Christmas eve meal

annsixty That sounds nice, my GD has just informed me that she going to her Bf’s tonight for a few days, charming!!

Always fish pie for us

Macaroni cheese today! Usually something simple and fairly quick, since on the next day there'll be loads of preparing and cooking food.

Looking like it will be mulled wine and nachos plus pizzas here

Lots of good cooks on here. I've only read the first page and my mouth is watering. If I read the rest I'll be droolin on my keyboard.

I hope that you all have a lovely Christmas and don't worry too much about the amount that you're eating and drinking.

CleoPanda, I often get that same impression on here - but this time I think we're just chatting about meals tonight.

Of course, we're all testing today and hoping we can be together tomorrow (at my daughter's place) but certainly not counting on it. There's always a plan B, staying here alone, as I did last year. I can do that again, a bit sad, but no big deal.

I'm entirely alone today, catching up with last minute chores, so I shall eat something entirely un-Christmassy.
Maybe pasta?
I'm making sausage rolls and mince pies today so shall possibly eat one or two...

I don't want a special meal on Christmas Eve - or Boxing day - just prefer to choose what I fancy (when I'm hungry) from my well stocked fridge or cupboards.

I don't much like planning in advance, I'd rather batch cook things so there's always a selection.

True MOnica - I have just done a lateral flow test - negative - prior to our family get together tomorrow. We are all doing one.

Just because people are COVID free now doesn't mean that they haven't been through what you are going through now Clio. I know it is miserable when family are ill at Christmas because DH was in hospital critically ill last Christmas and, of course, couldn't be visited. Not COVID, but the cause is immaterial and only a few weeks ago, both grandchildren and their mother had COVID.

But for those of us who are hoping to be with family and friends, there will probably more lateral flow tests being taken than presents given.

I'm making sweet and sour chicken this year with special fried rice and prawn crackers. We had it last year and it proved to be a winner.

Well I hope you all enjoy your meals this evening. Im sorry your family has been hit by Covid CLIO and I hope they have a speedy recovery, but I am sure everyone who replied to my post will be carefull what ever they plan. Wishing everyone a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS. ??☃️

The worst of it all is that I burned my pie!

Well, Cleo, I’ve scanned through the posts again to double check, and it seems to me that the majority are not having lots of people coming for meals, nor going off out to the pub nor having folks dropping in to join them, but rather it is the poster and their partner (& for some posters, it’s just themselves) who are having the Christmas Eve meal at home. I don’t doubt that a few will be hosting others, but I think most are not.
I’m sorry to read that some of your extended family and friends are or have been suffering from Covid, but I really don’t get the same impression from this thread that you do that the posters who have responded are living on another, Covid Free, planet. Instead, they are sharing what they plan to have for a Christmas Eve meal this year, as the original poster asked. Very few (if any) have intimated that they are hosting lots of others, nor off to the pub, unless I’ve missed something..

So, it sounds like everyone is living on another planet? A covid free one? People dropping in, off to the pub, lots coming for meals. Seriously, I thought I’d accidentally drifted into a 2019 thread.
I’m finding this surreal.
Four members of my extended family have COVID, my niece is in hospital and my goddaughter has long Covid. ( all work in medical jobs) everyone I know is shielding, isolating or simply staying safe.

We are having beef stew on Christmas Eve. It’s made and in the freezer. I like Christmas Eve dinner to be minimum effort on the day.

Well, it was cook it or chuck it.
I've gone far too mad with shopping this year.
I'm not good at regulating my online shopping.

MissAdventure

I've got a little cheese and leek pie in the fridge, that needs using.
Heartburn is my enemy, here.

I'll regret it if I eat it now

Oh sod the heartburn - get the Gaviscon ready and enjoy your pie!

I've got a little cheese and leek pie in the fridge, that needs using.
Heartburn is my enemy, here.

I'll regret it if I eat it now

When the children were at home it was always homemade Lasagna, garlic bread and salad (at their request). Once they had flown the nest it was usually fillet steak with a red wine and mushroom sauce, roasties and 2 or 3 veg followed by cheese and biscuits for my husband and a shop bought dessert for me (usually a lemon or fruit tart - I don't have a very sweet tooth). However, tomorrow we are off to our lovely local country pub for an early teatime meal, then we'll cabin up with some nibbly bits and a few drinks!

All this is making me hungry...especially the ham and leek pie. I've never had it and just looked up a recipe. Will put it on my list.

No meals planned for Christmas eve. I am usually busy prepping Christmas lunch (turkey with the works), so will grab whatever is handy and easy. It's just the two of us on CE, but 9 for lunch on C day.

MissA Your posts make me laugh and cheer me up. Just saying.

Asparagus soup, rack of lamb, cheesecake.

It's decided. Cod, scallops and spinach. The recipe looks lovely and I'll be able to make a portion for me without fat.

Urms
You too.