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Xmas Threads 2019 - Christmas Dinner

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  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    AFKABartram said:
    AFKABartram said:

    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 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,856
    Chef_addick said:
    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!!!!
    What job were you doing @Chef_addick ?


  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    carly burn said:
     Anyone who’s put Yorkshire pudding should receive an automatic 10 day ban from this site!
    Always have Yorkshire Pudding 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    AFKABartram said:
    AFKABartram said:

    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?
    Never tried it. Sounds nice actually. 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    AFKABartram said:
    eaststandmike said:
    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'.



    @AFKABartram in Christmas dig at @Redmidland shocker! ;)
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    T_C_E said:
    AFKABartram said:
    eaststandmike said:
    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'.



    @AFKABartram in Christmas dig at @Redmidland shocker! ;)
    5 years ago, I was eating Christmas dinner in hospital due to my Heart packing up!
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    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. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,844
    Redmidland said:
    T_C_E said:
    AFKABartram said:
    eaststandmike said:
    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'.



    @AFKABartram in Christmas dig at @Redmidland shocker! ;)
    5 years ago, I was eating Christmas dinner in hospital due to my Heart packing up!
    Condemned to history, Red :)
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    Redmidland said:
    T_C_E said:
    AFKABartram said:
    eaststandmike said:
    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'.



    @AFKABartram in Christmas dig at @Redmidland shocker! ;)
    5 years ago, I was eating Christmas dinner in hospital due to my Heart packing up!
    Feck was that 5 years ago? 
    Still 137 is a feckin good age matey. x ;)
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    T_C_E said:
    Redmidland said:
    T_C_E said:
    AFKABartram said:
    eaststandmike said:
    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'.



    @AFKABartram in Christmas dig at @Redmidland shocker! ;)
    5 years ago, I was eating Christmas dinner in hospital due to my Heart packing up!
    Feck was that 5 years ago? 
    Still 137 is a feckin good age matey. x ;)
    You're a cheeky young whippersnapper @TCE, still even though I'm a little older than what you are, I still look better and younger!!! LOL
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Back to the OP.

    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, 

    Puddings more Likely to be bought than made. 
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Chef_addick said:
    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!!!!
    it's one of these you're after chef 


  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,968
    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.


  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    cafcdave123 said:
    going to a friends house, we were originally going to my sisters but they hijacked it and there's about 25 of us going.

    woody has bought 4 of these bad boys apparently and is cooking it all on them (bit apprehensive if i'm honest)


    "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed"
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    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.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    AFKABartram said:
    AFKABartram said:

    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
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,975
    Just the two of us so the traditional (for us)

    sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones)
    Eggs - from outside
    chips 
    beans

    followed by Xmas pud 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Arsenetatters said:
    Just the two of us so the traditional (for us)

    sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones)
    Eggs - from outside
    chips 
    beans

    followed by Xmas pud 
    Nothing green?
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,975
    seth plum said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    Just the two of us so the traditional (for us)

    sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones)
    Eggs - from outside
    chips 
    beans

    followed by Xmas pud 
    Nothing green?
    No!
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Arsenetatters said:
    Just the two of us so the traditional (for us)

    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)?


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  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    Arsenetatters said:
    Just the two of us so the traditional (for us)

    sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones)
    Eggs - from outside
    chips 
    beans

    followed by Xmas pud 
     And for the main?
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393

    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 


  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    Arsenetatters said:
    Just the two of us so the traditional (for us)

    sausage (Mr T from local butcher, me vegan ones)
    Eggs - from outside
    chips 
    beans

    followed by Xmas pud 
    ChicagoAddick said:

    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 


      A tale of two dinners.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948

  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,968
    harveys_gardener said:
    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.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    edited December 2019
    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. 


  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,767
    edited December 2019
    Stuffed turkey crown
    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
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited December 2019
    Taxi_Lad said:
    Stuffed turkey crown
    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
    What time are we sitting down and is it ok if I bring brandy sauce for my Chrisrmas pudding 😉.
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    MrOneLung said:
    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.




    A roast isn't a roast without yorkshire pudding. 

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