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Turkey for us this year at sons house ,so no cooking for me !!
It's years since i've had Christmas diner cooked for me ,so it will be lovely .

When i was little we use to have Goose ,we kept Geese and they would always run after me and pull my hair !!! so when eating them at Cristmas you could say i got my own back lol

We also use to have a Cockerel at Christmas.

Sallie and Jane, it can get worse than that. I actually WORKED one Christmas Day, serving everyone else's dinner.
When the children were young, I took what work I could get. This particular time I was Silver Service Waitressing at a country pub in a village. Sallie, you may have seen it. It is in the village of Wessington on the way to Matlock, from Alfreton. The big white pub that stand crossways to the road.
Well, Christmas morning, we all got up, though not feeling all that well. I opened the presents with the children, 4 born in four and a half years, so they were all very young at the time. Some managed abit of breakfast, others were not bothered. Come 10.00, I had to go to work. In those days, you were responsible for 'dressing' your dining room, so you had to make a good start.
I can't remember how many sat down for the meal, probably getting on for 100, over 2 sittings, and all Silver Service. We finished at 4.00. and I went home. When I got in, everybody looked like death warmed up, sniffling and coughing, and I didn't feel that great.
The OH of the time, had been left cooking the dinner,and it was just about ready, when I asked who wanted what to eat. Nobody, including myself, wanted anything. We all felt so poorly.
Well, the dogs fed well that Christmas, if nobody else did at my house.
Until this last few years, the present OH and I, have gone out for the Christmas meal,local to where we live, but the place changed hands, the standard went down, and now the place is closed.
Oh well, I suppose we are all lucky to have a Christmas dinner, no matter whose cooking and serving it.

Julia in Derbyshire

Jane, it was the same here, I got 'we all like to stay at home for our Christmas dinner ' so stay at home we did. Like you I don't do the dishes either.lol!!


Sallie.x

Wouldn't it just Sallie.One year I suggested going out for Christmas Lunch.I won't tell you the reaction I got for that :-S :-S.One thing I don't do is the dishes. :-D :-D

Jane, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that. It would make a nice change.lol!!

Yet again it will be Turkey. :-S.If it was just me it would be Roast Beef,but the rest of the family would be most upset if we didn't stick to tradition.I bought a Bronze Turkey (half price ) in Tes**.I would never pay the full price for a Bronze.
Boxing day is all cold meats, salads,cheeses ,pates french bread etc.Just Buffet style.Not sure how many people will be here Boxing Day.It could be 8.But 5 on Xmas Day.

I would love it if someone cooked Christmas Dinner for me for a change :-D

I'm with you Sheila, prefer the leg meat when hot. breast is fine cold. Which is why it is not so good when we go to son's as they have a crown.

One year we had just put the turkey in when we had a power cut. The main sub station was just outside our house. When the man was trying to fix it people kept going up to him and moaning and were told in no uncertain terms that he wanted his dinner too. We were on our own so opened the cava and waited. Finally had our meal about three pm.

Talk about chaos - one year the main oven thermostat chose 25 Dec to pack up. Luckily the turkey had been cooked, carved and frozen before hand. Even so, it was a bit of a struggle trying to re-heat that and cook the trimmings in a tiny top grill/ one shelf oven!

Probably turkey, cos I like it, but it has to be a whole one as I like the leg meat. The butcher gets them from a local farm and they are always good. However we are in complete chaos as we are having the kitchen renovated so it could be beans on toast!!! And from 9 of us, it went to 7, and now looks like it will be 6 - even that as in doubt as it depends on the weather.

Beef & Ham & Pork, joints.just not a fan of Turkey .
will have hot with Dinner & plenty left for sandwiches > salad for Christmas Day & Boxing day .maybe even freeze some as only 2 of us this year Barbra x

Beef Wellington, but I'll be cooking up in advance a bought rolled half turkey breast for sandwiches later on in the day.

One year we had small lobsters - they were on offer and only 3 people were at home, and another Steak and Kidney suet pudding.

Wow this is all making me so hungry :-D

Im off to parents for Christmas din dins, so I will eat what im given :-)
Definitley turkey maybe with Gammon joint which I dont like :-P
and all the trimmings ....have to say I do love Pigs in Blankets too with stuffing balls :-D mmmmmm mmm mmmmmm

There are six of us for Christmas this year and two are veggies.

We will be having a turkey crown and a Quorn roast

By the time we have eaten our way through the Christmas dinner, and all the courses, we don't have room for anything else in the evening but perhaps a bag of crisps.
Boxing Day, I do not cook. We have such as home made pate, cooked ham, nibbly things, breads, cheeses, etc.
Everything that needs to be made, is already done and in the freezer, even my veggies, with the exception of the roast potatoes.
As you know I am liable to slip away from home for a few days, at the drop of a hat, and I like to be prepared.
New Year's weekend, I have already bought a Leg of Lamb, and as Chris in Wessex said, with the cost these days, it is a rare treat.

Julia in Derbyshire

Sharron, if its done right, its good. I make it for my friend and she,s fussy , but likes it. :-D. :-D

Great idea Ann... I like it!!!

We are on our own this year and have decided to repeat what we did three years ago. I will cook the turkey and gammon dinner with all the trimmings on Christmas eve. Then Christmas day late lunch will be pate andcheese and biscuits etc. Our Christmas evening meal will be all the cold meats, cheese, breads, pickles etc and mince pies
Boxing day will be beef followed by Christmas pudding.

Merlin you haven't tried my vege pie!

Sharron, Why not make yourself a Veggie Pie? probably be better than any shop bought one. :-D

My treat was always a Sainsbury's vegetables in cream sauce pie which had a lovely short crust. Then they improved it and gave it a flaky crust which stopped it being my Christmas treat as it was not much cop. When they improved them again and gave them rosemary flavoured pastry I stopped eating them altogether.

It will probably be vege sausage and bacon ad well but with copious amounts of stuffing and bread sauce which is what Christmas is all about for me.