Turkey and a Yorkshire? It’s a big fat NO from me.

No for me there’s enough on the plate.

Homemade bread sauce is just delicious, mines in the freezer.

My miserable mother used to buy a sachet of chemicals that turned into a glue that vaguely resembled bread sauce when you added milk.

No Turkey for me but yes a big fat Yorkshire always, wouldn’t dream of ever having a roast of any hue without a yorky
Having it only with beef is very old school

I m the only one in the family who makes bread sauce the grandkids love it they said they ve never met anyone amongst their peers who has ever heard of bread sauce

Definitely Yorkshires here.

Only with roast beef!

So I need to know, Grunty, what is the penalty for providing no a) red cabbage, or b) cauliflower cheese?

The penalty is, I believe, 40 years of peeling, boiling and eating sprouts for every meal. Personally, I wouldn't risk it!

The whole point, I suppose, is to eat the things you like. I feel that Yorkshire pudding (my mum always made one big one) only goes with beef, but I wouldn't turn it down if offered it with other meats.

On the eating things you like, that means no carrots (don't like them cooked) and possibly no parsnips (DH will just about eat them honey roasted), no cauliflower au gratin (meal in itself) and no gravy (makes stuff soggy) or mashed potato. So our Christmas dinner will have lots of sprouts, red cabbage, roast potatoes (DH would eat a plateful quite happily) and pigs in blankets. I would probably add a few of our "dislikes" if we were having guests, though!

No Yorkshire puddings for us and like LLFL has to be homemade bread sauce

Ladyleftfieldlover

Hang on a mo! Does no one else make bread sauce apart from me!

I don’t. The only person in our family who ever liked it was my father, and he used to make it himself.
Each to their own, though!

Ladyleft Mum where is the bread sauce?? I cook to please!! ha ha

Grandma, where are the Yorkshire puddings?? Ha ha

No bread sauce for our family no one likes it but Yorkshire’s as many as they can get. It’s not just for beef it’s for any roast dinner. It may not be PC but who cares it’s what we like.
Happy Christmas whatever yours is like.

Hang on a mo! Does no one else make bread sauce apart from me!

Don’t like Turkey - for me, Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Roast Potatoes etc etc . I will have YP with anything 😋

So I need to know, Grunty, what is the penalty for providing no a) red cabbage, or b) cauliflower cheese?
The only veg you get here are roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots and sprouts. More room on the plate for pigs in blankets - I have masses all ready to go in the freezer!

I'd much rather have Yorkshire pudding than turkey. We'll have Yorkshires, but beef or lamb.

I agree Sago in our house anyway, I’m not fussed about Yorkshire at the best of times, they take up space where I could fit more veg or meat.
MrJ likes them with beef, so they live in the freezer.

Sago

Grunty

Article 2, section 4, paragraph 1 of the Official Christmas Dinner Act 1994 states:

"All Christmas dinners must comprise of the following: roast turkey, roast potatoes, honey roast parsnips and carrots, pigs in blankets, red cabbage with apple, cauliflower au gratin, cranberry stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, cranberry sauce and gravy. Mashed potatoes are an optional extra."

Brilliant!

I don’t do them with Christmas dinner, but that’s largely because it’d be just another last minute thing to have to do. I keep Christmas dinner fairly simple, less faff and stress.

But I don’t have any objection in principle - if that’s what anybody likes - as long as I don’t have to provide it!

Sago

theworriedwell

Fortunately as we live in a free country we can eat what we like as long as we can afford it.

It’s a lighthearted thread!

And I lightheartedly think we can eat what we like.

theworriedwell

Fortunately as we live in a free country we can eat what we like as long as we can afford it.

It’s a lighthearted thread!

paddyann54

If it’s got gravy my son wants a Yorkshire I don’t have a problem with it or in fact anything they want to put on their plates…as long as they eat it.Nothing annoys me like seeing folk pileplates high and then leave half of it untouched

You see it so often in carveries, criminal what goes in waste.

Ziplok

Well, as we’re having beef this year, there will be Yorkshires too 😁.
I tend not to do a roast dinner very often, but when I do, if we fancy Yorkshire pudding, I make it, whatever the meat. There’s no hard and fast rule about it. Just do as you prefer.

We are having turkey and beef to cater for everyone and yes they can have Yorkshires even if they don't have the beef. Can't see the problem if you like it have it.

Fortunately as we live in a free country we can eat what we like as long as we can afford it.

This Yorkshire woman has had two Christmas dinners already this year. Both had a lofty Yorkshire pudding dominating the rest of the ample contents of the plate. Tackling it was a challenge I wasn’t prepared to face so I asked on both occasions that it be removed. I love Yorkshire pudding (naturally) but not with Christmas dinner. Any other roast dinner, bring it on!

I ever only made Yorkshire with beef, but if I am eating at my son’s house I will happily eat them with any meat. He makes huge ones. He is a much better cook than I am.