So, Ladies and Gents, who cooked the meal?
What time did you eventually sit down to eat it after you’d cooked it?
I sat down at 13.30pm to eat mine, Turkey, Brussels, broccoli,carrot,swede,roast potatoes, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, gravy made with chicken stock and the sticky bits on the bottom of the pan,after turkey had been cooked, yum!!
Possibly 4.30pm, I can’t remember tbh.
My visiting family have a free run in the kitchen at holiday times as I am the main cook for the rest of the year. We all sat down around 2:30 and sat there for about 90mins eating, swapping jokes, pulling my hand made crackers and then retired to easy chairs.
Did you enjoy it after you had cooked it Annie?
I always seem to enjoy a meal when someone else has cooked it, providing they can cook that is,
Surely not all 4 daughters in the kitchen?
…sounds lovely,LD.
They sort it out between themselves including washing up and putting everything away to my exacting standards. I like my kitchen just-so, so they know what’s expected and how to keep Dad onside and in good humour for the day –>:grin:
12h15 SA time! Full plate! Glass of red wine 
My husband is the main Sunday roast cook but I always make Christmas dinner.
I made 2 roasts, pork and chicken as we aren’t keen on turkey.
The veggies were honey glazed roasted parsnips and carrots. I parboiled sprouts , and leeks then added then to the onion and bacon I had fried in a frying pan then poured single cream over them. Naughty but very delicious.
I mashed tge potatoes with butter and a little Wholegrain mustard. Roasted potatoes cooked in the pork fat.
Pigs in blankets, stuffing balls and small Yorkshire pudding.
Gravy was made with the sprout and leek stock and pork juices.
My family enjoyed their dinner as did I.
Since the day Dan was born I have cooked every year for various numbers ranging from 5 to 12.
This year my gorgeous daughter Roz and her lovely partner Tom hosted 
What a treat that was x
Today we are having an open house hot and cold buffet all day. A lot less stressful!
Tomorrow it’s food at Dan and his partner Jessie’s house.
Aidan is staying with us as his partner Emma is with her family in Belfast until Wednesday.
So it’s saving us some cash allowing others to feed us and 6ft gym brute Aidan that’s for sure!
I don’t cook Christmas lunch, my brother and SiL have always hosted this big family get together every year for at least the last 12-15 years. I just made one of the cakes for afters. It’s always a grand event which goes on into the late night.
We had prosecco on arrival then smoked salmon & cream cheese starters, followed by a roast turkey, roast pork casserole, beef in gravy, pigs in blankets, boiled carrots, sprouts, roasted carrots and parsnips, cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, stuffing Yorkshire pudding, followed by three or four types of cake including the obligatory mince pie tower and the flaming Christmas pudding with brandy butter, brandy cream, then the traditional trying of different home made spirits and stronger stuff by those brave enough. A cheese board was being proposed when we were leaving.
I’m sure there were more dishes I didn’t get a chance to see or have forgotten because there were so many of us and you’re busier talking than eating after such a year. The food is always delicious and it was nice to get to see everyone sitting around the table after so long, some missing of course, some have died, some couldn’t come because of covid but a good turnout and day.
Crikey Annie, I only managed to eat my Christmas lunch, I was stuffed after that, and I put on 2 ponds,
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I cooked Christmas lunch.
Starter:
Honeydew Melon, with parma ham, ginger cream sauce and toasted pine nuts
Main:
Turkey Crown, with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, spiced cauliflower cheese, broccoli, carrots, pigs in blankets, chestnut stuffing, and Yorkshire pudding. Served with red wine/mushroom gravy, and cranberry sauce.
Pudding
Christmas Pudding and Brandy Cream.
I’m always late to the party! 
But I cooked it all.
This year was rack of lamb with red wine sauce, veggies au gratin, Greek spuds (with extra step to make deliciously crunchy!), Brussels sprouts with bacon, and twice-baked sweet potatoes.
Dessert was trifle - the good stuff with sherry and real custard.
Today, Boxing Day, I did a turkey breast, and a good fry-up of yesterdays ledftovers veggies, a la bubble and squeak. Always my favourite.
I’m the one who does all the cooking. Put the 7.5 kg turkey in at 6am it was ready at 9.30am kept it in the foil while we walked the dogs. Did the veg after walks and we had it about 12pm.
Had stuffing, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, sprouts, peas and cabbage.
Christmas pudding with cranberry sauce and whipped cream. Also had a bottle of sparkling wine. Didn’t have the pudding until 3pm, it’s too much to eat straight after the main meal.
Crown, at 9.30pm, after work.
Roast potatoes, sprouts with chestnuts, sausagemeat, bread sauce, gravy, stuffing.
Cracker
A tiny disagreement over her ‘no vegetables policy’ - but it was a fine event nevertheless. We would not have had ‘Yorkshire pudding’ with turkey, only with beef and the ‘pigs in blankets’ are modernist, faddy as you know. Other working class customs like the ‘two or three roasts’ upon the table likewise…we don’t do that…although I would like to experience these traditions like on a documentary or TV show. Bordeaux reds, probably we drank about 6 of those.
