What's on your 2007 Christmas menu?

Looking for Christmas inspiration?  It's not too late the snag ideas from others, so let's share our Christmas feasts:-

Ham with ginger preserves
Roasted garlic mash
Sprouts with pancetta
Caraway carrots
Spiced red cabbage
Mature cheddar & onion pudding

Panettone
Applesauce cake
Custard

we're eating in a restaurant on Christmas Day...  im having:

spicy roast parsnip soup
Roasted sea bream with crab, leek & basil stuffing
and for pudding, honeycomb ice cream with cherry & brandy compote

Christmas Eve:
soup and salad
Home made salsa
Poached shrimp
Baked Brie
Baked goodies

Christmas Breakfast:  eggs benedict, tourtiere (French Canadian pork pie), grapefruit and mimosas

Christmas Dinner: 
Brined Turkey
Sausage stuffing
mashed potatoes
brussel sprouts
mashed swede
some other veg
a veggie dish  - possibly a nut loaf or roulade
gravy - turkey and mushroom
homemade rolls
Christmas pudding with Brandy Cream sauce
Raisin pie
lemon meringue pie
Goodies

And then I don't cook for a week!

New Year's eve:  fondue

Cait, how do you spice your red cabbage?

We're having:

Devilled eggs (by popular demand)

Turkey breast joint (for DH)
Morrocan style vege filo pastry thingie
Roast potatoes
Stuffing balls
Green bean casserole (again, by popular demand)
other side veg
and a lovely bottle of Lindauer rose

Trifle

Britwife ... http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4964/christmas-spiced-red-cabbage.jsp

thanks!

I'm salivating everyone!  Luckily won't have to cook Christmas dinner for the next few years, but I've already started gathering some ideas for when I do!

We'll be at the in-laws as usual & it'll be pretty traditional - turkey, ham, stuffing, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, gravy, etc etc.   (Nothing particularly unusual.)

But if anyone has any great inspirational ideas for New Years Eve -- I'd love to hear them?!

Britwife - what is that Moroccan style veggie filo pastry thingie like?

I made a Christmas dinner for my celebration with my grandfather yesterday and here was my menu:

Turkey with an apple and herb stuffing
steamed carrots, parsnips, and broccoli
mashed potatoes
cranberry sauce (because I love it so much and MUST have it with turkey!)
rolls

My step-grandmother made a pistachio cake for desert. We also had French Silk ice cream and Peppermint ice cream

My family's traditional Christmas dinner is:
Prime rib
roasted potatoes
green beans
bread
and some other kind of vegetable

I usually make a pie or cake.

I can't remember what DB said his family does.

Christmas Eve:

creamy potato soup

roast beef
mashed potatoes with onion gravy
assorted vegetables
Yorkshire pudding

Christmas cookies

Christmas Day lunch:

ham and bean soup

Turkey with stuffing
cheesey potatoes
stuffed mushrooms
assorted vegetables

a Christmas cake (we don't like Christmas puddings)

I'm thinking of making pancakes for breakfast Christmas morning.  It's a bit of a feast for us, but we are big food fans, so we'll probably remember the food more than anything else we do for Christmas.  Plus, I'm baking bread for the meals, so that should be fun.  I haven't baked my own bread in ages. 

But if anyone has any great inspirational ideas for New Years Eve -- I'd love to hear them?!

I don't know that it's great or inspirational, but our New Years tradition is appetizers!  We enjoy an evening of really good cheeses, fruit, pate (veg and salmon, usually), and some fun little frozen phyllo-wrapped goodie.  We top it off with a bottle or two of our favorite sparkling wine.

It's nice because you get to enjoy decadent food, but without the cooking.

I don't know that it's great or inspirational, but our New Years tradition is appetizers!  We enjoy an evening of really good cheeses, fruit, pate (veg and salmon, usually), and some fun little frozen phyllo-wrapped goodie.  We top it off with a bottle or two of our favorite sparkling wine.

That's my favourite kind of meal! My family always used to do that on Christmas Eve - mum didn't have to cook and we didn't overeat before THE BIG MEAL.

My family always used to do that on Christmas Eve - mum didn't have to cook and we didn't overeat before THE BIG MEAL.

I know I say this every year, but when i was a kid growing up, we always had 'grinders' for Christmas Eve, made with lovely stuff bought from the Italian deli... All the meats and cheeses and olives, pickles, tomatoes and lettuce, and olive oil for drizzling, were laid out on the huge mahogany dining table, with the soft Italian rolls, and we made our own.   I always had pastrami and provalone, with loads of olive oil soaked into the bread.   I dont know why they were called 'grinders' in the local terminology... you might know them as submarine sandwiches?

I dont know why they were called 'grinders' in the local terminology... you might know them as submarine sandwiches?

Grinder is a Rhode Island word!!! I've never heard them called that anywhere else!! Cool! Was there some sort of Ocean State connection going on?

P.S.  Did you wash your grinders down with cabinets (milkshakes)?

(Rhode Islandese is fun!) 

I don't know that it's great or inspirational, but our New Years tradition is appetizers!  We enjoy an evening of really good cheeses, fruit, pate (veg and salmon, usually), and some fun little frozen phyllo-wrapped goodie.  We top it off with a bottle or two of our favorite sparkling wine.

It's nice because you get to enjoy decadent food, but without the cooking.

I think this is the way to go!  We are toying with the idea of having a small NYE get together, but with everything else going on at the holidays -- for some reason the idea feels...daunting.  Steve said - don't worry! I'll do all the cooking!  But I have visions of him busying himself so much in the kitchen (something he really likes to do) & overlooking that it's also about interacting with our guests...