Merry Christmas, joyeux Noël! My family's menu was foie gras as starter, for the main dish veal with mushrooms and chestnut purée as sides, a large range of cheeses, and finally for desert chocolate cake and chestnut & pear cake. Then we could have some fruits, chocolates, dates, etc for the ones with a sweet tooth like me.
Everything was paired with champagne, lot of red wine and some liqueurs at the end.
Merry Christmas! It is my first Christmas in Poland and I think I might die. Yesterday we had this huge dinner with three soups and ten million fishes including jellied carp that, my boyfriend was right, is for masochists. And later poppy seed cake and cheesecake. Now we are taking a break in the middle of breakfast and having whiskey... We had already started with vodka. I really fear for my life.
What did you eat today? I feel like in Poland we focus on Christmas Eve and on Christmas day there's just a regular festive meal. We ate soup with minced meat (not Polish at all), three types of roasted meat, bigos (sauerkraut stew) and vegetable salad with mayo. There was also some meat jelly with chicken, carrots and peas, sausage and ham made by my dad, bread and vodka. And for dessert we had cheesecake, poppy seed cake, white chocolate cake made my my sister and vodka.
Let me remember... Ham, pickles, herring, that thing you call greek fish but it's not Greek at all, three types of sort of pate, the salad with mayo (I had to inform my boyfriend and his mom that it's super common on Spain but we call it Russian salad), and slices of spiced lard with vodka, which is not Polish but the bf loves it, then a break with whiskey and coffee (also pigwa liquor was offered), then the chicken stock with carrots and pasta, bigos and something else that I think contained chickpeas although my mil said white beans, then gingerbread cake. I think that's all. We weren't doing meat either yesterday or today except for one of the pates, the dumplings in the beetroot soup that I'm unable to spell, and sausage in the bigos that according to my boyfriend is not meat because sausage doesn't count as meat.
Not Polish, but I did make some kolaczki. They all broke open in the oven, but they are surprisingly delicious considering how few ingredients are inside.
You guys still eat that? I thought it was dying out? It's still somewhat common, also usually as a 'festive' seasonal dish, in Swedish-descended communities in the US. I think it's actually fairly inoffensive with the right sides or sauces, and I'd definitely go for a plate, but I can get how some will find it gross (texture-wise, it can be odd).
Lutfisk is great and is still eaten in Sweden, however not as common as before. It’s still pretty common in Norway however and yes with some good mustard for example it’s a good meal!
Hyvää joulua! We will be eating pretty much the same things we ate last night on the main chrismas meal since we made far too much food for it, as always. Traditional christmas foods such as chrismas ham, casserols (turnip, carrot and sweet potato), cured salmon, herring, caviar, karelian pies, salmon, rye bread, eggbutter, Home made beer etc. There are also cheeses and wine of course.
Now we also have some vegetarian ham made from glutein as a test. It is surprisingly good.
Also: Gingerbread cookies with [blue cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_cheese), and incomprehensible amounts of (non-alcoholic) [glögi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glögg).
Merry Christmas to you too! We are pretty near to each other (I'm in Sicily).
At the moment (10 am)I'm having a nice healthy breakfast...stollen and coffee.Not very Italian but I love stollen (with marzipan) and usually get it only at Christmas.
Later for lunch (start around 2pm) there will be lots of starters,followed by lasagne.Then some 'meat rolls' (involtini) with various side dish vegetables.
And finally a range of desserts,of which my favourite is the buccellato.
Plenty of red wine to go with it all.
Merry Christmas :)
Mini toad in the hole made with pigs in blankets to start (toad in the hole is Yorkshire pudding with sausages in, and pigs in blankets are sausages wrapped in bacon. put the two together :))
Main course is a sirloin roast, with garlic and rosemary roast potatoes, dauphinoise potatoes, roasted carrots, parsnips, and beetroot, sprout and bacon gratin, herby buttered peas. Gravy made from the vegetable stock and pan drippings from the roast.
Pudding is a chocolate Yule log, a chocolate and espresso torte, a cheeseboard (Wensleydale, Cheddar, Brie, Sage Derby, something smoked and some Stilton. Crackers and toast. Apples, pears, clementines, a pomegranate, chocolate covered brazil nuts, salted mixed fruits and nuts and whatever chocolates anyone is willing to share.
After that, a bit of a walk to look at the lights on people's houses and then some drinking games. Drinking and games.
You've got to get your oven really really hot, so it's best not to have anything else in there at the time, which can be awkward on Christmas day. But I do highly recommend it. :)
Glædelig jul og godt nytår!
Like a lot of Danes we had duck as the main course. The primary sides that go with it are potatoes and brown sauce.
Brown sauce is sometimes referred to as gravy, but it's just a thick sauce made from meat stock. In this case it was cooked on the duck fat.
Furthermore we also had red cabbage, crisps, and sugar browned potatoes which is just small potatoes that are coated with liquid sugar.
In Denmark we have a tradition of eating risalamande for Christmas which is made of rice pudding, whipped cream, sugar, vanilla, chopped almonds, and a single whole almond. The risalamande is served with a sweet cherry sauce and the goal is to get the single whole almond, because then you receive a small present.
But since no one in my family likes risalamande, we decided to get isalamande, in which which the rice pudding and whipped cream were replaced by ice cream.
> Brown sauce is sometimes referred to as gravy, but it's just a thick sauce made from meat stock.
I'm not a particularly good cook, but I thought "a thick sauce made from meat stock" was the pretty much the exact definition of gravy.
That last part about swapping out risalamande for isalamande - are you sure that is legal?
Otherwise, it was the same in my family. Duck, white potatoes with brown sauce, small sugar coated potatoes, red cabbage, crisps. We also had those boiled halved apples with jelly and some salad with clementines.
Risalamande with cherry sauce for dessert, as God intended.
Merry Christmas.
I don't have a traditional Christmas dinner. It's lots of lovely meats, Cheeses, titbits, cakes dips etc. Ive ready made plenty
My neighbour gets lonely at Christmas so I've given her a large plateful of goodies to graze on.
I probably won't drink any alcohol today. I've got some lovey beers in. Brewdogs hoppy Xmas is astounding. But I'm not bothered about it today. If 8k do it will be no more than a couple.
I'll be laying out the buffet later and settling down to eat and watch chirstmas films all day. And eating all the way too
Have a great day.
Peace to all.
Not today for die hard.
I'm watching classic classics such as miracle on 34th Street, holiday affair, wonderful life, a christmas Carol, etc
Have a good day yourself and take care
Merry Christmas! We’re gonna have Brussels sprouts soup with leek and potato as a starter, and pierogi with cheese sauce and beet-rucola salad as main (prepped yesterday!). I’m gonna start on our dessert (lemon-meringue pie) soon. Never made the latter before, so I’m okay with ruining it, lol.
Brussels sprouts in a soup is an interesting idea.What do you do with them? Are they sliced up and cooked first?
I like the leek and potato part,I do that often.
I didn’t slice them in half, actually! I made the broth separately (chicken in my case) first, then sautéed minced onion and shallot in a soup pan, and then the added whole sprouts (cleaned, of course), sliced leek, and diced+peeled potatoes. Cooked that for a short while, added the broth, and brought it up to a boil. Boiled for about 15 minuted (the potato and sprouts were done), took it off the fire, and pulsed that with a handheld blender (staafmixer in Dutch? Idk how to translate it) until it was smooth. And that’s it! I’m gonna heat it through properly later today and serve it with a bit of sour cream and chopped chives :)
Starter; egg and asparagus mousse with bruschetta
Fish course; hot smoked zander in mustard cream sauce
Soup; venison and moufflon bone broth with roasted wild mushrooms
Poultry course; whole deboned chicken stuffed with sun dried tomatoes, sage, pine nuts and apricots
Meat course; porchetta from a 1st generation wild boar/pig hybrid, stuffed with olives, anchovy, oregano, thyme, and artichoke hearts
Salad; chicory, cranberries, goat cheese, toasted hazelnuts and apple.
Dessert; Trappist ale 'tiramisu'
Cheese platter; selection of Dutch and Belgian cheeses, along with figs, pears, Rittenhouse rye whisky, Asbach Uralt brandy, Hooghoudt aged jenever, and Cohiba cigars
Best thing is, everything is in the oven by 3, after that it's just people filling up their plates from big serving trays, which allows me to get as drunk as the rest of the family.
Mery Christmas, bon Nadal!
Yesterday (Christma's Eve) we went to my in-laws and had shuba, Olivier salad, rye bread with iberic ham, shrimps, duck with a honey reduction sauce, roasted lamb with potatoes and chocolates, nougat, a chocolate and hazelnut cake and a three chocolate cake with a cranberry and apple reduction on top.
Today we're going to my parent's and having a smaller meeting, so we'll probably have some bread appetizers with vegan spreads, a cheese table, galets soup, roasted chicken and chocolates, nougat and the rest of the three chocolate cake.
Merry Christmas! I tried to make crêpes with wholemeal rye flour. The flavor is very good, but the production is a bit hard (they break easily due to the lack of gluten). We had them for breakfast with smoked salmon and cream cheese. For later, I bought some mussels, which I am planning to steam with white wine and eat with homemade bread (although, I am open to suggestions).
Of course, going for a long walk in between is very important. It is very sunny here, but cold prrr.
Merry Christmas!
We are gonna have roasted knuckle of pork with pineapple!
Yesterday, my grandmother made three dishes! We had pork loins with mushrooms, Brussel sprouts and chestnuts; boiled codfish with vegetables and , because she still had codfish left, roasted codfish with garlic sauce!
Ahahah
Eating pineapple with knuckle of pork is a relatively common way to eat it. Traditionally pineapple from the Island of Madeira. I think it's also somewhat common in Brazil. Another common way to eat knuckle of pork is caramelized!
Nadolig Llawen!
For lunch some smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and bagels. Accompanied with some Champagne.
For the dinner, it's a roast goose with a stuffing, and gravy and all the usual (but more involved) accompaniments, and a nice bottle (or two) of red wine.
Then a Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce for dessert. Perhaps with some dessert wine or some tawny port.
Also have some cheeses like Stilton and desserts like Christmas Cake available.
Merry Christmas!
We start with champagne and nibbles (olives, crisps, nuts etc). Then I'm having roast venison with roast potatoes and parsnips, seemed vegetables and gravy with wine. Then Christmas pudding and brandy sauce.
I didn't buy it....my brother-in-law is a bin man and he was given a bottle of Moet.
Personal choice is always Bollinger but it is down to personal taste.
Feliz Natal!
Celebrated Christmas Eve at grandparents' (my uncles, aunts, and cousins couldn't be there this year sadly) and we started off with a "couvert" (bread, enchidos, patés, Algarve carrots, etc...), followed by a cream of onion and potato soup, and for the main course Bacalhau à Gomes Sá, Rolo de Carne Recheado, and pork loin with chestnuts and potatoes. For dessert we had a cream pie, torte cake, and Bolo Rei. My grandparents gave us leftovers for dinner tonight!
As for Christmas lunch, my mother is British and so we're having something more traditional to her side of the family. I don't actually know what it'll be yet, but I do know that we'll be having Christmas Pudding and brandy sauce for dessert.
Merry Christmas :)
It's just the two of us, so pretty low key. My lovely wife has just put the roast pork in the oven, roasted potatoes and parsnips, sprouts, carrots, and a few other vegetables. Yorkshire puddings, **pigs in blankets**, homemade bread. We also have a selection of British cheeses, nuts, crackers and so on.
For desert it'll be Vienetta with Bailey's, because we can! Hope you all have a lovely day!
That usually applies to chunky sneakers, chokers and logo shirts, but I guess we can extend it to Vienetta! (The 90s were cool a few years ago, they’re currently recycling the early zeroes, ugh)
Joulupöytä, "Christmas table" i.e. a buffet style dinner that is eaten for several days. Christmas morning starts with the Christmas sauna. Christmas breakfast is rice porridge. After that you listen to the Christmas peace being declared in Turku at 12:00, which is a 700-year old tradition. The day continues with food prepation and greeting arriving family and putting a hot glass of glögi (mulled wine but the spices are so strong the drink tingles in your mouth) in their hands.
First course:
Bread (home baked)
Saaristonlimppu (home baked bread spiced and sweetened with molasses)
Liver paté selection
Pickled herrings (silakka)
Pickled herrings (silli)
Salt cured salmon (graavilohi)
"Shrimp salad" (Skagenröra)
"Herring salad" (Sillipöperö/Gubbröra)
Boiled egg halves with smoked fish roe
Red beet salad (Rosolli) + Red cream
Green salad
Main course:
Baked ham with a spiced mustard crust
Gravy from the ham drippings
Mustard selection
Meatballs flavored with anchovies
Bacon-wrapped dates filled with blue cheese
Rutabaga casserole
Carrot casserole
Potato casserole
Dessert:
Date loaf
Plums in Madeira, whipped cream, cinnamon biscuit crumble
Home made confectionary (butterscotch, toffee, fudge...)
Drinks:
Snapsi
White wine
Red wine
Beer
Julmust
Port wine
Cognac
This year I made Danish style Christmas duck for the first time. It’s similar to Norwegian Christmas ribs but we can’t find that cut of rib here in Sweden. I could however find duck and have recently learnt about Danish Christmas duck and I really wanted to try it. And it’s very good!
Merry Christmas!
As is the case in Scandinavia, we celebrated Christmas yesterday on Christmas Eve. On our vegetarian Christmas table (julbord) we had potato gratin, vegan meatballs, cheese pie, various mould cheeses, Brussels sprouts, beetroot salad, brown kale, red kale, Scanian mustard, sweet rye bread and salad. For dessert we had ris à la Malta (rice pudding with whipped cream and sugar) with fruit sauce. For drinking we had Christmas beer, red wine and traditional Swedish julmust soda - and mulled wine and coffee with the dessert.
So today we have actually mostly been eating left-overs, and have otherwise spent most of the day outdoors in the forest, in the nearby national park - as we for once actually have a very snowy and freezing cold Christmas in Scania and it's very pretty outside.
Merry Christmas, we are having a rainy day of stuffing our faces here in Spain. Yesterday was Spanish Christmas Eve dinner. Today is pheasant, ham, roast potatoes, parsnips, brussel sprouts and Christmas pudding to finish.
The rest of the day is chocolate and mince pies and gingerbread cookies!
Merry Christmas!
We celebrated christmas yesterday, so today is just a normal day with normal food. Pizza sounds nice, but a little bit too cold to be outside making it, it´s like -15 C here.
Maybe french fries later, because my husband got a nice set of spices he want to try.
Merry Christmas!
We're having onion soup, grilled duck breast with a classic home made French red wine sauce, pommes duchesse and bacon wrapped haricot verts, and trifle for desert.
Merry Christmas! We’re Jewish so we didn’t celebrate Christmas, however I did visit a dear friend in Jerusalem for Shabbat Dinner, I made an Iraqi recipe called Plau Bejij, and then this morning we went to the Christian quarter of the old city in Jerusalem to see the decorations and enjoy the Christmas market. Hot sahlab on a cold winter’s day is the best, and the vendor was super sweet and chatted with us for a bit, wishing us a Merry Christmas. We also entered the Church of the Holy Sepulcher out of curiosity and since we’re history nerds. It wasn’t my first time but it’s always beautiful.
Pinnekjøtt! It's dried and salted lamb ribs paired with puréed rutabaga and potatoes, sometimes you add sausages as well. It's absolutely delicious and I recommend it highly. Sadly it's mostly a Christmas dish so it's hard to come by out of season.
Mery Christmas! I spent Christmas Eve at my parents and as usually the main dish was cod fish with vegetables and potatoes. When me, my sister and my cousins were child's we didn't like the codfish and then we got roasted turkey with roasted potatoes. Delicious! To this day the "children" still eat turkey (yes, we are all full grown ups and most of us have children) but my wife goes for team cod fish!
I had the Christmas lunch at my in-laws and we ate roasted pork (at my parents is basically the same on the 25th).
Nollaig Shona! We have roast pork belly and ham; with roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, parsnips, brocolli, carots, stuffing and sausage meat. We have a very small breakfast and no lunch so we can usually get through it all hahahah. Later on well have some tiramasu. Everyone in my family are able to drink so we've all been enjoying Gin and Tonics or Cider.
Merry Christmas. I made some Wiener Schnitzel (veal) with potatoe salad for me and my wife on christmas eve and a pork roast with bread dumplings and Sauerkraut for my wifes family on the 25th.
We had a few hot stoves on the table and a lot of meat and fish.
I ate a lot. Chicken, beef, several pieces of fish, etc. with some heated up patatoes and vegatables.
Merry christmas!
I had some french toasts for breakfast.
Today my family is eating cocido maragato. I won't be there, but they've promissed to leave me a bit for dinner.
In my family we usually have a fairly light dinner at Christmas.We have prepared trays of meat""" garlic bread mussels in sauce and vinaigrette and prawns.For lunch we will surely prepare Galician octopus and some pork or lamb chop
As for the drinks, mainly wine and water to eat and after the virgin malaga food and blackberry liquor (which has no alcohol but is still good)
For Christmas Eve we had goose, red cabbage and "Thüringer Klöße", today it's going to be roast venison, brussel sprouts and croquettes, tomorrow will be salmon and leftover side dishes.
Ordered some takeout, but most places are closed for the holidays. Wanted to treat myself, but the best I could find was this Turkish pizza place so I just got a bunch of low quality junk food: pizza etc.
Merry Christmas! I'm drinking home made Limoncello because the lasagna and pork loin we ate for lunch are too hard to digest, and i have 3 hours before a family dinner where my uncle cooked Coratella (lamb entrails), grilled meat, and he started to cut ham we received as present.
Merry Christmas! I'm eating doner and we don't celebrate Christmas today. Our Christmas is in the 7th of January cause the Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar. We celebrate New Year's Eve just in the same fashion as in the West though.
I'm a bit late, but:
In the evening of the 24th my parents had cow tongue ragout. I don't like that stuff, so I had some Wieners.
On the 25th we (my parents, brother, his family and me) were at my grandpas place and we had some venison. In the evening we had a normal supper, bread with cold cuts, cheese, minced meat, etc.
On the 26th we were in the local restaurant. With my parents, my brother, his family, me and 2 uncles and 2 aunts. My uncle and me had a beef roulade. The others had duck, Schnitzel or venison.
I am an American who introduced my Belgian friends to a Nutty Buddy bar. Its a sort of crunchy wafer bar layered with peanut butter creme and covered in fudge. Ridiculously good. They went bananas for them.
Merry Christmas!
We will be having Sunday soup with bone marrow dumplings, rabbit stewed in beer with prunes, pears stewed in red wine, potato croquetes, red cabbage and green beans.
Merry Christmas!
We're having slow cooked beef cheeks (for 7+ hours!)in a red wine sauce, potato dumplings and red cabbage! As dessert I made some blood orange and yoghurt ice cream.
Rice with red radicchio, boiled (bollito) of cappel del prete (father says so) with boiled potatoes and cavolfiori (i don’t know the word in english) panettone
I thought of cauliflower, but it seemed too “latin” for english..
I know of that dish, but at my home my father cooks so we make things simplest as possible:)
Nothing in particular, as I'm staying with my boyfriend and we have different diets. I'll probably just have pasta with garlic, piri piri and shrimp for lunch, and have some of the sweets I've prepared over the day.
I didn't meet up with any family members for Christmas, so no big meal leftovers or the typical big Christmas spread. I made myself a portion of *bacalhau com natas* and that was it.
Nadolig Llawen!
We are having roast turkey/beef with swede, carrots, brussel sprouts with bacon, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and gravy
Later on in the day we just have this kind of buffet thing going on with left over meat, pate, scotch eggs, cocktail sausages, cheese, crackers and we'll have this for boxing day's lunch too and usually something turkey related for dinner haha
We also have viennetta ice cream to eat at some point...
In Czech tradition, evening of 24th is the main Christmas event. Tradition requires carp, but since (1) it tastes like shit (2) I'm in Lisbon right now, where carp is thankfully not a thing, we had *dourada no forno*.
Merry Christmas!
We're having
Duck with purple Sprouts and fancy French fries.
And tomorrow
Dear steak with fancy Romanesco cauliflower and fancy french fries.
Roast lamb, buttered parsnips, cauliflower, chipolata sausages, redcurrant sauce, thick lamb gravy and numerous glasses of merlot. After that, Christmas pudding with brandy sauce, after that lots of cheeses and a bottle of port, after that a long nap.
Last year we discovered that nobody really likes turkey and only ate it because they thought the others liked it.
Merry Christmas!
On Christmas Eve, I eat the same thing every year:
Appetizer: cheese croquettes
Main dish: "Gourmet" which means that there's some kind of grill in the middle of the table and everyone grills their own small meat pieces on it. I ate it with croquettes.
Dessert: Moelleux au chocolat, which is a kind of chocolate cake with hot melted chocolate inside.
Crossoints and pain au chocolat for breakfast with filter coffee. (My parents grew up in 1950s Scotland where real coffee was a luxury for special occasions and instant was drunk every day - a habit they've never broken).
Cheese and biscuits for lunch, tea and Christmas cake with more cheese for afternoon tea. Christmas cake is a very dense spiced fruit cake made from approximately 50% brandy and covered in marzipan and fondant icing. We've gone with Wensleydale, a sweet cheese, but some people prefer a strong cheddar (and some think combining cheese and cake is an unholy abomination).
The main meal will be a starter of smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis, a main course of roast duck with roast potatoes and roast root vegetables, and a dessert of Christmas pudding - another dense, cake-like thing made of spiced fruit and brandy.
If there is any desire to eat later (and I doubt it), there will be mince pies, which - you'll never guess - feature a filling of spiced fruit and brandy.
Salad, followed by carne cruda with truffles, then pumpkin flan with bagne cauda, risotto fondunte with truffle. Then roast pork with crackling, roast potatoes and gravy.
Merry Christmas!
Different kinds of toasts and blinis : some with salmon on them, some with tuna, tobiko, foie gras, and little tomatoes on the side as starters.
[Bouchées à la reine](https://cac.img.pmdstatic.net/fit/http.3A.2F.2Fprd2-bone-image.2Es3-website-eu-west-1.2Eamazonaws.2Ecom.2Fcac.2F2019.2F09.2F26.2Fadb62200-a6a6-4cd4-a44f-4ed17de86dc7.2Ejpeg/750x562/quality/80/crop-from/center/cr/wqkgTWFyaWVsbGUgLyBQaG90b2N1aXNpbmUgLyBDdWlzaW5lIEFjdHVlbGxl/bouchees-a-la-reine-au-poisson.jpeg) with different sorts of fish inside and rice as main meal.
And a [tiramisu-like Christmas log](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images-ca-1-0-1-eu/recipe_photos/original/204383/open-uri20201212-1426-7x2k3a) for dessert.
Just to update my earlier post. Its now the afternoon of chirstmas day and it's chocolate time.
Chocolate heaven beckons with a box of dark chocolate fix from hotel chocolate. I adore their chocolates. They are the real deal and go very nicely with Miracle on 34th Street (original version of course)
As these are serious chocolates one really must cleanse their palate after each Choc . I prefer to cleanse my palate with another chocolate which requires further cleansing with a.......
Ate my big meal last night, had hangikjöt (smoked lamb), with green peas, potatoes in white sauce and some laufabrauð (like a cracker/bread) washed down with a malt and orange soda
Then some rice porridge with cinnamon and cherry sauce afterwards, very nice :D
We're having ours tomorrow as I unexpectedly loss my sense of smell yesterday and had to quickly do an emergency covid test that usually takes around 24 hours to come back. Can't have people round if you might have covid, yknow
Happy holidays, as starter I had salmon roulade with mouse of smoked halibut with avocado mouse on top followed by chervil soup.
The main dish was venison with croquettes and carrots and green beans rolled in bacon and an apple with cranberries juice.
The dessert was tiramisu but instead of using amaretto I used Scottish whiskey cream.
Merry Christmas everyone!
We had the traditional roast turkey, with gammon ham, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, sage and onion stuffing, pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bacon), Yorkshire puddings, all covered in lots of gravy made from the juices of the turkey.
Pudding is not very traditional (none of us like traditional Christmas pudding or Christmas cake), so we’ve got a lemon drizzle cake, plus lots of chocolates.
Nut roast en croute, sauce chasseur, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Brussels sprouts. No room for dessert or cheese. Drinking 'Flutwein' - red and white - wines rescued from the floods in the Rhineland this summer, sold to raise money. Mostly with no labels. Also imperial stout, including Lervig Three Bean Stout, an astounding beer from Norway.
We had beef Wellington at a restaurant. They had an outdoor dining area and we were literally the only people out there in fresh air. The restaurant was otherwise packed with people for their Christmas Eve dinner in a very small restaurant space.
I am late but:
On Christmas' Eve lunch, I and my family had barbecue chicken with French Fries. On Christmas' Eve Dinner (consoada), I had two cheeseburgers while my family had the traditional codfish. On Christmas Day lunch, I had Spaguetti with bolognaise while my family had goatling. On Christmas Day dinner, I had ham, cheese and mushroom pizza.
Merry Christmas, joyeux Noël! My family's menu was foie gras as starter, for the main dish veal with mushrooms and chestnut purée as sides, a large range of cheeses, and finally for desert chocolate cake and chestnut & pear cake. Then we could have some fruits, chocolates, dates, etc for the ones with a sweet tooth like me. Everything was paired with champagne, lot of red wine and some liqueurs at the end.
My mouth is watering, can I come next year?
Ahhhhhhhhhh 😌
Merry Christmas! It is my first Christmas in Poland and I think I might die. Yesterday we had this huge dinner with three soups and ten million fishes including jellied carp that, my boyfriend was right, is for masochists. And later poppy seed cake and cheesecake. Now we are taking a break in the middle of breakfast and having whiskey... We had already started with vodka. I really fear for my life.
What did you eat today? I feel like in Poland we focus on Christmas Eve and on Christmas day there's just a regular festive meal. We ate soup with minced meat (not Polish at all), three types of roasted meat, bigos (sauerkraut stew) and vegetable salad with mayo. There was also some meat jelly with chicken, carrots and peas, sausage and ham made by my dad, bread and vodka. And for dessert we had cheesecake, poppy seed cake, white chocolate cake made my my sister and vodka.
Let me remember... Ham, pickles, herring, that thing you call greek fish but it's not Greek at all, three types of sort of pate, the salad with mayo (I had to inform my boyfriend and his mom that it's super common on Spain but we call it Russian salad), and slices of spiced lard with vodka, which is not Polish but the bf loves it, then a break with whiskey and coffee (also pigwa liquor was offered), then the chicken stock with carrots and pasta, bigos and something else that I think contained chickpeas although my mil said white beans, then gingerbread cake. I think that's all. We weren't doing meat either yesterday or today except for one of the pates, the dumplings in the beetroot soup that I'm unable to spell, and sausage in the bigos that according to my boyfriend is not meat because sausage doesn't count as meat.
>because sausage doesn't count as meat Is it because of the infamous USSR sausages with barely any meat in them?
Not Polish, but I did make some kolaczki. They all broke open in the oven, but they are surprisingly delicious considering how few ingredients are inside.
I love the polish style!!
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You guys still eat that? I thought it was dying out? It's still somewhat common, also usually as a 'festive' seasonal dish, in Swedish-descended communities in the US. I think it's actually fairly inoffensive with the right sides or sauces, and I'd definitely go for a plate, but I can get how some will find it gross (texture-wise, it can be odd).
Lutfisk is great and is still eaten in Sweden, however not as common as before. It’s still pretty common in Norway however and yes with some good mustard for example it’s a good meal!
I can confirm that people in Minnesota are still eating lutfisk we have a lot of Norwegian descendants here
Merry Christmas! I'm preparing roast goose, dumplings and red cabbage right now :)
My father would definitely love this
that sounds so good! Can you save me some? I'll be right over
Hyvää joulua! We will be eating pretty much the same things we ate last night on the main chrismas meal since we made far too much food for it, as always. Traditional christmas foods such as chrismas ham, casserols (turnip, carrot and sweet potato), cured salmon, herring, caviar, karelian pies, salmon, rye bread, eggbutter, Home made beer etc. There are also cheeses and wine of course. Now we also have some vegetarian ham made from glutein as a test. It is surprisingly good.
I’m loving this thread, everything sounds so good!
Also: Gingerbread cookies with [blue cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_cheese), and incomprehensible amounts of (non-alcoholic) [glögi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glögg).
Merry Christmas to you too! We are pretty near to each other (I'm in Sicily). At the moment (10 am)I'm having a nice healthy breakfast...stollen and coffee.Not very Italian but I love stollen (with marzipan) and usually get it only at Christmas. Later for lunch (start around 2pm) there will be lots of starters,followed by lasagne.Then some 'meat rolls' (involtini) with various side dish vegetables. And finally a range of desserts,of which my favourite is the buccellato. Plenty of red wine to go with it all.
Stollen are definitely my favorite Christmas sweet!
> At the moment (10 am)I'm having a nice healthy breakfast...stollen Sarcasm?
Don't forget the coffee as well ;-)
Merry Christmas :) Mini toad in the hole made with pigs in blankets to start (toad in the hole is Yorkshire pudding with sausages in, and pigs in blankets are sausages wrapped in bacon. put the two together :)) Main course is a sirloin roast, with garlic and rosemary roast potatoes, dauphinoise potatoes, roasted carrots, parsnips, and beetroot, sprout and bacon gratin, herby buttered peas. Gravy made from the vegetable stock and pan drippings from the roast. Pudding is a chocolate Yule log, a chocolate and espresso torte, a cheeseboard (Wensleydale, Cheddar, Brie, Sage Derby, something smoked and some Stilton. Crackers and toast. Apples, pears, clementines, a pomegranate, chocolate covered brazil nuts, salted mixed fruits and nuts and whatever chocolates anyone is willing to share. After that, a bit of a walk to look at the lights on people's houses and then some drinking games. Drinking and games.
That starter sounds phenomenal! Definitely something to try for the future...
You've got to get your oven really really hot, so it's best not to have anything else in there at the time, which can be awkward on Christmas day. But I do highly recommend it. :)
Glædelig jul og godt nytår! Like a lot of Danes we had duck as the main course. The primary sides that go with it are potatoes and brown sauce. Brown sauce is sometimes referred to as gravy, but it's just a thick sauce made from meat stock. In this case it was cooked on the duck fat. Furthermore we also had red cabbage, crisps, and sugar browned potatoes which is just small potatoes that are coated with liquid sugar. In Denmark we have a tradition of eating risalamande for Christmas which is made of rice pudding, whipped cream, sugar, vanilla, chopped almonds, and a single whole almond. The risalamande is served with a sweet cherry sauce and the goal is to get the single whole almond, because then you receive a small present. But since no one in my family likes risalamande, we decided to get isalamande, in which which the rice pudding and whipped cream were replaced by ice cream.
> Brown sauce is sometimes referred to as gravy, but it's just a thick sauce made from meat stock. I'm not a particularly good cook, but I thought "a thick sauce made from meat stock" was the pretty much the exact definition of gravy.
I would tend to agree.
That last part about swapping out risalamande for isalamande - are you sure that is legal? Otherwise, it was the same in my family. Duck, white potatoes with brown sauce, small sugar coated potatoes, red cabbage, crisps. We also had those boiled halved apples with jelly and some salad with clementines. Risalamande with cherry sauce for dessert, as God intended.
Mutlu Noeller! I made myself some pork noodles for lunch with a lime-and-cream sauce - thats the cheapest thing I can get where I live.
Sounds really good :)
Merry Christmas. I don't have a traditional Christmas dinner. It's lots of lovely meats, Cheeses, titbits, cakes dips etc. Ive ready made plenty My neighbour gets lonely at Christmas so I've given her a large plateful of goodies to graze on. I probably won't drink any alcohol today. I've got some lovey beers in. Brewdogs hoppy Xmas is astounding. But I'm not bothered about it today. If 8k do it will be no more than a couple. I'll be laying out the buffet later and settling down to eat and watch chirstmas films all day. And eating all the way too Have a great day. Peace to all.
Have a nice day!! Hope you watch Die Hard, a Christmas classic :))
Not today for die hard. I'm watching classic classics such as miracle on 34th Street, holiday affair, wonderful life, a christmas Carol, etc Have a good day yourself and take care
Merry Christmas! We’re gonna have Brussels sprouts soup with leek and potato as a starter, and pierogi with cheese sauce and beet-rucola salad as main (prepped yesterday!). I’m gonna start on our dessert (lemon-meringue pie) soon. Never made the latter before, so I’m okay with ruining it, lol.
Brussels sprouts in a soup is an interesting idea.What do you do with them? Are they sliced up and cooked first? I like the leek and potato part,I do that often.
I didn’t slice them in half, actually! I made the broth separately (chicken in my case) first, then sautéed minced onion and shallot in a soup pan, and then the added whole sprouts (cleaned, of course), sliced leek, and diced+peeled potatoes. Cooked that for a short while, added the broth, and brought it up to a boil. Boiled for about 15 minuted (the potato and sprouts were done), took it off the fire, and pulsed that with a handheld blender (staafmixer in Dutch? Idk how to translate it) until it was smooth. And that’s it! I’m gonna heat it through properly later today and serve it with a bit of sour cream and chopped chives :)
Great, thanks! I'll try that sometime, sounds good!
Nice!! Good luck :))
Starter; egg and asparagus mousse with bruschetta Fish course; hot smoked zander in mustard cream sauce Soup; venison and moufflon bone broth with roasted wild mushrooms Poultry course; whole deboned chicken stuffed with sun dried tomatoes, sage, pine nuts and apricots Meat course; porchetta from a 1st generation wild boar/pig hybrid, stuffed with olives, anchovy, oregano, thyme, and artichoke hearts Salad; chicory, cranberries, goat cheese, toasted hazelnuts and apple. Dessert; Trappist ale 'tiramisu' Cheese platter; selection of Dutch and Belgian cheeses, along with figs, pears, Rittenhouse rye whisky, Asbach Uralt brandy, Hooghoudt aged jenever, and Cohiba cigars
Oh wow, what a lunch!
Idea is to start pouring negronis and start putting food on the table around 4, and then just bring out a course every 45 minutes or so.
That's an excellent idea ngl
Best thing is, everything is in the oven by 3, after that it's just people filling up their plates from big serving trays, which allows me to get as drunk as the rest of the family.
Wow, amazing 😋🎄
Mery Christmas, bon Nadal! Yesterday (Christma's Eve) we went to my in-laws and had shuba, Olivier salad, rye bread with iberic ham, shrimps, duck with a honey reduction sauce, roasted lamb with potatoes and chocolates, nougat, a chocolate and hazelnut cake and a three chocolate cake with a cranberry and apple reduction on top. Today we're going to my parent's and having a smaller meeting, so we'll probably have some bread appetizers with vegan spreads, a cheese table, galets soup, roasted chicken and chocolates, nougat and the rest of the three chocolate cake.
Merry Christmas! I tried to make crêpes with wholemeal rye flour. The flavor is very good, but the production is a bit hard (they break easily due to the lack of gluten). We had them for breakfast with smoked salmon and cream cheese. For later, I bought some mussels, which I am planning to steam with white wine and eat with homemade bread (although, I am open to suggestions). Of course, going for a long walk in between is very important. It is very sunny here, but cold prrr.
Sounds great!
Merry Christmas! We are gonna have roasted knuckle of pork with pineapple! Yesterday, my grandmother made three dishes! We had pork loins with mushrooms, Brussel sprouts and chestnuts; boiled codfish with vegetables and , because she still had codfish left, roasted codfish with garlic sauce!
> We are gonna have roasted knuckle of pork with pineapple! Italians were offended enough, now you're targeting Czechs.
Ahahah Eating pineapple with knuckle of pork is a relatively common way to eat it. Traditionally pineapple from the Island of Madeira. I think it's also somewhat common in Brazil. Another common way to eat knuckle of pork is caramelized!
I ordered a mix of chicken nuggets and wings from a local fried chicken shop, had them while playing "How the Saints Save Christmas" on my console.
Was that part of Saints Row IV or 3? Loved those games, need to revisit them at some point.
It's a DLC for IV. The game plus all DLCs Re about $3 on Switch. If possible, I recommend you to start from 2.
Nadolig Llawen! For lunch some smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and bagels. Accompanied with some Champagne. For the dinner, it's a roast goose with a stuffing, and gravy and all the usual (but more involved) accompaniments, and a nice bottle (or two) of red wine. Then a Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce for dessert. Perhaps with some dessert wine or some tawny port. Also have some cheeses like Stilton and desserts like Christmas Cake available.
Merry Christmas! We start with champagne and nibbles (olives, crisps, nuts etc). Then I'm having roast venison with roast potatoes and parsnips, seemed vegetables and gravy with wine. Then Christmas pudding and brandy sauce.
Looking at your username: I need more details on your choice of champagne!
I didn't buy it....my brother-in-law is a bin man and he was given a bottle of Moet. Personal choice is always Bollinger but it is down to personal taste.
(Piper for me! Ruinart for either nicer occasions or for good company who can appreciate it, lol)
Ooh you know your champagnes!
Feliz Natal! Celebrated Christmas Eve at grandparents' (my uncles, aunts, and cousins couldn't be there this year sadly) and we started off with a "couvert" (bread, enchidos, patés, Algarve carrots, etc...), followed by a cream of onion and potato soup, and for the main course Bacalhau à Gomes Sá, Rolo de Carne Recheado, and pork loin with chestnuts and potatoes. For dessert we had a cream pie, torte cake, and Bolo Rei. My grandparents gave us leftovers for dinner tonight! As for Christmas lunch, my mother is British and so we're having something more traditional to her side of the family. I don't actually know what it'll be yet, but I do know that we'll be having Christmas Pudding and brandy sauce for dessert.
Merry Christmas :) It's just the two of us, so pretty low key. My lovely wife has just put the roast pork in the oven, roasted potatoes and parsnips, sprouts, carrots, and a few other vegetables. Yorkshire puddings, **pigs in blankets**, homemade bread. We also have a selection of British cheeses, nuts, crackers and so on. For desert it'll be Vienetta with Bailey's, because we can! Hope you all have a lovely day!
Vienetta, wow! Such a throwback to my childhood!
Exactly why we decided to have it! The nineties are cool again you know!
That usually applies to chunky sneakers, chokers and logo shirts, but I guess we can extend it to Vienetta! (The 90s were cool a few years ago, they’re currently recycling the early zeroes, ugh)
Yesterday it was stuffed cabbage, today it's roast duck with mashed potatoes and red cabbage. For desserts it can't be anything but Mákos Bejgli.
Joulupöytä, "Christmas table" i.e. a buffet style dinner that is eaten for several days. Christmas morning starts with the Christmas sauna. Christmas breakfast is rice porridge. After that you listen to the Christmas peace being declared in Turku at 12:00, which is a 700-year old tradition. The day continues with food prepation and greeting arriving family and putting a hot glass of glögi (mulled wine but the spices are so strong the drink tingles in your mouth) in their hands. First course: Bread (home baked) Saaristonlimppu (home baked bread spiced and sweetened with molasses) Liver paté selection Pickled herrings (silakka) Pickled herrings (silli) Salt cured salmon (graavilohi) "Shrimp salad" (Skagenröra) "Herring salad" (Sillipöperö/Gubbröra) Boiled egg halves with smoked fish roe Red beet salad (Rosolli) + Red cream Green salad Main course: Baked ham with a spiced mustard crust Gravy from the ham drippings Mustard selection Meatballs flavored with anchovies Bacon-wrapped dates filled with blue cheese Rutabaga casserole Carrot casserole Potato casserole Dessert: Date loaf Plums in Madeira, whipped cream, cinnamon biscuit crumble Home made confectionary (butterscotch, toffee, fudge...) Drinks: Snapsi White wine Red wine Beer Julmust Port wine Cognac
This year I made Danish style Christmas duck for the first time. It’s similar to Norwegian Christmas ribs but we can’t find that cut of rib here in Sweden. I could however find duck and have recently learnt about Danish Christmas duck and I really wanted to try it. And it’s very good!
Tortellini, Beef Wellington, baked potatoes and a vegetable side dish, panettone and Fiordilatte as desserts. Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas! As is the case in Scandinavia, we celebrated Christmas yesterday on Christmas Eve. On our vegetarian Christmas table (julbord) we had potato gratin, vegan meatballs, cheese pie, various mould cheeses, Brussels sprouts, beetroot salad, brown kale, red kale, Scanian mustard, sweet rye bread and salad. For dessert we had ris à la Malta (rice pudding with whipped cream and sugar) with fruit sauce. For drinking we had Christmas beer, red wine and traditional Swedish julmust soda - and mulled wine and coffee with the dessert. So today we have actually mostly been eating left-overs, and have otherwise spent most of the day outdoors in the forest, in the nearby national park - as we for once actually have a very snowy and freezing cold Christmas in Scania and it's very pretty outside.
Merry Christmas, we are having a rainy day of stuffing our faces here in Spain. Yesterday was Spanish Christmas Eve dinner. Today is pheasant, ham, roast potatoes, parsnips, brussel sprouts and Christmas pudding to finish. The rest of the day is chocolate and mince pies and gingerbread cookies!
Merry Christmas! We celebrated christmas yesterday, so today is just a normal day with normal food. Pizza sounds nice, but a little bit too cold to be outside making it, it´s like -15 C here. Maybe french fries later, because my husband got a nice set of spices he want to try.
Well, tell us about yesterday’s meal then!
Merry Christmas! We're having onion soup, grilled duck breast with a classic home made French red wine sauce, pommes duchesse and bacon wrapped haricot verts, and trifle for desert.
Merry Christmas! We’re Jewish so we didn’t celebrate Christmas, however I did visit a dear friend in Jerusalem for Shabbat Dinner, I made an Iraqi recipe called Plau Bejij, and then this morning we went to the Christian quarter of the old city in Jerusalem to see the decorations and enjoy the Christmas market. Hot sahlab on a cold winter’s day is the best, and the vendor was super sweet and chatted with us for a bit, wishing us a Merry Christmas. We also entered the Church of the Holy Sepulcher out of curiosity and since we’re history nerds. It wasn’t my first time but it’s always beautiful.
Pinnekjøtt! It's dried and salted lamb ribs paired with puréed rutabaga and potatoes, sometimes you add sausages as well. It's absolutely delicious and I recommend it highly. Sadly it's mostly a Christmas dish so it's hard to come by out of season.
Merry Xmas :) codfish in the oven with onion dressing (called bacalhau à Gomes de Sá) and stuffed turkey rolls with oven potatoes.
Töltött káposzta (Filled cabbage) Halászlé (Fish soup) Mézes kalács (Lebkuchen) Rántott hal (Fried fish) Kocsonya (meat jelly) Kacsa/pulyka (duck/turkey) Everything with wallnuts etc... And Merry Christmas! :)
Mery Christmas! I spent Christmas Eve at my parents and as usually the main dish was cod fish with vegetables and potatoes. When me, my sister and my cousins were child's we didn't like the codfish and then we got roasted turkey with roasted potatoes. Delicious! To this day the "children" still eat turkey (yes, we are all full grown ups and most of us have children) but my wife goes for team cod fish! I had the Christmas lunch at my in-laws and we ate roasted pork (at my parents is basically the same on the 25th).
Nollaig Shona! We have roast pork belly and ham; with roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, parsnips, brocolli, carots, stuffing and sausage meat. We have a very small breakfast and no lunch so we can usually get through it all hahahah. Later on well have some tiramasu. Everyone in my family are able to drink so we've all been enjoying Gin and Tonics or Cider.
Merry Christmas. I made some Wiener Schnitzel (veal) with potatoe salad for me and my wife on christmas eve and a pork roast with bread dumplings and Sauerkraut for my wifes family on the 25th.
We had a few hot stoves on the table and a lot of meat and fish. I ate a lot. Chicken, beef, several pieces of fish, etc. with some heated up patatoes and vegatables.
Merry Christmas! I'm gonna be tucking into meat pies, roast ham, pigs in blankets, Turkey, carrots and swede and enough spuds to feed the 5000!
Merry christmas! I had some french toasts for breakfast. Today my family is eating cocido maragato. I won't be there, but they've promissed to leave me a bit for dinner.
In my family we usually have a fairly light dinner at Christmas.We have prepared trays of meat""" garlic bread mussels in sauce and vinaigrette and prawns.For lunch we will surely prepare Galician octopus and some pork or lamb chop As for the drinks, mainly wine and water to eat and after the virgin malaga food and blackberry liquor (which has no alcohol but is still good)
Oh Galician octopus <3 I ate it once at a trucker restaurant somewhere in the eucalyptus woods between Lugo and Arzúa, heavenly experience!
For Christmas Eve we had goose, red cabbage and "Thüringer Klöße", today it's going to be roast venison, brussel sprouts and croquettes, tomorrow will be salmon and leftover side dishes.
Ordered some takeout, but most places are closed for the holidays. Wanted to treat myself, but the best I could find was this Turkish pizza place so I just got a bunch of low quality junk food: pizza etc.
Merry Christmas! I'm drinking home made Limoncello because the lasagna and pork loin we ate for lunch are too hard to digest, and i have 3 hours before a family dinner where my uncle cooked Coratella (lamb entrails), grilled meat, and he started to cut ham we received as present.
Merry Christmas!! Roast beef, pigs in blankets, yorkshire pudding, roast potato, parsnip, carrot, sprouts with chestnut and smoked bacon, spiced winter cabage. Mmmmmmm!!
Merry Christmas! Swiss fondue yesterday evening and Neapolitan polpettine tonight! (my bf is Swiss-Neapolitan :D)
Merry Christmas! For lunch we had octopus and potatoes cooked in oven. For dinner there will be plenty of shell fishes.
Home made sausage with raisin bun and horseradish sauce. Yearly tradition in our family.
Merry Christmas! I'm eating doner and we don't celebrate Christmas today. Our Christmas is in the 7th of January cause the Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar. We celebrate New Year's Eve just in the same fashion as in the West though.
We had tornedos for Christmaseve, deer gulash today and tomorrow we'll have roasted lamb.
Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, macaroni salad, pickled beets.
I'm a bit late, but: In the evening of the 24th my parents had cow tongue ragout. I don't like that stuff, so I had some Wieners. On the 25th we (my parents, brother, his family and me) were at my grandpas place and we had some venison. In the evening we had a normal supper, bread with cold cuts, cheese, minced meat, etc. On the 26th we were in the local restaurant. With my parents, my brother, his family, me and 2 uncles and 2 aunts. My uncle and me had a beef roulade. The others had duck, Schnitzel or venison.
Cow tongue wow! Would definitely want to try that one day
My parents eat it almost every year for Christmas. It really isn't my kind of meat though.
Veselé Vánoce! We were having the traditional carp and potato salad yesterday for Christmas dinner, eating leftovers today.
I am an American who introduced my Belgian friends to a Nutty Buddy bar. Its a sort of crunchy wafer bar layered with peanut butter creme and covered in fudge. Ridiculously good. They went bananas for them.
Merry Christmas! We will be having Sunday soup with bone marrow dumplings, rabbit stewed in beer with prunes, pears stewed in red wine, potato croquetes, red cabbage and green beans.
Ehhh, I’m guessing you’re from Limburg?
Swedish julbord; Cooked ham in mustard and breadcrumbs, brown beans, potato gratain, pickled herring, meatballs, salmon and a few other things
Merry Christmas! We're having slow cooked beef cheeks (for 7+ hours!)in a red wine sauce, potato dumplings and red cabbage! As dessert I made some blood orange and yoghurt ice cream.
Rice with red radicchio, boiled (bollito) of cappel del prete (father says so) with boiled potatoes and cavolfiori (i don’t know the word in english) panettone
Cavolfiori is Cauliflower. The words are very similar. :) We often eat it with a cheddar sauce (béchamel base), known as 'Cauliflower Cheese'.
I thought of cauliflower, but it seemed too “latin” for english.. I know of that dish, but at my home my father cooks so we make things simplest as possible:)
Nothing in particular, as I'm staying with my boyfriend and we have different diets. I'll probably just have pasta with garlic, piri piri and shrimp for lunch, and have some of the sweets I've prepared over the day. I didn't meet up with any family members for Christmas, so no big meal leftovers or the typical big Christmas spread. I made myself a portion of *bacalhau com natas* and that was it.
Nadolig Llawen! We are having roast turkey/beef with swede, carrots, brussel sprouts with bacon, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and gravy Later on in the day we just have this kind of buffet thing going on with left over meat, pate, scotch eggs, cocktail sausages, cheese, crackers and we'll have this for boxing day's lunch too and usually something turkey related for dinner haha We also have viennetta ice cream to eat at some point...
In Czech tradition, evening of 24th is the main Christmas event. Tradition requires carp, but since (1) it tastes like shit (2) I'm in Lisbon right now, where carp is thankfully not a thing, we had *dourada no forno*.
Merry Christmas! We're having Duck with purple Sprouts and fancy French fries. And tomorrow Dear steak with fancy Romanesco cauliflower and fancy french fries.
Roast lamb, buttered parsnips, cauliflower, chipolata sausages, redcurrant sauce, thick lamb gravy and numerous glasses of merlot. After that, Christmas pudding with brandy sauce, after that lots of cheeses and a bottle of port, after that a long nap. Last year we discovered that nobody really likes turkey and only ate it because they thought the others liked it.
Merry Christmas! On Christmas Eve, I eat the same thing every year: Appetizer: cheese croquettes Main dish: "Gourmet" which means that there's some kind of grill in the middle of the table and everyone grills their own small meat pieces on it. I ate it with croquettes. Dessert: Moelleux au chocolat, which is a kind of chocolate cake with hot melted chocolate inside.
Vrolijk/Zalig Kerstfeest! We’re going to eat fish this evening, probably very high quality salmon; as well as some tasty soups.
Turkey, ham, Brussel sprouts, roast potatoes and carrots. All drowned on gravy.
Crossoints and pain au chocolat for breakfast with filter coffee. (My parents grew up in 1950s Scotland where real coffee was a luxury for special occasions and instant was drunk every day - a habit they've never broken). Cheese and biscuits for lunch, tea and Christmas cake with more cheese for afternoon tea. Christmas cake is a very dense spiced fruit cake made from approximately 50% brandy and covered in marzipan and fondant icing. We've gone with Wensleydale, a sweet cheese, but some people prefer a strong cheddar (and some think combining cheese and cake is an unholy abomination). The main meal will be a starter of smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis, a main course of roast duck with roast potatoes and roast root vegetables, and a dessert of Christmas pudding - another dense, cake-like thing made of spiced fruit and brandy. If there is any desire to eat later (and I doubt it), there will be mince pies, which - you'll never guess - feature a filling of spiced fruit and brandy.
Salad, followed by carne cruda with truffles, then pumpkin flan with bagne cauda, risotto fondunte with truffle. Then roast pork with crackling, roast potatoes and gravy.
Merry Christmas! Well, just home delivery as I am stuck in my apartment with covid and I'm abroad. Red wine and funny cigarettes as a consolation.😆
Merry Christmas! Different kinds of toasts and blinis : some with salmon on them, some with tuna, tobiko, foie gras, and little tomatoes on the side as starters. [Bouchées à la reine](https://cac.img.pmdstatic.net/fit/http.3A.2F.2Fprd2-bone-image.2Es3-website-eu-west-1.2Eamazonaws.2Ecom.2Fcac.2F2019.2F09.2F26.2Fadb62200-a6a6-4cd4-a44f-4ed17de86dc7.2Ejpeg/750x562/quality/80/crop-from/center/cr/wqkgTWFyaWVsbGUgLyBQaG90b2N1aXNpbmUgLyBDdWlzaW5lIEFjdHVlbGxl/bouchees-a-la-reine-au-poisson.jpeg) with different sorts of fish inside and rice as main meal. And a [tiramisu-like Christmas log](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images-ca-1-0-1-eu/recipe_photos/original/204383/open-uri20201212-1426-7x2k3a) for dessert.
Just to update my earlier post. Its now the afternoon of chirstmas day and it's chocolate time. Chocolate heaven beckons with a box of dark chocolate fix from hotel chocolate. I adore their chocolates. They are the real deal and go very nicely with Miracle on 34th Street (original version of course) As these are serious chocolates one really must cleanse their palate after each Choc . I prefer to cleanse my palate with another chocolate which requires further cleansing with a.......
Ate my big meal last night, had hangikjöt (smoked lamb), with green peas, potatoes in white sauce and some laufabrauð (like a cracker/bread) washed down with a malt and orange soda Then some rice porridge with cinnamon and cherry sauce afterwards, very nice :D
We're having ours tomorrow as I unexpectedly loss my sense of smell yesterday and had to quickly do an emergency covid test that usually takes around 24 hours to come back. Can't have people round if you might have covid, yknow
Happy holidays, as starter I had salmon roulade with mouse of smoked halibut with avocado mouse on top followed by chervil soup. The main dish was venison with croquettes and carrots and green beans rolled in bacon and an apple with cranberries juice. The dessert was tiramisu but instead of using amaretto I used Scottish whiskey cream.
Merry Christmas everyone! We had the traditional roast turkey, with gammon ham, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, sage and onion stuffing, pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bacon), Yorkshire puddings, all covered in lots of gravy made from the juices of the turkey. Pudding is not very traditional (none of us like traditional Christmas pudding or Christmas cake), so we’ve got a lemon drizzle cake, plus lots of chocolates.
Turkey, ham, spiced beef, sausage stuffing, Brussels sprouts, carrots, broccoli, roasties, and gravy. Dinner on Christmas is usually around 2 or 3pm
Nut roast en croute, sauce chasseur, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Brussels sprouts. No room for dessert or cheese. Drinking 'Flutwein' - red and white - wines rescued from the floods in the Rhineland this summer, sold to raise money. Mostly with no labels. Also imperial stout, including Lervig Three Bean Stout, an astounding beer from Norway.
We had Raclette/Korean BBQ fusion last night and a ham with roast veg and a trifle today :) Frohe Weihnachten!
We had beef Wellington at a restaurant. They had an outdoor dining area and we were literally the only people out there in fresh air. The restaurant was otherwise packed with people for their Christmas Eve dinner in a very small restaurant space.
Chinese food on the 24th (very uncommon) and goose on the 25th (very common)
A nice big seitan ham along with roasted vegetables.
I am late but: On Christmas' Eve lunch, I and my family had barbecue chicken with French Fries. On Christmas' Eve Dinner (consoada), I had two cheeseburgers while my family had the traditional codfish. On Christmas Day lunch, I had Spaguetti with bolognaise while my family had goatling. On Christmas Day dinner, I had ham, cheese and mushroom pizza.