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I hope you all had a nice day. 

What were the highlights of your dinner tables?

We had slow cooked shoulder of lamb from the local estate, whole roasted cauliflower, creamy parsnip gratin, potato and beetroot Boulanger, red cabbage with orange and port, and balsamic roast green veg. 

For pudding I made a vegan chocolate fudge pudding and we had a selection of ice creams.

We might not need to eat now for the next week! 😊

Turkey, roast veg., gravy, greens. Traditional here. Had a nice day too

I went over to some friends up the Cynon Valley and we had:

Celery soup (i don't really like celery, but I do like this celery soup!)

Steak, roasties, parsnips, carrots, sprouts, pepper sauce

Sticky toffee pudding with custard and trifle (though not necessarily at the same time)

Traditional but the best turkey I’ve ever tasted and cooked along with everything else.  I’m feeling very pleased with myself and just wished we’d had loads of people round rather than just 4 so I could have shared.  Reheats for lunch with guests tomorrow, apparently the turkey I bought will feed 16-18, but really do they not consider left overs, salads, soups and curries in these estimates!

Happy Christmas!

Toby

Yes thank you, glad you did too.

I cooked dinner at my mother in laws for eight of us, 7 vegi and me plus grandson and collie.

They had nut roast and a lentil loaf made by the mother in law with the below trimmings.

i had rolled turkey crown, bacon rolls, roast parsnips and pots with sprouts, carrots peas and sage and onion stuffing with normal gravy and onion sauce.

Them took the dog up Moel Famau which was nicely empty, and now having a beer!

Seasons greetings

Dave

Visited a friend this year and he cooked an excellent traditional dinner with turkey, pigs in blankets, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, peas and Yorkshire pudding. Christmas pudding too. Been really well fed and it all tasted good. He had 9 of us to feed. The most I’ve cooked Christmas dinner for is 3.

Back to bring a family of 5 for a few days as oldest two are home from college.

We were traditional.  Smoked trout with oatcakes and dill for starters, turkey with oatmeal stuffing, sausage meat, pigs in blankets, sprouts, roast tatties, parsnips and carrots, peas, sweet corn, gravy and homemade cranberry compote.

Then raspberry trifle for pudding. 

Barely dented the turkey.  

Deepfried Haggis, square sausages, neep&tatties, roast potatoes and sweet&sour beetroot, Scottish theme for our daughter who came home from Glasgow Uni

Mushroom Wellington cooked by my son, chocolate log made by me, five of us (me + husband + son + daughter + daughter's wife) round the table. I could not be happier.

Very trad here: turkey butterfly wrapped in bacon, goose fat roasties, roast parsnips, carrots, sprouts, stuffing, pigs in blankets, homemade cranberry sauce, then chocolate Yule log and Xmas pud. Loads of turkey left for tomorrow's cold table, along with a cherry coke ham, massive mixed salad, half a fridge full of cheese, mince pies and Dundee cake. 

Pasty's.

More to time to play with presents 😁

We had lamb as well. Helped that bil was a former prof chef.

Wild venison and chestnut casserole,  with celeriac and butterbean mash, and simple steamed vegetables. Followed by Christmas pud and custard.

Preceeded by a strenuous walk on the fells in the usual manky Christmas day weather.

Christmas day is a deliberately solo day, for catching up and some exercise.

So I had humous, tomato, and beetroot sandwiches, so as not to impede the exercise. The latter was a bike ride that actually was longer than originally intended, as I kept adding bits on, as I went along. It also started later, as I tried to poison me and the cats by toxic fumes filling the kitchen when pyrolytically cleaning the oven. So I stayed at home longer to be sure that nothing further happened, and kept the window and door open to vent the eye-watering fumes. I paid for the exercise later, when I got cramp in my thigh, as I walked to my son's house.

I also baked a New York cheesecake from scratch, and made oatmeal scones. These, I took along to my son and girlfriend's party later, in the evening. A break from my usual absence from the scene on Christmas day. There I had cold meats, and great cauliflower cheese and other trimmings, as well as tasting various vegetarian dishes.

Today is my day with my kids, and their husband and partner respectively. We're having venison, as well as corn-fed chicken, and strangely, poussin as well (they were on short-dated offer), plus vegetarian dishes for my daughter.

Finally we'll have Christmas pudding with rum sauce (rum which makes the small proportion of sauce very brown).

At the Danish in laws for Christmas Eve dinner.

Risalamande, Danish rice pudding for starters. Bonkers…followed by Goose and red cabbage.

(chestnut and mushroom pie for the vegans amongst us)

Sounds like lots of good feasting went on 😊 I'm sure the eating of the leftovers is going well too! Ours will certainly keep us going for a few days. 

That sounds good! I always enjoy seeing what other cultures do for their Christmas/ Yule/ new year celebrations 😊

I had a pre packed sandwich from a petrol station, handily reduced as it was going out of date . Oh and a bag of fizzy fish for desert.

You had a petrol station open?? That's just showing off! We have people in our area searching for an open petrol station now (and there isn't one).  No chance yesterday!

Yep, luxury! Called in after a couple of hours on the beach with my puppy 

Great pic of the puppy! Beaches and dogs are just a great mix 😊

Definitely a good way to spend Christmas day 

I slept all day and ate nothing