Having found that Booths are doing delivery for the festive season, it's a Booths three bird roast and other bits n pieces.
Mrs JP does not eat meat which means I don't eat much of it. December means my body starts to shutdown from meat overload from all of the Cranston's Christmas baguettes so it is a welcome relief to avoid the stuff at home.
Christmas Eve: Shelfish in the evening
Christmas day: Pizza, garlic bread, Rioja and Eton Mess
My daughter is getting Scalextric this year 🙂 I will be buggered if we are spending hours making dinner and washing up
I cook the mains for the far too large family my sisters have generated
Traditional here; turkey, stuffing, brussels with bacon (farts ahoy!), roast spuds, buttered parsnips, vichy carrots, peas, bread sauce, red cabbage and a white wine gravy that i start at the same time as the turkey
Try to plan it so i get the faffy bits out of the way before the G&T's kick in
Outlaws doing a paella. should be good.
I have a stock of 2/6 project beer, concker spirit & mare gins.
Need more beers... Any ale suggestions for seafood paella?
We have the outlaws coming Christmas day - so I will (reluctantly) be doing Turkey as she started moaning at the very suggestion of something else.
I'm going to buy a small ready prepped Turkey parcel as it only needs to feed two adults and 2-3 kids.
(I hate turkey, my wife and her sister are both Veggies)
For the veggies I'm going to do a savory strudel with chestnuts, wild mushrooms and cranberry.
Won't do a starter, and desert will be the traditional crap.
Boxing day - my mum and dad are coming over.
I'll do a garlic tiger prawn risotto as a starter - and swap the prawns for wild mushrooms for the Veggies (wife and my mum)
I've already got a nice chunk of Aberdeen Angus topside to roast.
The veggies will be getting a variation on the previous days strudel, this time with walnuts, caramelised red onion and Gorgonzola.
My mum will bring desert, which will be a decent homemade trifle and something else.
I'm quite organised - pigs in blankets have already been wrapped and frozen, sausage meat parcel also in freezer.
I've even knocked up a garlic + chilli butter for the boxing day starter.
Its all good - especially if I don't run the blade of one of my very sharp kitchen knives across the back of my finger like last year...
We have the outlaws coming Christmas day - so I will (reluctantly) be doing Turkey as she started moaning at the very suggestion of something else.
You're a better person than me: I made it very clear that if I was cooking, I was choosing the menu.
Reindeer filets and roast root veggies
Chocolate and kilted sausages.
The rest is just a distraction.
We have the outlaws coming Christmas day - so I will (reluctantly) be doing Turkey as she started moaning at the very suggestion of something else.You're a better person than me: I made it very clear that if I was cooking, I was choosing the menu.
She's not the nicest (or most rational) of people, my mother-in-law.
The last time they came over I suggested we didn't have Turkey and she got a bit narky.
As much as I couldn't care less about upsetting her, I don't want to cause any issues for my wife, or spoil Christmas for my kids.
So if a £10 Aldi turkey parcel keeps the loons happy then so be it.
She has form for ruining Christmas - few years back they had a huge row and she stropped-off to bed at midday and wasn't seen again.
I don't need her doing this at my house.
Boxing day is the main event in my mind - a free hand to cook what I like, and a grateful audience.
Shredded sprouts FTW. Meat will be turkey as it's a present from the company at xmas time. I will be mainly trying to see if I can OD on pigs in blankets.
