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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I've had the Lidl lobster and there was little discernible flavour bar the garlic butter. I would try and track down that rare beast, the Reputable Fishmonger, and get a fresh one.
ETA. I do not mean to imply that the generality of fishmongers are disreputable, but rather that they are few and far between these days.
There's one in the Covered Market in Oxford. I don't know of any others within a 50 mile radius, so Aldi or Morrisons may have to do.
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My sons are working over Christmas, so we are having Christmas dinner and presents etc on the 27th.
On Christmas day we will be helping out at Church where we do a full Christmas dinner for those who would otherwise be on their own (about 60 people) we take 40 hot dinners to the housebound too. So OH and I will have an Indian take-away when we get home!
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Ariel:
so Aldi or Morrisons may have to do.
I'm just back from an Aldi shop - didn't notice any lobsters in the freezers. Morrisons I consider quite good for wet fish.
There is a fishmonger a couple of streets away - but it's one of a cluster of Chinese food outlets selling mainly to the restaurant trade. For the most part, I don't even recognise the stock. If I go down to Marchmont, there's the wonderful
Eddie's - also Chinese, but in approachable fillets. I might look in and see what their going rate for lobster is currently.
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Barefoot Friar
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I am the family cook, but I am also the pastor of two small churches. I'm going to make my famous lasagna for a late dinner, after the Christmas Eve services.
We don't have Christmas Day services, so we're going to my wife's parents' house early Christmas morning. I'm making cinnamon rolls, but there will be other things as well. I don't know what they have planned for Christmas Day dinner. Their main Christmas dinner is on Christmas Eve.
We'll visit my family on New Year's Day, and I think my mother is planning a humongous feast with ham and turkey and dressing (we Southerners don't usually do stuffing). I'll most likely take homemade rolls.
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We are driving 4 hours to visit a family member for Christmas, so I don't know what we will have. It sounds as though it will include fresh grilled salmon: that could work, as the grill is outdoors and the weather is forecast to be clear and sunny, though below freezing.
Meanwhile, plans for the rest of the holidays continue to change - as of yesterday it now sounds as though we will be hosting family on New Year's Day, so plan to do our usual turkey, cranberry relish, sweet potatoes, etc. Another family might bring ham, and we'll likely have materials on hand to make a pie (pecan, pumpkin, or combination) so if someone insists on having one, they can make it. (We're planning relatively simple meals, and to impress our guests to help out with anything else.)
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There's just four of us (me, mum, dad, sister) so usually we have a smaller type of meat with the trimmings, and then a traditional Christmas dinner when we go to my grandma's on Boxing Day - but this year because of my sister working then, we're going there on the 28th.
This year we're having ham and cauliflower cheese at my sister's request, with stuffing, roast potatoes, veg etc. I am the only one in the house who likes Christmas pudding and Christmas cake, unfortunately (I personally like my Christmas cake with Wensleydale and often some grapes or apple on the side, as a cheese course rather than a dessert). I'm very envious of those Southern Hemisphere residents having seafood - I love it. A big platter of fruits de mer would be a perfect Christmas meal for me.
My family are not Christians so I will do Midnight Mass the night before. We tend to have breakfast at 9-ish, open presents, pick at chocolates/cookies etc and then have the main meal at around 2-ish. Then parents will be down the pub, me and my sister maybe joining them, and something like a party nibble platter in the evening to eat while watching the Strictly Christmas special.
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Kelly Alves
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(whistles nonchalantly)
(Drops care package on thread)
(scurries off, still whistling)
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Just. Ew.
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Kelly Alves
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It's a Cthuken! Lovecraft's answer to the Turducken!
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jedijudy
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How many are not going to Kelly's for Christmas dinner?
*waves arms* Me!!!
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
How many are not going to Kelly's for Christmas dinner?
*waves arms* Me!!!
I'd go if it wasn't that it's made of bits of seabed.
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I don't think I'd mind so much if it didn't look as if it was about to run away ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread, I just thought that was funny. Please return to visions of sugarplums.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread, I just thought that was funny. Please return to visions of sugarplums.
I believe that tangents are within the purview of Heaven!
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As someone once said: "In my father's house are many tangents" (John 14:2, The Hol-eBible, New Internetizen Version).
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Kelly Alves
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Yeah, but this was kind of a gross, alarming tangent, so sorry. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
It's a Cthuken! Lovecraft's answer to the Turducken!
It is a bit turd-ucken' horrible. But hell, it's Christmas, if that's what you want for dinner go for it. Enjoy
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Kelly Alves
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Oh well, if you don't mind the thread being taken over by Cthulhu jokes, I withdraw my apology.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Oh well, if you don't mind the thread being taken over by Cthulhu jokes, I withdraw my apology.
Ohnoyoudont. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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Oh no I don't? If you read up, you will see I attempted to redirect the tangent. I am now gonna sit and eat popcorn and watch jedijudy, Lyda Rose, and ( apparently) you milk it.
Oh, hi LC! You, too.
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Courtesy of Marks & Spencers (pick it all up ready to cook) my sister-in-law is treating us to turkey and all the trimmings on Christmas Day. The 'family' tradition, however, was always chicken - preferred to turkey. Not sure if sis-in-law is going for Christmas Pudding though. Maybe trifle?
Our works 'do' had the trad turkey meal as one option, including pudding with brandy butter - which was heavenly. And to date, I'm overdosing something rotten on mince pies.
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Overdosing something rotten on mince tarts or pies - don't we all? ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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I am going to a Christmas do on Sunday night at which we will be eating a turducken. I've not had it before, it does seem somewhat gluttonous to me but I guess that's what Christmas is all about....or something.
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Too many mince pies at w*rk but v.v. poor. Last year I took Mrs Sioni's in and they disappeared in seconds, but at work they were nearly all bought mince pies with that awful 'brandy flavoured' cream that comes in a spray can.
(Mrs Sioni does some mince pies with orange-flavoured pastry and others with a macaroon topping. The mincemeat is 'enhanced'.)
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Oh no I don't? If you read up, you will see I attempted to redirect the tangent. I am now gonna sit and eat popcorn and watch jedijudy, Lyda Rose, and ( apparently) you milk it.
Oh, hi LC! You, too.
I so miss Ken.
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Kelly Alves
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Alav ha-shalom*
*RIP
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Too many mince pies at w*rk but v.v. poor. Last year I took Mrs Sioni's in and they disappeared in seconds, but at work they were nearly all bought mince pies with that awful 'brandy flavoured' cream that comes in a spray can.
(Mrs Sioni does some mince pies with orange-flavoured pastry and others with a macaroon topping. The mincemeat is 'enhanced'.)
I really wish someone or other made proper English mince pies around here-- the American version has some gross spice combination that is,well, gross.
There are some folk in Oregon that have figured out to do a satisfying Eccles cake, though.
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Link? I know someone who makes trips to London for Eccles cakes.
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Kelly Alves
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I will research-- Someone gave then to me, and I don't remember the name of the company.
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M.
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We had a nice holiday in Seville at the end of October and as a consequence, are having tapas for Christmas dinner.
Followed by Christmas pudding, of course.
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Another Australian. The last few Christmases have involved having to take a number of church services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so I have survived by having cold ham and seafood, a few salads I can prepare ahead of time and a choice of pavlova or hot (microwaved) plum pudding. Plenty of fresh fruit and the usual cream, custard etc. The first couple of times I felt guilty but have come to love the ease of it. There is always a buffet of sweet and savoury nibbles to fill the corners. I'm sticking with it unless someone else volunteers to do all the cooking.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I've had the Lidl lobster and there was little discernible flavour bar the garlic butter. I would try and track down that rare beast, the Reputable Fishmonger, and get a fresh one.
ETA. I do not mean to imply that the generality of fishmongers are disreputable, but rather that they are few and far between these days.
Son of a Reputable Fishmonger checking in. (Who did game as well.
Christmas breakfast has to be smoked salmon with scrambled eggs - plenty of black pepper on the eggs.
Turkey is game. It needs to be well hung (add your own punch line). Supermarkets please take note, if it hasn't been hung a week or two the flavour will not have had time to develop.
The turkey is for lunch time. The evening meal has ham, veal and ham pie (with an egg baked in the middle), and ham. The centre of the table is a whole salmon. There is salad to accompany.
We usually eat at lunch time, but this year we are eating later to fit in with our daughter's work shifts. (She's a nurse).
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Have been puzzling about what to prepare this year, since Dad can no longer swallow much that isn't soft and I decided to give Meals on Weals a break for The Day.
Had thought of pre-cooked and sliced supermarket chicken breast with new pots and broccoli (both well-cooked), but inspiration struck and I bought some Waitrose ready meals (Chicken Forestičre) and will microwave two of those and some sage-and-onion stuffing balls. Don't think pigs in blankets would work for him.
Read this ( https://www.facebook.com/ageuk?fref=photo ) about Betty Williams (post of 19th December) and was humbled.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
...Christmas dinner...pot roast, baked potatoes and sweet potatoes, and whatever veg strikes our fancy at the grocery store.
Nope. Changed our minds. It's going to be lasagna, meatballs and a huge antipasto salad!
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A dear friend of mine, from an Italian family, said that at least five generations back, Christmas dinner was ravioli, home-made, from scratch. The reasoning was that the puffy meat-filled pasta represented the baby Jesus, wrapped up in the swaddling cloths. As if justification was needed
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Kelly Alves
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Om nom nom-- ravioli does sound like good Christmas food.
We are having a ham, and "scalloped potatoes" (read-- sliced boiled potatoes covered in Velveeta Cheese sauce, and a vegetarian lasagna (Stouffer's) for the vegetarians.
Maybe I will make ravioli as a side dish.
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
sliced boiled potatoes covered in Velveeta Cheese sauce,
That's new -- both cheese and Velveeta in the same sauce.
John
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Kelly Alves
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Preaching to the choir, my friend.
Now, which post of mine is more gross, the first one or this one?
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jedijudy
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No contest. Cthuken looks like it's about to eat the Christmas diners, not the other way around!
Velveeta may have an identity crisis, but it's not likely to attack us.
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Originally posted by John Holding:
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
sliced boiled potatoes covered in Velveeta Cheese sauce,
That's new -- both cheese and Velveeta in the same sauce.
John
I didn't know that stuff was still around. I haven't seen it down here for very many years. I think mum bought it once when I was a child, back in ancient history.
So was it just velveeta, or was it by chance mixed in with a can of mushroom or chicken soup?
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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For the first year in ages, we are not tied to my parents-in-law's rigid Christmas Day schedule and menu.
We've relocated to a much, much warmer city (29C yesterday) and, with my Mum, going out for Christmas lunch, where we will have choices. I suspect my choice will be crayfish (like lobster, only sweeter and very delicate), since I haven't had it in years. The restaurant offers a huge range of salad options, which will keep my partner happy.
We've been eating our way through our weight in berries and stone fruit already, but I believe a trifle might be in the offing for Boxing Day. The only thing we've cooked over the last few days have been new potatoes and asparagus.
So almost NOTHING traditional for the first time in 21 years. So happy.
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I hesitate to chime in since we're doing something terribly normal. But then the exotic needs the normal to set it off, doesn't it? So ...
On what should be a mild and snowless sort of Southern Ontario Christmas Eve, my wife and I will walk downtown to the (Anglican) Cathedral for midnight mass and then come home to tourtiere (a spiced meat pie) and champagne - this being a nod to my family's many generations living in Quebec. The Quebecois traditionally do quite a spread following Midnight Mass.
On Christmas Day, we'll roast the turkey that is currently brining in salt water flavoured with - well, I don't really know what - and then take it up the street mid afternoon to join my parents and step-sister for turkey/sausage stuffing/mashed potatoes/assorted veg.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with that dinner Pewgilist! (And long time, no see!)
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Yippee! First time for uncountable years that I don't have to cook Christmas dinner for the whole tribe. My daughter has invited us to her place with the instructions "don't bring a thing". However, I've since been given a list of what to bring which includes a cooked turkey, stuffing, gravy, our own drinks and raspberries from the garden. Not sure what is left for her to prepare! I'm still looking forward to dinner at her house though.
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At least she'll be the one with the clearing-up to do afterwards ...
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We are having shoulder of lamb, cooked according to the recipe posted by l'organist a few weeks back in the Burnt Offerings thread.
Accompanied by a dauphinoise type potato and onion casserole, roasted mixed roots and brussels sprouts (I do like brussels sprouts and wish they were in season for longer.
The cost of the lamb was terrifying for just the two of us. I hope to be able to make lots of shepherds pie & curry with the leftovers!
For dessert I'm taking the easy route. A M&S mini Christmas pud, or/probably followed by Sainsbury's Tart au Citron.
The home-made Christmas cake & mince pies will be taken to a family feast on Boxing Day.
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Pomona
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Christmas Day here is now going to be cheese, cold cuts, party snacks (like samosas etc) etc. And lots of biscuits and chocolate, no doubt!
Christmas Eve will be cottage pie I think, and Boxing Day is I think going to be ham but I'm not sure (not in charge of cooking). Tonight we're going to the local for a special festive meal - I'm having butternut squash veloute with parsnip crisps; slow-roast belly pork with black pudding, pommes dauphinoise, kale, and sherry gravy; and lemon tart with berries and orange sorbet.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with that dinner Pewgilist! (And long time, no see!)
Good eye, Uncle Pete - I'm on the boards for the first time in about four years.
As for the diswrongth of the the dinner, well, I certainly agree. It just seems ... normal.
Though I did find out the turkey is brining in salt water with soy sauce and bits of thyme, sage, and rosemary salvaged from the garden. In a brimming vegetable crisper in the fridge. None of which is quite normal, as far as I know normal. So ... there's that.
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