what you having for christmas dinner?
 

we have lamb,gammon and chicken in the freezer :)
starter of prawns for those that eat them and greek salad for those that dont (mostly me)
garlic and rosemary lamb, roast chicken and cola gammon, roasties,carrot and swede mash, yorkshires, stuffing wrapped in bacon, sprouts

havent decided whats for after so that why im asking really ;)


all the leftover meats will make butties for tea aswell and to feed the half a million people that will come to see the smalls :)

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Turkey, stuffing, parsnips (roasted in honey), brussels, carrots, mash, roasties, brocolli, cauliflower cheese and gravy for Christmas dinner, desert will be trifle and gateux

Duck for Boxing day

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Got to have Christmas pudding but just got a slow cooker (thanks to Eric and his moose) so might experiment with cooking something in that for main course. Only the two of us so doesn't really matter what it turns out like!

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ive never had duck flashy, is it like chicken?

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you could do a turkey and all (well most) of the trimmings in a slow cooker Sue, i do a sunday roast in my slow cooker sometimes, put all the veggies under the turkey

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it's stronger tasting, i roast it on a rack in the over, they hold a lot of fat so i do that so the fat drips out away from the duck, i start it upside down then turn it the right way up half way through cooking so its all moist

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i do the gammon in the slow cooker :)

duck sounds nice, might give it a go

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Were having it out this year, saves Paris all the hassle of preparing @ cooking, which always stresses her, also saves me having to wash up.:D

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Humble pie, always manage to over indulge Christmas eve spend the following day apologising.

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Would have to be a small turkey - it's only a 2 person cooker. We usually have duck or pheasant anyway.

Duck is scrumptious, I usually stick an orange up its bum having squeezed the juice over the bird first.

I've also got some game bird pieces in the freezer - could have a nice casserole - then again I've still got my squirrel - and some goose legs.

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Just the usual Roast......no starter and he will have strawberries and ice cream.......I will give dessert a miss.
Nothing out of the ordinary, but it suits us.
Whatever we have...Ma will get a portion of as well.

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I hope the bird is dead rather than this being some strange form of foreplay?

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Ooh, the thought of it brings tears to my eyes...and I thought haemorrhoids were bad:D

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Ha ha I was waiting for someone to put the worst possible slant on that... and it had to be you Less of course!

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Typical,
Always blame the fella,
I once had an affair with a woman that would only do it whilst hanging from a banister rail, SHE claimed that put a different slant on it!

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I will be having slow roast venison with sautéed potatoes sprouts etc
The wife will be having a toasted tea cake:D

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Only 'cause he got there first;)

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I'll be having Prawn cocktail followed by Turkey and all the trimmings and then Mince Pies and Christmas pudding. It will be the first time in years that I have this actually on Xmas day and the best thing of all is that I won't be cooking for a change. We are going out to a restaurant in Playa di SanJuan, Tenerife -it will be odd having such a big meal in hot weather!

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I've had duck and also Goose at different Christmas meals, duck has always been a dark meat and delicious, Goose, well, cooked right it is the perfect bird, left to stew in it's own juices, rather than drain the fat, well worth rubbing against your chest as a cure for infections, otherwise you could be disappointed.

P.S. Was tempted to say I've often had to duck because of the Christmas Goose I so generously handed out, but it doesn't look as funny in print,

so I won't bother.
;)

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I haven't got a clue, to be honest!
I am going to my Sister and bro-in-law's house, and my Sister is working until 7:30 pm.

So I don't know who is cooking... It won't be me (understandably I am not so experienced with xmas dinner food) ...And I've a feeling if we wait for my Sister we'll have all had too much to drink to me much cop at it, so It's probably to be my Mother....( who could burn ice-cream if she tried, she once fed me some scones with glass in them, and last time she made me food it was a bowl of lettuce and six chips, you get the idea!)
I might cook my own dinner separately...As I said in the 'Roast Dinner' thread I may take the opportunity to cook myself something nice instead of what I usually do which is just having everything but the meat lol.

I usually get to make dessert though, I often make chocolates and put soy cream on them-sometimes I even get to have some myself , they were all gone by the time I reached the table last year!

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There is a difference between wild duck and farmed duck, wild duck has much less meat, even so farmed duck does not have as much meat as a chicken and the meat is stronger and greasier, very nice with plum sauce!

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Where did you shoot it?:D

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Freezer section of Tezzys ! :D

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Curry at Balti Stan with the family. Was going to cook a turkey dinner boxing day, but my son's girlfriend invited us there for a meal. So having a lazy Christmas.

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Wonder how many rounds it took to nail it?:D

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It depends on two things :-

1) The Maundy Relief foodbank being open on Christmas Eve.

2) Finding the tin opener.

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Bury Market :D:D

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i shall be having cow pat moo and then watermelons and mangoes

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Rather kills this thread dead till you find out it means pork fried rice!

I do envy you the fruit - two of my favourites.

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Whatever my Mum decides to cook! ;)

I will help with the prep but I think she is going to get some beef, gammon and chicken.