FOODIES: What are you having for Christmas?

[Mercy]

Following on from last year's thread basically, which I thought was really interesting - and droolsworthy!

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Well.....
Christmas lunch will be turkey (free range bought direct for the farmer at the farmer's market). We tried goose last year, but I like the turkey better. Accompanied by chipolata sausage wrapped in smokey bacon (bought from the park farmer). Veg will be traditional roast potates (roasted in goose fat which we also get at the farmer's market), brussel sprouts and one other veg which I haven't decided yet - all bought from the farmers market. We may have a starter that is fish related. We have a great supplier at the farmer's market and I will see what he has available. I don't think we will have christmas pudding as my family doesn't like it. I will look into some recipes.

Boxing day is always roast beef. I have ordered some a nice beef rib roast from the farmers market. Homemade yorkshire puds and real gravey of course. Not sure about the veg yet.

Drooling already.....

A bbq -

McDreamy, where are you then?!

Come on Moondog, Enid, etc. Where are you?

Duck with a cranberry stuffing.

Potatoes roasted in goose fat.

Veg TBC. but will include overdone sprouts for me.

Have jsut realised that we are woefully under discussed on this subject. Will get back to you.

No starter -too much food otherwise.

Turkey (Free range Kelly Bronze from local butcher)
Roast Potatoes (in goose fat)
Nigella's Gingerbread stuffing
Chesnut stuffing
Bacon wrapped around mix of Paxo and sausagemeat (I know - paxo - but it's a trad family thing)
Carrots with honey glaze
Green beans with lemon dressing
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

We start off mid morning with a cooked breakfast (the works including fried bread and black pudding) with tea from a tea pot and champagne or cava!!

Then late afternoon we will be having:

Farmhouse Pate on Granary Toast to start or traditional prawn cocktail (haven't decided yet)

Roast Beef
Yorksire Pudding
Carrots in butter
Roast Spuds (cooked in goose fat) with garlic & rosemary
Brussels cooked with bacon and onion
Swede or Sweet Potato
Maybe some sweetcorn
Red Wine gray
Stuffing - prob sage and onion (I know not having tutrkey but got to have stuffing!!!)
Bacon & Sausage wraps

Xmas Pudd and brandy sauce to finish!!

And lots of indigestion tablets!!!!

don't know yet, but going to stay with foodie brother who's just been on a residential cookery course and his even foodier fiancee, so really looking forward to it & fully expect to come back at least half a stone heavier after 4 nights there

Bellinis with a breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon

Lobster cocktail

Asparagus with rocket and balsamic dressing for the veggie dss.

Quorn Roast Wellington stuffed with chickpea and apricot stuffing.

Roast Turkey (with a pedigree natch)
Roast Potatoes
Roast sweet potatoes
Carrots with orange and ginger
Brussels spouts, par boiled and then stirfried at the last minute.
Cranberry and Kumquat relish
Bread Sauce
Gravy

Meringues with ginger-winter fruit compote and white chocolate ice cream.

Cheese and biscuits

Mince Pies

Do you think we will be full?

Breakfast ? smoked salmon and scrambled eggs in toasted bagels ? Champers and Orange Juice. (Bacon for the heathens that don?t like the salmon

Lunch ? (about 3-4pm)

Starter:

Half (small) lobster and prawn salad (each) ? all fresh and locally caught.

Main:

5-bird roast (A turkey boned and stuffed to its normal shape with a duck, chicken, guinea fowl and pheasant) from Yum?

Half rack of beef ? (about 7 ribs)

Honey glazed ham

Goose fat roast potatoes

Cheese and onion mashed potatoes

Honey and Golden syrup glazed roast carrots and parsnips

Brussels sprouts with chestnuts

Sausage meat stuffing

Trad saus and bacon things

Cauliflower and broccoli cheese

Cranberry sauce

Roast chestnuts (for the sprout haters)

Yorkshire puds (if I can be bothered, or have oven room )

Assorted pickles

Gravy

Pud:

Fresh fruit salad ? home made ? apples, oranges, satsuma?s, grapes ( red and white), strawberries, pear, kiwi all steeped together in fresh orange juice. (used to do a splash of something pre DS?.)

Assorted Christmas puds ? trad, choc or treacle (not home made with brandy sauce or some other alcho cream.

Strawberry trifle

Assiet de fromage with usual trimmings

Coffee

Mince pies ? if we can manage it??..

Sounds horrific but there will be my brother, his wife and 2 kids (teenagers), my sister and her fella, my dad and his wife, DS and myself on the actual day, (10 of us) then my brother and his lot will be with us until after the New Year (lives in Germany ? army), so plenty to deal with any leftovers!!

Breakfast will be smoked salmon and cava

Debating whether to have a starter or not - if we do it will be homemade chestnut and sweet potato soup.

Roast guinea fowl
Chestnut, mushroom and wild rice tartlet (for the vegi contingent).
Red cabbage in red wine and balsamic vinegar
Sprouts and chestnuts
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire Puddings
Little sausages
Peas (for dd)
Carrot and swede mash

Oh dammit - I've been saying for days that I have to sort myself out but just can't face it. I've ordered a free range turkey from the butcher and that's as far as that's got.

Anyone know where you can buy pinhead oatmeal from? My family (well my South African but originally Scottish granny) always made a pinhead oatmeal with sausage, onion and sage stuffing. It is gorgeous and takes me back to my childhood but I can't find pinhead oatmeal anywhere.

JoshandJamie ? how about this Pinhead

or this:

morepinhead

Just google pinhead oatmeal...

I'm not cooking this year after the Great Goose debacle of 2005.
My mother is,but I have banned her from getting anything from Tesco and neither can I trust her with the booze shopping so will undertake that.

Am a bit bored with food at the moment.
Currently very fit and healthy and loathe to give it up.

What a bore eh????

interesting that so many of you go for smoked salmon for breakfast.

My children's favourite breakfast is freshly cooked doughnuts. Mine is German style ham/salad/wholemeal bread. Salad for breakfast is amazinhly soothing.

what happened to your goose, moondog? cooked, surely??

Very good Jesus.

My new house has a shit oven so my house was full of greasy black smoke for about three days.
The oven has never recovered.
It's factory produced antibiotic laden water-filled frozen turkey breast joints from Iceland for me and mine from now on.

I think I 'm going to go traditional Aussie and have seafood in some spectacular way, crisp salad and very good dressing and maybe a barbecued steak of some kind.

You bastard SW.

yeah, I know

I 'm also thinking some kind of uber rich chocolate and booze semi fredo thing for dessert

And now I have a job in a restaurant/caterererererer company I will be postively leaching ideas from them

Ooh.new career (or rather a resumption of eh?)
Whaddya doing exactly.

Aussies are bloody good when it comes to food.

well, I have been doing a part time course in Commercial Cookery at the Tech and now I feel ready to ask Aussies for work. I chose a company headed by a very interesting woman whom I read about in a foodie mag and just called up and asked for a job, I have my first shift on Saturday.

When they do it well, the Aussies are good at food, but there are so many cut corners ( cheesecakes a mile high with gelatine and the like) it gets hard to separate the dross from the good stuff.

Sounds like an excellent lucky break.

I recall in the 70s and 80s when surrounded by Aussies in PNG,they were always having fantastic parties and producing food that Brits only now seem to be getting into.