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Lucia, I'm with you there, I hate the sprouts. Granny

turkey stuffing gravy cranberry sauce roast potatoes veg (refuse to eat brussell sprouts!)lol Ham (don't like that either) v.fussy eater Lucia :-)

Mandy that sounds good to me, Roast Beef is good, Turkey is just traditional. Granny

Davo, why can't we have traditional Turkey dinner, without all this salmon and stuff? A Yorkshire Pudding to start followed by Turkey, Stuffing, roast and mashed plus veggies. Then Christmas pudding with fresh cream. Lovely Granny

Aw Deanna, that's not very nice of your sister! I can't abide salmon but I think at 41 I'm grown up and not just a fussy child lol! There will be the three of us plus my parents on Christmas Day here - we will have all the usual trimmings but with roast beef instead of turkey. My mum's not keen on turkey and the rest of us don't mind, so we've gone for an Aberdeen Angus joint, yummm! Mandy :) xx

SOUP Butternut squash and parsley soup or Watercress and vegetable soup Tomato salad or Avocado with prawns (or brie, veggie option) or Buttered Asparagus with french bread Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding or Fresh Salmon poached in a court bouillion or Lentil and cheese savoury bake or Celeri Itallienne (Celeriac, rice and walnut bake) Vegetables Steamed new potatoes Sweetly steamed Purple sprouting Broc. Brocolli Mixed steamed cabbage Sprouts. Carrots Baby leeks Asparagus Extra fine beans A selection of cheese with french bread or biscuits Chocolate mouse with whisky or Raspbery Pavlova or Christmas pudding

How big is your table Bob- sounds fantastic - do we pre book?!!

That should be Crêpe Suzettes. Pronounced Crep not Craype.

Bob that sound like something my sister would make for us, and we are just simple folk, who like nothing more than Turkey with stuffing plus the usual veg. Granny

Ok Bob I'm coming to yours lol :0)

To commence Home made winter vegetable broth served with cheese croutons & warm rolls Or Trio of melon fan served with a winter berry ~ginger coulis To continue Salmon & crayfish ravioli (an exotic blend of smoked salmon &crayfish tails with ricotta & cream cheese wrapped in pasta and smothered in a cream & tomato sauce with a hint of Lemon Or Wild mushroom crib (sliced wild mushrooms with onions & garlic in a cream sauce wrapped in a golden pastry crib) Lemon Sorbet Main course Traditional roast turkey (sliced breast of roast turkey served with all the trimmings - sausages wrapped in bacon, bread sauce, chestnut stuffing, sage & onion stuffing, cranberry sauce & thick homemade turkey gravy) Or Roast gooducken (slices of roast goose stuffed with duck and chicken with a pork & orange stuffing between each layer served with ajj. The trimmings) Or Brie & butternut tart (diced brie & butternut squash in a rich cheese sauce with leeks & onions in a rustic pastry case) Or Empress salmon (a skinless, boneless tranche of salmon in a white wine & cream sauce garnished with shitake mushrooms, spinach & celery Or Mulled steak medallions (medallions of sliced rump steak in a mulled wine sauce, garnished with sliced onions, mushrooms & fresh sliced apple) To Round Off Home made Traditional Plum Pudding served with Brandy Sauce or fresh cream Or Homemade Xmas Pudding Ice Cream Or Mulled Fruit Cheesecake (A baked cheesecake topped with a mulled wine flavoured fruit coulis) Or Crepe Suzettes Or Cheese and biscuits Followed by mince pies and coffee

Janet, that is just what we thought. My husband doesn't want it either as he will have enough with the Turkey dinner. The best bit about this dish was that my sister phoned all of us separately to tell us the menu. Roll on Boxing Day. Granny

I would object to being told to grow up when I say no thankyou to any form of fish! - makes me throw up, literally, so just I politely and happily sit out that course. Good job she's not having a vegetarian for Christmas lunch. Jay

All you have to do is think that you might be like that one day, and give in to him. Ha Ha Granny

No idea :0)

Trouble is it's the same every year - plus dad would eat turkey sarnies at my nan's and still say to her face 'I don't like turkey, it's too dry' the old twit doen't know what he does like

Sounds good to me. At least your Dad will be happy with it. Granny

roast chicken dinner! (dad don't like turkey - or so he says)

Christmas Day. We are going to my sisters and she has told us that we are starting with Salmon and prawns. My son does not like fish at all, so she told him to grow up. Somehow I do not think this Christmas is going to be very merry at all. Granny