OK serious foodies alert!!!!!! Run us through what you're planning for your Christmas and new year celebrations!

[moondog]

No talk of Paxo or Bisto puhleeeeeeeze!!!!!!

How about the booze issue????

I think Christmas Eve will be a seafood feast as usual (crabs from the lleyn peninsula are the best in the world!)
Lashings of Miuscadet to accompany and perhaps tropica lfruit afterwards.

Christmas Day.......goose and stuffed apples with spiced red cabbage,brussel sprouts,root vegetable mash (turnip,parsnip and carrots with cream and nutmeg) and roast potatoes. Good Burgundy avec
Smoked salmon and caviar blinis to start with vats of Champagne.
Christmas pudding,Stilton and oatcakes with a Sauternes.

New Years Eve....rolled pork belly and quince compote followed by a pavlova. Not sure of the accompaniments or the wine at present.

Over to you lot.....

its not pretentious if you really do it though, is it? strictly?

watch it or we will all have baked cod and then you'll be sorry...

arf at yor sautrenes

snigger at oyu lot

pph you are allwoed to be pretentious
t her est of you are saddos

no enid, it is reality. well pointed out!

i'm not pretentious, I haven't said what I'm having yet!

mainly because xmas lunch is being provided by someone else and I haven't even thought about any of the other meals. I'll be 36 weeks by then, DH will be lucky to get toast

36 weeks

do you know what you are having (baby wise not meal wise)

girl, making 2 of each. most symmetrical!!

ah v organised

coddy is going to HATE the name

god I must know it

You are all so well organised.

xmas eve fir us is takeaway-normally chinese not sure this year

I normally do traditional turkey all the trimmings, trifle, prawn cocktail-oops sorry wrong way around

HOWEVER!!!!

Hubby has been harping on for years that he wants to go out for xmas dinner but i kinda like being in the house stuffing my face an lying on the couch like a beached whale

This year we are going to the chinese restaurant for xmas dinner-they also have traditional xmas meals being served.

Will have a buffet in the evening

Boxing day hubby's nana is coming to stay[dreaded emotion]
will do roast ham, some sort of potatoes and veg not to sure really

I want to be at home!!!!!!!!!

ha
happy pot noodle cod
wont your children complain a bit?

sally
washed down with fizzy lemonade of course

arf
what si the name?
fenella?

lol at Enid's bumbleberry juice.
Ww,your trifle passes. Phew!!!!

Yes PPH you are right. I wouldn't do the Sauternes with a Stilton-I think I had a mad foodie stream of consciousness. I shall be picking out a very special rouge for that one.

Foie gras is tempting,but after a few Christmases in Tououse with sister and French bil's home prepared ones,I think I have been spoilt for ever.

(Luckily have quite a few tins of caviar stashed away from out time in Russia,which,needless to say,will not be sharing with anyone. Well maybe with dh a bit...)

barf

We are having organic rare roast beef on Christmas day with lots of veg and roast potatoes and I haven't thought much beyond that except for rare roast beef sandwiches with butter and horseradish the next day which is more tempting to me than the beef on the day, I love cold rare roast beef sandwiches. My sister very kindly sent us a case of wonderful wine as a wedding present (she added a note saying 'thought I'd get you something practical' har de har) and we have Champagne left over from our wedding so we're sorted on the booze front too. I will read the thread now and I bet it makes my mouth water.

it is real though moony

bumbleberry