Traditional Christmas meals
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Traditional Christmas meals
Down on the Gulf Coast at Christmas, for some of us at least, one meal has to include fried crab claws. Scratched that off my to do list today.
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DuncaninFrance
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Well in the UK I suppose it has to be a Turkey or a Goose but I think they used to take various birds and stuff one inside the other. Maybe that was Elizabethan times.
Anyway, I never liked Turkey or any sort of bird for that matter ( I think they are fowl!
) so we used to have a piece of Roast Beef .
Here in France New Year is more important than Christmas but Oysters feature heavily in both meals.
I can't eat any seafood, shell or fish as it makes me sick so we have a Roast Leg of Lamb, New and Roast Potatoes, various veg and a good Bordeaux Red then follow it with a pudding. This year it will be an Apple Crumble - Can't wait
Oh yes, then there is Christmas Cake (fruit cake soaked in malt whiskey) with White Stilton Cheese and a good Port Wine. Bon appétit!
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Anyway, I never liked Turkey or any sort of bird for that matter ( I think they are fowl!
) so we used to have a piece of Roast Beef .Here in France New Year is more important than Christmas but Oysters feature heavily in both meals.
I can't eat any seafood, shell or fish as it makes me sick so we have a Roast Leg of Lamb, New and Roast Potatoes, various veg and a good Bordeaux Red then follow it with a pudding. This year it will be an Apple Crumble - Can't wait
Oh yes, then there is Christmas Cake (fruit cake soaked in malt whiskey) with White Stilton Cheese and a good Port Wine. Bon appétit!
Duncan
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"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
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Traditional Christmas dinner for me is eaten at my Parents house and consists of....
roast beef, roast pork, yorkshire puds, mashed & creamed tatties, roast tatties, assorted vegetables (especially parsnip) all swimming in a nice onion gravy. Wash it down with a couple of pints of bitter (none of that gnats piss lager for me thanks) and maybe finish off with a mince pie if i have any room left.
I then do the washing up for Mam before chilling out in front of the fire with a glass or two of wine.
Joe
roast beef, roast pork, yorkshire puds, mashed & creamed tatties, roast tatties, assorted vegetables (especially parsnip) all swimming in a nice onion gravy. Wash it down with a couple of pints of bitter (none of that gnats piss lager for me thanks) and maybe finish off with a mince pie if i have any room left.
I then do the washing up for Mam before chilling out in front of the fire with a glass or two of wine.
Joe
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My wife will prepare xmas dinner for us.
This year its roast beef and a turkey crown(breast)basted and covered in rashers of bacon.
Roast potatoes,mash and hassleback potatoes I think that's how you spell it.
Brussels sprouts fresh from the farm cut at the first frost and if I can sneak them in some chestnuts,parsnips, leek and cabbage and maybe some other vegetables.
Yorkshire puddings as big as footballs and lots of gravy.(My wife is famous for her Yorkshire puds.)
Apple pie and custard to follow washed down with beer and maybe a bottle of wine or two and a wee dram of single malt and by that time Ill probably be ready for my bed.
This year its roast beef and a turkey crown(breast)basted and covered in rashers of bacon.
Roast potatoes,mash and hassleback potatoes I think that's how you spell it.
Brussels sprouts fresh from the farm cut at the first frost and if I can sneak them in some chestnuts,parsnips, leek and cabbage and maybe some other vegetables.
Yorkshire puddings as big as footballs and lots of gravy.(My wife is famous for her Yorkshire puds.)
Apple pie and custard to follow washed down with beer and maybe a bottle of wine or two and a wee dram of single malt and by that time Ill probably be ready for my bed.