Christmas Menu 2023: Ham, Mustard Sauce, Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding, Punch, Tiramisu & More
Friends, it’s here! The season of cinnamon buns and snow scones, egg bakes and breakfast cake, shortbread and rum balls, ham and mustard sauce, glogg and tangerine spritzes.
I’ve included all of my favorite Christmas Eve, Morning, and Dinner recipes below. This year I’ve added a few new favorites including these Lofty Popovers (Yorkshire Pudding), these Green Beans with Caramelized Shallots, and these Lemon-Almond Snowball Cookies, a low-effort, high-yield, crowd-pleasing, festive finale.
Christmas Eve
On the side? Good bread: My mother’s peasant bread is an excellent choice as is this dead-easy focaccia or this simple sourdough boule. A simple salad dressed in a citrus-shallot vinaigrette makes it a meal.
If mussels aren’t your thing, I can’t say enough about lasagna, which is such a good meal to make for entertaining. Here are two butternut squash lasagna recipes I love:
Drinks
Breakfast (Sweet)
Brioche Cinnamon Buns
Prep these buns on Christmas Eve. Rise to frosted brioche bliss. And to very happy humans.
Two cranberry-studded favorites:
Overnight French Toast
This is the easiest French toast you will ever make, and I believe it’s one of the best, too. It’s crisp on the exterior and custardy on the interior.
Breakfast (Savory)
Dinner
Salads & Sides
Soup
Potatoes
Classic Sweet Potato Casserole
Dessert
Bread, Biscuits & Rolls
Popovers 🎉
Rolls 🎉
Bread 🎉
Biscuits 🎉
Sourdough 🎉
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5 Comments on “Christmas Menu 2023: Ham, Mustard Sauce, Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding, Punch, Tiramisu & More”
Ali, I gathered my recipes for gift giving and for my Christmas menus and a lot of them are yours.
They are as much a part of my family’s holidays as other cherished traditions. Thank you for
sharing your talents with all of us!
May you and your family have the happiest of holidays! Wishing you many blessings in the new year! xoxo
So nice to read all of this, Trish 💕💕💕💕 Thank you for your kind words. Wishing you and your family the happiest holiday season as well. Big hugs xoxo
This is NOT the year, but I so aspire to serve popovers / Yorkshire pudding at Christmas. I know they are easy to make, but the idea of getting them fresh out of the oven, while I’m getting everything else to the table, just in time to serve our group of 15 is so intimidating to me! Would love if anyone has tips from experience on this one. Merry Christmas!
Ali, it’s been a while since I left a comment but was thinking of you, your sis and all the amazing recipes you’ve shared with all of us–thank you! I wanted to share as well with hope that some processes I embraced this year really paid off. 1) Beginning of Dec. I pre-measured dry ingredients for Peasant Bread and the Copycat Raincoast Crisps, added a note on wet ingredients to add. A couple days later I baked up the loaves for the Raincoast Crisps and froze them. We had 3 holiday gatherings starting mid-Dec and on party day it was so easy to reach for the loaves, slice and bake–voila! If I wanted a loaf of bread, …I grabbed my “bread mix”, added water…done! I used the same method for cookies. Our Swedish heritage demands consumption of MANY Swedish meatballs. I made the meatball mixture one day, rolled and browned them another day then into the freezer. On party day into the Dutch oven they went and into the oven to finish off. 2) Any kind of bar cookie or the fudge was so much easier to cut with a bench scraper than a knife…nice even pieces (and, if you have little ones “helping” much safer! I’m already looking forward to next year–much different feeling than collapsing in a chair post meal and dreading the “aftermath” ha ha! Merry Christmas Ali and Happy New Year! -Robin
Robin, hello! And thank you for sharing all of this — so helpful for others. I get the most comments/questions about prepping things ahead of time especially around the holidays. Premeasuring the peasant bread dry ingredients is brilliant! And Swedish meatballs sounds like such a lovely tradition. Wishing you a happy happy New Year!! xo