Thread: Do you cook Christmas Dinner, and is it SW friendly?

This year I'm cooking for my partner, daughter and mother in law! I'll be doing a turkey crown, and I'll be roasting it with onions and clementines, and basting it with the juices! I'll be serving it with roast pots, roast parnsips with honey! Buttered sprouts and pancetta and carrots and maybe cauliflower cheese! We will be having pigs in blankets too! Christmas day for me will not be a sw day! Nor will boxing day, but it's only 2 days of the year x

Im going to my mums hse for xmas dinner. Where my brother in law who is a chief in a hotel will be cooking a full xmas dinner with all the trimmings!! We will have prawn cocktail to start the for the main its turkey, ham, stuffing, mini pigs in blankets loads if veg and the nicest gravy u have ever tasted!!!!
Desert will be made by me raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake with a ginger nut and digestive base and raspberry coolie!! my mum also makes brandy snaps and my sister has her speciality of malteaser cheesecake. So there will be lots of puds at mums!

Im just gonna enjoy xmas night and all the vodka and wine that goes with it. Then straight back on plan on boxing day!!!

So glad I started this thread, loads of yummy food to read about!

Xmas breakfast will be smoked salmon and scrambled egg (free range from our chickens, bright orange yolks), muffins or toast with bucks fizz.

Dinner is the tried and tested Delia method turkey. Sausage meat onion black pepper stuffed under the skin, butter on top of skin, streaky bacon to cover the crown. Streaky bacon rolled up on skewers, chipolatas, roast spuds, brussels and carrots from allotment, peas and roast parsnips. Gravy heaven.

plum pudding ....

I usually go original on xmas day and don't get stuffed, I am a savoury tooth rather than sweet so I love the meat and pickles salad, might have a small sweet.

I'm cooking Christmas dinner and will be SW ish for me as I don't like stuffing or yorkshires.

For starters I'm doing a shared platter of chicken goujons, breaded mushrooms, wedges, toms, carrot batons, cucumber sticks - I will make these so they are all syn free and I just won't have the dips.

For the last couple of years I have cooked the boneless turkey fillet in the slow cooker and is beautiful and moist and again syn free.

Roast potatoes will be made in the actifry, pigs in blankets made with syn free sausages and will indulge in a little gravy.

So with all the vegetables shouldn't be too bad......until the desserts! I'm doing a 3 dessert dessert of roulade (waitrose), strawberries dipped in chocolate and individual mini victoria sponges - I've got small regtangular plates so there will only be a small portion of each *damage limitation*

.....so not completely SW friendly, but I feel a good compromise.

I'll be on plan on Christmas Day. It's Boxing Day that'll be trickier, as we go to my in laws. My MiL tends to do a buffet, and we always take a few dishes along (which are going to be SW friendly) but if she decides to make a trifle, I may have to treat myself! My class is open the day after Boxing Day, and I don't want to put too much on. I'm teetotal, so alcohol won't be a problem!

Noticed the fresh Turkeys were in stores yesterday, has anyone bought theirs yet?

As there is only the 2 of us we will get our local butcher's chicken breast's they are huge! usually over kilo each....roasted with a mixture of veg,carrot, onions, parsnip, butternut squash, & potatoes, peas, my version of pigs in blankets, mini stuffing balls, and onion gravy. That should do!
My egg custard's or mixed fruit for pudding.
Sleep then for the day!!

I'm hosting for the first time this year so that will be interesting!

Spicy carrot and lentil soup with creme fraiche and homemade bread

Garlic butter and herb basted turkey crown
Butternut squash and mushroom tart (vegetarian)
Roast potatoes
Cranberry and sausage stuffing
Vegetarian stuffing (as yet undecided)
Chipolata and rosemary pinwheels
Marmalade glazed carrots
Cider braised leeks and cabbage
Homemade cranberry sauce and gravy

Tiramisu with fresh cream
Cheese and crackers
Coffee

We don't eat until later in the afternoon (3.30/4.00pm) so we only have the one meal. Also no booze as we don't really drink and someone needs to drive.

I'm doing the New year's dinner and I've picked:

Starter: Brussels Sprouts with Roquefort and Walnuts
Main: Roast Haunch of Venison in a Sauce Poivrade, with Crushed Butternut, Chestnut Buttered Sprouts, Rosemary & Garlic Roasties and Carrots

WTF have I let myself in for?!?!

Well, I'm off work with a broken arm/shoulder so I won't being cooking Christmas dinner this year, dispite the fact there will be 6 of us!
Yes, I'm afraid the deed has fallen upon my poor other half, lol. He can cook, infact, he cooks a lovely roast so as long as we make sure we have everything thing in, he'll be fine!
I'll just let him get on with it, though I'm sure the others will help out!( there's my Mum, his Mum and his brother and girlfriend!)

Then, when it's all cooked and dished up, he can cut up my food for me! Rofl !!

Originally Posted by ermintrude

I'm doing the New year's dinner and I've picked:

Starter: Brussels Sprouts with Roquefort and Walnuts
Main: Roast Haunch of Venison in a Sauce Poivrade, with Crushed Butternut, Chestnut Buttered Sprouts, Rosemary & Garlic Roasties and Carrots

WTF have I let myself in for?!?!

A windy afternoon?

Originally Posted by rootsfran

A windy afternoon?

God no, not compared to my standard day of veg, beans & lentils! Ill be positively constipated!

I am cooking for us and my in laws. We are having the aldi 4 bird roast (had the 3 bird last yr and it was fab) shall be having sw honey glazed carrots, sprouts, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower and parsnips with roast spuds (done in duck fat I'm afraid) and sw cranberry sauce and shall make gravy also. I am also making a sw baileys and caramel cheesecake for pud. I'm having a flexi syn day Xmas day

Oh and me pigs in blankets of course but I'm using joes sausages for those