Christmas Dinner - Page 2

silvermain · 13-12-2006, 13:16

I get up breathe go bed why do you want to know?

SPUGGIE J · 13-12-2006, 13:41

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Originally Posted by silvermain

I get up breathe go bed why do you want to know?

To find out if this one tradition that the PC brigade cant get at is still going strong.

Debbie J · 13-12-2006, 13:59

I lie awake waiting for little'un to come running in to tell me Santas been. Then while he is jumping around impatiently, I make a coffee and bacon sarnies (I know I'm cruel) Then he gets to open his presents. We play with a few then go to Now ex's mum and Dads for xmas dinner.

We have home made stilton and celery soup for starter, Ham and Turkey with spuds, sprouts done with bacon and riesling, parsnips in parmesan& ginger followed by xmas pud.

For tea she does a buffet with an overdose of sherry in the trifle!

This year we are going to my daughters on boxing day though I haven't quite escaped all the cooking as I will be making mince pies and chocolate gateaux. Can't wait lol

accymel · 13-12-2006, 14:20

No earlier than 8 am will anyone be allowed up hehehehe awake to kids waiting for me noisily, then the surpise to the presents then start - within 10mins they will be all open - & if im really lucky i get to open some too if santa dont forget me

, then its brekki before the kids cant any idea of choccy.

Errrr xmas dinner [ba piggin humbug] i soooo dont like cooking at best of times, cooked a proper feast last year & least those people are still alive

which is a huge releif

suppose this year will be a smaller chicken roast & xmas pizza ala yorkie puds for the young fussy one lol, while they are quiet or in midst of xmas scrap. My daughter has made the xmas cake & the yule log will be made on thursday all ready for xmas awww bless her

Then hopefully be able to veg out in front of telly with a strong glass of alchofrol - how wonderful

Well thats the plan for now anyways.

Xmas film u cant beat is scrooge true spirit of xmas pmsl!!

mrskitty · 13-12-2006, 14:36

Like Entwisi i too cannot wait for christmas this year as Jack will know whats going on this time round YIPPEE!
When i was down south we always had home cooked turkey with trimmings, but the tradition with my family i have up here is that we go to a posh restaurant for our meal-costs a fortune but luckily my cousin paid for mine last year and another family member has offered to pay this year (as i really cant afford it)!which is incredible because its usually£80-£100 a head

i would be content with an asda micro-meal but its tradition now

Jack was only 6 months old last christmas but i was up at 5am and keeping myself busy till i could get him out of bed at 7am-is everyone like this with there first child or was it just me being crazy?
and yes by the time it came to the afternoon i was exhausted lol

jimmi5bellies · 13-12-2006, 14:44

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Originally Posted by entwisi

Get it through Cornthwaites, I have an old secondhand freezer in the garage which we bought for £40 about 7 years ago. I tend to buy all meat in bulk, it works out a lot better value. e.g I got 5lbs of Chicken Breast for a tenner, I get 5lbs of minced steak for under a fiver etc. Plus you can buy stuff when its in season(and usually at its best) and store it for when you want it.

Whittakers Butchers on Bburn Market is quite good, but we've recently started going up to Bury market instead.

Nice one... trouble is i dont have a garage or shed to put in a second freezer and the kitchen is only approx 10ft x 6ft. I already have my dryer sat ontop of the washer now, lol

Lolly · 13-12-2006, 14:49

My aunt is the stewardess at a masonic lodge so all the family is going there and we are going to set up the table in the bar area, and have dinner there. As for anything else, its Harry's first Christmas so haven't got a clue hpw it will pan out. Although Christmas Day is the only day that I will not be working!!

silvermain · 13-12-2006, 14:54

Who else thinks it would be funny if the kids came downstairs and there was no pressies at all? Id pish myself. It happened to me but thankfully my parents had hidden them all over the house for me to find it was ace.

accymel · 13-12-2006, 15:07

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Originally Posted by silvermain

Who else thinks it would be funny if the kids came downstairs and there was no pressies at all? Id pish myself. It happened to me but thankfully my parents had hidden them all over the house for me to find it was ace.

Ive done that one fer laugh, usually presents were in the lounge, but as my dining table was next door but one, i had a lot more space so put them in the dining room instead so they came down & looked in shock as there was no presents {they was threatened before xmas as they were mis behaving they may not get any] pmsl their faces but before they could burst in tears i pointed towards the dining room - the releif of happiness was more a picture [hey they dont misbehave before xmas now hehehe]

Im cruel but not really

jambutty · 13-12-2006, 15:47

Like many people who live by themselves my Xmas Day will start when I wake up. When that will be will depend on a variety of factors but one of them won’t be kids diving onto my bed. So it could be at any time between eight and noon.

My first task is a visit to the bog, make a brew and yes even on Xmas Day, boot up the machine to see what has happened since I went to bed. After trashing all the spam a quick look around my usual haunts and then breakfast of some sort of cereal with ice-cold real milk and either sugar or honey. After a shower and shave etc it will see me ready to take on the world a couple of hours after waking up.

A cup of decent coffee made with all milk and a fag will see me scouring the Radio Times to see what programmes I will need to avoid. The schedules for the five main channels have nothing to interest me until 4:30pm on ITV1 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone but I have the DVD so that won’t interest me.

Somewhere along the way I will fit in a meal of some sort, probably one of those Birds Eye chicken dinner things or maybe as it is Xmas I’ll go for the Turkey dinner. If I can find a very small one I will also have a Xmas pudding with real custard, which I will make myself rather than one of those instant custard things.

The evening schedules are not much better although there is the new Dr. Who on BBC1 at 7:00pm. Unfortunately that clashes with the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures on Chan 5 at 7:15pm, which have always been a highlight of my Xmases. But the Dr. Who programme is repeated on Wednesday on BBC3 at 8:00pm so I can watch both programmes. Otherwise there is little else to interest me on the telly.

How do I know all this? I get my Radio Times delivered by the publisher and I just got the Xmas two weeks issue today.

However I won’t be bored because I can either watch a Laurel and Hardy film or a few Tom and Jerry cartoons. Or carry on converting all my records and tapes to digital format (.wav) for storing on DVD’s after I have cleaned them up with Audio Cleaning Lab to get rid of most of the background noise and crackles etc. It takes time but time is plentiful for me.

None of the family is likely to call in on Xmas Day because they have kids and they need to be at home for them. They will drop in on Boxing Day. I won’t be going to them because my son lives in Whittle-le-Woods, a daughter in Cherry Tree, a daughter near Accrington and one in Spain. So it isn’t practical to try and visit them all. In any case we keep in touch throughout the year.

In a nutshell my Xmas Day will be to my liking and you can’t ask for more than that.

MERRY XMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sara · 13-12-2006, 16:52

I'm always up first on Christmas day, making as much noise as possible so everyone else will wake up. Even when Santa used to visit i always had to wake the kids up. Have a brew, open pressents then fight over the bathroom. Once dressed shall visit father. In the past have either gone to my sisters along with my dad, or he came here then spent the evening driving people home. This year will be staying at home on our own, plus two teenagers. Will be having the traditional turkey dinner with all trimmings, personally i would prefare steak or lamb but the rest of the family want turkey. Then for pudding it will probably be a defrosted gateux or something similar. Will be slightly differant because i don't usually have a drink Christmas day, but this year with not having to do any driving in the evening shall be able to.

West Ender · 13-12-2006, 21:03

My son and his wife always have their Christmas dinner at their home, just the 2 of them. He does the cooking (he does most of their cooking anyway) and every year they have a different "theme". He's done Indian, Chinese, Thai, Greek, Mexican and God knows what else. He's a good cook and he really "goes to town" with all the authentic ingredients. I asked him when he was going to have an English theme and do turkey. He looked at me in horror and said he wouldn't have a clue where to start.

Last year he was very brave. One of the members of his band gave him an edible, real scorpion in jelly as a present. He brought it to my house on Boxing Day and - I am here to tell you - he ate it! I wish you could have seen the expression on his face as it went down - and it stayed down too!

ANNE · 13-12-2006, 22:31

It's going to be strange this Christmas because I usually work Christmas Day and this will be the first on I have had off in about 15yrs.
When the children were little we had the works posh table with crackers and dinner with all the trimmings.
Now there is only two of us I don't know what we'll have a meal if we feel like it or left overs from Christmas Eve.
Watch all my soaps on TV. Have a drink for a change. The perhaps come on here for a while.

jackyalex · 13-12-2006, 22:40

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Originally Posted by slinky

Christmas day I awake to the sound of 2 little elephants running into the bedroom informing that Father Christmas has been.

We go down stairs and watch the children open their pressies ( which takes approx 10 minutes). We have a good look at whhat they have got, then me and Ginger open all ours.

Then Ginger will retire to the kitchen where he will stay all afternoon preparing a scrummy Christmas Dinner for me and the ankle biters. I stay in the livingroom with a lovely glass of wine entertaining the children ( or should that be the children entertaining me)

I love christmas day!!! The T.v is usually great.....usually a great plot on all the soaps to watch......and the children are kept entertained by new pressies all day.

open all ours lol, whos the big kids, i bet you were the ones runnin down the stairs

shillelagh · 14-12-2006, 00:38

All this talk of running down the stairs reminds me of my mum. A couple of years ago leading up to xmas she was really ill. Doc came out on xmas eve to check how she was and she said that she'd come out on the Wednesday if my mum was still here. That is how bad she was. Anyway one of my sisters said she'd bring xmas dinner up to ours and we'd have it our dinner here because i was looking after mum. Christmas Eve mum was still ill and during the night she had me up and down looking after her. 8.00am mum shouted for me and said she was getting up for the first time for over a week and opening her presents. She said she wasnt spending xmas day in bed. Anyway she came downstairs and opened her pressies - she was like a big kid. Everyone was shocked when they came round - she was up and smiling and laughing with the best of em! Wonderful what xmas does isnt - she got up to open her pressies! She was just a big kid at heart!!