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.....

This could be the first time I've been thrown off a thread.

oi! Nonfoodies! Push off and start a Turkey Twizzler thread!!

We shall not we shall not be moved.

(All together now)

Lol. Not in this weather. A centrally heated camper at least!

Fishfingers anyone?

Moondog..save us from these junkfoodfreaks!

She will get rid of you. She can be very scary when she wants to be!

Scary? Naah! We've got cod on our side. We're all having pot noodle for xmas

too right

crunchie I did those Christmas Muffins last year and they were not a success - but then tbh my lot aren't really into muffins.

Christmas breakfast has now been changed (by popular request) to pancakes, bacon and maple syrup. Local bacon of course

I feel sorry for the junk food demons. but I forgive you

Well we def won't be doing a goose if they're £70, my word!

I can do you a great big lovely duck for £15

quite sweet that the dds havent made the connection between the fact the ducks in a garden in the village have gone and there is now a great big oven ready duck sitting on the side in the kitchen

ha ha enid. They haven't seen Babe then?

god no

they do understand (lots of farming here) but Babe would put dd1 off pork for life and its difficult enough to get her to eat meat as it is

Glad to see that Enis is dreagging the thread out of the mud.
Must maintain standards gels!!!

Collision...to use 70's gal talk,your dh sounds dreamy...

Any parties going on? What will you lot be doing for that.

Also,more boozy talk please!

can't do booze I am afraid as 20 weeks pg

have some great wines lined up for dh et al though

We have very foodie friends coming to stay on the 27/28 and I have NO IDEA what I am going to make, they will want something local and organic and meaty. Will go to the farm shop before Christmas and see what they have. Maybe a great piece of beef.

oh and that will be a very drunken couple of days (for everyone else) so cocktails, more fab red wines and the laguvulin will all be downed then

God yes,pg at Christmas!
Such a bore,but well worth it of course!

At least you won't wake feeling like death Enid.
I haven't drunk a drop for five weeks.Will surely keel over at the merest whiff of Champers.

ok here it is for us, (ther'es only the 2 of us so we're trying to scale it right back as we always pig out! )

Xmas Eve: - don't normally have anything special for the dinner - might pop over to a friend's for drinks, DH can get v drunk i'll be on OJ!

Xmas Day: don't normally eat a breakfast - might do but v doubtful, if we do then it will be bacon/eggs and toast but highly unlikely.

roast turkey, carrots, swede (maybe) broc cabbage cali. roasties croquets yorkshires pigs in blankets DH will have a larger i'll have my OJ, for afters xmas pud for DH with cream/custard - up to him, and i'm debating to get a choccy cake for me or not as I don't eat xmas cake/pud. (we'll eat around 12.30-1pm ish (somehting like that) turkey normally cooks over night (v low heat) so smells lovely when we wake up!

dinner - again doubtful, mainly we just pick at the turkey thats left over - this year we're only having one meat as opposed to the normal 2/3 we have (had family down previously)

boxing day - again ifits basically. (pretty much all we eat till new year)

new years eve - out in town somewhere or other.
New years day - my mum/dad are down they're supplying the meat - prob roast of some sort, 2 types of pots and 3/4 veg, suspect it will be either beef/turkey again or turkey/bacon, or maybe even a bit of pork. no tea/breakfast again. then ifits really.

md - ah yes I don't have to drink now - just laying next to DH after a night out gets me drunk! lol - not touched a drop in about 25 weeks! OMG!!!!!!

pigs in blankets...
Rings a bell.What is it exactly?

pigs in blankets...
Rings a bell.What is it exactly?

ooh sorry hon it's what we term little coctail sauages and streaky bacon wrapped around them - only out at xmas! hmm yummy! ooh forgot stuffing of course!