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Xmas Threads 2019 - Christmas Dinner

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    edited December 2019
    AFKABartram said:
    Never had bread sauce in my life
    I’ve never had cranberry with shits on it.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    AFKABartram said:
    Never had bread sauce in my life
    Me neither, I don't like the sound of it to be honest.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,969
    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.

  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    Very entertaining.

    The English talk about food the way Israelis talk about peace.

    They say all the right things...
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,223
    You have to have bread sauce on Christmas dinner.   Very easy to make.  

    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.   
  • Powell Is Pleasant
    Powell Is Pleasant Posts: 1,443
    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!
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    Henry Irving said:
    At home with the wife cooking. I'll wash up.

    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
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,135
    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.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    stockportaddick said:
    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? 
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    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.
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    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? 

    Sperm
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,135
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    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 ;)
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    Bread sauce is lovely stuff.

    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.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,969
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    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? 

    The outlaw Josie
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    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.


  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,621
    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. 
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    AFKABartram said:
    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!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    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? 
    The Prince of
    The Princess of
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,223
    Is that a Yorkshire pudding?  With breakfast?!!  You wrongun!

    Looks bloody lovely. 
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,135
    AFKABartram said:
    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.


    A black pudding short of perfection that
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Curb_It said:
    Is that a Yorkshire pudding?  With breakfast?!!  You wrongun!

    Looks bloody lovely. 
    Soaked up the beans majestically 
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    edited December 2019
    AFKABartram said:
    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!
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,857
    AFKABartram said:
    Curb_It said:
    Is that a Yorkshire pudding?  With breakfast?!!  You wrongun!

    Looks bloody lovely. 
    Soaked up the beans majestically 
    baked beans and hash browns have no place in a full English. As for the Yorkshire pudding.....

    (does look nice though)
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,959
    Bit of bubble needed there, otherwise looks great.   :-)
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,247
    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 
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,996
    edited December 2019
    T_C_E said:
    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
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    At home as working.
    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.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    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'.

    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 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Just realised where that tweet from AFKA came re: the newspaper.  I pissed myself laughing at that.  Absolute quality. 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    kimbo said:
    T_C_E said:
    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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