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On the clear understanding that we will be eating the leftovers for weeks...

Starter: No idea. Neither Rob nor the children are that keen on melon, which was traditional in my family.

Main course: Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, roast carrots and parsnips, steamed carrots, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, two kinds of gravy, bread stuffing, bread sauce, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, mustard. No sausage stuffing, spiced beef, horseradish etc, we definitely don't have enough people.

Dessert: Trifle. For which we need to make and freeze the sponges soon. And buy the fruit and sherry. Also, some sort of snow-scene decorated cake, but not a fruit cake, because none of like like actual Christmas cake. Perhaps an iced bara brith? Mainly we'll be eating the trifle, anyway.

There is a shopping list a-growing. I need to decide where I'll buy the ham. And how big.

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Date: 2009-12-04 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geekette8.livejournal.com
Any time we've tried to have a starter with Christmas dinner it's just made us too full.

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Date: 2009-12-06 06:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com
We never had one. Just a main course (roast lamb, roast potatoes and carrots, peas, gravy) and dessert (Christmas pudding and cream).

I don't think DH's family ever did, either -- we certainly don't these days if we have Christmas up there. The main course is different (barbecued lamb, kumara bacon salad, green salad, new potatoes) and so is dessert (pavlova, red berry salad, ice cream -- the ice cream is usually made by me).

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Date: 2009-12-04 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com
Historically my mum's Christmas lunches have happened around 3pm, so starters are a form of self-defence by that time.

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