What are you eating (and drinking!) on Christmas Day?

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Christmas day is the one day of the year where it is almost customary to over indulge. Whether that is through food or alcohol (or a combination of the above!) is down to personal preferences but this year the Youstolemyname household will mostly be eating (and drinking) this:

Butcher's English Breakfast- local butcher does a fantastic sausage and cured bacon pack. Shifts the hangover from xmas eve! Maybe a cheeky glass of bucks fizz to help shift the hangover. Fresh ground coffee too.

Walk to the beach/pinewoods to build up an appetite then back via local boozer for pre-dinner pint.

The main event:

Jumbo, shell on, tiger prawns in garlic and chilli to start
Roast Rib of Black Gold beef with roast spuds in goose fat, honey roast parsnips, carrots, broccoli and pan gravy.
Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding and vanilla ice cream

Will possibly pair the above up with a Barolo or Rioja. Haven't decided yet...

Then it's either continental lager time (Budvar, Erdinger etc) or some real ales (love a bit of Jenning's cumberland) with snackage- nuts, crisps, pork scratching etc whilst watching a repeat of Only Fools and Horses.


So...what's your poison going to be?
 
Christmas day will be a traditional christmas dinner with turkey, parsnips, roast tatties, stuffing, pigs in blankets and so on. Mum will be cooking that and the wine will be my dad's choice. If I'm honest I find a traditional Christmas dinner a bit underwhelming.

At night it will be onto the whisky and more than likely Laphroaig will be the staple and whatever might be received as a gift.

On Christmas eve me and my brothers are cooking a meal for the family.

Brother 2 is doing the starter, brother 1 the dessert and for main I'm doing roughly what I had tonight - fillet steak on a bed of pea puree with a mushroom and red wine sauce and cherry tomatoes. I don't know much about wine at all so maybe a Chilean Merlot seeing as it went okay tonight.
 
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I will make a chocolate cake on this Christmas. I have remember that my Mom made this delicious and simple cake on every Christmas. I have not remember exact ingredients and method for making this cake but i will try it and after that i will share my experience here.
 
We've got a tradition for pork belly on Christmas eve, so me, the mrs and the kids will have that slow roasted, red cabbage w/ apple and potato and celeriac gratin.

Christmas morning we're heading over the the mothers for breakfast (after kids have done santa sacks) which will be bagels with cream cheese & smoked salmon for me and the 3yr old (he bleeding loves it) and bacon for the non lovers.

A bucks fizz will be had. That's for sure.

Traditional turkey, but we're all chipping in with it which should be good. I'm making the gravy base to take over. The one made with roasted wings, bacon and veg, made out in to a gravy. Then added to turkey juices and finished off there. (it's a mix of gordon and Jamie's gravy's).
I'm also doing a fig and chestnut stuffing roll to take over, which should be nice. Last year I did a cranberry and walnut job which was really nice. Might do a couple. It's great in turkey sandwiches after.

We have to have sprouts, although few don't like, my grandma and the 6yr old can't get enough of them.

Bought a 6 box of Louis Roederer champs, so no doubt I will attempt to see how many I can consume over the day. I say a good number. Then wine. Sleeping on the sofa with crap TV.

Bliss.
 
Always have christmas round my parents we haven't 100% decided on things yet but it's looking something like this:

Starter: Dressed lobster with scallops and tiger prawns
Mains: Wild Boar roast with pigs in blankets / stuffing / roast potatoes / asparagus / carrots / sprouts
Desert: Christmas pud
Drinks: Decent bottle of champers
Later: coffee / Mints etc
 
Pretty much the potato way; potatoes and celeriac sliced thinly, washed and drained, season them and coat them in the cream, garlic and some mustard. I use wholegrain but have done Dijon which was nice but fav is wholegrain and then layer all up and bake.
 
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