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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2018 14:50:02 GMT
Roast potatoes par boil and then give them a shake in the pan to make them rough on the outside and then sprinkle a bit of flour on to make them lovely and crisp on the outside.
Keep religion out of Christmas is my motto. Keep the sister in law out of Christmas is my motto.
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Post by humphreythepug on Dec 18, 2018 7:45:25 GMT
The wife insists on turkey so turkey it is, I do gammon though for the evening; cooked in coke for a few hours and then finished off in the oven with a maple syrup and mustard glaze.
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Post by PetrolEd on Dec 18, 2018 9:27:17 GMT
people keep going on about coke being the way. I do a lovely honey roast after boiling but still to try the Coke trick.
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Post by Alex on Dec 18, 2018 10:22:29 GMT
people keep going on about coke being the way. I do a lovely honey roast after boiling but still to try the Coke trick. Doing it in coke works particularly well in the slow cooker. You don’t need the full fat propped stuff either, we’ve done it with Tesco value cola and it works really well with the cheap cola meaning you get less ‘coke’ taste in the meat.
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Post by Tim on Dec 18, 2018 10:40:00 GMT
Tesco supplying coke now?! It's truly a drug for the common man
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Post by Big Blue on Dec 18, 2018 11:08:13 GMT
"coke" and "gammon"?
Is this the dark web? Am I on the right forum? It's PC gone mad..... I'm having a gammon moment!!!!!!
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 18, 2018 11:48:24 GMT
I shall be doing our Boxing Day gammon with honey.
Christmas dinner will feature a three bird roast, with sausage meat and spiced apple & prune stuffings - everything being home prepared from the raw ingredients. Filleting the bones out of the birds isn't too difficult if you have some razor sharp filleting knives. I do the pigs in blankets with dried apricots rolled in between the bacon and sausage, before glazing. I made the Christmas puddings on Stir-up Sunday back in November and the one we eat next week will be served with a rum sauce. Herself and her mother are veggies, so I shall do a nut wellington with chestnuts braised in red wine for them.
New Year will feature the family favourite which is Beef Wellington. I have also visited our local wine merchant and found some ridiculously good Burgundy to go with the three birds and some equally indulgent Pauillac to accompany the beef. Bordeaux pudding wine already laid down this last couple of years.
Off to my brother's farm on the 28th for feast of game, much of which is already hanging and probably growing maggots as I type...
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Post by Martin on Dec 18, 2018 11:54:10 GMT
We had Gammon with honey and brown sugar for Sunday lunch. Very nice and will be on the menu when we have both sides of the family for the day the Saturday after Christmas.
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Post by Big Blue on Dec 18, 2018 13:43:06 GMT
Now we've had "coke" and "brown sugar" on this thread.
I'm putting you all on a register.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 16:46:33 GMT
How about cinnamon? Very tasty stuff.
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Post by johnc on Dec 18, 2018 16:49:18 GMT
I shall be doing our Boxing Day gammon with honey. Christmas dinner will feature a three bird roast, with sausage meat and spiced apple & prune stuffings - everything being home prepared from the raw ingredients. Filleting the bones out of the birds isn't too difficult if you have some razor sharp filleting knives. I do the pigs in blankets with dried apricots rolled in between the bacon and sausage, before glazing. I made the Christmas puddings on Stir-up Sunday back in November and the one we eat next week will be served with a rum sauce. Herself and her mother are veggies, so I shall do a nut wellington with chestnuts braised in red wine for them. New Year will feature the family favourite which is Beef Wellington. I have also visited our local wine merchant and found some ridiculously good Burgundy to go with the three birds and some equally indulgent Pauillac to accompany the beef. Bordeaux pudding wine already laid down this last couple of years. Off to my brother's farm on the 28th for feast of game, much of which is already hanging and probably growing maggots as I type... Do you take bookings?
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Post by PetrolEd on Dec 18, 2018 20:59:56 GMT
I shall be doing our Boxing Day gammon with honey. Christmas dinner will feature a three bird roast, with sausage meat and spiced apple & prune stuffings - everything being home prepared from the raw ingredients. Filleting the bones out of the birds isn't too difficult if you have some razor sharp filleting knives. I do the pigs in blankets with dried apricots rolled in between the bacon and sausage, before glazing. I made the Christmas puddings on Stir-up Sunday back in November and the one we eat next week will be served with a rum sauce. Herself and her mother are veggies, so I shall do a nut wellington with chestnuts braised in red wine for them. New Year will feature the family favourite which is Beef Wellington. I have also visited our local wine merchant and found some ridiculously good Burgundy to go with the three birds and some equally indulgent Pauillac to accompany the beef. Bordeaux pudding wine already laid down this last couple of years. Off to my brother's farm on the 28th for feast of game, much of which is already hanging and probably growing maggots as I type... Do you take bookings? Tell me about this spiced apple and prune stuffing
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 19, 2018 8:58:06 GMT
Tell me about this spiced apple and prune stuffing 1.5 lbs Bramley apples cut roughly into half inch slices 1/2 lb prunes, soaked stoned and chopped 1 large onion, chopped 2 tablespoons Armagnac 1/8 teaspoon powdered cloves 1/4 teaspoon powdered mace salt & pepper Simply mix it all together. It will look very chunky, but will cook down to fluffy unctuousness inside the bird(s).
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Dec 19, 2018 9:03:45 GMT
1/4 teaspoon powdered mace . Got plenty of this in case the Mother-in-Law gets out of hand again after a few Christmas sherries.
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Post by PetrolEd on Dec 19, 2018 11:51:19 GMT
Sounds good and I bet the brandy helps the gravy. Do you reckon I'd get away with nutmeg as a substitute for Mace.
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Post by humphreythepug on Dec 19, 2018 12:18:14 GMT
people keep going on about coke being the way. I do a lovely honey roast after boiling but still to try the Coke trick. Doing it in coke works particularly well in the slow cooker. You don’t need the full fat propped stuff either, we’ve done it with Tesco value cola and it works really well with the cheap cola meaning you get less ‘coke’ taste in the meat. Needs to be proper "cola" as in full sugar, but any make will do, it's all about the sugar and "cola" flavour.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Dec 19, 2018 13:36:40 GMT
Doing it in coke works particularly well in the slow cooker. You don’t need the full fat propped stuff either, we’ve done it with Tesco value cola and it works really well with the cheap cola meaning you get less ‘coke’ taste in the meat. Needs to be proper "cola" as in full sugar, but any make will do, it's all about the sugar and "cola" flavour. Have you tried it using Red Bull? Fantastic, you don't get any of that post meal lethargy.
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Post by Alex on Dec 20, 2018 22:10:15 GMT
Needs to be proper "cola" as in full sugar, but any make will do, it's all about the sugar and "cola" flavour. Have you tried it using Red Bull? Fantastic, you don't get any of that post meal lethargy. If it gives it wing we may finally see a flying pig!
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 23, 2018 14:08:10 GMT
We are, for the first time ever, hosting Christmas at home in London. My in-laws flew in on Friday (thankfully BA to LHR, LGW), my Mum's arriving shortly, traffic permitting, and my sister-in-law and her husband and kids are due to arrive around 6ish, Eurotunnel permitting.
Which means we are seven adults and two kids for Christmas, and our house is stuffed to bursting. Just been inflating an inflatable mattress for the study floor for my little niece and nephew to share as we are clean out of bedrooms and, being short, they get the short straw...
All of which means that, on the food front, there is no way on earth a big enough turkey would fit in our oven, so we are having Beef Wellington for Christmas lunch instead. £60's worth of finest fillet which needs anointing with mustard, mushroom duxelle and parma ham tomorrow and then leaving overnight in the fridge. It will be accompanied by goose-fat roast potatoes and sundry assorted roast veg. For pudding, Mum has made an old-fashioned Christmas cake with proper royal icing and homemade marzipan, and she has also made her own mince-pies and brandy butter to show the Italians how we roll at Christmas time...
Tomorrow, we will have Christmas Eve dinner Italian-style, so fish-based. The "primo" will (I gather) be a seafood pasta made with langoustines and the like, followed by a "secondo" of wild sea-bass (the local fishmonger has some arriving tomorrow morning apparently, which my wife has earmarked), after which those of us in the mood will likely head over to St Mary's Bourne St for midnight Mass as it is very high Anglican (aka smells 'n bells), so good for the Catholics, and has a brilliantly good choir.
So happy Christmas to all of you!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2018 14:53:42 GMT
Agreed, best to everyone and may peace be with us all. My dinner has evolved to a turkey crown which will be cooked in two halves (Slowcooker style) so will need to be inventive. Considering dumplings with herbs and a chestnut each. Second part will not, I hope be curried.
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Post by johnc on Dec 23, 2018 15:02:36 GMT
On Christmas eve we traditionally go to the in laws for steak pie, mashed and roast potatoes with veg. Christmas day this year we are going to a country club hotel for dinner - 18 of us was just getting out of hand for any one house and it means I am not washing dishes for hours. Have a great time everyone.
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Post by Martin on Dec 23, 2018 15:17:14 GMT
In contrast to our quiet Christmas, just the two of us on Christmas Day then we’re staying away on Boxing Day, we’ve got both sides of our immediate family over on Saturday. That’s 16 people to be fed twice and 12 staying overnight. Looking forward to it.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Dec 24, 2018 0:10:18 GMT
Now we've had "coke" and "brown sugar" on this thread. I'm putting you all on a register. I have taken note of this.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Dec 24, 2018 0:20:46 GMT
It's felt like a bit of a battle getting here this year, for various reasons I won't go into, but since finishing work at 9pm this evening, being off until Boxing Day, and a couple of drinks in the local club, I now feel proper Christmassy. Just relaxing with a Chilean Merlot and Handel's "Messiah" on the Muso before bed.
A nice, simple Xmas dinner for us, nothing fancy. A turkey crown, veggies all to be prepped on Xmas eve and Xmas Day to consist of breakfast (smoked salmon and scrambled eggs with some bubbly), presents, pub, late Xmas lunch, laze about/play with toys and games, drink some more and then crash out as and when.
Boxing Day is work, parents arriving, more drink, gammon, pub or club.
27th will be stuffed goose dinner. More drink!
28th back to work through to 2019!
Have a safe, enjoyable and relaxing Christmas all of you. I hope that it is everything you want it to be and more. Cheers!
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 24, 2018 22:17:54 GMT
Three birds. Boned out, stuffed and ready for the oven.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2018 15:09:36 GMT
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 25, 2018 22:00:57 GMT
Did that one eat the other two? I also notice you removed your watch before shoving your arm into one of your dinner's orifices. It is definitely a roll your sleeves up job... Remove the bones from the outer bird and the breasts from the two inner birds. Lay out the outer bird, butterfly style, and then build up layers of stuffing and breast. Wrap around the outer skin and tie up. Blood, guts and bones everywhere, but worth it for the end result, which was unctuous.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2018 16:21:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2018 18:29:38 GMT
The slow cooked turkey was very nice, made a pouch in the skin and filled it with a mix of smoked bacon, spread and chopped up sweet chestnuts. I made dumplings with parsley and more chopped sweet chestnuts. Cabbage and parsnips and chicken stock for six hours with a film fest. Muddy marvelous and not at all dry turkey wise.
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Post by ChrisM on Dec 26, 2018 20:44:17 GMT
OH, younger daughter and I all enjoyed the Christmas meal I did. the new cooker performed admirably and got a quick clean afterwards. Been to see mum today and took her out to lunch.
Elder daughter and family were due with us today but she and her partner have gone down with something nasty. If they make it in the next day or two, I hope they don't pass their germs onto us.
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