What Are You Having For Christmas Dinner?

Hopefully I can find a KFC or Maccy D's thats open.If not boring turkey and all the trimmings.
Yes before you ask I have had a champagne breakfast and a Chateau neuf de pape elevenses(SP)
Merry Christmas everybody have a good one

 

Leg of lamb ... with garlic and fresh rosemary ... on the BBQ (I had probs finding charcoal, but got a bag from a Polish delicatessen)

roast potatoes done in the oven with goosefat

fresh spinach prepared with fresh cream, onion and a potato that is then mashed, and lashings of loads of fresh ground black pepper

butternut, boiled, drained then mashed with butter and a bit of brown sugar and a pinch of salt

Fresh beetroot salad with a Greek garlic sauce

Peas ... steamed and served with a knob of butter

Greek salad with loads of feta cheese and olives

rice with gravy

loads of Tesco finest christmas pudding served with fresh hot custard

chocolates, nuts, mince pies, home made ice cream etc etc

NO BRUSSEL SPROUTS

loads of Stella and am enjoying some Chivas at the moment ... and loads of music which I will listen to on my laptop with speakers connected to Spotify

kids have mates around, and will light the BBQ`in approx 30 minutes ... will most prob eat at approx 5pm

have already taken the Weber BBQ`out of the shed, and have seen the old neighbour peeping at me through drawn curtains ....

 

We shall be having Pine nutmeat with herb stuffing, from the 1982 edition of Rose Elliot's Gourmet vegetarian cooking, pus all the trimmings. Yum!

 

I am having fish fingers and chips, and the mrs is having ham egg and chips.

I feel I should explain. Every year previous (There have been a lot of them) its always turkey, spuds, haricot beans etc, always "the same old thing" and tomorrow we will be visiting relatives (as you do) and guess what they will be offering us, yes, turkey spuds etc. So for a change we thought we would have something we really would like, so............

Oh, and we are having Christmas crackers, just not the "traditional Christmas dinner"

 

Turk / stuffing, our own spuds, carrots, sprouts and artichokes, small saus' in bacon. (80) so that's just 40 each. Cheers, Tony.

 

We had spring rolls and sesame prawn toasts followed by crispy duck pancakes followed by chicken breast coated in roasted almond with egg fried rice and vegetable noodles .. with red wine .. with our Jewish friends as we do every year. There were even nibbles to bring home for the cats and the homeless dogs we feed. :yess:

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Standing rib roast in oven now, did my usual dry rub, it will roast until about 4PM. Then will make whipped potatoes, and brussel sprouts sauted in little onion and pine nuts tossed in. Then yorkshire pudding. Made a sweet potato pie early this morning, have heavy cream to whip for it. Also have some good wines to serve.

Its only 1:30PM here.

 

Excluding drinks, which I shouldn't perhaps have had as I'm off to donate blood at 9.00am tomorrow.

We had..

Wafer thin, pastry with lightly grilled cheese and ham on top, this was served as a cold dish, followed by..

A wonderful cold fish platter with a light salad, followed by..

Roast turkey crown, with all the trimmings, b-u-g-g-e-r-s (a potatoes dish), and home grown parsnips, sprouts, leaks, onions, but sadly shop bought potatoes and carrots, followed by..

I don't really have a sweet tooth, but the above was followed by a very dark and nice home made Xmas pudding.

 

Enjoy what ever you have, but don't over do it like mr creosote

The following clip should not be watched if you have just eaten

Search You tube for Mr Creosote (monty python)

Please don't link to it, folk may have just eaten

 

We went to my little sister's expecting turkey and the usual medley of veg.

What we got can only be described as a banquet.

Turkey, gammon and "pigs in blankets" shared the very large meat tray with proper stuffing. Then there were separate bowls of roast parsnip, broc, cauli, peas, roasties, boiled spuds, mash, mashed turnips, and a large box of sprouts.

We ate til we were stuffed to bursting point, and then forced down some trifle.

Only had one can of very mild bitter to wash it down, as being the only one (except the hosts) that drives, guess who had to exercise restraint. Not complaining though. It was superb.

I'm intrigued. What's that one?

 

Edited like a true gentleman

 

I do the Crimbo dinner, so it was traditional
Home made chicken soup, Prawn cocktail or both
Turkey, sausage with bacon rolled,sage n onion, and chestnut stuffing
cranberry sauce (home made)
Roast Maris Piper spuds roasted in goose fat
parsnips roasted and glazed
sprouts
carrots
New potatoes
Home made Christmas pudding ( made back in October) Brandy butter
Sherry Triffle

Champagne, Rose, Red or White wine

My two adult children, get a turkey leg and some breast each to take home for nibbles later
All the excess not eaten is binned, could not be bothered with turkey soup, turkey curry, or bubble and squeak

Tomorrow the same but with Roast leg of Pork
Then New Years day the same but with Goose

Jack McH