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ForMintUser · 2024-12-26T22:41:24+00:00

Turkey - shit. There’s a reason we only eat it once a year because it’s terrible. Party food - beige shit. Venting because I’m not allowed to voice these opinions around DP’s relatives so have to lie every year and pretend like it’s all lovely. It’s not. Anyone agree? Disagree? Have anything else they hate about Christmas they want to vent about?

AInightingale · 27/12/2024 20:38

chaosmaker · 27/12/2024 20:01

Shops have already started putting easter eggs out

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Can live with an aisle of chocolate eggs in the supermarket! (however ridiculous in January)

klimtchakra · 27/12/2024 21:10

DreamTheMoors · 27/12/2024 02:23

Has anyone ever cooked a goose?
One year I was with a date and we stopped by his sister’s house and she mentioned she had a goose in the oven.
This was bizarre because this was a small town deep in agricultural California where everybody just had turkey for Christmas, no big deal.
I thought I was in a Charles Dickens novel.
Where the hell did she even get a goose?
I should’ve asked her but I didn’t want to come off like a country bumpkin like I am now.

My dad always did a goose. He got it from the same local village butchers that everyone got their turkey from. I think most good butchers will do goose if there is a demand for it. I think Goose was once a more traditionally English Christmas bird than turkey.

Disneydatknee88 · 27/12/2024 22:07

Boxing day leftovers are shite. Bubble and squeak, cold slices of meat. Get in the bin.

My mum always does a horrendous turkey curry on boxing day. Turkey isn't great the first time around. You cannot improve it by serving it the following day from a slow cooker with a tin of chopped tomatoes, sultanas and whatever spices are knocking about in the cupboard 🤢

Laundryblue · 29/12/2024 18:33

Being on your own.

lovescats3 · 30/12/2024 02:21

That if feels like a marathon so tiring with so much to do

curtaintwitcher78 · 30/12/2024 05:12

Tomorrowistheday · 26/12/2024 22:53

I don't think I've ever had a turkey Christmas dinner.
Years ago I used to have roast beef or roast pork. But our usual Christmas dinner for a long time has been a thick chickpea stew made with chorizo.
We love it. Easy to make. And minimum washing up.

Would you mind sharing the recipe please? Sounds lovely.

Tomorrowistheday · 30/12/2024 10:57

curtaintwitcher78 · 30/12/2024 05:12

Would you mind sharing the recipe please? Sounds lovely.

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Sorry I tried to send you the recipe via pm but wasn't able to.
It's basically quite an improvised recipe so no exact quantities, it's all done by estimation.
I soak the chickpeas over night. I also soak a smallish quantity of Mung beans and a few black beans and white beans with the chickpeas. I love the flavour of Mung beans.
When I make the stew on Christmas eve I boil up the soaked pulses for 10 minutes while I prepare the veg. I chop up about 3 cloves of garlic, an onion, about 3 large carrots and a red pepper. This year I also added a chopped parsnip to the veg.
Then I heat up sesame oil in the base of the large soup pan. Add the veg and saute for a few minutes.
I add two cans of chopped tomatoes and some water. I put in the boiled and rinsed pulses. Add about five large potato chopped into rough pieces.
Then I add a pack of the Sainsbury's chorizo slices - the 34 slice pack. This year I added half a Polish garlic sausage - chopped into rough slices.
Then I add ground black pepper, salt, oregano and basil.
Bring the whole lot to the boil and simmer for about and and a half - until the chicken peas are cooked.
So on Christmas day when we come in from our lunch time / early afternoon walk it just has to be heated up. Served with some nice bread and rioja and followed by profiteroles.

curtaintwitcher78 · 30/12/2024 10:59

Tomorrowistheday · 30/12/2024 10:57

Sorry I tried to send you the recipe via pm but wasn't able to.
It's basically quite an improvised recipe so no exact quantities, it's all done by estimation.
I soak the chickpeas over night. I also soak a smallish quantity of Mung beans and a few black beans and white beans with the chickpeas. I love the flavour of Mung beans.
When I make the stew on Christmas eve I boil up the soaked pulses for 10 minutes while I prepare the veg. I chop up about 3 cloves of garlic, an onion, about 3 large carrots and a red pepper. This year I also added a chopped parsnip to the veg.
Then I heat up sesame oil in the base of the large soup pan. Add the veg and saute for a few minutes.
I add two cans of chopped tomatoes and some water. I put in the boiled and rinsed pulses. Add about five large potato chopped into rough pieces.
Then I add a pack of the Sainsbury's chorizo slices - the 34 slice pack. This year I added half a Polish garlic sausage - chopped into rough slices.
Then I add ground black pepper, salt, oregano and basil.
Bring the whole lot to the boil and simmer for about and and a half - until the chicken peas are cooked.
So on Christmas day when we come in from our lunch time / early afternoon walk it just has to be heated up. Served with some nice bread and rioja and followed by profiteroles.

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Sounds perfect. Thanks so much!