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Heavenly Anarchist
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Christmas eve - we're off to friends' house so no idea what we're eating but we are bringing trifle and cocktails.
Christmas day - fresh pastries before church and then lunch at relatives, with turkey and all the usual trimmings I imagine. We're bringing a homemade chocolate log.
Boxing day, at home just the four of us. Breakfast of something nice, eggs benedict or salmon and scrambled eggs. We'll walk to the barrel race in Grantchester and come home to a turkey crown, gammon, pigs in blankets, roast pots and veg, followed by a raspberry and chocolate ice cream log and Christmas pudding with whole clementine for those who like that sort of thing (neither myself or my youngest like Christmas pudding). Sherry before, wine during and dessert wine afterwards. Slump in front of a film and port and cheese for tea.
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The friends we're going to for Christmas dinner are offering not only turkey, but also lamb, which we both like far more than turkey ... ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I've done one batch of French sticks with a little whole-wheat flour added; I'm going to do an all-white-flour batch this evening and bring one loaf of each tomorrow.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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After all of tonight's musical festivities, and then a subdued Christmas Day service for a handful of people, I'll come home, worn out. No company. Just blessed peace and quiet, except for the yappy terrier.
I'll make a pork roast, mashed potatoes, bread /celery/onion/sage stuffing, peas or green beans, and sauerkraut. And a glass of bourbon & water while I'm diddling around in the kitchen.
I'll have nice meals for several days. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ariel
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Tonight is salmon which is traditional in our family on Christmas Eve.
For tomorrow I have managed to get a lobster and there will be chips and a glass of good wine ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I also have a traditional dinner, minus the turkey and stuffing, for the following day. I'm looking forward to the pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, carrots and a generous amount of buttered sprouts. There's also tiramisu or plum pudding.
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Al Eluia
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Christmas Eve dinner: meatloaf, quinoa/bean loaf (for the vegetarians), roasted potatoes, and a corn/zucchini casserole.
Xmas breakfast: French toast, vegetarian sausage links, and fruit salad. We have had French toast for Xmas breakfast every year since my wife and I were engaged.
Xmas dinner: big family potluck. Our contribution is a Jello salad with walnuts, cranberries, and pineapple (it really is good!) and what in my wife's family is referred to as turkey soufflé (a mix of chopped turkey, celery, onion and mayonnaise between layers of white bread, topped with cream of mushroom soup and baked, then topped with grated cheese).
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Discoered today that I am making Xmas dinner tomorrow. Luckily my relations have actually acquired all the food, so all I have to do is cook it. The turkey, to be roasted in the traditional manner since it is too late to brine it. Butternut squash, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, to be roasted in a hot oven with either bits of real bacon or Vietnamese fish sauce, depending on what is available in this strange kitchen. A raw broccoli salad, tossed with olive oil, garlic and cumin seed and sprinked with seasoned rice vinegar. Either white or brown rice, depending.
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Firenze
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Christmas Eve dinner rather successful: cod and scallops in a wine/cream/tarragon sauce (I mean, what could go wrong?), nice bottle of champagne. Followed by a glass of the Kilchoman .
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RuthW
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My mother moved into a rather nice retirement community earlier this year, and our family has reservations in the dining hall. Here's the menu:
Cauliflower curry soup
Farro and date salad
Free-range turkey
Mai tai glazed ham
Miso salmon
Yukon gold mashed potatoes
Pear, porcini and pecan stuffing
Spiced butternut squash
Haricot verts almondine
Assorted dinner rolls
Assosrted dessert station
Chocolate chip cookies
None of us has to cook, none of us has to clean up.
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Piglet
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I think you may be on to something there, Ruth - bon appetit! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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MMMMMmmm.
Tonight was a combination Christmas Eve dinner/ wedding celebration (see praise thread). One of my new in-laws made four versions of tamales-- one filled with chicken and mole, one filled with pork and wrapped in banana leaves, one mushroom and green pepper with somewhat of an Asian influence, and one ground beef with cardamom. All very yummy. on the side we had beans, Mexican rice, home made guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo with tortilla chips.
To drink we had a choice of soft drinks, champagne, and Ménage à Trois (which is damn yummy.) And a lovely devil's food cake with silky white frosting for dessert.
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Firenze
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Had a bit of a burrow in the cupboard and came up with a Chateauneuf du Pape '98 to go with the Beef Wellington, and a Pewsey Vale Riesling '84 for the Christmas pud. Both drinking very well.
[ 25. December 2014, 22:38: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Much envy about the Pewsey Vale - it is a wine which ages beautifully. We drank 2000 Mt Pleasant Lovedale semillon with the seafood terrine - a beautiful wine, with at least 10 more years in it; with the cold roast turkey, what better than the 2005 Leasingham Sparkling Shiraz.
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John Holding
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Had a bit of a burrow in the cupboard and came up with a Chateauneuf du Pape '98 to go with the Beef Wellington, and a Pewsey Vale Riesling '84 for the Christmas pud. Both drinking very well.
Wish I had a cupboard with Chateauneuf du Pape '98 lying forgotten in it.
What else do you keep in your cupboards on spec -- stray first growth clarets? vintage Roederer Krystal? The odd bottle of HIghland Park?
And when can I come to rummage around in the said cupboard, so long as I can keep what I find?
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Firenze
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I would need to check, John, but I think we have about 10 whiskies on the go. A Laphroig, a Kilchoman and a Mortlach and another 3 malts I can't remember. An an Irish and a couple of bourbons. Some curiosities, like a Dillon's white rye.
The wines I'm less sure about: definitely quite a lot of champagne though.
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Bene Gesserit
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Firenze's drinks cabinet sounds awesome!
Having had our traditional Boxing Day dinner of bubble and squeak + cold meats (inc. the inevitable leftover turkey...), a tradition inherited from my family, I was wondering what Others eat on Boxing Day. My other half can't remember whether his family had their own particular traditions.
So, what was your dinner today?
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Our tradition used to be cold turkey, ham and doing more veggies. We've since stopped eating meat, so just had more veggies and stuffing
A great tradition past tradition is mum saying she'll make bubble and squeak with the left overs, then chucking them out a few days later.... I can't actually recall her ever having done it. We've been a bit better about not cooking so many of them to start more recently.
We also tend to have egg and home made chips for dinner a couple of days after Christmas.
Oh, and the Christmas pudding, seems to last for days!
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Having celebrated on our own yesterday, Mr RoS and spent the day with our sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren, doing Christmas all over again. Hosted by Younger Son & wife, who had done the same for DiL's family yesterday.
On the menu today, after substantial nibbles, was roast duck, (or Quorn roast for the vegetarians amongst us), roast potatoes, roast carrots, sprouts, stuffing, yorkshire puddings and two types of gravy. Followed by Christmas pudding & brandy butter, trifle, mince pies, chocolate ice cream log, and cream.
There were more nibbly things later, but I was too full to even look at them.
Can't even think about food for tomorrow, but it will be leftovers.
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Firenze
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We've reverted to a custom we had of a cheese fondue. It's minimal cooking, and it reminds you why it caught on in the first place.
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jedijudy
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I had to play with my new toy today, so I invited my BFF over and cooked sweet potatoes and salmon on my new gas grill!
We ate some yummy Brussels sprouts, too.
Then we ate some of the dark chocolate D-U and her hubby gave me yesterday.
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Piglet
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We discovered that one of the few places open in St. John's today was a new restaurant serving v. good vegetarian Chinese food. Further details in my post on the British thread in AS.
I made a pot of soup today and on a whim invited the friends we had Christmas dinner with round on Saturday to help us eat it.
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Chinese food. Apparently, that's what most Jewish and other folk who don't celebrate Christmas eat on Christmas Day? Well, my wife and I were treated to a wonderful Chinese food early dinner on the 25th. We got to the restaurant in good time as there weren't a lot of people there but when we left an hour later, we had to squeeze past twenty irritated, ravenous people waiting in line at the front door.
We had a great dinner. I had Cashew Chicken, my wife had a mostly lovely chicken dish but her black mushrooms were as rubbery as calamari and proved inedible after chewing fruitlessly on one for more than ten minutes...my sister had the Phoenix and Dragon, a chicken and shrimp dish. Mmmm! My mouth is watering all over again, thinking about it. We also scarfed down appetizers of Crab Rangoon, Shrimp Toast, and Vegetarian Pot-stickers. Excellent, excellent time was had by all. Last Christmas was Thai cuisine, also excellent.
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Nenya
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Beef in red wine in the slow cooker for Christmas Eve; turkey and the trimmings for Christmas Day; cold beef, salad and pickles at Nenlet1's in-laws on Boxing Day. Yesterday evening I used the remains of the turkey in Piglet's Curry with Saffron Rice (see recipe thread ) much to the family's approval. Nenlet2 hadn't had it before.
It's a bit more anybody's guess today, though. I might rustle up a stir fry. ..
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Like Firenze, we have a cupboard of single malts, I just counted 12 and my other half has some Japanese double sample bottles. I'm another fan of Laphroig and also Talisker, though there is also Welsh, British, Swedish and Japanese here. Alas, we have finished our only champagne on Boxing Day though.
Christmas dinner at the relatives was the usual turkey roast and Christmas pudding with my homemade chocolate log as an alternative for those, like me, who don't like fruit cake. Boxing Day was at home and we had crab to start, followed by Turkey crown with sausage meat and stuffing, gammon, homemade bread sauce and all the usual veg, followed by a raspberry and praline ice cream log, with sherry, champagne and moscatel. We didn't get round to the cheese course.
Since then I've been experimenting with my new griddle and we appear to be living on homemade crumpets and cheese
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Originally posted by Firenze:
We've reverted to a custom we had of a cheese fondue. It's minimal cooking, and it reminds you why it caught on in the first place.
Have you tried a raclette meal Firenze?
Fabulous - even better than fondue!
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Firenze
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I do eye up the raclette stones when they make their very occasional appearance in Lidl but if there's a thing I don't need, it's a rarely-used cooking apparatus taking up cupboard space. The fondue set earns its keep by virtue of being a double saucepan.
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Ariel
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So basically, with a raclette you invite people round and get them to cook their own lunch.
Assuming they've brought a bottle and their choice of ingredients, the host wouldn't have to do anything more than provide seats and a couple of utensils per person.
I'm just wondering whether there's much difference in principle between this, a barbecue or getting people to cook things around the bonfire/campfire.
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Christmas Eve was traditional Southern chicken and dressing, turkey, boiled country ham, mac & cheese, mashed taters and cream-style corn at my mother-in-law's This was followed by baked ham, white beans, baked mac & cheese, Mexican cornbread and green beans at my best friend's family's house. Christmas Day I mooched around a bunch of friends' homes eating their leftovers and loafing heartily.
I've managed to get out of cooking for any big holiday this year, but I do miss the leftovers the next couple of days. Lucky for my I have lots of friends who are great cooks and don't mind me rummaging through their fridges
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Piglet
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I like the look of the raclette thing, although as Firenze said, it's really just another Thing To Collect Dust.
We were very taken with the "steak-on-a-stone" restaurants that were a hit about 20 years ago, and contemplated buying some and trying to replicate it, but I'm glad we didn't: I doubt we'd have ever used them. Now I think about it, D. bought a fondue set a wee while ago, which was put at the back of a cupboard and hasn't been used yet ...
Hmmm - possible New Year's Day dinner for the two of us: we'll want something fairly simple as we're going to friends on New Year's Eve who always do a huge mixture of things, rather like a pot-luck, after which one feels a bit gastronomically confused ...
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There is a bit of minimal preparation required for raclette. You need to boil potatoes and prepare the charcuterie. A crisp white wine is best to cut through all the grease.
The other thing to bear in mind is that your house stinks of cheese for days afterwards.
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We have a raclette grill - it's quite the "thing" in our area of France. When we bought it we used it every week, until we got bored. Now it comes out occassionally (usually when we have friends staying) but it is a good stand-by meal. The children of friends down the hill LOVE raclette and demand it every week (mind you, their mother isn't a great cook, and this is a meal that is difficult to mess up!)
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Nenya
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Originally posted by Piglet:
rather like a pot-luck, after which one feels a bit gastronomically confused ...
What a good way of putting it. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) We have Bring and Share lunches at work occasionally, which have the same effect.
This week is a funny one for food as you're kind of getting back into routine with some people at work, but there has to be some sort of celebration meal as well - though it tends to be one which doesn't leave you with leftovers, so no turkey curry options for the weekend. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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So basically, with a raclette you invite people round and get them to cook their own lunch.
Yes!
It's very popular in Germany - I love it. Such a sociable way to do. Very little faffing, I hate faffy cooking! My husband does all the cooking in our house, I tend to leave the room, too much FAFFING! (ungrateful me)
I haven't bought a raclette set yet, but may ask Santa for one next year.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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We have a small fondue which we occasionally use for cheese but is is far more often used to melting chocolate.
We've got guests tomorrow for New Year's eve, too many to fit around the table and several children. So we're having a buffet, which I'm starting to prepare today. I've made coconut egg masala to serve cold, potato salad and I'm about to make a spicy leg of lamb to carve at the table. Later today I'll make a chocolate log (fondue pot will be out for this) and a lemon cake and tomorrow we'll cook gammon, sausages and homemade sausage rolls and make some Tzatziki (guests are bringing salad and dessert).
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Ariel
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My parents bought a fondue pot in about 1970 as fondue was fashionable at the time, and we tried it out one evening. It was fine at the time, but you get sick of what is essentially toasted cheese pretty quickly, the congealed bits were difficult to clean off, and we never used it again. Also, the smell did linger for a bit.
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Sioni Sais
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If you aren't fans of fondue with cheese get a metal pot and use it to cook meat instead. You cook small pieces of meat in what is effectively mulled wine. Mushrooms go well too.
Raclette is OK, but you can use a wider variety of cheeses in a fondue.
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Piglet
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We had a fondue set when we were in Belfast (it got forgotten when we moved over here) and we did meat fondues a couple of times. They were fine up to a point, but D. isn't wild about a lot of red meat, and found that it took too long for the meat to be done to his desired degree of doneness*. Also, we found it hard to keep the oil hot enough to cook the meat without taking the pot off and re-heating it on the stove.
I mentioned the cheese-fondue idea to him and he seemed quite keen, so I think we'll give it a go. I'm going to make leek-and-potato soup as a starter, as we've got a couple of leeks in the fridge that would like to be eaten.
* i.e. cremated
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
If you aren't fans of fondue with cheese get a metal pot and use it to cook meat instead.
That's usually known as a saucepan in this part of the world ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Shabu Shabu in Japan - and similar dishes in Korea and Singapore, I have forgotten the names. The trick is to cook the vegetables first, as they take longer, then quickly cook the meat when the vegetables are done. The meat takes barely a couple of minutes if it's properly prepared.
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Firenze
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Definitely time to bin the leftovers I think.
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