Cd Dinner

[NoMercy]

So what's on your menu for the big day, and what refreshments to accompany?

We have a small haunch of venison and a free-range corn-fed chicken with sausage meat, apricot and almond stuffing, roasties, parsnips, pigs in blankets, carrots, peas, sprouts & chestnuts, creamed spinach, kalettes, broccoli & PSB, cavalo nero, blueberry chutney and gravy. This will be served with either Veuve or Bolly and some rather nice Argentine Malbec.

Buen provecho!

[ummmm]

Kalettes is a new type of veg according to Google...

Cavalo nero is a type of cabbage.

PSB - no idea

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.kalettes.com/uk/

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/purple-sprouting-broccoli

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/cavolo-nero

[RandyMarsh]

PSB is the pet shop boys, they tend to be a bit chewy

[pastafreak]

Cavalo nero is a form of kale used in Italian cooking.

http://www.discoverkale.co.uk/what-is-cavolo-nero/

[Mamyalynne]

There'll be kite flying on Boxing Day.

[murraymints]

Turkey crown..roasties..pigs in blankets..stuffing balls..carrot batons..sprouts...mandarin trifle..cheese and biscuits...

[shoota]

Prawn cocktail.
Turkey, pheasant, pork, roast pots and parsnips, dauphinoise, carrot and swede mash, sprouts, cauli, stuffing.
Christmas pud with cream or custard.

All very trad.

[NoMercy]

Some lovely menus on here.

JD... PSB = purple sprouting broccoli. Cavalo nero is Italian for "black cabbage" and is literally an extremely dark green kale with purple hues. Kalettes are a cross-breed of Brussels sprouts and purple/green kale. Very attractive little things.

[gness]

Hi, NoM.......I am so lucky this year........a friend will be cooking a dinner on Christmas Eve and it's going to be delicious I know......

Christmas Day will be bits.....lots of gorgeous bits and chocolate and wine....

Then my family arrive on Boxing Day.....they are fantastic cooks and not only that....they love cooking....

So I'll get in nobody's way.....just tuck up with the mulled wine and be waited on........bliss!

Merry Christmas, NoM.....xxx

[-SharonA-]

Wow that is posh nom!!!
Along with the Turkey, pigs in blankets, two types of stuffing roast pots and parsnips, sprouts and other vegs. Followed by a gateau or Xmas pud. Washed down with a sparkling wine of choice.

[sunny-dave]

Christmas Eve I'm cooking for friends. Doing Roast Lamb (an organic rolled shoulder from a local farm) with snips, spuds, sprouts, cauli cheese and every tracklement I can find. Followed by Christmas Pud and brandy sauce.

Bottle(s) of this to go with - http://www.averys.com/product/Domaine-de-Mourchon-Cotes-du-Rhone-Villages-Seguret-Grande-Reserve-2012/0938112


Christmas Day is Bucks Fizz for brekker and then the afternoon is 'bits' here - pork pie, ham, cheeses, pickles and all the other delicacies that make up a long, slow, indoor picnic for whoever pops in.


Boxing Day I'm out for a "Big Bronze Turkey Dinner" and will see what that entails when the day arrives :)

[-Talbot-]

Some veg and some meat and some gravy

[sunny-dave]

In a sesame seed bun I presume, talboy?

[jno]

roast lamb just like mother used to make, only on this occasion it will be made by brother in law. As guests, we will provide some wine and hopefully good company - I must stock up on cracker-style jokes.

[NoMercy]

Merry Christmas Guess and Dave xxx

[Buenchico]

I haven't a clue what I'll be eating on Christmas Day!

I used to prepare a full turkey meal (using cold turkey, carved from the bone, warmed in the oven) with all the trimmings. I've also tried a few alternatives, such as duck in some years. However I decided that it was a hell of a lot of messing about just for myself. So, for the past few years I've bought a Tesco chilled turkey lunch (£3.50) and simply bunged it in the oven. However they've hardly had any in stock this year and the big store down the road was definitely devoid of them on Friday afternoon.

No problem I thought, I'll simply buy their frozen version. (It's basically the same thing and only costs £2). However I discovered that they'd reduced them to £1 to clear and (unsurprisingly) sold out of them.

So, unless I can find some sort of turkey meal tomorrow, I'll probably just grab something from the freezer. That might not be as bad as it sounds though because our local farm shop stocks some rather nice (and ridiculously expensive) frozen meals and I've treated myself to a few of them for Christmas. So I might end up eating this (with some veg that I've got ready):
http://www.cookfood.net/menu/main-meals/beef-meals/Rump-Beef-Brandy/

I've got a nice bottle of this to go with it
http://www.galtibor.hu/en/wine-selection/71-egri-bikaver-2012.html
although I might choose this instead (as it goes well with red meats):
http://www.charleswells.co.uk/our-company/our-products/youngs-double-chocolate-stout/

I'll follow that with an individual Christmas pud and some more booze!

[Buenchico]

^^^ For 'tomorrow', read 'today'. (It's still Friday night as far as I'm concerned!). However, given that I probably won't be getting up until some time in the afternoon, there probably won't be much left in the shops when I finally get there!