Holiday Meal

[Grizzly]

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for me will mostly consist of preparing and cooking the Christmas dinner as I am the head chef in the household. As I write this I am away from home on business sat in a pub having my evening meal and I have just had the most delicious starter which I think I will replicate for Christmas. Flat field mushrooms stuffed with whipped goats cheese, on toasted walnut bread with a sprinkling of toasted pumpkin and mixed seed crumb topped with crispy sweet cure bacon.

Christmas morning will be out in the kitchen with a bottle of sherry ( my late dad's tradition) preparing roast turkey, belly pork, roast potatoes, sage and onion stuffing, roast parsnips, sprouts, honey glazed carrots, broccoli, proper gravy with the meat juices, pigs in blankets and anything else I can think of.

Sweets or deserts are my OHs domain and will consist of , gateaux cheesecake or profiteroles.

Wines will be consumed during the meal and liqueurs after.

This will be followed by a big sleep and much self introspection for eating and drinking too much, this will mostly occur during the evening when I can't manage the cheese board for supper.

[StevieR]

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for me will mostly consist of preparing and cooking the Christmas dinner as I am the head chef in the household. As I write this I am away from home on business sat in a pub having my evening meal and I have just had the most delicious starter which I think I will replicate for Christmas. Flat field mushrooms stuffed with whipped goats cheese, on toasted walnut bread with a sprinkling of toasted pumpkin and mixed seed crumb topped with crispy sweet cure bacon.

Christmas morning will be out in the kitchen with a bottle of sherry ( my late dad's tradition) preparing roast turkey, belly pork, roast potatoes, sage and onion stuffing, roast parsnips, sprouts, honey glazed carrots, broccoli, proper gravy with the meat juices, pigs in blankets and anything else I can think of.

Sweets or deserts are my OHs domain and will consist of , gateaux cheesecake or profiteroles.

Wines will be consumed during the meal and liqueurs after.

This will be followed by a big sleep and much self introspection for eating and drinking too much, this will mostly occur during the evening when I can't manage the cheese board for supper.

So you're coming to mine and I'm going to yours? It might get messy ;)

[Grizzly]

Aye steve either way I think we will end up trollied, and getting an earbashing for sleeping through Corrie when we should be washing up!

[Downunder Kilt]

Aye steve either way I think we will end up trollied, and getting an earbashing for sleeping through Corrie when we should be washing up!

Don't worry Simon, you can sleep contently, knowing that exactly the same thing will be happening on the other side of the world, your not on your Pat malone.

[Grizzly]

Don't worry Simon, you can sleep contently, knowing that exactly the same thing will be happening on the other side of the world, your not on your Pat malone.

Lol it's good to know that that the post prandial nap is a tradition upheld on t'other side of the world. Cheers Mike have a great one. Guess we will swap stories on Boxing Day reporting in from the doghouse.

[Pleater]

The Victorian Christmas bird to roast was a goose. The turkey came into favour more and more through the Edwardian years - the early 1900s.

The geese used to be walked into the cities. They were herded through a shallow layer of pitch and then across sand so their feet were protected. The goose girls walked in front with the bell that was rung when their geese were to be fed, so they would follow the sound. Different flocks could be walked together and then separated by the girls standing in different corners of a yard with their bells.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: