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Special Christmas Eve meal?
do any of you have a special christmas eve meal that you eat every year? do you do a buffet, get a chinese, eat out, cook something special from scratch?
i have a quiet christmas eve with just me and my partner (and a bottle of mint baileys ) and i am debating whether to do a platter of party food or cook something special?do any of you cook anything special/have any traditions? |
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We always have a salad buffet type thing. Usually involves a ham, a few quiches, potatoes, green salad, maybe some chicken, coleslaw, cottage cheese, pickled onions, some garlic bread perhaps....and then a yummy desert afterwards.
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We have Spanish tapas.... don't ask me how it got started !
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We have Spanish tapas.... don't ask me how it got started !
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We usually go out for a meal as its my neice's birthday on christmas eve. If for whatever reason we dont,then we get a chinese takeaway.
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christmas eve pizza! has to be - thinking on going for an itallian instead this year however.
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Yes we do make them ourselves. We tend to have chorizo with broadbeans, seafood escabeche, sweet potatoes with a garlic/lemon/coriander dressing, whole baked brie, spanish omlette (spelling ?), baked whole heads of garlic, manchego cheese, olives, and lots of good bread.
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Yes we do make them ourselves. We tend to have chorizo with broadbeans, seafood escabeche, sweet potatoes with a garlic/lemon/coriander dressing, whole baked brie, spanish omlette (spelling ?), baked whole heads of garlic, manchego cheese, olives, and lots of good bread.
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I have my christmas dinner on christmas eve. The full works and all the family the hubbie and me eat left overs (he loves fried turkey and potatoes) on christmas day so we have time to visit everyone!! Works for us.
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Bring OH with you ! Love mint baileys, or any baileys for that matter..... but will be 5 months pregnant come X-mas eve, so won't be able to indulge.
If you like I can dig out name of the tapas book that most of the recipes come from ? |
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Bring OH with you ! Love mint baileys, or any baileys for that matter..... but will be 5 months pregnant come X-mas eve, so won't be able to indulge.
If you like I can dig out name of the tapas book that most of the recipes come from ?
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The book is by Louise Pickford, and it is inspiringly entitled "Tapas". Just did a search for it on Amazon, but it is out of print. Quite a few people are offering it second hand on Amazon though for under £5 - so that has to be a bargain.
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We have steak sarnies!!! It's been tradition for so many years now! Thick french bread, a nice cut of steak with loads of salad and sauce!!
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We have steak sarnies!!! It's been tradition for so many years now! Thick french bread, a nice cut of steak with loads of salad and sauce!!
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When our son was growing up we always had nanna and grandad over on Christmas eve and had a buffet. Then when he grew up his Christmas eve routine was going out with the mates
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We don't have the same thing every year but whatever it is it will be washed down with lots of Champagne!
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We always have canape type things from M&S, lots of them. I love vol-u-vents etc. Not going to be here this xmas eve tho.
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Mind you it will be our 30th wedding anniversary on the 23rd December
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mmmmmm...........
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When our son was growing up we always had nanna and grandad over on Christmas eve and had a buffet. Then when he grew up his Christmas eve routine was going out with the mates
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Normally we have a meal out or a take away. This year id differant im in Egypt flying back early hours of Christmas Day so will see ehat happens over there
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It depends, if we're in Mexico, we have a traditional mexican christmas meal, the eve is more important than the day over there. We have turkey with mexican stuffing, bacalao, all sorts. Yummy!
If we're here, we have chinese. We're here this year. |
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I will be watching this thread closely for new ideas of what we can have on Christmas eve. We usually have gammon, boiled tatties, veg and mustard sauce or something like cottage/shepherd's pie but I fancy something different this year.
I am quite interested by the Tapas idea but not sure my grandma would go for that, she isn't a fan of (what she would call) 'funny food'. If it comes to it I may make schnitzels or goulash but they are staples in our family too, would like something different for once. |
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We're usually delivering presents and visiting the relatives on Christmas Eve (so we don't have to see them on Christms Day) so we just get a Thai or Mexican takeaway in.
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In England I never did but out here my would be MIL likes us to go to her place on the eve and usually cooks something pretty nice - a roast of sorts usually with nice salads and things and lots of wine! last year she did a really nice orange glazed pork loin thing with rosemary roasted potatoes, plus made some Greek style spring rolls - they were lovely!
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