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Christmas

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What to eat on 23rd 24th evening

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Hattieandcake · 23/12/2025 15:28

Can’t face cooking now until Thurs….

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FairViewRosie25 · 23/12/2025 21:55

Getting a Cook fish pie tomorrow after picking up turkey etc. Consultancy tomorrow morning for 2 hours beforehand

Heathotstuff · 23/12/2025 21:59

Chinese all the way Christmas Eve

RescueMeFromThisSilliness · 23/12/2025 22:04

Today it was random freezer surprise (turned out to be pasta for me and sweet & sour something for DH). Tomorrow evening we are having pizza & chips with some salad and a few spicy chicken skewer things.

Rubyupbeat · 23/12/2025 22:05

Mince pies and chocolate tonight, chinese takeaway tomorrow. All really bad, but I don't care.

ReadySaltedSquares · 23/12/2025 22:33

Gliblet · 23/12/2025 19:49

I'm always a bit 😬 when people ask for recipes because I'm rubbish at following them myself and just tend to chuck stuff in a pan and slap it around with a wooden spoon til it looks like food 😆 However...

Halve a butternut squash, scoop out the seeds and cut it into large chunks - don't bother peeling it. Chuck it into a roasting tin and then cut the top off a head of garlic (the whole bulb) and put that in. Drizzle some oil over it - any seed, olive or vegetable oil - add salt, pepper and some rosemary if you have it and put it in the oven to roast until the squash is soft and just starting to brown around the edges. Probably about half an hour at 180. Let it cool down (unless you have chef's asbestos fingers) then peel the skin off the squash and drop the flesh into a large saucepan. Squeeze the garlic out of its papery shell into the same pan, and add a half cup of red lentils.

Add two cups of vegetable stock and simmer until the lentils are soft (about 20 mins). At this point if you want to you can add a can of cannelini beans (extra protein and fibre), or half a tub of cream cheese (bit more luxurious), or both, and then blitz everything together either with a stick blender or in a jug blender. If it looks a little too runny, pop it back on to simmer and thicken up a bit. Also give it a taste - you can add salt and pepper obviously, but don't add much salt if you're planning to serve it with parmesan.

You can serve it stirred through any cooked pasta, with or without parmesan/parmeggiano, and possibly with a drizzle of chilli oil over the top. And if you start with the same base (squash, garlic, lentils) then add coconut milk, miso, and red Thai curry paste you can turn it into a really nice creamy noodle sauce.

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I know what you mean about sharing recipes - but this sounds epic, thank you!

Girlking · 24/12/2025 07:52

LunaDeBallona · 23/12/2025 16:27

Well we usually have a large ‘Christmas Gammon’ on the 23rd but my autistic daughter decided today was the day to punch me, slap me and scream at me many times that I’m a cunt for asking her to flush the loo (she’s 18 btw) so I’m not really in the mood to cook it so it will be sandwiches while I cry in bed.

I’m so sorry that happened to you 😕 that’s just awful 😞 sending hugs 💕

BIWI · 24/12/2025 09:50

Ended up having a Chinese takeaway last night, just me and DC2.

Tonight will be steak, chips and salad.

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 24/12/2025 17:51

CharlotteStreetW1 · 23/12/2025 16:16

Pizza and garlic bread tonight, I'm done with cooking this year!

Tomorrow will be whatever the good restaurateurs of Seville care to tempt me with...

Ooh! Do you live in Seville or are you away there for Christmas ?

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 24/12/2025 18:02

McDonald’s tonight then. My order is a McPlant, cheesy dippers and a grinch apple pie!

MotherTuckinGenius · 24/12/2025 18:12

I’ve had a couple of beef joints in the slow cooker for a few hours. It’s beef sandwiches this evening and I have a nice stock to bubble on the hob tomorrow to make a delicious gravy.

AxolotlEars · 27/12/2025 15:49

I'm late to the thread but we had salmon en croute from the freezer section in Aldi... really good!

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