WHAT'S YOUR CHOISE OF XMAS DINNER ?

[PaulTRose]

this year?....absolutly no idea yet :tears-of-joy:

going to be weird since we are staying at home at cooking for ourselves for once instead of going to one of the kids houses

but it will probably be turkey with the trimmings

actually its going to even weirder......shes got to go on a strange diet for a couple of weeks.......no veg, salad or fruit!

so turkey with mashed and roasted taters, piggies n blankets and yorkies!.....not much else is there lol

[colin m]

I have no idea what we're having this year. I'll be at work until at least midday. Livestock still need to be fed and watered whatever time of year it is.

It'll just be nice to get a warm meal after being outside. As long as there is meat on the menu. None of this vegetarian or vegan guff for me :smiling3:

com on Alan, no mention of 'pigs in blankets'

[colin m]

Same here Bob. I actually enjoy the washing up period, gives me a bit of quiet time away from the guests......the hard bit is getting them to leave me to it.

That's me, and every year the wife reminds me - 'we do have a dishwasher' you think she would take a hint after 25 years.

[AlanG]

My pigs on the farm at work will be in a blanket of straw. Those at my cottage will be wrapped in bacon lol

[colin m]

I request a different bird most years, and am often 'surprised' when it turns out to be turkey, again. I would love to try a goose, well it kept Bob Cratchit's lot happy enough.

[AlanG]

Goose is lovely. Especially the fat from them for the roasties. We have a friend who goes and shoots wild geese. I always get a goose from him, along with some pheasant, wild duck and partridge. Yum yum

[Guest]

Just seen this, we normally journey from Race Towers to the eldest daughters at Collyweston Heights for lunch .
Not this year so having a joint of pork, with all the trimmings and seeing both daughters on face time .
So I can cook an then enjoy falling a sleep with out being told to wake up !:smiling5:

[BattleshipBob]

Just seen this, we normally journey from Race Towers to the eldest daughters at Collyweston Heights for lunch .
Not this year so having a joint of pork, with all the trimmings and seeing both daughters on face time .
So I can cook an then enjoy falling a sleep with out being told to wake up !:smiling5:

With green gravy??

[davecov]

My partner of seven years and I live 60 miles apart and we always have two Christmas dinners, one at my house the week before Christmas and again at her house on Christmas Day.

Eight veg, turkey and all the trimmings is the order of the day at my house! I do so much that I actually plate up three dinners and have a second Christmas dinner the following day! Already, it is two down with one more to go!

Dave

[Ralph]

I eat the same food every day.
Breakfast peanut butter butty.Dinner ham butty. Tea two pieces of toast.Supper tomato butty.
So as a treat for christmas day instead of a ham butty I will have an ardennes pate butty and instead of the tomato butty I will have a sausage butty.Paula has also bought a box of dairy milk.
Oh and a small Jim Beam neat after supper.

[stona]

Goose here. I'll joint it tomorrow so that I can cook the legs and crown separately and use the other bits for stocks, gravies and stuffing (the liver).

I also do a medium turkey crown for the non-goose eaters, most of which will be given away to departing family on Boxing Day due to Covid restrictions as we are in Tier 3.

The rest is just a glorified roast dinner, though I do Brussels sprouts with bacon and onion and make things like a cranberry source, which are not everyday occurrences.

This will be accompanied by far too much alcohol, though I have to stay sober enough to carve and serve without the need for paramedics.

We always have a Christmas pudding set ablaze for the kids and a selection of cheeses with a nice vintage port, neither of which will be eaten until Boxing Day because nobody has room.

Usually there is something close to a repeat at New Year when the Lancashire branch of the family comes down, but not this year. A Zoom quiz will be about as good as it gets.

[Peej]

We don't eat turkey. Part of the company I work for breed turkey. I'm farm manager on one of their chicken farms. Everyone gets a turkey as part of their Christmas box but I get a cash equivalent instead. We are having chicken and all the Christmas dinner trimmings for dinner. Got to work in the morning then home for bacon cobs. Dinner will be about mid afternoon.

[KarlW]

Slaughtered the Turkey on Sunday there, 20lb bronze, reared by the FiL. Kids are at the fussy eating stage still so a full roast dinner is a bit of a waste, though Khaden might eat it this year.

[Guest]

Time to admit it people. I'M A VEGETARIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tim Marlow]

Nothing wrong with that Peter, so is my daughter.....