To cook a chicken on Christmas day?

[StarsUponThars]

I can buy a higher welfare chicken for less £ than a lower welfare turkey. And it will be lovely.

Willie Lows! Are you Scottish ouryve?

I always miss the juicy bits!!!

Turkey is horrid. I'm doing gammon.

Was I attacked? Why? Because if where I live? I honestly don't see what I said that was so wrong.

And did I get reported?

Cook whatever the hell you like as long as its legal :0)
You are the ones eating it after all. We are doing beef rib, ham and a small turkey crown as a token gesture because I bloody hate turkey and rest of family don't care

We are having a BBQ and seafood.

We too are having Chicken

Chicken was the original before Turkey became popular for christmas.

In the Northeast, Stars. We had one near to where I lived, as a student.

I saw all the deleted messages. Nobody missed anything very much. One person may have been a little tired and emotional, that's all. The wrong end of the stick appeared to have been firmly gripped.

Morloth, I'm assuming you're not in the UK. It's not BBQ weather here at the moment.

Blessed are the cheese makers London ... or something

Weird but then the internet is full of nutters. Speaking of which, I am going to really miss my family this year.

That's not a comment on my lovely post is it Theo ?

How come you're not with them this year dorous ?

No, sorry, it was about further up when someone seemed to have a bizarre and disproportionate reaction to the fact I live in Qatar. I would never, ever make fun of anything to do with cheese. I have a fridge full of the stuff, every single variety you can think of. They are nestled next to the chicken I am cooking tomorrow

I have decided to go back and see them when it is less busy, otherwise I never get to see my mum properly. We will go back in february

Just checking Theo - love that on MN I can chat about cheese on a chicken for XMas thread with someone in Qatar.
< Wonders how anyone got upset about the Qatar bit ?! >

I had a lovely Christmas with DP in northern Japan a few years before we had the DC - we went ski-ing and had a bento box for lunch - I think I forgot to miss the rest of the family back home in UK ...
Actually I think I missed cheese and curries more that year!

Anyhow I hope you have a nice Chrimbo too - and remember you'll be seeing everyone in February?

We are having a pizza.

Glad to see I am in such good company, chicken with all the trimmings, even Yorkshire puddings, special request from DD2. No Christmas pudding either as we don't like it so sherry trifle and cheese cake. Oh and a bit of fizz for mum. ??

we are having turkey

but only because waitrose has bloody run out of chickens

morloth is probably in Australia or NZ. It is 'traditional' to do a bbq with a pavlova. Obviously there are silly people insisting on stodgy christmas pudding and a steaming oven with a large joint of meat and roast veggies. I much prefer a barbecue outdoors.

I'm having stir fried rice, gyozas and mont blanc. I'm the only one who like roast so I'm not inflicting roast chicken on my family.

I live in NZ. We had the (obligatory) bbq on Christmas Eve. We had been to an out door carol concert with a live nativity.

My husband had just finished barbequing the steak, lamb chops and chicken as the rain started. He bought the food indoors where I had the table set. We quickly moved the bbq into the garage to cool down.

Today, Christmas lunch, we had roast chicken with all the trimmings. I made sherry trifle for dessert.

Oh, and I also served (the obligatory) strawberry pavlova for dessert on Christmas Eve after the (obligatory) Christmas Eve bbq.

I don't need to worry about being reported to the 'no bbq or pavlova on Christmas Eve in New Zealand' police.

I'll stay shtumm about my roast chicken Christmas Day lunch. I don't want to get a reputation with my neighbours.

DS2 (aged20 and a 3rd year student) has just served up roast chicken, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, stuffing, pigs in blankets and gravy. And it was bloody gorgeous! Hope his dad (and my STBX) are enjoying Mauritius and I don't envy them one bit!