Traditional Christmas Dinner

Irish Dinner would include ham and spiced beef in some places.

Whilst pigs in blankets are more common now. A lot here would associate them with party food more so.

Bread Sauce and Gravy also popular.

We'd have bread and potato stuffing.

Turkey, ham, stuffing, croquettes, carrots & parsnips, sprouts, marrowfat peas, homemade gravy & roasties.

And an elasticated waist......

No starters, just the main course, coco pops for breakfast, a couple of roses and some champagne.

Maybe some cheese and nibbles too. Feck I am starving even writing this post out!!!!

Turkey, ham, homemade stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, mash, sprouts, peas, homemade Turkey gravy… delicious…

That doesn't look like a traditional Irish Christmas dinner. More like a British one. Turkey, Ham, Mashed Potatoes (maybe some roasted but not as the sole representative of potatoes), stuffing, carrots, celery, Brussel sprouts, croquettes, bread sauce, stuffing....

Pigs in blankets are certainly not an Irish tradition.

Mushroom homemade soup. Served with cream and homemade bread.

Turkey stuffed with grapes and roasted with wine, ham (soaked for 24 hours) boiled, then cloved and roasted, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and thick gravy….

meat sweats are required 😀

Prawn starter

Turkey & Ham, mash & roast potatoes, few horrible brussel sprouts, broccoli carrots, stuffing and gravy.

Mixture of deserts.

That's a very Brehon Irish xmas dinner!! (with a few exceptions)

No Starter

Mains - Turkey, Ham, Roast Potatoes, Sage & Onion Stuffing, Baby Carrots, Sprouts, Marrowfat Peas, Gravy

Dessert - Viennetta & Jelly (Usually an hour or so after the dinner!)

St. Stephens Day - repeat of above!

Didn’t realise marrowfat peas were still so popular. I love them, but I thought they might be seen as a bit old-fashioned or something. Sort of from the same era as Birds Custard, Jelly and peaches from a can.

You're getting outraged at something you've made up. Nobody is talking a out the American pigs in blankets which are like sausage rolls but the sausage does have a skin.

The pigs in blankets other posters are referring to are these things

which are the UK/Ireland versions.

Never seen them on a Christmas dinner here (probably because we have the ham) nor have I seen the 'chipolata' which seems to be English for sausage roll. More of a party food thing for me

Turkey ham roasties mash carrots peas Brussels sprouts gravy

Afters is pudding and cream.

Ha is cooked couple.of days before in water and finished in oven.

Love Christmas dinner😋😋

Real marrowfat peas are getting harder and harder to get, lots of no soak and tinned ones which are not the same thing! Aldi seem to be selling off their packs in the discounted spot for weeks now, I buy more every time I go in, I'm prepared for a siege at this stage! I have them all year round, cook a big pot at a time and freeze in portions, very handy with the old fish dinners.

Anyway Christmas dinner for our gang is always the same, Prawn & Salmon Cocktail (not everyone likes prawns so they can have salmon only), Turkey, ham, bread stuffing, sausage stuffing, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, roast potatoes, dauphinoise potatoes, mash, sprouts someway or other to make them palatable (yuk), roast veg mixture and of course marrowfat peas and a vat of gravy. Dessert is jelly trifle and a second sherry/no jelly trifle, pudding/brandy custard there too but usually not served until after second round in evening (keep the custard in a flask, very handy!)

5 types of stuffing? Does it not all end up mixed in together?

SIL is bringing a charcuterie/smoked salmon/melon board for starters, at least an hour before mains. Then turkey, glazed ham, roasties and mash, roast parsnips, steamed carrots, sweetcorn, shredded Sprouts with bacon, cream and parmesan.

Dessert this year will be toblerone cheesecake and lemon meringue pie with homemade ice creams. Also homemade mince pies, biscuits and Christmas cake. It's a whole day affair and we'll still be picking (and drinking wine) at 10pm.

I'd say pigs and blankets only took off in the mid 2000's but more so as party food.

I don't think cranberry Sauce is very popular in Ireland either in my experience.

Similar with this big fry on Christmas morning. I've never really heard of this until the supermarkets started having it in their brochures.

We have Just Roll Cinnamon Swirls when the dinner is cooking.

Goose, glazed ham, spiced beef, stuffing made with sausage meat, apple and chestnuts. Roast potatoes (using the fat from the goose), sprouts fried with pancetta and chestnuts, roasted veg, potato croquettes, red cabbage and Sunday peas. Gravy made from goose giblets.

Starter is always prawn cocktail and dessert would be ice cream, meringue and cream or a slice of winter berry tart (shop bought).

I always heat my plates before serving food

We have never done the big Christmas fry up Christmas morning there is always too much going on in the kitchen but never say never, we have an air fryer could easily rustle up some sausages and rashers in a couple of minutes. I have to say though I couldn’t do my Christmas roast potatoes in the air fryer I love roasties from the oven

My kids will be having the traditional Irish starter

I’m salivating.

Starters - prawn cocktail

Main - Turkey, ham, sausage meat stuffing, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, mashed carrots and parsnips, brussel sprouts, marrowfat peas, pigs in blankets, aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puds, gravy & cranberry sauce

Dessert - lemon posset with shortbread, trifle or some chocolate dessert.

Later that night and the next day the salad replaces the veg and the piccalilli is lashed on.