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Post by Nemesis on Dec 21, 2021 21:13:38 GMT
Mum’s doing the cooking; She used to run pub kitchens years back and so everything goes into buffet trays and you go help yourself to whatever veg you fancy. She super organised, but .. thinks she’s still making enough for the pub.
Needless to say there’s always ridiculous amounts of left overs. Which I always accept ready for the next day bubble and squeak extravaganza when I’m home alone on Boxing Day. Again.
My contribution to this feast will be the ice cream. Which is homemade honeycomb smashed and mixed into vanilla ice cream and left for a fortnight in the freezer to melt in. This year I cheated and just used smashed crunchie bars. On Apple Crumble it’s the absolute business.
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Post by Nemesis on Dec 21, 2021 21:15:13 GMT
The absolute key is giving the mix a couple of weeks in the freezer; that’ll get the honeycomb melting into the ice cream and it’s worth the wait.
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Post by Danno on Dec 21, 2021 21:29:37 GMT
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Post by Danno on Dec 21, 2021 21:33:00 GMT
Having a duck this year. Ms Danno has requested mash instead of roasties (she's not from this side of the pond) so I'm going to make go full france with vishy(sp) carrots, red wine jus, beans with almonds and such for the other sides
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2021 21:37:59 GMT
I wanted to do duck my my folks vetoed it.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Dec 21, 2021 21:40:27 GMT
Hah, one of the family Christmas meals we had visiting in laws in France was Coca Cola chicken. Different but I never new it existed and it's good.
Basically dust chicken pieces in flour, salt and pepper.
Brown them off.
Crack a packet of French Onion soup mix into the pan.
Add a can of cola and cook in oven until chicken is cooked. It's way better than it sounds.
Serve with rice.
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Post by cubby on Dec 21, 2021 21:48:49 GMT
We're having roast gammon, honey and mustard carrots, roast spuds, cabbage, pigs in blankets and sprouts cooked with pancetta.
Then a chicken for my mum, a vegan turkey crown and vegan wreath for my veggie friends
All courtesy of my amazing chef girlfriend, I can't cook for toffee
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2021 22:10:53 GMT
We're not doing anything too fancy. Just a Sunday lunch with sprouts and crackers. Otherwise, you spend all morning in the kitchen and that's not fun.
Tonight I just had crackers as I'm feeling a bit crap. Hopefully I can make something better for the family tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2021 22:35:48 GMT
I love spending time in the kitchen and it's really nice now I'm in my flat - the kitchen and living room are all open so the kids can be playing while I'm cooking, they'll pop over and take an interest in it from time to time, we'll have music on... It's lovely and it feels very, err, familial.
I also find cooking really chills me out - in naturally quite a stressy and shape person, so being in control of what's happening feels good and clears my head.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 22, 2021 8:48:46 GMT
Fairly standard fayre here. Turkey crown, gammon (need to decide how to cook it this year), pigs in blankets, veg etc. A few party food nibbles for starters. Am leaving the prep of the turkey to my mother-in-law, in the hope that she stays out of the kitchen and stops interfering. Puts me right off and makes me question timings etc. But yeah, it's ultimately just a slightly bigger Sunday roast so no biggie.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 22, 2021 9:14:23 GMT
Found out this weekend that we're hosting (just the in-laws thankfully), when I was under the impression all along that we'd booked somewhere. Thanks for the heads up!
Obviously no delivery slots left at this point so a fun visit to a supermarket tonight.
Will see if we can get a turkey crown or something today for the three meaty people, but if not it'll be a pretty fucking weird roast with a side of salmon that we have in the freezer.
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Post by patrick on Dec 22, 2021 9:29:02 GMT
My sister and her husband are on charge this year so I honestly have no idea what we're having but I'm on dessert duty. Stuff needs to be GF free for my Mum so I'm gonna do an orange cake with ground almonds instead of flour and maybe a baked cheesecake too. Slightly annoyed with myself that I've left it this late to get the ingredients so I'm hoping Tesco won't be too fucking mental at 3pm when I finish work.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 22, 2021 9:40:14 GMT
I totally forgot about booking a delivery slot so we did one quick rattle around Lidl yesterday and I'll pick up the rest tomorrow before I get the meat from the butcher. I'm not too fussed about being out and about this year.
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Post by EMarkM on Dec 22, 2021 13:21:33 GMT
Cottage pie and brussels sprouts.
Look, it's complicated, alright?
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Dec 22, 2021 14:22:00 GMT
Christmas shop will be at opening time tomorrow, at least I'm doing the Xmas shop this year as Mrs Mercury is too ill atm, so at least there won't be £60 or something spent on utterly useless Xmas rubbish.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 16:43:29 GMT
Made my mince pie ice cream and cracking on with the Hokkaido milk bread.
So I'm obviously having a pot noodle and some crisps for dinner.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Dec 22, 2021 19:04:01 GMT
It's not Christmas without a ham and salt and vinegar crisps sandwich.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 19:30:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 20:01:14 GMT
Looks like brioche, what's the texture like?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 20:07:56 GMT
Not sure yet, never made it before. It's meant to be very light.
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Post by cubby on Dec 22, 2021 20:20:01 GMT
Brie and bacon paninis and chips
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Post by H-alphaFox on Dec 24, 2021 11:15:07 GMT
Got to start the Tandoori chicken marinating for tomorrows Christmas curry feast.
Totally worth doing overnight and really takes the curries up a significant notch.
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Post by スコットランド on Dec 24, 2021 11:19:41 GMT
Other half is making a Japanese salmon hotpot dish tonight, tomorrow it's soba noodles, sashimi and wagyu for lunch then bison ribeye/dry aged beef fillet plus potatoes for dinner.
not very traditional this year.....
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Post by brokenkey on Dec 24, 2021 14:14:41 GMT
Waitrose are clearing all their uncollected customer orders, so where having Venison Wellington tonight.
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Post by EMarkM on Dec 24, 2021 14:19:55 GMT
Takeaway pizza from Paccino’s of Congleton tonight.
I do love pizza, me.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Dec 24, 2021 14:20:27 GMT
The better half just made a heap of Sparkling Shortbread biscuits. Bloody good those are and there are now rumours of a cake in a little bit.
Not really dinner I guess.
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Post by EMarkM on Dec 24, 2021 14:21:33 GMT
The better half just made a heap of Sparkling Shortbread biscuits. Bloody good those are and there are now rumours of a cake in a little bit. Not really dinner I guess. Yeah it is! |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Dec 24, 2021 14:22:31 GMT
I suppose it is, either way the house smells lovely.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Dec 24, 2021 14:36:35 GMT
I normally rub my chicken with garlic butter, rosemary and thyme before I roast.
This year I'm thinking about doing that overnight, is that going to fuck it up?
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Post by EMarkM on Dec 24, 2021 14:41:23 GMT
I normally rub my chicken with garlic butter, rosemary and thyme before I roast. This year I'm thinking about doing that overnight, is that going to fuck it up? I can't see how - sounds good to me. |
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