Christmas Lunch v Christmas Tea

[horseshoes]

What do you have for your Christmas lunch and tea and which do you prefer? I LOVE Christmas tea time.

[Old_Geezer]

I am served and eat too much at the mid-day meal to want much come tea-time, so "Xmas tea" tends to be relegated to a buffet for when one feels greedy over the evening.

[vodkancoke]

We sit down at 2pm and we are normally still there by 10 so it merges! lol

[Traci66]

Once I've eaten Christmas lunch I can't manage anything else, so I don't have a Christmas tea.

[ummmm]

We have brunch about 11 and dinner about 5.

Brunch will be smoked salmon and scrambled eggs with a glass of fizz.

Dinner is usually chicken, beef and duck (small chicken, small joint of beef, duck breasts) Roast and mashed potatoes, lots of veg, pigs in blankets, stuffing, yorkshire puddings, sauces and gravies...

[Kiki-frog]

I've always done turkey with all the trimmings plus a chestnut and aubergine roast for veggies. But we're going out to a restaurant this year, and I can't wait.

I've always liked Christmas tea with turkey sandwiches, but as there won't be any turkey this year I'm getting in loads of cheeses, pates, cold meats and salads, and making a couple of loaves of bread

[McMouse]

Our Christmas main meal always happens around 4 p.m. Breakfast is usually mountains of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon which keeps us going until the main meal. Naturally sausage rolls and mince pies have to sampled from time to time.

[rowanwitch]

we have a lighter lunch... and then indulge in hard core snacking until we are almost comatose

[vodkancoke]

Sorry I forgot our menu! lol

We have a big antipasto to start , then homemade ravioli, then turkey, rib of beef and ham with all the trimmimgs, then loads of desserts and cheese and biscuits and finishing off with demoloshing a homemade gingerbread house.
Later on we do a buffet with an open-house so anyone can come along.

[DTCwordfan]

well that's half of AB on the way to see you, voddie.....

[Barmaid]

We have an enormous lunch about 2. At about 5.30 mum gets up and says "Right, I'll get tea", at which point we all groan at the thought of MORE food.

[rowanwitch]

last year we had lobster bisque, gammon and chicken with steamed veg and mincemeat and apple crumble and custard.... might make ice cream christmas pud this year

[vodkancoke]

Lol BM, that's pretty much the same at ours. It's just constant eating all day....fabulous! lol

DT, the more the merrier! :)

[Barmaid]

Doh! I forgot the menu too.

If we are at mum's it will be roast pork or beef with every possible trimming you can think of.

If we are here on Christmas Day I'll do Gordon Ramseys turkey with all the gubbins. But if we are only here Boxing Day it'll be scrambled eggs on toast!

[rowanwitch]

If I had no one else to consider it would be a day of snacking,,,, indian and chinese bits, cheese, olives, garlic doughballs, and enough crisps to replace a gravel driveway....

[zebo]

If we were here, and these days we're not usually at home, tea would be my very favourite meal, pickings and leftovers. Why do roast potatoes etc taste better cold, standing in front of the fridge?

[mccfluff]

if i get up , it will be whatever i can be bothered to cook.

[DTCwordfan]

Enormous lunch around 2pm - canapés, starter, Turkey and the trimmings and then the pud, mince pies. Pressies, nap and then around 7pm, tea with one of my sister's amazing Xmas cakes (she used to sell them into Harrods)......

Late evening, picking time - which I love, with cheese etc, good red wine, maybe a Tokaji as well with another slice of the cake.

[EvianBaby]

Is there a difference between lunch and tea?

We normally have our xmas dinner at about 3pm and then just scoff on whatever is still around afterwards.

[Baldric]

We normally do a late B'fast, scrambled egg/smoked salmon kind of thing, then 'Lunch' is about 7pm with all the trimmings, so no tea.