Christmas lunch alone, what food would you choose?

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Fleurpepper, I just looked up Black Forest trifle recipe, and it looks delicious. Can you share the recipe?

I make a log cake with chocolate biscuits and whip cream that is a family favourite, but trifle would make a nice change.

For me it would a nice platter of cold meats, good cheeses, crab meat, pickles, walnuts, French bread. Washed down with champagne. Later would be Christmas pudding and brandy cream with a glass of port.

We have decided not to travel to be with ACs and GCs this Christmas. So alone, but the two of us. We will have a large rib of beef with all the trimmings, and my Black Forest trifle, with a few hm mince pies. And cheeses for the everning with nice bread and cold beef, a mix of British, French ad Swiss cheeses. Stilton, Gruyères, tomme, Morbier and Brie.

Bonne Maman - Caramelised Apple Spread. It was one of the three spreads you got if you ordered the Bonne Maman Advent Calendar. I didn’t even bother putting it on bread or toast, I just ate it straight out of the jar 😁 delicious doesn’t begin to describe it.

Chocolatelovinggran

Bonne Maman yum ; I recommend their fig preserve.

Sounds yummy, I will try a jar.

Bonne Maman yum ; I recommend their fig preserve.

Yes, that's the one I like!! 😃

I'll add it to my order.
Tesco does their own but it's a bit solid.

Warm croissants and apricot conserve for breakfast
Try this, it's delicious. Waitrose has it on special offer, and I think Tesco does too. 😋 is

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.

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.

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 😁

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...

❤️

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.🙂

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.

a bottle of champagne and some smoked salmon

Cheese on toast or poached eggs on toast.

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

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