Christmas Eve Meal Ideas

We always go out to eat on Christmas Eve. After I’d spent time doing prep for the next day the last thing I wanted was to start cooking again.

Fish pie is perfect - I make mine like Ladyleftover and add squeezed out cubes of frozen spinach or garden peas - then it’s a complete one pot meal.

I usually cook a nice piece of gammon on Christmas Eve morning and have some of that with new potatoes Broad beans and white sauce or will have it with salad, cheese pickles & some nice crusty bread.

I don’t know what is planned. I’ll have a word with the staff later.

When our children lived at home we used to have prawn curry. That was, until the year I spilled it all over the radio speakers and my foot. The blister on the foot was the size of an egg and I spent Christmas day with it up on a cushion and others had to do the work. Maybe beans on toast this year.

Roast ham with leeks in cheesy sauce and jacket potatoes.

Fish of some kind.

Or I cook the gammon, we have some of it hot with a sauce and vegetables.

That was a very hot curry, rubysong 😲

On past Christmas Eves, when DD was alive and pre-grandsons, the DDs and their DHs would come here and stay over after a big buffet BUT it was all those 4 for 3 savouries, fish, meat and veggie that are available in most supermarkets. I’d do a load of pigs in blankets and a mountain of oven chips too, then we’d all tuck in with glasses of fizz and minimal clearing up afterwards.

The tradition for Christmas eve is a Chinese take away.

Another here for fish pie. After, fresh fruit salad.

Usually a big fish pie, but just me and dh this year, so I will probably cook the gammon, and we’ll have some of that with mash and parsley sauce.

Venison and chestnut casserole, veggies and sweet potato mash with gingerbread pudding to follow.

We are having a Christmas eve lunch with our DD and Sil ,I am doing truffles mushroom pate & Monkfish with a light tomato sauce roast baby potatoes and Salad in the evening we are going to have an Italian platter,olives Salami, cheese etc. We are alone on Xmas lunch so it going to be a quiet day for us, which we like.

After all the baking and preparation for the big day, a takeaway is the usual Christmas Eve dinner in this house.

Juno56

Venison and chestnut casserole, veggies and sweet potato mash with gingerbread pudding to follow.

This sounds lovely. Do you have room for a little one?

Urmstongran

I don’t know what is planned. I’ll have a word with the staff later.

Good idea 👍🏻

After preparing for Christmas lunch for 20 and baking 4 hams (to go in AC’s food hampers) the last thing I want to do is cook dinner.

When the children were still at home it would have been fish of some description. Have been out to eat several Christmas Eves but much rather stay home 🎄🎄🎄

Seafood platter. Yummy & zilch effort.

Something plain, like jacket potatoes, houmous and salad.

Ouch rubysong! 😮

We will be staying in. Malt whisky in the afternoon over at stepfather’s (I don’t like to leave him on his own on Christmas Eve) then home about 5pm.

Picky bits I think?

Some lovely ideas on here, thanks everyone! Off to research how to make salmon coulibiac gluten free (local supermarkets have been out of g/f puff pastry for weeks annoyingly!) but also like the sound of the monkfish. Happy Christmas (Eve) everyone!

Monica Galetti's Christmas Eve fish dish looked intriguing, shown on Mary Berry's programme this evening.

Samoan palusami with smoked haddock

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I can't wait for Christmas. Looking to cook something new and tasty that my family likes. Maybe Chicken, Salads, and some red wine.

We always have lobster, oven chips and salad. We saw some lovely looking cray fish while shopping so have bought those as well. My favourite meal!

Just something easy after all that prep and in advance of the Right Royal Gut Bash the next day. Baked potato with cheese and salad? Tartiflette (Hairy Bikers recipe is good). You'll just be glad to sit down and relax!