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Ho, ho, ho TMO… Welcome to Christmas morning.
What’s for dinner ?
Another year of Christmas cooking rolls around and once again despite two days worth of defrosting in the fridge the turkey’s core is still a frozen slush, the veggies are unpeeled and the stuffing is unstuffed.
Perhaps next year we’ll just have a cheese toasty and say fuck it all, but not this year, no sir, this year we’re doing it again and another 4 or 5 hours of sweaty loveless labour follow before we stuff ourselves with dry turkey and roast spuds as hard as rock..
What are you having/did you have for Christmas dinner TMOer’s ?
Poster no sprouts:
Turkey Stuffing’s (Pork and Sage and Pork and Leek) Bacons and Chipolatas Roast Spuds Roast Parsnips Mashed Swede Savoy Cabbage Peas and Carrots Yorkshire Puddings And Gravies..
Happy heart attacks !
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Shoulder of pork glazed in cranberry & redcurrant sauce mixed with orange juice and ginger (experimental, not sure how this'll turn out) Potatoes boulangere Sausage & thyme stuffing balls Honey glazed carrots fine beans Roasted shallots
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Shoulder of pork glazed in cranberry & redcurrant sauce mixed with orange juice and ginger (experimental, not sure how this'll turn out)
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Shoulder of pork glazed in cranberry & redcurrant sauce mixed with orange juice and ginger (experimental, not sure how this'll turn out) Potatoes boulangere Sausage & thyme stuffing balls Honey glazed carrots fine beans Roasted shallots
Merry christmas TMO
This isn't just Christmas food, it's Physic Christmas food, pork sounds great mate, hope it was..
And wine sounds good too BM I may have had a glass or two myself.. Now for a beer and some sleep..
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Roast beef ( v rare, as underestimated weight of joint by factor of 9) Roast spuds, in goose fat, natch Parsnips, ditto Gravioir Disgusting yorkshire pud, due to miscalculation of depth/batter ratio sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts. YUJM champagne Red wine Gü puds Something green in a bag
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We are having lasagna as our main course, courtesy of froopy. I’m responsible for the spinach artichoke dip and putting the store-bought apple pie in the oven! Happy feasting all!
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Ha. Looks like we are having pork now, too. Thanks to the Wii and the collossal size of the bird. Mrs Mask has only just put the Lemon Meringue Pie in the oven.
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Rooster is currently relaxing on the sofa, while the littlest member of the clan upstairs sound asleep for her afternoon nap. Her second Christmas morning - or her first "real" one, as last year she wasn't old enough to do much more than observe and drool a bit - was fun for all. She spent the morning playing with her new baby-sized bongos and tambourine, her weeble castle play set and her brand new set of alphabet blocks. Though I probably got as much time with the bongos and blocks as she did.
Now that the lasagne is in the oven, I think a glass of wine is in order. Hope your festivities were all you wanted them to be.
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We spent Christmas eve over at my parents, who use the opportunity every year to cook up an (at least) five-course meal. This year my father and his neighbour (a guy who sells snakes for a living and is a magician in his spare time) made scallops, bisque, sole and salmon rolls, the biggest beef wellington I've ever seen and a pear and parmesan cheese dessert. Unfortunately, it wasn't until well into the fourth course that they realised that every time they meant to add salt to a dish, they had actually added sugar. This worked out okay with the sprouts, but a couple of the other dishes tasted kind of strange.
Yesterday, I made turkey with an onion, garlic and bread stuffing, roast potatoes, bacon, pork sausages, peas and carrots, gravy and a sage and onion stuffing on the side. I kept it kind of simple as it was the first time I've ever cooked a christmas dinner, but I was very pleased with the result. I though it was going to be very complicated and stressful and involve a lot of running around, but it was quite easy.
Darryn, we bypassed the defrosting problem by buying one from the Albert Heijn on Saturday. The downside of this is that it was quite big and we'll be eating turkey for the rest of the week.
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I managed to cook Christmas dinner without major mishap this year (possibly because I wasn't able to start on the Cava and vodka whilst putting the oven on to warm up). We had;
turkey with stuffing roasties parsnips sprouts (man, I love sprouts) carrots bacon rolls stuffing balls tiny chipolatas gravy cranberry sauce a mouth wateringly good 'chocolate and cherry extravaganza' from M&S double cream a naughty but completely safe glass of champers for me
I'm going to wait a few days for all of this to go down nicely before attemtping a roast duck on new year's eve.
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Christmas Eve: Parents with my brother and his Polish girlfriend Beata, plus her non-english speaking sister. My father on the hobs of steel:
beetroot soup with Polish meatballs stuffed with mushrooms. I don't know what they were, but they were pretty good turkey carp in pork base and cream sauce carrots roast potatoes parsnips sprouts cheesecake tears of fullness down the pub
Christmas day, food by girlfriends mum. Riotous bellygasms:
three tier pate (I forget the ingredients but it was three colours, like a cake. The size of a cake. Grey, pink and yellow. pea and bean soup with homemade wholemeal bread smoked ham more turkey spinach green beans roast potatoes sweet potato chocolate eton mess tutti frutti ice cream crying
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I have had a veritable cornucopia of bellytreats this christmas which include:
Turkey Roast tatties Pork Pie Goose Liver Fried Quails eggs (what's that about them being cold?) Roast chestnut stuffing Shrimp Bisque Stuffings from Paxo and gf London Pride Ale Sea Bass Salmon Scallops Beef Wellington Cheese that was akin to lard and un-nice, served in a shot glass with some sort of meat consomme Peas Carrots Spinach Asparagus A ruby Sausages Bacon Eggs Mushrooms of all types Chocklit Fine Red Wine Dessert wine which was a bit too sweet for my tastebuds Not so fine dutch lager Much finer Guinness Gravies Onion Bhajees Baked Beans Parma Ham Grilled Ham Samosas Much nicer cheese than the lardy one, though with Pears I am not so sure about Good sprouts! Potato flan .... and that's about all I can recall from the past 4 days.
This morning it is back to work so that will no doubt mean deep fried dutch cantine crap. My stomach will hate me again by lunchtime.
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We had chicken this year - one that my father-in-law raised and which he brought round to ours the middle of last week so that I could correctly assess the logistics of cooking, with it being the size of a medium turkey.
This wasn't really as Hugh Firmly-Whittingstall-ish as it sounds as I'd encountered the bird some weeks previous when we house-sat for D's parents. Feeding the chickens was one of the required activities, naturally enough, and I found it a bit grim. Chickens strike me as idiotic, vaguely repellent creatures - almost as depressing as goldfish in their stare-blink-staring, robotic manner.
A few years ago there was a pretty good urban legend about how KFC poultry is now reared in giant petri-tanks - nourished on raw protein and not needing any of the stuff (beaks, eyes, claws, feathers) that's so cumbersome to remove from the farm-bred hen. In fairness, though, this could hardly be much worse than chickens as they are in reality: the mindlessly crooning, occasionally hysterical old biddies of the animal kingdom.
Anyway. Roasting seems to improve them drastically - our Christmas Dinner bird was delicious.
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I went to my mums friends place where my mum is staying to get over her cancer op's of the last couple of months. She is going to be doing the Gersen? diet of juiced raw organic fruit and veg. The house is a converted dutch barn in the middle of no-where near Leominster. My mums friend is a strict vegatarian and the story was that if we wanted to eat meat then we would have to BBQ it outside on the fire, she was also a bit worried about this seeing as its her sacred fire. It was a bit touch and go about where christmas was going to be as my mum was in hospital in London at the beginning of last week with news that her previous op to take ut the cancer had not gone as successfully as previously thought and it had started to grow back. The doctors found this out on monday last week and it was thought she was going to have to be in until jan before being able to have the op. but her surgeon pulled some strings and managed to operate on tuesday, she was then discharged on weds and went to her friends on friday. My sister had told my dad that mum was in hospital and that it looked like we were going to be in London for Crimbo and forgot to call him to let him know she had been discharged so we had a call from him on saturday saying that he's decided to come to london and see us for christmas. This is quite rare as my dad suffers from M.E which I dont fully know what is, but symptoms are said to be similar to chronic fatigue so he gets tired really easily. We made phone calls to my mums friend to find out if there was going to be space at her place for him to come too, which there was which was nice. My mums friend is called Linda and she is one of mums closest frinds so she's almost like an auntie and was around lots when I was a kid, we worked out that we hadnt had a christmas with all of us there since about 1988. there were some other frinds of my mums and Linda's staying too making the total people on christmas day up to 10, in a converted barn that was quite a tight fit. Me and Justine (my girlfriend) slept in Linda's van, not as bad as it sounds cos there is a wood burner in there but waking up is not a whole lot of fun. Luckily the majority of people who came to christmas are meat eaters and Linda decided, being a minority she would allow the cooking of meat in her oven so we didnt have to do the whole outside freezing BBQ bit. My siter cooked Roast spuds Sprouts Mashed swede brocoli carrots stuffing balls pigs in jackets and a MAMA turkey for dinner for pud it was the typical traditional Christmas pud with burning brandy, brandy butter and organic extra thick cream.
For breakfast we had brandy coffee followed by toasted croissants with a selection of preserves, then toasted croissants with cream cheese and smoked salmon, topped off with 'bux fizz' and copious amounts of alcohol throughout the day, so much so that after chopping some wood and my thumb with an axe we couldn't light the wood burner in the van that night. quick tip, dont chop wood with an axe while its dark, raining, fucking freezing and you are really quite drunk.
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Three bird roast: pheasant, goose, duck. Didn't get as far as the trimmings, having legged it to the toilet to fire high-pressure gravy out of my arse for about four hours.
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Three bird roast: pheasant, goose, duck. Didn't get as far as the trimmings, having legged it to the toilet to fire high-pressure gravy out of my arse for about four hours.
Followed by a small glass of Scotch.
How did you end up with a small glass of Scotch up your arse ?
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Just thought I'd post a quick Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all, hope your christmasses were lovely. As for christmas dinner, S and myself went round to my parents for... Turkey Roast Spuds New potatoes Stuffing balls Pigs in blankets (My fave!) Sprouts Carrots Peas Yorkshire pudding Thick turkey gravy
Followed by Christmas pudding with creme fraiche and blackberry and apple pie with ice cream.
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I may have had a glass or two myself.. Now for a beer and some sleep..
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