Our Christmas Eve tradition is pizza from the local takeaway because we’re usually too busy with the advanced preparations for the folowing day to be cooking another meal as well.
Christmas day starts with a traditional (for us) breakfast of scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. My partner and daughter will have bucks’ fizz with it as well but I don’t like that stuff. I’ll just have tea. After breakfast we open presents, then we cook.
The main meal is usually served around 2pm. Sometimes turkey, sometimes duck (I prefer duck). Served with roast and mashed potatoes, an assortment of veggies including Brussels sprouts, which I love but only get at Christmas because no-one else in the family likes them. Stuffing of some kind, depending on which meat we have. Yorkshire pudding. Cranberry sauce if we’re having turkey but with the duck we have a wonderful red-onion chutney. For dessert (which is often delayed an hour or two because we already ate too much), Christmas pudding with custard, or mince pies.
For supper, we’ll have leftover meat, cold, with pickles, salad and French bread. This year, we picked up an assortment of salamis from the local German market, which will probably be part of Christmas day tea.