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- American Couple Reacts: Traditional British Christmas Roast Dinner! Cooking & Eating! FIRST TIME REACTION! Merry Christmas Everyone!! We hope you all have the BEST Christmas! We have never seen a traditional British Christmas dinner before! Today we are watching a British family cook their traditional Christmas roast and we are drooling! We were actually surprised just how different the British Christmas dinner is from our personal American Christmas dinner. We wonder, is this the standard British Christmas dinner? Is yours the same or very different? Do you prepare these foods the same way? Everything in this video looked so good and we would LOVE to someday try all of this! Let us know, what is your favorite food on Christmas? Enjoy the weekend and again, MERRY CHRISTMAS from your Cincinnati Girls! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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Merry Christmas Everyone!! We hope you all have the BEST Christmas! We have never seen a traditional British Christmas dinner before! Today we are watching a British family cook their traditional Christmas roast and we are drooling! We were actually surprised just how different the British Christmas dinner is from our personal American Christmas dinner. We wonder, is this the standard British Christmas dinner? Is yours the same or very different? Do you prepare these foods the same way? Everything in this video looked so good and we would LOVE to someday try all of this! Let us know, what is your favorite food on Christmas? Enjoy the weekend and again, MERRY CHRISTMAS from your Cincinnati Girls! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
And a merry Christmas to you both 😃 and all the best for the new year 🎄🎉
@@wildwine6400 Thank you! ♥️
Merry Christmas Natasha and Debbie and have a wonderful New Year 🎉🎉
@@markclay2103 You as well!
Merry Christmas from Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland 🎄
The tradition on Christmas day in the U.K is to eat like you haven't eaten all year. There's a sense of pride when you have to unbutton your trousers at the table just so you can squeeze a bit more food in your ever expanding stomach. After dinner 90% of the U.K are sound asleep clutching their rather over full bellies. I'm pretty sure if you listen carefully you'll hear us all snoring from the USA 😂. Merry Christmas ladies, wishing you health and happiness for 2024
Yes... we are all gluttonous pigs at chrustmas😂
Fun fact the Christmas roast dinner, is a usualy Sunday lunch traditionally we have a roast dinner on a Sunday
Hahahah this is so true!!! Especially the amount I consumed over Christmas! Not to mention all the chocolate selection boxes too!
😂😂😂 this is so accurate 😂😂😂 everyone asleep with paper hats on. Before we get our second wind and go back for more 😅
Perfect Christmas day UK. All the adults fast asleep after a gargantuan meal and the children and pets playing noisily. The leftovers are cooked up for several meals. Vegetables in the form of bubble and squeak ( patties made from mashed up vegetables and leftover stuffing). Great for breakfast with fried eggs. Cold meat suppers.
I was 12 years old when I first made a full christmas dinner for the family. My mother was quite ill and couldn't get out of bed. I said that I would do it and my brother and sisters started moaning about the forthcoming horrible dinner.
By the time I had finished cooking, including homemade gravy, the siblings were almost tearful.
When dinner was over, one of my sisters asked me if I would cook every Christmas. I've been in love with cooking ever since.
And, yes, Christmas dinner over here is a case of cooking massive amounts of every vegetable you can spell, along with a turkey that was the size of John Candy when it was alive
That’s a beautiful story 🥹🥰
@@kittyroars5629 Came to say the same, you said it already!
I was 16 my Mum had just died. I did turkey and pheasant and just copied the redipes from one of her old books
sorry for your loss it is never easy to loose a parent
@@laurabailey2152
In terms of parsnips, Honey Roasted Parsnips are my personal preference. That little added sweetness is just lovely in the overall roast dinner! 😋
For us, Christmas dinner is roast turkey, sage and onion stuffing, roast potatoes, honey and mustard glazed pigs in blankets, roast parsnips, roast carrots, Brussel sprouts fried with bacon, cranberry sauce and loads of really thick gravy. Dessert is Christmas pudding served with brandy butter and warm custard. My sister cooks it and it is always the culinary highlight of the year.
That’s the same as I have with my family
Any room around your table for next year lol ? Happy New Year
@@sammyrichardson7305 maybe lol
I'm from up north, we have Yorkshire puddings 😊
I'm from Yorkshire but for some reason we don't have Yorkshire puddings on Christmas Day... ;-) @@rebeccawalker8879
Bacon draped over a roast chicken or turkey is definitely a thing as it helps keep the meat moist and gives a bit of flavour. Picking the yummy crispy bacon off the top of the roast is a real treat in itself. Some do this for their roast chicken any time of year. I'd add that American style bacon is just perfect for this. Wishing everyone season's greetings from me in England xxx
Roasted Parsnips are so delicious along with Roasted carrots and of course roasted potatoes. Yummy 😋
Really glad you enjoyed our British Xmas dinner guys 🥰 See you next year 😉
Lots of love and Merry Christmas to everyone 🎄🎅🏼❤️
Turkey, Beef, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrot and parsnip mash, roast parsnips, swede, peas and carrots, brussel sprouts, onion and herb stuffing, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese with yorkie pudding and beef gravy... Followed by a long nap. 🎄 Merry Christmas.
Another fantastic video ladies.
Christmas dinner is basically a large Sunday roast with all the family.
Brussels sprouts with bacon lardons and chestnut pieces. YUMMY !
Turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings, carrots, peas, cauliflower cheese, roast and mashed potatoes, parsnips ,gravy.
A lot of people, like me, just buy the turkey CROWN. There is no waste with it.
So, you can throw away the huge legs & wings , or are you lazy.... Bite me !
That's more like it!
just to add we do bread sauce as well, sometimes red cabbage.
This 100%
No, to cauli cheese & Yorkshire puds
In my family we mash carrot and swede in with potato - with just a little butter, salt and black pepper. It really the ultimate comfort food. We then also have the roast carrots and potatoes too.
Pigs in blankets (the British version, not US) are a must too
The most significant omission from the menu in this video was the traditional dessert, namely Christmas pudding. This is also known as plum pudding or (archaically) figgy pudding though it never contains plums and rarely contains figs: hence the line in the Christmas carol "Now bring us some figgy pudding". It is a boiled pudding made with suet, flour, dried fruit, spices, nuts and alcohol such as sherry, rum, whisky or brandy. It is usually steamed before serving and, just after being turned out of its dome-shaped container or bowl and brought to the table, it is often sprinkled with warmed up brandy and set alight! After the flames have died down, one's slice of the dark, rich pudding is covered with a hot sauce such as custard, brandy sauce or rum sauce. It can also be eaten instead with cold cream or even ice-cream. It is delicious but very filling. Christmas puddings, like Christmas cake, are often made weeks in advance of Christmas. Traditionally, they would be made on "Stir-up Sunday" (the 25th Sunday after Trinity at the end of November). All supermarkets stock them too in the weeks leading up to Christmas and magazines and newspapers review and rank them for taste and value.
Homemade puddings would traditionally be made with coins inside though that is much less common now.
Christmas pudding is not to be confused with mince pies which taste quite different and have a pastry case. Those are normally eaten as a snack rather than as part of a meal.
Representations of Christmas puddings are often used as an icon for Christmas (e.g. decorations and on Christmas cards), their dark spherical or dome shape being surmounted with a sprig of holly.
Absolutely! It's not Christmas without a Christmas pudding which we usually make 6 weeks ahead and then feed it with alcohol. Also essential is a trifle, my favourite being a caramelised orange trifle, also made by me.
Our Christmas pudding recipe is over two hundred years old. It is a huge recipe and we have to can it. Wouldn’t be Christmas without it and of course the rum sauce. Yes, we cook many veggies and cheese sauce is a must. Another tradition is always roasted Brussels sprouts and bashed neeps.( turnip and carrot whipped together) The star is always the turkey with sausage and sage stuffing. Don’t forget the Christmas crackers!!
Just found your channel today I love you guys and Thankyou for being so kind and respectful of the differences in our food 😊xxx
This looks like a pretty typical Brit Xmas roast I generally don’t have the leaks in sauce at Xmas but I do have them other times - the essentials are sprouts( I have mine cooked with tiny bits of bacon and chestnuts YUM) ,roast potatoes - parsnips ( roasted in goose fat ) yorkies - the turkey covered with streaky bacon for flavour and moisture- fresh cranberries and chestnut stuffing - gravy from turkey stock with English mustard mixed in - but otherwise very similar to what’s cooked here - p.s . Bubble + squeak is generally eaten for breakfast from leftovers. 🎅👍.
Turkey crown roast wrapped in bacon helps keep it succulent. The sauce for leeks is a basic white sauce plain flour, butter, milk or cream salt ,pepper and nutmeg. Cook out the flour in the butter then gradually add milk(if you warm the milk it mixes easier, fewer lumps to beat out. Season to taste with salt pepper and nutmeg delicious.
Spot on. I prefer a cheese sauce on leeks, but nutmeg livens up a white sauce.I love bread sauce, flavoured with onion and cloves to go with turkey. Never have mashed potato, as I have mashed swede instead! Left over bacon from the turkey goes in my bubble and squeak.Merry Christmas all.
@@judithrowe8065try Courgettes in Cheese sauce....absolutely delicious.....I mix Courgettes & leeks ❤ xx
You could slide some butter under the skin on the breast as well, 😋
@@PaganPunk Courgettes, broccoli, leeks, cauliflower- all improved with a rich cheese sauce and browned under the grill..
We stuff our turkey with oranges to keep our turkey from getting dry.
I’m British, every christmas my dad always wraps our Turkey in especially streaky bacon (American bacon) and we use the same bacon for our pigs in blankets (the sausage wrapped in bacon)
That really brought a tear to my eye because it reminded me of Christmas with my parents who are, very sadly, no longer with us. I miss those big family Christmases with the feast. You should also try the roasted parsnips, though. That’s quite a thing. And mashing carrots with swede (rutabaga in your part of the world!), heavy on the salt and pepper, is also a great accompaniment.
Always cook my turkey with bacon covering the breast . It stops Turkey becoming dry and gives lovely flavour. Merry Christmas ladies
I’m Clare too, and I hardly ever see anyone who spells it the same lol. I cover my turkey in butter, and I rub it under the skin too. Cover it for the first 4 hours of cooking (I feed the whole family and have a big turkey) and leave the foil off for the last hour. Turns out beautiful. Sausage stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, and roast potatoes cooked in dripping. Yummy! Merry Christmas and have a wonderful new year 🎉
I cover my turkey in fat and then completely cover it in strips of streaky bacon. It's the only time I ever use streaky bacon! I find that there is then no need to baste the turkey at all during cooking. Normally, I only ever eat the leaner back bacon.
@@MrBulky992 Me too . Never buy streaky bacon except for cooking turkey or making pigs in blankets at Christmas
Looks like a typical Christmas dinner to me too. It's meant to be a feast so the quantity and variety on the table is more than the usual family meal. Cranberry sauce makes an appearance on our table. In my experience, the roasted parsnips are the trickiest bit to get right. There are probably more variations on the pudding side of things but I like the traditional Christmas pudding with custard. Mince pies come later, in our house, when everyone's had a breather.
Merry Christmas! That Christmas dinner looks lovely. In Britain, parsnips were eaten far more before the potato was brought over from the Americas. Parsnips contain quite a lot of natural sugars,, and when roasted, they become sticky and delicious. They have quite an aromatic, herby flavour. Have a great day tomorrow. 😀
I always loved brussels sprouts from childhood but it took me some years to develop a taste for parsnips. I love them both.
Lot's have asked, although it's not the same always (we change our Christmas menu each year, at least some of the sides) we are having: Honeybaked Ham with homemade glaze, Green Bean Casserole, Sweet Potato Casserole, Twice Baked Potato Casserole, (America, land of casseroles) Roasted Asparagus & Roasted Carrots, Deviled Eggs, Hawaiian Rolls. For dessert: Pineapple Upside Down Cake & Debbie's homemade Blueberrry Scones! 😋 😋
After watching this is there anything in particular you want to try. Also cooking a roast is not as difficult as it might vseem. It's all a matter of good planning and time. There no need to rush. Taking all morning is all part of the fun of it. Merry Christmas.
😱!! No brussle sprouts 😭 . . . Have a wonderfull christmas . . . As i write this its been christmas day for 4 1/2 hours . . . Rain and hot by the looks here in Hamilton New Zealand . . . Take care . . 💐❤💐❤🎅⛄️🇳🇿🇳🇿
Am curious about all the casseroles! To me, and probably most people in the UK, a casserole is generally the centre piece of a meal, traditionally meat-based, with a cheaper tougher cut of meat cooked long and slow in a lidded pot the oven until it is tender , often with lots of onions and root veg. Yours sound like single-vegetable side dishes; are they also cooked in a closed pot in the oven?
I think we need a video of the American dinner because this sounds delicious
You moaned about 2 types of carrots (but didnt listen that some would be mashed with swede) But here.. how many casseroles????
It's a very traditional Christmas dinner, guys. Most families settle and watch some family TV then dessert , then play some board games...then later on Cheese and Crackers. Have the most wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year. 🩷🩷🩷🩷
Another wonderful video girls! I would just like to thank you for all your hard work this year and the bloody good entertainment you have provided. From your fan in Northern Ireland, I wish you both a very happy Christmas. You deserve it!
I want to wish a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to Natasha and Debbie and to all the lovely people in this community xx
You two are great. Merry Christmas from all the English people living in Egypt 🇪🇬
Merry Christmas ♥️
There is only two of us, so our Christmas dinner will be a roast duck, stuffing, onion bread sauce, gravy, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, roasted parsnips, and glazed carrots. Followed by a four year old christmas pudding, with cream, and brandy butter. Mince pies later in the day. A crown roast of turkey is good for a small family, just cut off the legs and freeze them for another meal, and then criss cross bacon strips over the breast before roasting. For bread sauce, boil some onion in milk to flavour it, then add white bread and seasoning, it should be firm and spooned onto the plate. The giblets from the bird are used for the gravy.
You have described this old married couple’s dinner perfectly. Cheers!🥂
The giblets for the turkey are imperative!!
Merry Christmas! Your channel has been a total joy for Catherine and myself to watch since you began. All the best from Scotland!
Wonderful. Apart from the odd changes here and there, this is my Christmas dinner over the last 50 years! Love to you fabulous ladies from Beccles, Eastern England xx
LOVE my traditional Christmas dinner ❤
Mashed carrots and swede plus roast potatoes are my favourites. My Mum’s Christmas dinner was always amazing and the table would be heaving with food. Her braised red cabbage with apple was a treat.
I always do braised red cabbage with onions, apples, bit of garlic, red wine vinegar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and lots of butter - it takes 2 hours to cook, but worth the wait.
Also do sprouts and chestnuts stir fried together, mashed carrot and swede, and cauliflower cheese.
Oh!!!! LOVE redcabbage with apple!!
Braised red cabbage is the best!!!!
My Dad was English and my Mum was Australian,so we ate a roast dinner every Sunday.
But Mum did different things with each meat,eg roast pork was baked potatoes,pumpkin,and baked apples,roast lamb was peas baked potatoes and mint sauce.I want to wish you both a very merry Christmas filled with love,laughter,family and friends,thankyou for making me smile this past year😎❤️
Merry Christmas ladies, thanks for the wonderful videos you’ve posted this year. btw I love your PJs
My Mum did a lot of cooking like that. She was the best cook Ever! She was originally a farm girl and the second eldest of 9 brothers and sisters. Her elder sister worked on the farm and my Mum did the cooking. When she moved to the City, she worked in restaurants and for about the last 30 years or so, she was the cook. The only bad thing about her cooking was that it was so good my Dad didn’t like to go out to eat! Her cooking was always better to him. Of course, she would got tired of it sometimes and wanted to go out to eat occasionally!
Christmas dinner is at my sister’s. She does the ham and turkey and everyone else brings the other dishes. We don’t have a big Christmas Eve anymore as my parents, both brothers and my eldest sister have all passed now. It was Huge when I was young though - Mum and Dad, 5 of us, plus some spouses, many children, etc.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night!! 🇨🇦
What I cook for Xmas:
Turkey
Gammon
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Carrots
Mashed Swede (in butter and black pepper)
Braised red cabbage (with apple, cinnamon and cloves)
Sprouts
Cauliflower and broccoli cheese
Peas
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Yorkies
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
I'll be round next Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year. I hope you all have a good time with who you all love. ❤❤❤
Lovely to see you today. Merry Christmas ladies xx
I'm sure what Debbie has cooked for you today will be delicious too. Anything made with love always is. Debbie comes across as a competent and confident cook who is willing to try new things. I guess watching this video is a bit like being at a restaurant and looking at what people at the next table are having. We've all done that once or twice. Have a lovely day. Merry Christmas.
Leeks in Cheese Sauce are also worth the effort.
Ingredients:
- 4 leeks, cleaned and sliced into 1/2-inch rounds
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
- Chopped fresh parsley for garnish (optional)
Instructions:
1. **Prepare the Leeks:**
- Clean the leeks thoroughly as they may have sand or dirt between the layers. Trim off the root end and the tough dark green tops.
- Slice the leeks into 1/2-inch rounds.
2. **Cook the Leeks:**
- In a large skillet, melt 1 tablespoon of butter over medium heat.
- Add the sliced leeks to the skillet and sauté for 5-7 minutes or until they are tender. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Set aside.
3. **Make the Cheese Sauce:**
- In a medium saucepan, melt the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter over medium heat.
- Stir in the flour to create a roux. Cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Gradually whisk in the milk to avoid lumps. Continue stirring until the mixture thickens.
4. **Add Cheese and Seasoning:**
- Reduce the heat to low and add the shredded cheddar cheese to the sauce. Stir until the cheese is fully melted and the sauce is smooth.
- Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg (if using). Adjust the seasonings to taste.
5. **Combine Leeks and Cheese Sauce:**
- Add the sautéed leeks to the cheese sauce. Stir well to coat the leeks evenly with the cheese sauce.
6. **Serve:**
- Transfer the leeks in cheese sauce to a serving dish.
- Garnish with chopped fresh parsley if desired.
7. **Enjoy:**
- Serve the leeks in cheese sauce as a side dish with grilled chicken, fish, or as a delicious topping for baked potatoes.
This recipe is a delightful way to enjoy the mild and sweet flavor of leeks combined with the richness of a cheese sauce. Adjust the seasonings and cheese quantity according to your taste preferences.
They did their leeks in white sauce. Cheese is nice but can overpower the leeks as leeks have a mild flavour. Well peppered white sauce is good, if you need cheese make it really mild.
White sauce with cheese and leeks?? I've ever heard of that being part of a Christmas dinner. Bread sauce ,yes, but even that has never been a partof our family Christmas Dinner.
Recipe looks good, salted butter though for me.
Cooking.We call leeks au gratin as side wiry vegetables. Also sauerkraut kraut with red cabbage, red onion , bacon and grated green apple. Mushrooms optional..
Love cheesy leeks
i keep watching this because it reminds me of times gone with my nan and grandad and my family
thank you ladies for all your hard work throughout the year. your videos are both entertaining and educational, plz keep on doing what your doing.i wish you both a very merry Christmas and the happiest new year ever!, (btw try leeks and cauliflower in a cheese sauce with panko and parmesan topping, cook the veg, add the sauce, panko and parmesan then throw it all back in the oven to finish, absolutely mouth watering)
It's a quiet Christmas for us this year as one of our sons is living in Italy and spending Christmas with his girlfriend's family and the other one is at his in-laws this year. We are still having a traditional Christmas lunch. Also, it's my 65th birthday on Christmas day, when I was a kid I used to worry that my birthday would get forgotten, it never did, now I worry everyone will remember I'm a year older🤣. Merry Christmas everyone, especially our armed forces who will be away from home and our medical and emergency services who will be keeping us safe.
It must be nice to have family to share this special time with. Thank you Natasha and Debbie for your channel you don’t know what joy you bring throughout the year. Hoping you have a wonderful day.
Merry Christmas ladies, and I hope the New Year will be happy and full of joy 🎉
Thanks for another great video and Merry Christmas to you both! x
Roast Parsnips in Honey are lovely with roasts. Supermarkets also do them ready prepared, for convenience, along with most other Christmas accompaniments. Another thing that I didn't mention is those tall, deep filled, cold pies (generally game, pork and chicken, pork and bacon and similar) with some cheese if desired. I just had a quarter of one for lunch which is what reminded me!! 🙂
My extended family has a big lunch together. It's madness and I love it with backyard cricket, swimming pool, cold meats and a whole lot of seafood. Most of my cousins are all in their 20s and get a bit rowdy in the afternoon after a few beers which is always fun. Working Christmas this year but I'll be glued to the couch watching the Sydney to Hobart and Cricket while deleting the leftovers all Boxing Day. Hope everyone has a great Christmas!
Missed you this morning went out for Xmas breakfast with family. Merry Christmas to you both wishing you joy happiness and peace. Thanks for all the videos xxx❤❤
Happy new years girls .I’m an American gal who has lived in the uk since 1975, love your videos
WoW my Mouth is watering. Looks Fantastic. A proper homemade Christmas Dinner.
Thank you ladies, and Merry Christmas. Thank you for your amazing channel and content. You are both wonderful people. I always look forward to seeing new content from you. Keep having fun making vids. You are both loved very much by all your viewers.
Merry Christmas girls xx have a blessed day and enjoy your Christmas dinner!
Merry Christmas ladies, i’m just back from Yorkshire visiting my in-laws. Preparing our dinner in the morning. Have a wonderful day 🌟🎄🌟🎄
These videos really brighten my morning. What a great way to start my Christmas Eve. Thank you 🙏
Merry Christmas ♥️
What a lovely family Christmas, we all have our own favourites and way of doing things but most of us in the uk will be having something similar tomorrow, and reacting to this with you has really got my mouth watering and looking forward to our family Christmas. So thank you for this and all your shows this year , really enjoyed them and learned a lot . I appreciate you and the time , effort and love you put into your channel .Love like jazz and be as strong as Tyson . ❤️🎄💝🕊️xx
Bless you Mandy! Thank you for the gift of your friendship! Merry Christmas ♥️
Merry Christmas to you both. Thanks for the entertainment you have provided over the last 12 months. My favourite foods on Christmas Day are Sprouts, Sweede, pigs in blankets & sticky toffeee pudding - yum!
Christmas dinner is most of what was in the video but Yorkshire puddings are not typical, possibly if you live in the north, nor is leeks with white sauce. Carrots have a honey glaze and we always cook red cabbage with apple. Sage and onion stuffing, sausage stuffing and bread sauce were also missing. Christmas pudding with brandy butter and brandy sauce are also the traditional pudding, sticky toffee is American. I am amazed that you consider that we have too much food on Christmas day. My experience of the US is that wherever you go the portions are gigantic for everything. My husband and I quickly learned to order one item and ask for two plates and share it. Even then sometimes we could not finish what was provided. I once ordered waffles and strawberries for breakfast expecting one or maybe two waffles and half a dozen strawberries. What I got was 12 waffles covered in strawberry sauce, 25 strawberries and a huge dollop of cream on the top. I couldn't eat half of it.
Happy Christmas to you both, thank you for the joy you have bought us throughout the year. ❤️🇬🇧
Thank you! Merry Christmas ♥️
I loved that this morning, the video, the chat just everything. I hope you both have an amazing Christmas. Love ya ❤️❤️
Merry Christmas ♥️
Merry Christmas ladies. Lovely weather in Corfu + a nice chat to friends. Best wishes. xx
Roasted Parsnips are amazing They have a sweet aromatic flavour. Leeks have a mild onion flavour. I love it all.
I think a big difference between the UK and the US regarding Christmas is that because the following day, Boxing Day 26th December is also a Bank (public) Holiday, most people in the UK can enjoy Christmas Day to the full food and drinkwise, as they haven't got to worry about work the next day.
Most of us are off work too 😉
...unless you work in healthcare and Christmas is just another day
Ours is : turkey crown, roast potatoes, roast carrots, roast parsnips with maple syrup, roast Brussel sprouts with chestnuts and bacon, pigs in blankets (small sausages wrapped in bacon), bread sauce, cranberry sauce, stuffing, turkey gravy. It’s utterly delicious!! 💚🧡🎄🎄🎄 My favourite is probably pigs in blankets followed closely by roast potatoes and bread sauce! Yum! If you don’t like dried fruit you might find a British Christmas tricky. 😂. 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄
Maple Syrup from Canada I hope!!😂😂🇨🇦
@@nancyrafnson4780 - oh yes! The real deal! 👌🏻😂
@@cketts8128 sounds delicious!! Like my Mum made! Icelandic father; Mum was United Empire Lloyalist family. Came up up to Canada after the revolution! Yeh Canada - and Britian!! Luv u!!
I’m starving now yum😊 wishing you both a very Merry Christmas 🎄 from Essex, England🍾🥂🎉💛🙋🏽♀️👍🏽
Merry Christmas ladies and everyone, have a wonderful and safe New year. Legends 😎🤟🏻 🎄 🎅
Merry Xmas lovely ladies , thanks for all your hard work and making life a lot more tolerable , especially for this mad Brummie lol xx
Merry Christmas!! And thank you ❤
Merry Christmas Ladies, what ever you have or eat I hope its as wonderful as you two.
Bless you! Merry Christmas ♥️
I've just finished preparing the veg for tomorrow. My family is having carrot, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, tenderstem brocoli, runner beans roast potatoes and parsnips all in saucepans waiting and the turkey is cooked we will also have Yorkshire puddings and breadsauce and of course gravey. Cant wait for tomorrow. Hope everyone has a good Christmas
That Christmas dinner really did look delicious,yes,it seemed quite typical of a british Christmas meal ,much the same as I enjoyed with my older brother and his wife this year.Hope you both can get to try one sometime ,it really is good. 🎄🎄🎅🎅
Merry Christmas sweeties.
I've been watching your channel for over a year and I wish I was there to give you both a big hug.
Much love from a traditional English gentleman.
❤️❤️❤️✌️🇬🇧
Thank you! Merry Christmas ♥️
Mashed carrot and mashed swede can be really special, if you mix both together, then add cooked sweetcorn, place it all in an oven dish, top it with sliced tomatoes, then bake for a few minutes until the tomatoes are cooked. the sweetcorn enhances the texture, and the tang of the tomatoes brings out all the flavours.
I've really enjoyed your vids, thank you and merry Christmas x
Merry Christmas girls been a great year for videos 🎉❤
Leeks in cheese sauce! Yum! Triffle for pudding! 😋 Merry Christmas Natasha, Debbie and Everybody! 🎄xxx
Merry Christmas ♥️
Happy Christmas ladies ❤️ . You have got me through a tuff year
We have Sunday roasts which has most of this every week. Parsnips are lovely roasted, they are a sweet vegetable. Carrots mashed with butter is a nice change from normal carrots. Roast potatoes with gravy are my favorite parts. Christmas dinner is like this, we don’t have the white sauce as this isn’t something we all like. Pigs in blankets are a must with Brussels sprouts. I will be working on Christmas Day, but look forward to my dinner ❤
Happy Christmas and new year. It's Christmas eve, your video gave me a smile.
Merry Christmas to you both. Love your reactions. Keep up the good work.
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Merry Christmas ladies❤ this looked gorgeous very similar to what I usually have. We normally have 3 meats and instead of leeks in that white sauce we have cauliflower cheese. Debbie made me laugh when she kept saying to Natasha "no that is... and that is..." 😂 you can tell Debbie's cooking spirit was coming out lol 😂😂❤ have a lovely day. What a lovely start to Christmas Eve. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 XOXOX
so makes me think of our christmas dinner as a kid it was such a great day
I think you both are brilliant, keep doing what your doing, from a thankful Fire Fighter here in the UK
There are varieties. I am very old, and broccoliand MASHED carrots I would not say are traditional, nor Yorkshire pudding with tirkey, but with beef. But each family has its own customs. Goose and Duck are also old trafitions. Roast carrots and parsnips are too for most people……many variations. Cranberry sauce has crept in too as a custom from the US thanksgiving turkey! When I was young it was not known in the UK (I am almost 90) bacon wrapped little sausages called “ pigs in blankets”. Etc.
We always had redcurrant jelly rather than cranberry sauce, and I prefer it!
I am just about to turn 60 and cranberry sauce was part of the christmas dinner I was served as a child. I don't think American culture had much sway back then. We also had carrot mashed with swede back then.
Leeks in White Sauce or Béchamel sauce is an easy dish.
Take 3 or 4 Leeks and cut the ends off. Now you can cut them across the Leeks or length ways depending on taste. Place in a frying pan with some butter and fry until soft then set aside.
For the sauce, you'll need 50g butter, 50g plain flour, and 500ml milk, a touch of salt and cracked black pepper. Nutmeg is optional but it might overpower the taste of the Leeks.
Add the milk to a pan and bring to a boil then remove it. Melt the butter in a pan until it begins to bubble. Add the flour and mix well for 2-3 minutes, then add the milk a little at a time, continuously whisking until thick and smooth. Add the salt and Pepper to taste. Now pour the sauce over the Leeks and mix together.
You roast the Parsnips the same way you do the Carrots, with a little honey and salt
Absolutely loving your channel
Mum used to do the starters and main course, her sister did the desserts. They both studied home economics in Bath and became teachers. There was another girl in their classes called Mary Berry, who became pretty famous. My wife is a good cook but my mum and her sister were just brilliant cooks, mum now tends to use pre prepared ingredients but at 96, that’s pretty understandable!
Can I recommend a 45minute film on youtube from sainsburys called Christmas in a day. It shows a slice of what a British Christmas is, from people all around the Uk, who sent in home videos. It’s interesting how different people celebrate the day. Oh and a very merry Christmas to you both xxx
Merry Christmas girls, hope you have a lovely time. My own favourite is goose at Christmas, it used to be the traditional meal but it was overtaken by turkey because geese can't be factory farmed. It's usually available around Xmas in the UK, but only frozen.
Goose was a no-no as the main in our house as it was too fatty - BUT we always used goose-fat for the roasts...
Merry Christmas ladies - have a good one!
Merry Christmas Debbie and Natasha, and have a wonderful new year 2024 ❤️🌲🎅🏻☃️❤️
Merry Christmas to you two beautiful ladies, wow this was a Christmas treat, two of my fav CZcamsrs watching two of my other fav CZcamsrs, yep that’s a traditional Xmas dinner, more food than you can eat, full belly’s and a snooze afterwards lol. Please react to more of Matt and juilas page, there travel vlogs are amazing, well shot, a lot of interesting facts and a lot of humour.
Merry Christmas Natasha and Debbie and a Happy,Healthy New Year. Thank you for your posts you have made me laugh and at times cry over the year but I have enjoyed it all. My Christmas dinner will be Turkey,pork,mashed potato,roast potato, roast parsnip pigs in blankets(sausage wrapped in bacon) sage and onion stuffing, carrots, peas,sprouts cranberry sauce, apple sauce,turkey gravy and for desert christmas pudding with brandy cream, and panacotta. All washed down with wine.
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Merry Christmas Ladies, I think we in the UK have adopted you both, so now you are British. I hope you have a lovely day, lots of love. ❤️🇬🇧
I am a regular subscriber and love your channel
Mashed carrots and swede (which I believe is called Rutabaga in the US?) is a staple of British roast dinners and is absolutely delicious. I can confirm that leeks in cheese are delicious as well.
Roast parsnips are the absolute best. Flavour wise they are a little like a cross between sweet potato and carrots. (It's difficult to describe!)
Have a beautiful Christmas 💜
Carrot and swede (turnip as it’s known in Scotland) is called tumshy (pronounced tum shay) in Scotland…at least in some families and is normally loaded with butter and ground pepper.
I have never got over swede to me bought up on a farm in the 1950's was feed for the cattle not for the table (it was cheaper than bought in hay) so never eat it. But it is a firm favourite for urban people mashed with carrot.
Christmas Eve was a fraught traumatic time for me as a young child as my Dad killed a large capon chicken for our Christmas dinner.
It always freaked me out until I got older and learnt to dispatch the bird as well.
@@jontyc3479 as a Scot I think swede (though it will always be turnip to me…the item known as turnip in England was rarely if ever seen in my part of Scotland during the 70’s/80’s/90’s) is almost a prerequisite dietary requirement…it is after all part of our national dish.
Roast parsnips.... yes, occasionally , but mashing carrots? Never!! Leave them as they are. I think it all boils down to every family having their own Christmas dinners. As a kid we had roast chicken ... turkey was very expensive. We eventually moved around to Turkey... but have now moved around to chicken again. Yorkshire puddings were usually only eaten with beef, but now its definitely a part of our Christmas lunch. All to be followed by our home made Christmas pudding.
@@Irenesinger the carrots and swede are boiled and mashed together, so it’s not a carrot purée and in Scotland it has lots of butter and ground pepper mixed through…or at least that’s how my Mum made it and is a truly delicious side dish.
As a kid we always had chicken for our Sunday Roast and my Mum always made Yorkshire Puddings (my Mum also made her Yorkshire Puddings with water, not milk, which I think some would find a horrific scenario…but they didn’t taste any different to those made with milk) to go along with it…and that was in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s…so all meals vary from region to region and family to family. I’d never seen cauliflower cheese on a roast dinner before I moved to England as an Adult for example and it just seemed weird to me because of the chance of the cheese sauce and gravy touching.
I make bread sauce and also cauliflower cheese... (once you have mastered the basic white sauce you can use it in so many ways) and yes always use bacon across the turkey breast, I have a whole turkey so will wrap the legs too, bastes the turkey for you. Forcemeat stuffing for the turkey neck, using sausage meat and stuffing mix ... big debate about Yorkshire puddings on Christmas Dinner here, but we love them so yes I make those, carrot and swede mashed with Kerry Gold butter, or even carrot and parsnip mashed .. depending on how you cook parsnips it affects the taste, roasted drizzled with honey taste divine, I season vegetables with white pepper especially potato dishes, meats with black pepper.. loads of condiments on the table cranberry sauce, horse radish sauce and mustard for beef, salt and pepper .. I come from an Irish family so was always taught to put on a good spread, thank heavens for the freezer, all those left overs... I'm in my 70's now so it takes me a bit longer than it used to but all done with love and care....
Happy Christmas to you both have a lovely day love ur vidios love from uk. Xx
Thank you Natasha and Debbie for your vids in 2023. Wishing you good health and joy for 2024.🤗
Really enjoyed your reaction. We don’t have beef and Yorkshire and we sometimes have cockerel instead of Turkey. We also have stuffing, cranberry sauce and bread sauce. Then Christmas pudding 😊. I think many families will have differences, also depending what part of the UK you are from. Example. My family are from the North and my Grandma taught my Scottish mum how to make Yorkshire. But it is made in a large dish, not individually. To this day we still make a large Yorkshire for Sunday dinner (just not for Christmas)
We always had the Yorkshire batter poured around the joint so that it absorbed the juices as it cooked. It was then served as a first course - the idea being that it would take the edge of your appetite and fill up younger tummies so they wouldn’t eat so much of the precious meat. I can still remember how the pan with the Yorkshire batter and joint was taken to the local bakers on Sunday mornings, together with a pan of potatoes for roasting. It was left with the baker whilst we went to church and then collected on the way home. Cost of baking - one old penny. The baker did not made bread on Sundays but the ovens were kept hot and filled with all these pans of Sunday dinner!
Merry Christmas to you both have a wonderful time xxx
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@@TheNatashaDebbieShow aw thankyou. Xx
Oh wow how amazing. Your table looks absolutely beautiful after so much thought and hard work. Merry Christmas to you both☃️❤️ bring on Christmas Dinner. Yum yum Christmas Dinner then a sleep which I bet happens in most homes
Parsnips are best sliced down the middle and baked in with your roast potatoes,Sometimes brush them lightly with Honey and mustard and enjoy x