Christmas Dinner

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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Northern Lass wrote:Phew!
sounds like too much work to me
Coz!
wot u playin at you letting the side down
2 meals in 2 days and both roasts

:shock:


Tell me about it! And then on Boxing Day we usually go to the in laws and have roast leg of lamb! Boxing Day at home was always very relaxing, about the only day when Dad cooked and always some form of bubble and squeak.
Best thing about turkey is all the ways you can eat the left overs!
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Bubble 'n Squeak! I love it. It's almost worth cooking so there can be leftovers to make Bubble 'n Squeak. ...
I did say 'almost'!

Christmas dinner will be at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon 'cos I insist on a cooked breakfast (cooked FOR me not BY me), and breakfast will be late as I have to play with my toys first.

I think we will go the lobster(cold) and champagne for dinner, followed by bought xmas pudding and icecream, and then, in the evening, it's over to the in-laws to help them eat leftovers.

Please note - not a scrap of cooking will be done by me personally.

By Boxing Day my body will be awash with free radicals so I will have to stick to a diet of red wine, dark chocolate and blue berries (for the anti-oxidants).
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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We're having Turkey and Ham, pigs in blanketts and cocktail sausages. I will make peas pudding with the stock from the ham and have that with the cold meat boxing day.
Not sure on a starter yet :? Loads of veg, stuffing, bread sauce, yorkshire puddings and roasties. Christmas pud after.
Steve will be away :( Two of my daughters friends were coming but they are not now. My eldest son went to Equador a couple of years ago and a girl he met there from Canada is studying in London and would be on her own, so she is coming to stay for a few days. So we will have a full table :)
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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I just googled (something i rarely need to do) and pigs in a blanket sound delicious.
I'm going to try that!!
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Northern Lass wrote:
gardener wrote:Think we will have turkey on Christmas Day. Last couple of years I have used a recipe from Nigella where you soak the turkey in spiced brine before cooking - changes the texture of the meat a bit but does mean it won't dry out.

Christmas Eve is the main meal here and I think we'll have smoked loin of pork as usual though there were some vote being cast in favour of smoked lamb. Could do both I suppose? Usually I do the smoked lamb in the morning and then people can eat it cold over the next few days but could have it hot and the left overs cold.


Phew!
sounds like too much work to me
Coz!
wot u playin at you letting the side down
2 meals in 2 days and both roasts

:shock:


:lol: I'm doing Roast Chicken and or Beef, no one wants turkey, will only be the one meal though, quick and easy, don't intend to spend hours in the kitchen, will have an assortment of deserts from Waitrose. The sooner it is all over the better, I look forward to boxing day when I can get out to the sales. Have a good xmas whatever you all cook from Lin.
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Rob wrote:I just googled (something i rarely need to do) and pigs in a blanket sound delicious.
I'm going to try that!!


I have my pig in blanket....Wolvie! :lol:

no just joking....I like my own little jokes..... :lol: :lol:

just bought ours!
are you sure you don't have pigs in blankets Rob?
I bet you do they are for sale everywhere.

Got the Roast Beef
and will send Wolvie out for the rest tomoz
I hate shopping
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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All these posh meals you all talk about are very distant from the Black Country of the old days......think yourselves lucky.!.......I do..especially wartime 1940s.
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Merry Xmas Mike, yes indeed we are lucky today, so much choice. Hope you have a lovely xmas, from Lin.
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Bucks fizz to start off. Starter will be smoked salmon, prawns with a little salad and marie rose dressing. Roast turkey, roast pots (love the frozen ones in goose fat), roast parsnips, brussels sprouts steamed with pancetta and water chestnuts (our daughter cooks this and it's absolutely gorgeous), swede and carrots mashed together, leeks, pigs in blankets and a gravy made with marsala wine (again cooked by our daughter) Christmas pud with brandy sauce. All washed down with plenty of wine. Coffee and mints. Later on we'll be having turkey sarnies with nibbles.

Boxing day is relaxing with a good film (Great Escape comes to mind) and our usual tea will be cold turkey, chips, fried eggs and baked beans.
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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I found a neat thing yesterday - Which we'll have to start the day off. It's Australian native hibiscus flowers in syrup. You drop one in each champagne flute, pour in the bubbly and the bubbles make the flower open up. Apparently it tastes a little lemony and a little black curranty.
That'll be a nice way to wake up.
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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That sounds lovely Di! Wonder if we can get the equivilent here?
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Just found this....http://www.realindulgence.com/ :grin:
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Di you sure those flowers aren't poisonous ?
Pimelea ferruginea is an Australian flower and they can kill you in minutes!! A horrible lingering death!!
Not unlike the Brummieandriano found only in Cannon Hill Park!!
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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Sorry San!! xx
San found this
http://www.realindulgence.com/
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Re: Christmas Dinner

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:roll:

Di is this the same? (watch demo vidio) http://wwww.lakeland.co.uk/wild-hibiscu ... duct/40294
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