture of traditional American foods and Korean foods. Its awesome.

We smoke about 50 young chickens a couple days before Christmas to give out to neighbors and friends as gifts. Most definitely we will be eating two or three of these on Christmas Eve when my brood gathers with my brothers and their families to eat. Also sure to be mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potato pie, green bean cassarole, salad, french onion soup, homemade bread with real butter. My wife makes a very tasty cake with raspberry Hero Jam between the layers and a sweet cream-cheese icing that I’m looking forward to for dessert. Mostly just looking forward to breaking some bread with the family, realizing how lucky we are in so many ways. Cheers to you all! (As a boy, I had my first taste of wine on Christmas–Blue Nun or Liebfraumilch, I don’t recall which it was. I still don’t care to much for wine. Something funny about drinking “mother’s milk” on Christmas.)

Sounds delicious so far. Here is what we usually have: Glazed Ham Cranberry Sauce Sausage and Cranberry Stuffing Green Bean Casserole Scalloped Corn Candied Yams Pumpkin Roll Pumpkin Pie Pecan Pie I’ll probably be drinking Jim Beam tonight, Glühwein tomorrow and some Sam Adams on Christmas.

Pierogi, kielbasa, and a shot of Sobieski vodka, helllll yes…

wow this is a difficult one for me as I never do any cooking and I have no idea what the wife is going to make. However, I can tell you what my christmas meal will look like the next morning after I have my coffee and hit the throne…if anyone cares. :wink:

No sign of turkey as of yet… Is it only ‘traditional’ in the UK?

@ toffee, Debbie our America friends eat all there’s end of last month.

We’ll be having turkey, mashed potatoes, carrots, roast potatoes, parsnips, peas, sprouts, yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets. And for tea it will be potato salad and sandwiches. Stefan

Snuff Head is right. After Thanksgiving, some of us have had it with Turkey!!! I do think that a good majority of the population eats Turkey, but Ham seems to be my familys Christmas and Easter meat. In case I don’t get on here in the next couple of days, Merry Christmas everyone! Hope it is a wonderful day for all!

On Christmas Eve we will be having some fishes (breaded and and fried or marinaded in vinegar), cooked sauerkraut with mushrooms, homemade noodle with mushrooms sauce, noodle with poppyseed, nuts and raisins, borscht with little sauerkraut and mushroom dumplings, mushroom soup, poppyseed cake and some apricot cake. Traditionally it should be 12 meals but who’s got so much time :wink: Polish tradition is not to eat meat on Christmas Eve so we always have fishes only. Merry Christmas for everyone!

Gee I can’t decide whos house to show up at…Barts or cstokes4 . :wink:

@PP If you bring a bucket and underwear, you can come to my shindig! :slight_smile:

Smokehouse, (that’s a beagle having a taste of the drippings on the floor)

Being that my wife is vegetarian I usually end up with a Quorn roast on Christmas day. With a bit of vegetarian gravey and stuffing it almost tastes like turkey. The rest is pretty traditional, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts, Yorkshire puddings, mashed swede etc… Finish that off with Christmas pudding and mince pies and I am rendered immobile for the rest of the day. It’s all good.

roast turkey, roast potatoes, roast turnip, carrots, peas, pigs in blankets (small sausages with bacon wrapped round them) not whole pigs in cloth lol, yorkshire pudding, maybe a bit of christmas pudding if im not too stuffed all washed down with Badgers Tanglefoot and a few jim beams later :@)

Prime Rib, mashed potato"s, gravy, assorted veggies, pierogi, smoked & fresh polish sausage, a nice assortment of pastries, several wines and Brandy.