Do you enjoy eating turkey?

We love turkey, but other family members not so keen. So we usually cook another meat (lamb or pork maybe) as well if other family are eating with us. Funny how turkey always seems to taste even better cold on Boxing Day.

What lovely responses from you all. It seems some of us have a traditional turkey Christmas dinner and others opt for something more to their taste. It set me thinking about what people outside the UK eat as their traditional Christmas meal. Any of you lovely people out there who live overseas it would be so interesting to hear about what is customary in the Country that you live in.

Most of the family don't like turkey.

I like turkey but I couldn't eat a whole one.

I am not a great lover of turkey, I prefer duck. So this year everyone else is having turkey and I am having duck with all the trimmings. A small turkey crown suffices and keeps them happy, no waste and eating it for weeks after.

I like any meat but can't stand being overfaced with a large meal.

I really do not like Turkey, my Uncle owned a large Turkey farm, and we would have about twice a month there were 3 of us and it was ridiculous. My Mother would roast it from 6.00 to 13.00 you can imagine what it tasted like, my Dad used to ask for gravy and she would become hysterical, asking where she had time to make it.
I once commented that she had all morning and she ran out crying. Saying she was not used to cooking 'fancy' food.

I love turkey but DH doesn't, so he wins!!

Cooked may things over the years, turkey, beef, salmon, pheasant, goose etc.
However if doing 'traditional' looking lunch/dinner usually buy a Cockerell, they are large, and never dry!

Many

It will be a mushroom and cashew layered loaf for md with mushroom and sherry sauce with all the usual trimmings. Is a Christmas meal I have had for 42 years. Is only made at Christmas

I don’t live abroad Judy54 but my son does. He’s in NZ and he’s having his dils traditional family meal of a bbq at the beach, a swim and pavlova for afters. Ds2 is having an ‘orphans’ Christmas in Canada with a friend, and apparently are deep frying a turkey with his friend…. ? One will spend it his Christmas in the sun, the other in the depths of ice and snow ?

Love turkey, especially the turkey sandwiches.

TillyTrotter

I love Turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, parsnips, sprouts, red cabbage, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and good gravy on Christmas Day. I try to avoid it in December at any meals I might go out to as I enjoy it all the more on the 25th.

I enjoy it too and try to not have too many times in December, although will have it next week when out with a group of friends, our annual Christmas meal.
I also like turkey sandwiches.The one thing I don’t like is the smell in the fridge once you leave wrapped ( even well wrapped) cold cooked turkey in it.Small price to pay though.

Calistemon

Most of the family don't like turkey.

I like turkey but I couldn't eat a whole one.

I could

Mushroom en croute. Nut roast. Veggie Wellington. The meatless choices are vast.

DillytheGardener a bbq on the beach sounds wonderful the cold in Canada not so much as I really don't like ice and snow!

Judy54 my thoughts exactly! Hopefully I can have a Christmas there next year!!

Cooked properly so that it doesn’t dry out, I think turkey can be delicious but I am happy to have other choices. This year, I am going to my daughters and I will cook a turkey crown for all to sample, and we are also having gammon (my daughter’s favourite) and roast beef as well, so plenty of choice. But my favourite part of any roast is always the roast potatoes (I am easily pleased..!).

Turkey every year. My younger daughter dislikes turkey, so I used to do a chicken breast for her. Personally I prefer all the things that go with it and sometimes through the year I have just that as my Sunday lunch. I love those M&S trays of stuffing and look on that as a sort of meat loaf. It does have port in it. We have a carvery nearby and I always opt for turkey there.

A nice leg of Yorkshire lamb for me. Used to do Beef Wellington when then unmarried sons came home for Christmas - it was much appreciated.

I'd be very interested if anyone has a veggie option that is oven ready to recommend. and cheap

Yes, I do once a year and so does everyone else here on Christmas Day. Well, it’s a chapon covered in bacon slices cooked upside down in tin foil (until the last 30 mins) in a slow oven, with a Pyrex dish full of water on the bottom of the oven.

I am not sure whether this can be described as oven ready, but I always think that if I had any veggies around at Christmas I would buy a Turks Turban squash, cut the lid off , scoop it out and fill it with a bought stuffing of your choice, pop it in the oven for about an hour, garland it with a bit of ivy (do not eat ivy). It will look spectacular and serve with the usual accompaniments.

I tried to illistrate this post with a photo of the squash I had in mind, but without success.But google it.

I don’t like Turkey but my traditionalist husband would never consider anything else I’d love a nice piece of beef for a change My children don’t eat Turkey chicken or gammon cooked in Coca Cola hate Christmas pudding so a lovely blackcurrant cheesecake (difficult to find this year not the individual ones)with homemade ice cream Boxing Day bubble and Squeak for him

Thanks M0nica
I will have a google of that; alas, I think I'm too idle to make it though.
I haven't heard of that squash, it sounds lovely