What will your main meal be on christmas day??

[winjim]

When I was a kid it was always beef so that's what I prefer but we're having turkey as it's harder to ruin when distracted by the kids. Pigs in blankets, devils on horseback, mulled red cabbage and sprouts fried up with chestnuts and pancetta in plenty of butter.

Yorkshire puddings even though they have no place with poultry...

 

[Salty seadog]

Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast.

 

[fossyant]

Not decided as yet, but one of the following
beans on toast
sardines on toast
cup-a-soup
fish finger sandwich
cheese on toast
baked potato
whatever it is it will be simple and quick

Fish finger sarnie for the win

 

[MichaelW2]

Roast chicken in a bag.
Roast pots
Sprouts with chestnuts, slowly pan-fried in a pan.
Some other veg
Stuffing

 

[palinurus]

Home-made nut loaf, roast vegetables and Yorkshire puddings (because our two guests expect them!)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I guess it depends who tests negative on Christmas Eve. Chicken en croute in the freezer in case of someone turning out positive, otherwise a traditional turkey dinner with my daughter's family. She does a superb red cabbage with onions and apple which is a meal in itself.

 

[Nibor]

Indian take away

 

[jowwy]

Tomorrow i will ( xmas eve ) i will be cooking the beef, chicken and doing the gravy. Then on xmas day, it will just be the veggies to cook, slice the meat, put it on the plates in a warm oven covered with gravy so it doesnt dry out……..that way i spend less time cooking and more time doing sweet fa…on xmas day

 

[Alex321]

I'll just be having my normal lunch, Christmas Day was just an ordinary working day in Britain until the 1850s.

I don't think many of us on here remember those days

 

[fossyant]

I She does a superb red cabbage with onions and apple which is a meal in itself.

That's one I do too.

 

[numbnuts]

I'll just be having my normal lunch, Christmas Day was just an ordinary working day in Britain until the 1850s.

170 years + on to many, it will be the same sadly
I've worked on Christmas day Boxing Day and New Year Eve

 

[steverob]

Turkey crown with various trimmings. Cooking for about six, even though it's only the two of us (plus the cat) because we both like stupidly enormous Boxing Day sandwiches with absolutely everything on them.

We also manage to make the meal last the entire day by having long breaks between courses. Breakfast at about our usual time, which is the first opportunity for a pig in a blanket or two (or ten) with eggs; starter of pate on freshly baked bread at about noon; aim to get dinner out for around the time the Queen is on the telly; then dessert of a Yule Log doesn't happen until about 7-8pm once everything else has fully digested.

 

[Alex321]

We'll be just the two of us this year, for once. So we'll be having a Turkey crown with all the usual veg. Personally, I prefer leg to breast, but I'm happier to eat breast than my wife is eating leg. With just two of us, it would have been pointless getting a whole turkey.

 

[Saluki]

I must google that to find out what it is
Sounds posh

Ham and cheese toastie, topped with Greek yoghurt, sprinkled with cheese and put under the grill to brown.

 

[Donger]

For the last few years my wife and I have picked up a beef joint from the butchers at the Gloucester Services on the M5. We do like to ring the changes though, so this year we bought it from the Northbound side.