Christmas dinner

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Cius

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So what are our traditional Christmas meals?

From my side of the family our traditional Christmas eve dinner is normally Turkey, roasted veggies, etc followed by an awesome trifle (fruit free) that we only eat this time of year.

From my wife's side of the family who are more Afrikaans we have Christmas day lunch which consists of Skaap boud, soutvleis, and lots of side dishes. Desert changes each year. This year it was chocolate trifle that consisted of brownies, covered with choc mouse, covered with cream, and crushed nutty crunch slabs intermingled. A few layers of that and you have the most delicious budding I have ever had.
 
Starters: crayfish with avo and small salad, or tuna for those that don't eat that, or some biltong thingy

Main: Chicken, lamb, beef, gammon, roast oven potatoes, pot boiled potaoes(in the beef pot), rice, vegetables, couple other things

Desert: banana trifle, Christmas cake, pavlova with fruit and cream, then normally one other thing that never stays consistent.
 
Well, my family is Afrikaans, so we also do the skaapboud, salad, cold meats type of thing, it's so hot this time of year, can't imagine myself in front of the stove cooking away...hehe!
 
Freaksta said:
Starters: crayfish with avo and small salad, or tuna for those that don't eat that, or some biltong thingy

Main: Chicken, lamb, beef, gammon, roast oven potatoes, pot boiled potaoes(in the beef pot), rice, vegetables, couple other things

Desert: banana trifle, Christmas cake, pavlova with fruit and cream, then normally one other thing that never stays consistent.
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Sounds delicious!
 
A braai :-) this is SA, it's too hot for traditional western Christmas dinners ;-)
 
My side of the family has a traditional Danish Christmas dinner: roast duck, roast pork, caramelised potatoes, red cabbage, duck sauce and pork sauce and crackling for mains and then ris à l'amande for dessert. My wife's side, also Afrikaans, varies from year to year, but typically lots of braai meat, so lamb chops, wors, chicken and then some salads. Dessert is whatever my wife feels in the mood to make.
 
Christmas lunch is cold meats (beef, chicken, pork) and leg of lamb with assorted salads. Breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next three days is eerily similar. I don't want to see another piece of silverside 'till end of December :sick:
 
garlic and rosemary roast lamb, roast gammon, roast chickens with stuffing, roast pork with crackling and apple sauce. potatoes roasted in duck fat, savoury rice, fresh green salad, green pea and asparagus salad, egg and tomato salad.

my mom was born in cairo so we also have falafel, dolmades, lubia, dahl, hummous and tzatziki.

30/40 people the youngest is 1 month old and the oldest is 87.

oh, and the booze flows like water :-)
 
My inlaws are South African (and therefore have no idea how to cook a turkey :p) so I generally cook that as well as a leg of lamb or other roast for the christmas eve meal. . They take care of the rest of the fixings, with the exception of candied yams which I also make.
 
Sometimes we treat ourselves to a 20 piece KFC basket on Christmas day
 
with family
Gammon, turkey and either roast beef or lamb.
Usual assorted gravy, rice and roast potatoes.

With friends, prawns and fillet steak
 
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