to think what is the point of pannetone, and other POINTLESS Christmas foods which we are conned into buying

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What is it for.

You are just conned into buying great big pretty boxes of boring dry fruit bread.

Tell me anyone if you actually eat all your pannetone.

Ditto wierdo cheeses (rhurbarb stilton for example) and 4-packs of dip.

said with a NY accent - I like it

This is the funniest - GOML, you are too funny. I also want to be pm'd everytime you start a post!

Having said that panetonne is lovely, especially as a bread and butter pudding. I have been known to make sandwiches of the stuff up in the freezer and then you can make instant bread and butter pudding when you want to impress someone!

I too was in the fruit shouldn't be in cheese camp but am coming round to the idea of wensleydale and cranberries - all that hovering up of the cheese plates when everything decent has gone is giving me quite a taste for it.

Having said all that, I too have not bought either of these or a stollen this Xmas and don't plan too - Christmas this year is going to be kinder to my hips, if only I can step away from the chocolate bark and mincepies.....

Sarah Harding's face is v. interesting. Stand by the PMing. Do you think MN could do some kind of macro to make it happen?

WTF is pannetone???

I just need baileys, wine, nuts, chocolate and little oranges and its christmas

A ha! Turns out we even had Spekulatius in the house (DH had been on 'let's buy weird German Brands for Christmas' trip to Aldi)

And all I can say is 'omnomnom'.

You lot are too kind, am not that funny, am more of a daft twat than anything.

Not just funny but interesting too

I use pannetone for Christmas eggy bread and Bacon breakfast with lots of strawberries and maple syrup, love it.

Aha - so us panettone-doubters were right all along. We've been supplied with the shit sort. We want the QUALITY sort, smothered in mascarpone cream. Then we can truly judge. It does sound MUCH better, I have to say.

oh and GOML - I was thinking just the other day how odd Sarah Harding's face looks. Sad but true.

Had been planning xmas at the ILs, now with the snow we are not going. So I find myself in with xmas coming round the corner and none of the usual in: no dried fruit based cakes, no fancy boxes of crackers, no nasty dips and brussels sprouts....and without having the long run up to buying all that crap I can't bring myself to do it now.

Will walk to town tomorrow and hopefully get something that we actually like to eat. As long as it involves gravy and roast potatoes I am sure everyone will be happy.

Pannetone is made for this recipe:

Slice it up into inch thick slices and then into inch wide fingers.

Lay the fingers in a shallow oven dish and pour over a mixture of double cream and milk.

Make a butterscotch sauce and pour some of this over the fingers, lay another layer of pannetone fingers over the top, more milk and cream, and then more butterscotch sauce.

When you've used up all the pannetone, milk/cream and butterscotch sauce, bake in the oven till bubbling.

Take it out of the oven, dust with icing sugar, and then serve with vanilla ice-cream.

I love butterscotch sauce, I don't dare make it anymore because I just cannot stop if it is in the house, I can actually feel my arse getting bigger with each spoonful.

I love panettone. Don't have a sweet tooth, and so it is the perfect level of sweet for me. I agree that it, like many things, has wonderful version and crap ones, and is heavenly toasted with butter.

Can't stand mince pie, fruitcake, christmas pudding, stollen, or those German gingerbready things. Marzipan is the devil's creation, and gateau des rois are an abomination.

I used to spend a fortune on supermarket 'party food' - mini quiches, canapes, cheese wrapped in bacon etc - before I admitted to myself they taste crap and people are happier with some smoked salmon on brown bread and home cooked cocktail sausages.

do any supermarkets sell gateaux des rois?

or anyone got a recipe?

Swan - you are right.

Cocktail sausages, smoked salmon, mince pies and a load of good bread and cheese.

Not big posh praaaaaawns a la Kerry Katona.

Meant galette des Riis. here is a recipe, otherwise maison blanc sells them.

Grrrr! Stupid predictive text on iPads! Rois.

I think you were right with rois

That's a complicated recipe. I quite wanted to have one this january

GetOrf, you're doing it again - you're on MN after your allotted timeslot, and it's confusing me (yes yes, I know it doesn't take much!).

ohi adore the stuff!

DP is watching Die Hard 2 for the millionth time - so came on mn instead.

Better than the Chinese subtitled number DH is watching - lots of battle scenes then random men weeping