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.....

Pah, I snear at the shortshighted 'foodies' who snear at turkey crowns

Mine will be organic, and hand crafted by a craftsman of a local butcher......who knows more about meat than I do.

Fine local food and supporting a local buisness to boot!

So Pah to you!

ah mb a turkey crown is fine but just like an enormous chicken breast - eg not enough dark meat and bones to get the best flavour

Turkey crown..huh!!!
It would make me feel that I was eating the product of a mastectomy. No thanks,especially after seeing some ad in the gym for a crown from Iceland that can apparently be cooked from frozen.

I retched on the Stairmaster!!!!

Haven't decided how to do my goose yet.With apples probably. There was a recipe in yesterday's Telegraph for one stuffed with mash which seems wrong...

Yes bk,Enid is right.The whole point of this thread is that we foodies get free rein to exercise our snobberies and jugement without fear of reprise.

It's epicurian freddom I tell ya!

turkey crown is quite a depressing sight....

do you speak french moondog?
have found interesting goose recipes in french:
fabulous but complicated
nice and easier
very easy

Yes I do fk. Did a degree in it!
Thank you,I'll check them out.

Actually that ad infuriated me-it was some trollop whose face is familiar (unfortunately) from the front of all those scuzzy magazines. Kerry someone I think. Is she a soap star?

Anyway,she is purporting to read a recipe book and throws it aside with the words 'Get a life' or similar.

So what are we supposed to be saving time for??
To watch more shite tv?
Buy more electrical shite?
Eat even more shite food?

I don't know.......

But my turkey crown is just so upper middle class darling, and I get to support a local craftsman

Full of flavour due to his superior stuffing (oh er mrs).

And there are only 4 of us for dinner and I can't abide Turkey ad nausiam in the later days.

BC I tended to do pheasants, which were rather nice, for the two of us

oops moondog, I really must pay more attention...

goose with mash stuffing is how I am going to do mine at NYE

it is lovely

the mash soaks up all the fatty tasty juices

Just decided on my menus, after weeks of deliberating, so can finally add to this thread:
Xmas Eve - baked seabass, steamed veg, lemongrass and ginger sauce, rice, champagne.
Xmas Day - Roast leg of pork with apricot stuffing,bought from the new farm shop on the Stratfield Saye estate. It came with the pig's identification number written on the leg and packaging. Whatever veg the local organic veg man puts in his christmas box which he'll bring round on the 23rd. Xmas pud/mince pies etc afterwards. Champagne and Brown Brothers Orange muscat cocktails, good claret, Port and lagavulin for the men. Champagne for the ladies.
Boxing Day - lunch - parsnip and apple soup, bread.
Supper - starter of smoked salmon, watercress and clementines with clem juice&olive oil dressing, then cold meats, baked potatoes, shop bought chutneys, salad leaves, then fresh fruit salad and home made sherry trifle.
Back to work on the 27th, thank god.
Hope this meets your strict criteria md, or i will have to join the pot noodle non foodies!

Christmas Day Breakfast - muffins with bacon and eggs of your choice....or smoked salmon.
10am - whilst opening presents - lashings of Cava - either straight or as a Kir Royale - yes my family are all alcos.

Lunch - around 2pm - starter - tiger prawns in lemon butter, main, fillet of beef wrapped in parma ham with roasties, roast parsnips, cauli cheese and some green veg, pudding - a choc torte and Xmas pudding followed by platter of local cheese.

Boxing Day - an Aussie barbie to please my Aussie DH - already ordered the chops, snags and chook from the butchers. He will be the one outside barbecueing with a beer in his hand whilst we stay in the warm!!

Yes,I was paying attention Enid,hence my comments. I shall await the verdict with interest.

Glad to see that the tone has been raised thanks to these recent splendid posts.
Sal,tell your brother to get over here. I will be waiting with a freshly made mint julep for him.

LOL harrogatemum, hope it doesn't snow!

Well of all the mad threads I have ever seen on MN, i really think this is the maddest...

Why is that then Natt????

Eeh, well moondog, in all honesty it's probably just because it's making me feel so wildly inadequate. As long as none of you chutney makers and pork belly rollers are working fulltime, grotesquely pregnant and living in hosues which are crumbling as fast as you repair them, i guess I'll get over it...

Natt,it's not made ot make anyone feel bad..just indulging our greed!

(Much sympathy-been there kiddo)

XXX

Carry on, md, just feeling mildly scrooge-ish. my day for making chutney will come! x

i very rarely get time for things i enjoy, tbh.

It's a fair point, enid. Presented with a farmhouse kitchen full of apples ready to be chutney-ed, I suspect I would go and read a book in a long bath. You feeling better?

lol

yes feeling much better thanks

I certainly do have days when I disappear to read a book and then the chutney comes from the WI market