Christmas Food List

• Turkey. Very important one, this. Really. If you miss this one, you may as well forget about everything else. Unless you are a vegetarian. In which case, Nut Loaf.
• Roast potatoes. It really does not matter if you have two or three different kinds of spuds - mashed, sweet potatoes, potato salad, even - but this is the important one.
• Veg. We had: Carrots, brussels sprouts, savoy cabbage, braised red cabbage and Bramley apple, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, parsnips (roasted).
• Stuffing.
• Cranberry sauce.
• Bread sauce. I've spoken about it before on this here blog. This year on a visit to Tesco I noticed the Cranberry & Port Sauce and Bread Sauce were on a special deal - 2 for £2. So I cheated. Sue me.
• Gravy. 
• Cakes. Tunis cake, mainly. 
• Biscuits. M&S version of the Fox's chocolatey ones. Nice.
• Beer. Pedigree & Beck's Vier.
• Wine. Cheap Spanish plonk from Waitrose.
• Cream.
• Plenty of tea and coffee.
• I cooked the turkey the night before to free up some space in the oven. It was a big bugger - 7.75 kilos, or 17.09 lbs if you're Imperial. Took about 4 hours.
• Now I am completely stuffed.

NB: oddly enough, we didn't buy a Christmas pudding. Now I love the stuff, but no-one else really cares in my house. So we didn't bother with dessert at all.