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who isn't having turkey? ..

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choufleur · 27/10/2007 15:42

... and what are you going to have instead? apparently i need to order a fairly soon from our local farm if i want turkey. just wondered what other people are going to be eating on christmas day

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glaskham · 27/10/2007 17:51

my mummy is cooking our dinner i think.....i'm still undecided.....i dont want to trapse round to everyone else this year like we have done the last 5 years since i left home to live with my other half..... now i have my own family i just want to sit at home, have a nice xmas dinner just us, and everyone come to us in the evening to see the kids...... so if we DO go to my mums it'll be turkey, ham and sausages......and if i DONT go to my mums i'll be doing a chicken and sausages......mmmmm bread sauce....got my mouth watering already!!!

JacOLantanne · 27/10/2007 18:18

Me, I don't eat meat

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choufleur · 27/10/2007 19:10

anyone had one of those bird inside a bird things? they sound v nice but bit much for mr, dh and ds (18mo). i agree with you glaskham i dont want to traipse around everyone so we're staying at home. i don't mind who visits during the day but i'm not cooking for them.

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MALO · 27/10/2007 19:18

I'm yet to cook a turkey and enjoy it - I always seem to make it go so dry....and no matter how much wine I drink with it it never tastes like a turkey, let alone look like one!

ladygrinningsoul · 27/10/2007 19:43

We've had a bird inside a bird - actually a three bird roast from here - a few times. It's delicious and easy to cook and carve, but you need to be feeding 8 + people or you will be eating it for days.

They do geese as well, for the poster who was asking about them. The trouble with a goose is the HUGE amount of fat that has to be poured off during the cooking, and the surprisingly small amount of meat on it.

Rib of beef for us this year.

TheYoungVisiter · 27/10/2007 19:49

I loooooooooooooooooooooove goose. I think we might have that again this year - if we can afford it.

Plus you get bucket loads of goose fat that makes amazing roasties for the next few months... mmmm...

ProfYaffle · 27/10/2007 19:54

Me - I'm veggie. Will be having chestnut and red wine loaf.

boolepew · 27/10/2007 19:55

Thinking of lamb this year

satine · 27/10/2007 19:58

Def turkey. I cooked goose a couple of years ago and although it tasted nice, it was a lot of hassle for a relatively tiny bit of meat.
I couldn't believe how little edible meat there was on such a massive and expensive bird!

tribpot · 27/10/2007 19:58

We won't. Last year we hosted Xmas and we had beef for the meat-eaters and my step-dad provided chestnut stuffing for the veggies. This year it'll just be me, dh and ds and for preference we'd probably have spag bol! But I will push the boat out and get a 'dead easy to roast' joint of some description since roast dinner (minus stuffing and gravy) is doable with the wheat-intolerant men of my household.

empen · 27/10/2007 20:01

Yuummmm!!
Dads home made nut loaf in puff pasrty.

MALO · 27/10/2007 20:32

empen...that sounds lovely

empen · 27/10/2007 21:02

It really is good. My parents are veggies and so I was pretty much bought up veggie but I do eat meat now but would still choose dads nut loaf over turkey. He just takes a normal nut loaf, crumbles it up adds some stuff including curry powder!! then re forms it and covers it in puff pastry. My mouth is watering just thinking about it

MaryAnnSingletomb · 27/10/2007 21:07

goingfor3 - capons are illegal ?? so my MIL has been doing blackmarket deals with her butcher ?!

MrsBadger · 27/10/2007 21:48

capons are legal as far as I know
I suppose you may have to get them from a specialist, who might also be a certified game dealer (which is a legal issue)...

MALO · 27/10/2007 21:59

empen - do you take orders for your Dad's nut loaf?!

CountTo10 · 27/10/2007 22:00

We always have beef as dp's not a massive fan of turkey and between dinners at my dads, my mums and dp's mums we have enough turkey to last a lifetime!!!! I do get a crown though to do sandwiches and stuff.

nzshar · 27/10/2007 22:42

Never do turkey here either. No one in this house particularly likes it so either lamb or pork roast usually. Though sometimes may end up not the best roast i do after a few glasses of champers while cooking, everyone says its nice though

goingfor3 · 27/10/2007 22:48

I heard it was because it's inhumane as they are castrasted cockrels. I am probably wrong but feel really sure that I read it somewhere.

MrsBadger · 28/10/2007 10:50

you're right and it can be inhumane, but not illegal yet as far as I know

goingfor3 · 28/10/2007 11:49

I just found this on wiki which I guess means that all the caopns available here are from abroad.

The caponisation of poultry is banned in the United Kingdom on animal welfare grounds, though the meat itself is not illegal.

PeachyFleshCrawlingWithBugs · 28/10/2007 12:06

Dad will do turket, but when I 're-run' Dinner a few days alter home here it will be one of those M&S duck in a chicken in a turket things (not the £99 one though LOL).

Not doing beef- Mum and FIL won't eat it with any pink which is a complete waste imo. Last time we tried it, FIL refused to eat just the tiniest flas of pink- and insisted we cremate it.

Chirpyghoul · 28/10/2007 12:21

We have orange/cointreau marinaded beef on christmas day and have done for the last 4 years, it's our tradition!
DH hates turkey and there is no point cooking it for 2 of us, even with DD1 eating this year it is not going to be worth it.

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