Bread sauce is like white lumpy custard for turkey. My mum used to do it. I couldn't really see the point, but it was nice enough. Getting it right is all about the spices (nutmeg, cloves and peppercorns) otherwise it's just milky goop.
Eating out this year because my Dad cant get up the steps to our house so we will go out for the day, and take him home later. There are always other reasons why people choose to eat out on Christmas Day and it shouldn't be looked down on. We ate out all the years that i was living in a flat as I just didn't have the sit down room for dining. Now I do but now other problems have arisen so we have to go out this year.
Taking my wife and three kids to my mum's for Christmas Day - it's around an hour's drive and we're not staying the night, so sadly I won't be drinking.
In terms of food, I know she's got a pheasant and some ham. She's a vegetarian though and my kids won't eat it, so it'll pretty much be me having the meat to myself!
Very traditional turkey, stuffing roast potatoes, roast parsnips, brussels with bacon, Yorkshire puddings, red cabbage, glazed carrots, gravy, crackers, wine, Christmas pudding for me, cake for others.
Stuffed roast potatoes, might give that a go myself
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Welsh Wales?
What other Wales is there?
there is a village in south yorkshire called Wales.
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Welsh Wales?
What other Wales is there?
Ha ha, that's what we called Wales when my old man retired there years ago and it just sort of stuck. However, according the last couple of posts, it appears our nickname is indeed correct
I am the least fussy eater but I cannot stand parsnips. My mum used to try and cut them to look like roast potatoes so I’d eat them, but I knew what she was up too. Awful vegetable.
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Always fearful of injury going into such a big meal with no real eating pre-season, so threw myself into this Toby Carvery monster breakfast this morning.
Hopefully this good friendly work out will provide dividends come the big game on Wednesday.
Nice looking eggs. Cooking at home this year. Last few years we’ve gone out for lunch and I think it’s great. Much less stress for women (mostly) and means you can enjoy Christmas Day. After eating being able to get up and walk away from all the clearing up is a godsend. Will probably be eating out again next year.
Always fearful of injury going into such a big meal with no real eating pre-season, so threw myself into this Toby Carvery monster breakfast this morning.
Hopefully this good friendly work out will provide dividends come the big game on Wednesday.
Hope that’s not the culinary equivalent of a Tomer Hemed “let’s make up for no preseason” session. If so you’d better look forward to your Easter lunch mate!
Our family go over to Welsh Wales and have xmas with my sisters family on the isle of Anglesey. We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
Always fearful of injury going into such a big meal with no real eating pre-season, so threw myself into this Toby Carvery monster breakfast this morning.
Hopefully this good friendly work out will provide dividends come the big game on Wednesday.
Always fearful of injury going into such a big meal with no real eating pre-season, so threw myself into this Toby Carvery monster breakfast this morning.
Hopefully this good friendly work out will provide dividends come the big game on Wednesday.
Another Yorkshire pudding! With a fry up FFS! Did you put that there to wind me up?
Actually thought at first that this was @Arsenetatters Xmas lunch fair!
That plate is a perfect microcosm of eating a breakfast out
The chef has had a 50% hit rate with the eggs, one is perfectly sealed to a nice pinky colour which should pop like one of my blisters on my left foot, the other is a snotty monstrosity
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.
My MiL has just died after living with Altzheimers. I know how wonderful these visits are Bless you. Have w good Christmas X
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'.
For those that do go out, is it still the same? does it still have that Christmas feel?
Just got home from ours. Have done it 5 times out the last 7 Christmases. It’s not too bad. I think it’s definitely a thing you do when it’s more adults and no kids. Me, my old man, mum and my sister. Did Cutty Sark in Greenwich in 2013, an absolute shag ton of food. Honor Oak pub 2 years in a row 2014 & 15, then Victoria hotel in Peckham last year, the Signal pub forest Hill this year. The worst was last year at the Victoria Hotel, Peckham. Just not value for money
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.
My MiL has just died after living with Altzheimers. I know how wonderful these visits are Bless you. Have w good Christmas X
Always an emotional visit and was more so this time as a lot of relatives were there (something I hadn’t thought of) and it doesn’t take much to set me off. I’m very easily embarrassed by a thank you from someone, I don’t see it as something I’m doing over and above. Im also the victim of many a practical joke by the residents who know I’m not aware of the severity of their illness and will ask me the same question many times, before one of the carers will laughingly tell them off for winding me up as I politely answer their question with “ his names Bailey” for the tenth time and they are quite aware of his name. My first ever visit on Christmas morning and I wish I’d thought of it before, such were the smiles we were rewarded with one resident even asked where Valli was, which caught the carers out as she hasn’t visited for three months.
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The English talk about food the way Israelis talk about peace.
They say all the right things...
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2730/bread-sauce
Eating out this year because my Dad cant get up the steps to our house so we will go out for the day, and take him home later. There are always other reasons why people choose to eat out on Christmas Day and it shouldn't be looked down on. We ate out all the years that i was living in a flat as I just didn't have the sit down room for dining. Now I do but now other problems have arisen so we have to go out this year.
In terms of food, I know she's got a pheasant and some ham. She's a vegetarian though and my kids won't eat it, so it'll pretty much be me having the meat to myself!
We have xmas dinner in her local pub (the landlady and her family are good friends with ours) and we have a brilliant time, now the kids are grown up I cannot imagine reverting to cooking xmas dinner at home again.
I've ordered traditional - melon balls, turkey followed by xmas pud.
What other Wales is there?
Sperm
I am the least fussy eater but I cannot stand parsnips. My mum used to try and cut them to look like roast potatoes so I’d eat them, but I knew what she was up too. Awful vegetable.
The outlaw Josie
Hopefully this good friendly work out will provide dividends come the big game on Wednesday.
The Princess of
Looks bloody lovely.
Did you put that there to wind me up?
Actually thought at first that this was @Arsenetatters Xmas lunch fair!
(does look nice though)
The chef has had a 50% hit rate with the eggs, one is perfectly sealed to a nice pinky colour which should pop like one of my blisters on my left foot, the other is a snotty monstrosity
Roast Beef
King eddie spuds
Pigs in blankets
Sprouts, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower.
Bottle of red,
wont have too much to drink as have to get up early to start the trip by taxi, bus, tube, bus to get to the game tomorrow.