Christmas eve meal

30 odd years ago I cooked a casserole when my parents came to stay for Christmas. It was a rather delicious venison recipe, my then 4 year old daughter asked what it was - and then it dawned on me - Oh No!! Reindeer stew on Christmas Eve! - so ever since, we have had reindeer stew for Christmas Eve, my daughter doesn't think this is very funny ??

We always have a cold buffet and pick at it throughout the evening - a family tradition of mine that I stick with even though there is only me and my husband.

Husband goes all master chef and I am not allowed near! Lobster tails and fillet steak. Yay!!!

Just the 2 of us. We had a lovely black pepper crusted smoked mackeral salad with potato salad, hard boiled egg and croutons. Delicious, not too heavy. Will have a mince pie and a glass if port a little later on. Tomorrow breakfasting on smoked salmon with avocado on toast. The full works traditional dinner about 4pm. then buffet on Boxing day when son with 2 DGC come round in the afternoon

We just feel finished ours Salami, ham , Pate, cheese, Chutney, bread and wine really enjoyed , The pate was homemade a Mushroom truffle pate which I made ( 1st time) for my veggie friend who is coming to lunch tomorrow, and was yummy, hope she likes it too.

Sausage and mash ?

I make mince pies while I listen to Nine Lessons and Carols on Radio 4, and make a quiche for supper with the leftover pastry.

At our DSs flat. He cooked roast chicken

I should be eating roast pork, crackling etc at our son’s but he has COVID, so we just had salad, jacket spud and what my son used to call flat meat (corned beef).

I had half a pizza and a satsuma last night. My husband had the same, plus two large slices of cake!

I had the worst Roast Gammon ever last night cooked to the time-honoured recipe. All down to suppliers no more click and collect from them but the rest of the food made up for it.
A Merry Christmas to you Mrs C. Award winning butchers in the north better stick to your Cumberland sausages.

Like ShazzaKanazza we have our traditional Christmas meal on Christmas Eve. This began after 2012 when we had a power cut in the middle of cooking Christmas Lunch on Christmas Day! We lived in a small village without any piped Gas Supply (as we do now). Fairly remote villages often experience this problem, especially at times of high demand. Since this outage lasted for several hours, and also meant that we had no heating either, we decided to cook our Christmas Meal on Christmas Eve, thereafter.
Today we will have Party Food, which will include cooked snacks (mostly because I don't like cold food at any time) and salad.

Usually have something a million miles from traditional British fayre, but last night as DH playing brass band carols at a church I had fries and onion rings with big dollops of ketchup and mayo !!! Yummy!

Fish and chips as have Mother here has to eat fish religious reasons