Christmas lunch alone, what food would you choose?

I would have a whole crab to myself with a bowl of my salad ( radicchio from the garden, tomatoes, grilled pepper, avocado, fennel, olives, fetta cheese and cucumber) and some home made mayo with crusty bread. If room after this a M&S Christmas pud for one with a sprig of holly and a dash of brandy.

Gosh why do we not have that this year there is no reason not to? I wonder if I can get DH to agree? We are undecided where to spend the festive season as it involves lots of travel and upheaval if we go to offspring and our old beloved dog hates the car and like us prefers his own bed!

Gin….do it! Your offspring will be relieved and so will you.

ooo nice question. I would have the beef wellington as well with dauphinoise potatoes and some long stem broccoli. Pudding which I would a few hours later I think would be Christmas pudding and cream I love it.

RosiesMaw

First Christmas of the pandemic I was “bubbled” with D 1 and family so my Christmas en famille was assured.
Only GS1 tested positive 6 days before Christmas so that was that.
We were not permitted to leave our tiers as I remember or drive any distance so the other 2 D’s in London and their little ones were out of the equation too .
Misery. And I admit I cried.
The only consolation was that I didn’t have to leave my lovely Hattie in kennels and we could hunker down with Netflix.
But actually being on my own was somehow made worse by my very kind neighbour sending her husband round with a tray of a ginormous plated meal, pud and a glass of champagne!
So to answer the question, I would have all the things I like best - and NOT a turkey dinner!
Steak, perhaps or lobster, certainly smoked salmon and about three creme brûlées! Loads of cheese, nibbles and canapés and all of it by the fire while feeding titbits to the dog.
Sounds quite bearable now!

I agree with you about the kind, and appreciate gesture somehow making it worse!
When I was newly married for my first Christmas far from home my husband was on shift all day.
We had decided to have Christmas dinner on the 27th but I did feel very homesick on my own all day. My lovely friend sent me over some Christmas pudding with brandy sauce andthats when I cried into it while watching Dirty Den give Angie divorce papers over the Christmas dinner. I fairly wallowed in self-indulgent misery.
I’ve never really been able to cook just for me so I’d probably just resort to toast, peanut butter and hot chocolate ( but that camembert sounds very good!

Toasted cheese sandwich with salad please. Fruit salad with cream for pud. and a good cup of coffee with a choc or two.

Or cauliflower cheese.

Or a pork chop with apple sauce, mashed potato and cabbage.

Oh dear - too many favourite things!

Like BigBertha1 I would pace myself, munching through the day as I really dislike that 'I'm too full' feeling.

I shall be spending Christmas alone this year, my choice, as I have three separate invitations, but as DH died on November 1st I am convinced I will be better off on my own, at liberty to feel sad if I want, than putting on party manners with others.

So I shall look for a small portion of goose I can roast, as I love goose, by DH didn't on Christmas Eve , which is when we really celebrate Christmas, and I have just received a British Christmas pudding by post, which I shall have on Christmas Day and Boxing day. I haven't had as much as a bite of one since my father died nearly twenty years ago, as no Dane I have ever met would willingly eat even the smallest portion, or mince pies either. And DH was certainly not an exception to that rule.

So I shall bake mince pies for myself too.

And I shall have lovely, hot, runny custard (another abomination to the average Dane) with my Christmas pud.

No Christmas tree this year - I love them, and DH loved the way I decorated ours, so no, not this year. I would cry a pool of tears like Alice if I tried. But one of my many Nativity scenes is going up, probably more than one and a German Weihnachtspyramide.

And I shall buy the cats their absolute favourite food, and we shall try to enjoy ourselves, though I rather suspect we will lie in a heap w ith me at the bottom, weeping. But then we will pick ourselves up, and soldier on.

Oh, grandetanteJE65. I do hope your Christmas Day will be peaceful. Just you and the cats. I hope I remember to think of you, and all those alone at Christmas. 😊

King prawn cocktail followed by beef stroganoff and sealed off with chocolate eclaire (or two!) accompanied by Hagen Daas Pralines & cream. Oh boy.......

Probably make my version of hot sour soup crispy duck and banana fritters for dessert.
I share my good wishes too for those alone at Christmas.

I'd buy myself a turkey crown and be dipping turkey sandwiches in mint sauce all day

And then I'd eat all the strawberry and orange cremes

Cheese on toast or poached eggs on toast.

a bottle of champagne and some smoked salmon

If I was on my own, I would spend the whole of Christmas day as I would if I had family and friends with me. decorations, stocking and presents and all the standard Christmas fare.

I would be alone with only the happiest of memories.

If I was alone I would still cook a Christmas dinner, but would chose to have chicken rather than turkey (too much meat on a turkey, I'd never eat it all!). As I sometimes get too full if I have a starter, I wouldn't bother with one, but would try and find room for a dessert - something light and fruity - Eton mess or lemon tart or raspberry pavlova, shop bought of course (definitely couldn't be bothered to faff around baking on Christmas Day!). All washed down with plenty of fizz - prosecco, cava, champagne, I'm not fussy, I like them all.🙂

Ooh yes please lixy - cauliflower cheese or a toasted cheese sandwich. I don't eat meat, so I won't join you with the pork chop, but the rest sounds perfect.

grandtante I hope that you and the cats have as good a day as you can.

I think I’d get a readymade M&S turkey dinner for one, if they do such a thing. I do like my turkey dinner at Christmas. Plenty of cheese, grapes and satsumas for ‘pudding’. And a mince pie or three if I’ve bothered to make any. I don’t care for shop ones - always too much thick pastry.

Smoked salmon and scrambled egg and Buck’s Fizz for breakfast.

Nice fillet steak and mushrooms, grilled tomatoes for lunch followed by a very rich dessert.

Blue cheese, broccoli and walnut flan (eggs and cream) on ready-made puff pastry.

I rather like the idea of baked Camembert too. Maybe with some home-made apricot bread.

A venison steak is another possibility, and probably the easiest.

Grandtante, my sympathies, and hope you manage to have a good day. I count my blessings daily, but know life can throw curves our way when we don't expect it.

If I were to be on my own, I think I would get a little cornish hen, roast potatoes and green beans. A slice of fruitcake for a sweet, and then chocolates while I did a puzzle.

No Christmas tree this year - I love them, and DH loved the way I decorated ours, so no, not this year. I would cry a pool of tears like Alice if I tried.
I'm already weeping this loss for you - and I'm feeling so very blessed that I still have MrSpaghetti as I too am the tree decorating person...

Would a tiny tabletop tree be too much? If I were you I might think about that. Something maybe just a few inches... could put it next to a nativity scene maybe - but think I would feel the same about a big one...

❤️

I was supposed to go to my daughters as usual the first COVID Christmas but her and my g’son tested positive around the 20th so I quite happily stayed home alone. I really can’t remember what I ate on the 25th, but I do remember drinking a fair amount of Baileys 😁
But if I was planning to be alone I think I’d opt for -
Smoked Scottish salmon, scrambled eggs, couple of slices of toasted sourdough plus a wee salad of rocket, sun-dried tomatoes and cucumber for brunch. Fresh orange juice. Big mug of coffee (Jamaican Blue Mountain, it is Christmas after all).
Much later in the day - a roast chicken dinner with all the usual accompaniments.
Key lime pie from M&S. Baileys.
And there’d be plenty of everything left over to have the same on Boxing Day 😁

grandtanteJE65
So sorry for your recent loss of your DH, especially at this time of year when jollity seems to be all around on tv ads.
Hope that you and your cats manage to comfort each other.

Warm croissants and apricot conserve for breakfast. Tea.

Tagliatelle with fresh salmon, herbs, peas, broccoli in a creamy sauce.
Raspberry Pavlova
With a glass or two of Sauvignon Blanc.