No starter, crisps and honey roasted peanuts at lunchtime will do...
Will have
Turkey Gammon (cooked the night before) pigs (Quorn 'roast' for the veggies) stuffing roast pots parsnips carrots broccoli white cabbage sprouts yorkshire pud gravy
xmas pud & mince pie / custard Cheesecake & cream
Asda After8s
that's got me dribbling already!! bring it on
HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOT THE PICKLED BEETROOT???
Am i the only one that will have pickled beetroot with their Xmas roast?
probably.
I'd eat it if it was there but I've never had/seen it with a Christmas dinner before
Turkey, pigs in blankets, duck fat roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, honey roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, sausage meat stuffing, pigs in blankets, peas and carrots, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire pudding, pigs in blankets, meat juice gravy.
Don't know who's cooking yet as I'm having a knee op Monday I just know it won't be me.
Changed jobs this year and it will be the first Christmas Day I wont be working for 20 years!!!!
No starter, crisps and honey roasted peanuts at lunchtime will do...
Will have
Turkey Gammon (cooked the night before) pigs (Quorn 'roast' for the veggies) stuffing roast pots parsnips carrots broccoli white cabbage sprouts yorkshire pud gravy
xmas pud & mince pie / custard Cheesecake & cream
Asda After8s
that's got me dribbling already!! bring it on
HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOT THE PICKLED BEETROOT???
Am i the only one that will have pickled beetroot with their Xmas roast?
Christmas Dinner in a restaurant this year as we are away in Cornwall. It will be a traditional Turkey dinner with all the trimmings though and a starter.
Not a criticism of anyone as i know its popular, but i just could not imagine eating Christmas dinner anywhere other than in a 'home'.
Christmas Dinner in a restaurant this year as we are away in Cornwall. It will be a traditional Turkey dinner with all the trimmings though and a starter.
Not a criticism of anyone as i know its popular, but i just could not imagine eating Christmas dinner anywhere other than in a 'home'.
This will surprise a few, but we'll be exercising our dogs, before two of them will visit a local dementia care home for an hour. Then off to our daughters for our Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, fecking love it.
Christmas Dinner in a restaurant this year as we are away in Cornwall. It will be a traditional Turkey dinner with all the trimmings though and a starter.
Not a criticism of anyone as i know its popular, but i just could not imagine eating Christmas dinner anywhere other than in a 'home'.
Christmas Dinner in a restaurant this year as we are away in Cornwall. It will be a traditional Turkey dinner with all the trimmings though and a starter.
Not a criticism of anyone as i know its popular, but i just could not imagine eating Christmas dinner anywhere other than in a 'home'.
Christmas Dinner in a restaurant this year as we are away in Cornwall. It will be a traditional Turkey dinner with all the trimmings though and a starter.
Not a criticism of anyone as i know its popular, but i just could not imagine eating Christmas dinner anywhere other than in a 'home'.
Christmas Day for me will start with orange juice or Orange juice and Prosecco, toast and pork pie. Don’t know why the pork pie bit family tradition.
before then on Christmas Eve got a decent 4lb unsmoked game on the nine to do for the evening meal.
christmas day lunch it’s: goose chicken pots yorkshires savoy cabbage with lardons sprouts (also with bacon) cauli fabcy broccoli for the adults and normal broccoli for the kids roast parsnips carrots (prob boiled rather than roasted due to oven space
That’ll be cooked by the Missus with me complaining about how she is doing it all the way through,
Turkey, pigs in blankets, duck fat roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, honey roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, sausage meat stuffing, pigs in blankets, peas and carrots, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire pudding, pigs in blankets, meat juice gravy.
Don't know who's cooking yet as I'm having a knee op Monday I just know it won't be me.
Changed jobs this year and it will be the first Christmas Day I wont be working for 20 years!!!!
Doing venison wellington this year using locally sourced loin fillet from Machin's in Henley. Spectacular dish with a bit of port sauce, which can be made the day before and just takes half an hour on the day.
Little Miss Idle would live on roast potatoes if she could, so there will be a mountain of those, then the usual carrots, honey roast parsnips, roast broccoli, stir fried chopped sprouts. Biggest problem is usually oven capacity.
There will be a very good bottle of red, probably a Batailley 2004, to be slipped slowly with lunch and all afternoon (I'm the only one who drinks it)
I love Chrstmas pudding, but am always too full after lunch, so second course will probably be something lighter, such as a trifle, once i have consulted with the other diners. Christmas pudding will be for boxing day after a long dog walk.
IdleHans, as an ex-Henley resident, Machins is unrecognisable from the 19th century butcher I remember. Do you know the Bird in Hand, just through the car park? One of the country's great pubs. Graham is a true gent.
No starter, crisps and honey roasted peanuts at lunchtime will do...
Will have
Turkey Gammon (cooked the night before) pigs (Quorn 'roast' for the veggies) stuffing roast pots parsnips carrots broccoli white cabbage sprouts yorkshire pud gravy
xmas pud & mince pie / custard Cheesecake & cream
Asda After8s
that's got me dribbling already!! bring it on
HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOT THE PICKLED BEETROOT???
Am i the only one that will have pickled beetroot with their Xmas roast?
yep, I'd imagine you're the only one, that's a bit weird
No idea what I'll be eating, going to my brother in law's and I don't know what he'll make but he's a great cook so I'll just eat whatever appears in front of me
sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones) Eggs - from outside chips beans
followed by Xmas pud
Intrigued. Don’t like roast dinners? Bad memories of Xmas?
Feel free to tell me to mind my own (and open the question to anyone doing similar)...just interested why you’d choose to have an every day dinner on xmas day (unless you were spending it alone, working shifts etc)?
IdleHans, as an ex-Henley resident, Machins is unrecognisable from the 19th century butcher I remember. Do you know the Bird in Hand, just through the car park? One of the country's great pubs. Graham is a true gent.
I live in Wargrave but for a pub trail Henley is hard to beat, and The Bird in Hand is a central feature of that. Though I do like the Angel on the Bridge out of tourist season. As for Machins, I don't remember the Victorian style but I still find the service very good, and the quality is outstanding compared even to Waitrose. If I'm doing proper cooking, the meat always comes from them.
Bacon sarnies for breakfast once we’ve done prezzies.
For dinner, Turkey, pigs in blankets, home made stuffing (sausage meat, onions herbs), paxo stuffing (Mrs SB loves it), roast spuds, potato croquets, deep fried breaded cauliflower, sprouts, tinned carrots (a tradition thing), gravy, Yorkshire pud. Peas & sweetcorn, bread sauce.
For dessert a home made sherry concoction that involves dipping choc chip cookies in sherry then sticking them together with jam and covering with whipped cream and shaved chocolate. Leave it for 24 hours and it turns into this brilliant sherry trifle cake thing. Really yum and dead easy.
we are round my mums this year. will be lots of food, a lot that I dont eat, but I will be eating:
meat: turkey plus one other. Pigs in blankets Roast potatoes in goose fat Yorkshire pudding - food Nazis can piss off with their 'you can only have Yorkshire puds with roast beef' bollocks. Stuffing gravy
Xmas pudding with custard, plus one of the other deserts on offer.
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I'd eat it if it was there but I've never had/seen it with a Christmas dinner before
@AFKABartram in Christmas dig at @Redmidland shocker!
Then off to our daughters for our Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, fecking love it.
Still 137 is a feckin good age matey. x
before then on Christmas Eve got a decent 4lb unsmoked game on the nine to do for the evening meal.
christmas day lunch it’s:
goose
chicken
pots
yorkshires
savoy cabbage with lardons
sprouts (also with bacon)
cauli
fabcy broccoli for the adults and normal broccoli for the kids
roast parsnips
carrots (prob boiled rather than roasted due to oven space
Puddings more Likely to be bought than made.
No idea what I'll be eating, going to my brother in law's and I don't know what he'll make but he's a great cook so I'll just eat whatever appears in front of me
sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones)
Eggs - from outside
chips
beans
followed by Xmas pud
Feel free to tell me to mind my own (and open the question to anyone doing similar)...just interested why you’d choose to have an every day dinner on xmas day (unless you were spending it alone, working shifts etc)?
Smoked salmon, horseradish cream, dill (caesar salad with herby croutons for veggies)
Roasted pheasant breast (Mushroom stroganoff for veggies)
Roasted Brussels, chestnuts
Carrots, parsnips with harissa
Sweet potato mash, lime salsa
Minted peas
Red cabbage, fennel, apple, balsamic
Cheese lots of for afters
I’m cooking at home with an endless large glass of Pinot Noir
As for Machins, I don't remember the Victorian style but I still find the service very good, and the quality is outstanding compared even to Waitrose. If I'm doing proper cooking, the meat always comes from them.
gammon glazed in mango chutney
pigs in blankets
roasties
honey glazed parsnips
carrots
peas
red cabbage
yorkshire pud
Christmas pudding with custard
no starters this year as struggled the last couple of years to get through it all
Everybody else is talking about the game but we've got our priorities right...