What is your Christmas day meal this year?

**thescot** · 22nd December 11, 10:38 PM

Ours is actually Christmas Eve. It'll be a roast pork loin with potatoes and carrots in the pot, szechuan beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, and something else.

Oh,yeah, there'll be homemade egg nog with vanilla rum. And designated drivers for anyone visiting!

**mayberry** · 22nd December 11, 10:46 PM

My family's tradition (from the South of Sweden) is that Christmas Eve supper is the important meal. We'll be a goodly crowd of three generations, and it's a real production. It starts with glögg (mulled wine with an almond and raisins), then the fish dishes pickled and smoked, and Janson's Temptation (a sort of herring scalloped potato dish), along with shrimps of two kinds, codroe caviar, boiled eggs, and sometimes raw oysters. The next course is meat, which for us means ham, salamis, liverwurst, pickled beets, gherkins, mustards, and two kinds of warm cabbage- sweet brown, and tart red. Then we have the cheese course, with the same breads that have been on offer all along (rye crispbread, fennel-rye bread, maybe crackers). The cheeses usually include soft, hard, strong, and mild. All this is accompanied by mumma (spiced ale) and several flavoured vodkas; especially bäsk, the wormwood-flavoured "medicine" my grandfather taught me to make.
After the cheese comes the dessert, a special rice pudding called Ris a la Malta, which is basically sweetened cooked rice and whipped cream, with one almond hidden in it. Whoever gets the almond will be the next to marry. There is warm raspberry syrup to put on the dessert.
Then cookies and coffee are served as we retire to the living room for present-opening.

On Christmas Day we'll be a small, four-person family unit, so I'm making a tourtière, green beans, and salad. We may even stay in our pajamas.

Cheers,
John

**Downunder Kilt** · 22nd December 11, 10:48 PM

As it is likely to be stinking hot at this end of the planet, we will be having seafood entrees, BBQ'd lamb, roast turkey breast, cold ham, potatoes with assorted vegetables and strawberries with icecream for dessert. As I will be doing the BBQing, a good supply of gin and tonic

**Ian_G** · 23rd December 11, 01:44 AM

I shall be alone this Christmas and am currently planning haggis, neeps and tatties.

Ian

**BoldHighlander** · 23rd December 11, 01:51 AM

I do not know what all my wife has on tap, but I do know that we're having a locally raised & prepared ham (Hemplers) and Ami (my wife) is making cheesy scallop potatoes from scratch.
I also know that a tradition that has been done for the past 12 or 13 years for my niece and daughter will continue. Its a homemade "birthday cake" for Jesus.

**kscowboy1866** · 23rd December 11, 03:35 AM

Well since most of our family is coming here we are most likely cookin a turkey as well as a ham, mashed potatos, dinner rolls, egg salad, vegies, maybe a couple pies and anything else that they all bring as well. If ya go hungry here at xmas your either sick or stupid. I considered making fry bread but it wouldnt last 3 seconds.

**Sir William** · 23rd December 11, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by chrisupyonder

We are having roast goose with roast spuds and veg. Then the usual Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and mince pies. There will be 8 of us.

Chris.

Oooooh! Can I come to your house? I haven't had roast goose in years!

We are having ham, sweet potatoes, various veg, and apple pie as usual. It will be just the immediate family and my brother who is single and lives close-by.

**cessna152towser** · 23rd December 11, 03:56 AM

I will be going to lunch with a friend after church on Christmas morning. I do not know what is on the menu.
Christmas evening I will cook dinner for one - tinned soup followed by turkey breast slices with roast potatoes, brussels sprouts and chippolata sausages, and a German gingerbread (lebkuchen) for desert, and finishing off with coffee.
It will be a quiet Christmas here this year.

**Downunder Kilt** · 23rd December 11, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by BoldHighlander

Ami (my wife) is making cheesy scallop potatoes from scratch.

Terry, if I was in your part of town I would be hanging outside your place hoping for some leftovers, Yummo

**Laird_M** · 23rd December 11, 04:56 AM

We're pigging out.

Roast duck, cider baked gammon and roast venison.
Carrots, roast potatoes and cabbage from our allotment.
Pigs in blankets (bacon wrapped sausages).
Mustard gravy.

Kulfi icecream and mini eclairs for desert.

All washed down with a rather good bottle of cava one of our cubs gave the wife.

If I can manage anythign after that, a selection of cheeses and pate with a VERY good port one of our cubs gave me.