Christmas dinner is being cooked by the chef from the George and Dragon at Ightham...If the roads are clear that is. Otherwise it'll be egg and chips at home.
Honeyed Gammon joint (we'll be having turkey sandwiches when we go round my parents', so we wanted something different!)
Goose fat roasties
Parsnips
+ 1 other veg (probably brocolli)
Vegetarians my wife and I so, everything everybody else has except the meat. I dont feel the need to substitute the meat course although my sister will insist on making something with goats cheese, lentils, squash, pulses, filo pastry, nuts....... To be honest the food doesn't excite me much, I can have a plate full of roasted vegetables any day of the year. I don’t even like Christmas pudding Its just nice to sit down with all my extended family and have a meal together.
[cite]Posted By: Valley McMoist[/cite]Christmas dinner is being cooked by the chef from the George and Dragon at Ightham...If the roads are clear that is. Otherwise it'll be egg and chips at home.
ha, yes its dicey tho we have picked somewhere walkable. Dial Arch in the beautiful scenic Woolwich. Just looking at what i've ordered. Cant wait.
[cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]1. Anti pasti
2. Goats cheese and red onion tarts
3. Warm chicken and bacon salad
4. Duck breasts with cherry jus, roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts
5. Mango sorbet, with lime zest and limoncella
6. Christmas pudding
7. Stilton
(I like cooking)
Sounds pretty good to me. We're going with vanilla panna cotta with Fruits of Forest reduced with Creme de Cassis served with crunchy biscuit things. 5 yr old Xmas pud. which is hopefully still OK. No starters, probably no meat at all, just loads of roasted veg. and filo parcel wotsits stuffed with ? walnut, spinach and goats cheese. Got to fit some chestnuts in somewhere as well. Homemade soups, cheeses, fruit and oceans of home baked bread. A new brand of gin to try and Fever Tree's (brilliant new find!) tonic water. Oh and quite a few Reds and whisky barrel matured Innis and Gunns. Plus a very special Andersens port. A Very Merry Christmas to you all.
Went to Asda last night, completely sold out, didn't know if they would get any more before Christmas. Tesco's only had small/medium size birds and only about 15 left, so we had to get a medium one much to my wife's disgust. I can take it or leave it, but she loves a turkey, we end up eating it for a week!
[cite]Posted By: lancashire lad[/cite]
Honey glazed gammon from our own pigs
do you know what that would be my ultimate goal in life own enough land to raise pigs and eat them welldone Lancs i really am envious of you right now
[cite]Posted By: Essex_Al[/cite]Shortage on frozen turkeys!
Went to Asda last night, completely sold out, didn't know if they would get any more before Christmas. Tesco's only had small/medium size birds and only about 15 left, so we had to get a medium one much to my wife's disgust. I can take it or leave it, but she loves a turkey, we end up eating it for a week!
She was actually in a state of panic in Asda's!
Get yourself to your local butchers and get one the free range bronze fat bstd turkeys from yuor local farm are quality none of taht frozen asda or tesco bollx
Vegetarian too, but it will be the (quite boring but OK) Quorn roast with all the usual trimmings. However the sprouts will be tossed in olive oil and balsamic, and roasted with pine nuts added near the end.
If the old man can get his car through the snow, up & over the steepest hill in Worcestershire and down the farm track to 'Happy Meats', this afternoon, we're having a leg of Jacobs Sheep Lamb which imo is the best tasting Lamb you can get. If not, it'll be whatever we can get last minute from the local butchers or supermarket, but not the £100 rib of beef I saw in Sainsburys the other day.
Smoked salmon on blinis; Bollinger
Two roast ducks, roast carrots, parsnips, spuds (in goose fat), tomatoes, peas, yorrkies. Dunno what sauce I'll do with the duck or if I'll just stick to gravy; Good quality Kiwi pinot noir
Not sure about pudding yet; Sauternes
Stilton and otehr cheeses; port
Either that or after closing the bar at 3, we are off to a mates restaurant with seven friends for the traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
Gammon with marmald covering on Xmas eve. Usally have a capon ,but this year its free range Turky (cost a load) and lobster in the evening with Thai dips. I cook the dinner the Mrs does the evening do .Its for anyone who turns up, and if they dont then more for us !!!
In Mexico at the moment... planing to go surfing in santa hats then a turkey and crandberry sandwhich from the deli on the beach, washed down with copius amounts of Pacific & Corona.
Will be a strange one... not been home for Christmas since December 2006. Only time of year I get homesick. Previous 3 years been in Canada so at least it feels like Christmas. Wouldn't know it was Christmas down here now.
For the first time ever, we are eating out this Xmas day.
We are haveing the full works down at our local Harvester (Running Horse). We are not sure if it will be our first and last time having our main meal out, but at least the other half soesn't have to worry about us leaving the food after all her hard work.
me and my family are anti xmas dinner so we each have our favourite meal. we all have antipasti to start, then mini filo parcels and homemade sushi. After that is a freshly made chicken and tomato soup with ciabatta. Then i'll be having a mixed hanging kebab with tabule (spelling) and mixed pepper and apple couscous. My dad is having lambs liver and quail (each to their own) with buttery parsnips, sprouts, flat roasties and red wine reduction. Sister is going for a teriyaki beef stir fried with beansprouts, carrot, sugarsnap peas, mooli, water chestnuts, cabbage and noodles. Mum gets a chicken breast stuffed with tomato mushroom pepper and aubergine wrapped in parma ham and rested on an asparagus risotto served with a bistro style salad. Afters is my very own carrot cake, triple chocolate mousse gateaux thingy and passionfruit/lemon rippled sorbet.
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Pigs in blankets
Goose Fat Roasted potatoes
Brussles (loads of em)
Parsnips
carrots
Turkey (free Range from the local butcher none of this tesco shite)
Smoked Ham cooked in Nigellas Xmas style
Sage and onion stuffing
Pudding
Choc Gateux
or
X mas pud
cant fecking wait best meal of the year xmas dinner
Stuffing Mrs always makes a sage & Onion then whacks sausage meat and some other bits which is always a winner in our house
Next year going for Goose rather than the Amercianised Turkey
Goose fat roasties
Parsnips
+ 1 other veg (probably brocolli)
No pudding - we'll fill-up at my parents'
2. Goats cheese and red onion tarts
3. Warm chicken and bacon salad
4. Duck breasts with cherry jus, roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts
5. Mango sorbet, with lime zest and limoncella
6. Christmas pudding
7. Stilton
(I like cooking)
I dont feel the need to substitute the meat course although my sister will insist on making something with goats cheese, lentils, squash, pulses, filo pastry, nuts.......
To be honest the food doesn't excite me much, I can have a plate full of roasted vegetables any day of the year. I don’t even like Christmas pudding
Its just nice to sit down with all my extended family and have a meal together.
ha, yes its dicey tho we have picked somewhere walkable. Dial Arch in the beautiful scenic Woolwich. Just looking at what i've ordered. Cant wait.
Then off to the MCG for boxing day, to put the bloody convicts back in there place after Perth!
Merry xmas all!
Sounds pretty good to me. We're going with vanilla panna cotta with Fruits of Forest reduced with Creme de Cassis served with crunchy biscuit things. 5 yr old Xmas pud. which is hopefully still OK. No starters, probably no meat at all, just loads of roasted veg. and filo parcel wotsits stuffed with ? walnut, spinach and goats cheese. Got to fit some chestnuts in somewhere as well. Homemade soups, cheeses, fruit and oceans of home baked bread. A new brand of gin to try and Fever Tree's (brilliant new find!) tonic water. Oh and quite a few Reds and whisky barrel matured Innis and Gunns. Plus a very special Andersens port. A Very Merry Christmas to you all.
Honey glazed gammon from our own pigs
Home made Christmas pudding
Went to Asda last night, completely sold out, didn't know if they would get any more before Christmas. Tesco's only had small/medium size birds and only about 15 left, so we had to get a medium one much to my wife's disgust. I can take it or leave it, but she loves a turkey, we end up eating it for a week!
She was actually in a state of panic in Asda's!
do you know what that would be my ultimate goal in life own enough land to raise pigs and eat them welldone Lancs i really am envious of you right now
Get yourself to your local butchers and get one the free range bronze fat bstd turkeys from yuor local farm are quality none of taht frozen asda or tesco bollx
Get yourself to Bexley Village on a Friday, you should easily get yourself a big bird.
Smoked salmon on blinis; Bollinger
Two roast ducks, roast carrots, parsnips, spuds (in goose fat), tomatoes, peas, yorrkies. Dunno what sauce I'll do with the duck or if I'll just stick to gravy; Good quality Kiwi pinot noir
Not sure about pudding yet; Sauternes
Stilton and otehr cheeses; port
Either that or after closing the bar at 3, we are off to a mates restaurant with seven friends for the traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
Have a great Christmas everyone!
so do I but Im not as ambitious as you....
Our very own masterchef in the making?
Usally have a capon ,but this year its free range Turky (cost a load) and lobster in the evening with Thai dips. I cook the dinner the Mrs does the evening do .Its for anyone who turns up, and if they dont then more for us !!!
Love cooking the xmas stuff.
loads of red vino and then hit the cheese board with a vintage port.
happy days
Will be a strange one... not been home for Christmas since December 2006. Only time of year I get homesick. Previous 3 years been in Canada so at least it feels like Christmas. Wouldn't know it was Christmas down here now.
I usually wear an apron
We are haveing the full works down at our local Harvester (Running Horse). We are not sure if it will be our first and last time having our main meal out, but at least the other half soesn't have to worry about us leaving the food after all her hard work.