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Turns out a nearby Turkish restaurant is open Xmas day. So takeaway! and we will be eating falafel like Mary and Joseph probably did! Yum yum.
Essentially a normal Christmas dinner but with pheasant. No one is fussed about turkey and pheasant is £6 a bird at the local farm shop. Cooks in 30 minutes too.
Got back home yesterday afternoon from a fortnight in the Carribean, thinking we could just pop up to the supermarket after a quick Kip.
Realised around 5pm it was Sunday, so Tesco Metro it was.
So it’s Tomato soup starter ,
microwave Chicken Tikka and rice mains
Individual strawberry trifles for afters
Im not complaining 😂
Different?
Definitely not going to be any Yorkshire puddings, that's for sure.
Off to some restaurant here in Italy with friends.
Free range chicken for us with the usual trimmings.
I made four curries yesterday for a Christmas Eve get together with some mates. There is loads left over and the kids who have just got up have decided they just want leftovers instead of the fore rib I had planned to cook.
I should have stayed out for a longer bike ride, might get out again later?
Starter is a three fish mousse. A mix of cod, prawns, double cream and cream cheese blended with a bit of gelatin so it will set. Then stuck in a ring mould lined with slices of smoked salmon. Done the previous day to set overnight then sliced and served.
Main course venison stew. Easy to make and not time critical.
Then cheeses and crackers or oatcakes.
Sadly no alcohol content as I'm nightshift . These presents await.
Just polished off beans (Heinz of course) on 4 slices of thick brown toast. Washed down with a coffee. Lunch with the parents and family tomorrow at a pub.
Parsnips roasted with lots of black pepper were remarkably tasty given how simple it is.
coquilles st jacques, followed by chateaubriand and chips with banoffi pie for pud.
Mrs 100th is working tomorrow and.some dick is bound to have done something which means they'll be enjoying free bnb.
just had pulled shoulder of lamb stew (my own lamb) with mushy peas. Stollen for pud as a nod to Xmas.
I had hoped and suggested we get a takeaway curry for a change. Rather than cooking for half the day for most of it to not be eaten and then washing up for the rest of the day. Thought this was a spiffing idea personally
Totally agree. Only 2 of us this year, so couldn't be arsed. This is the Xmas dinner for me and my son from local Nepaleseish
Popadoms and sauces x 6
Mixed Tandoori Platter for 2
Monkfish Tikka
Everest Puri
Kerala Style Black tiger Prawns
Chicken Jalfrezi
2 x Pilau Rice
Garlic and Coriander Nan.
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Wasn't that blown away.
Tartare is, imo, an aquired taste.
Pasta was good.
Gnocchi were cheesy AF,and I don't really do cheese.
Leg of pork was good, but a few more spuds wouldn't have gone a miss.
Being a vegetarian the GF struggled with the menu.
Wine was good.
We've had family around for a few days this year.
Saturday, steak (sirloin from the local butcher) and triple cooked chips.
Christmas Eve - lobster and scallop linguine for 8
Today, turkey (for the first time in 15 years), spuds(roasted in the fat rendered down from round the sirloins) roast carrots, roast parsnips with parmesan. Bread sauce. Splendid gravy. Some dullards had some green crap on their plates, but hey, it's Christmas. 13 of us tucked in.
Tonight it's Christmas supper with more family joining in. Cold meat, cheese home made pickles.
I was cooking with some early 2000's Tarifa beats blasting out plus Champagne getting replaced in the wine bucket, so had a steady stream of company while grandkids were crayoning on the living room carpet.
Tomorrow I've got a big piece of belly pork that I'm thinking of doing Chinese style.
Oh, and making sure I don't miss my blood pressure tablets and statins.
We asked the kids what they wanted:
- Smoked salmon and scamble eggs
- Avocado and mozzarella
- Mussels
- Roast lamb with triple Yorkshires
I'm stuffed. I spent all of Saturday cooking curry for the outlaws who are arriving in the morning...
Merry Christmas!
Caviar, beef fillet and Fortnum and Masons’s small Christmas pudding. Washed down with Puille Fume, St Emilion and a Madeira for pudding.
Of course there were pigs in blankets, stuffing and Yorkshire puddings. Son 2 had a nut road of sort, consisting of a Paxo base, olive oil and pesto. Apparently it was excellent, although I’ll bet the beef was better.
The dog had pork stuffing as a treat. Have to spoil them at Christmas.
Curried whole leg of lamb and curried roasties plus more.
If you have not had curried roasties you haven't lived.
Followed by my wife's secret tiramisu recipe. More like Eric Morecombe's tiramisu 😊 nothing like anyone else's
Did a beef wellington. Tasted great but also tinged with the memory that this was the fillet I’d meant to use to make beef wellington for my mum before she died unexpectedly last year.
So far it's been scrambled egg and smoked salmon, along with a nice bottle of Chablis for breakfast, then some chicken goujons with a couple of mojitos in the afternoon. I'll soon be cooking some smash cheese burgers for tea. I'm undecided on a nice bottle of red to go with it but there'll definitely be a banana cocktail at my wife's request beforehand. We'll have a proper roast tomorrow but I much prefer a low effort Christmas day.
We don’t like turkey and also not keen on spending all day cooking. Pre prepared lamb roast and spuds with a few veg. Loads of time hanging out with the kids and my mum and everyone got something they liked. Have had some really enjoyable ‘all the trimmings’ meals in the past but wouldn’t change today for anything.
Packet of crisps and some oat cakes in a hospital waiting room after having to accompany someone to A&E.
might manage something more conventional around midnight
I did a couple of mushroom wellingtons for most people. The kids had roast shoulder of lamb with loads of garlic and rosemary. Homemade gravy, pigs in blankets for the kids again. Usual veg, yes including sprouts.
Mum and dad did red cabbage and bread sauce.
Christmas cake or chocolate log for pudding.
Oh and youngest had spag bol.
Did loads of prep yesterday so only spent about 3 hours cooking today, which I really enjoyed.
We had Aubergine & burrata tatin with dauphinoise potatoes and lots of veg