Christmas Lunch/Dinner?

[Phalanx]

Plans?
Who are you having it with, what are you planning on cooking/preparing?

Just myself and the girl this year...we'll be taking a bike-ride over to her mothers place and delivering what we make and spending a little time with her, but other than that...
There's no "lunch" or "dinner" so to speak, we'll be up SUPER-early cooking. Just snacking as we go, taking our bikeride in the morning.

We're doing this HUUUUGE lamb leg roast.
I'll be removing the bone and making a stuffing with home made breadcrumbs, bacon, rosemary, garlic, cumin, a little worcestershire. Other than that, giving it a seasalt, worcestershire and white pepper rub, then into the oven...while slow cooking, I'll be basting and rebasting in it's own juices periodically, which I'll be gathering in a pan underneath, with the bone.
We'll be doing large potatoes, peeled and hard-boiled, then cooled, and (not sure what the process is called but gives a brilliant texture) fork-scraped both ways on the surface, and cooked for the last half-hour with the lamb in a mixture of olive oil and the retained juices from the lamb, they should be really nice and golden.
I'm going to try my hand at some honey-glazed minted carrots.
We have some zucchini here which I'll get the girl to cut into logs, then in half again, and sautee lightly...those will just be buttered, or olive-oiled, served partially soft...so nice n juicy.
The girl is gonna take the remainder of the juices in the pan with the bone and make a MAD mad mint gravy by deglazing, and throwing in a little cornflour slurry...theyre the best.
Fresh bread on the side...so yeah, pretty basic and traditional GEWD stuff.
If I'm able to get some eggs, I'd like to try making some spiced "bread and butter pudding", never had it before, but by all accounts, it sounds delicious.
Drinks? Nothing special, haha, tea, juice...there's also a couple of alcoholic options available if we're so inclined. I'm saving most of the "good" stuff for some NYE fruit coctails we're making.

So yeah, the two of us will just be cooking, taking a bike ride, coming back, and stuffing ourselves, and being lazy-asses for the rest of the day, wondering what all the bother is about. I suppose we'll all give and receive a few phonecalls from our various family members...
We don't celibrate christmas, but the food is as good an excuse as any to make something nice.

[The_Return]

Pretty much the classic Christmas dinner here...Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, probably sweet potato caserole (which is WAY better than it sounds), ect. We have the same desert every year...Pineapple Whip. Simple as sin to make, but far-and-away the best desert that Ive ever tasted.

Dinner = My favourite part of Christmas:D

[Katrina]

I'm going to a huge family gathering, and we'll probably get the usual Christmas food, but that's definitely not a bad thing. The food is one of the best aspects about Christmas, and I'm really looking forward to pig-out.

I just love food.

[newb]

Christmas eve at my house...mostly picky food and lots of beer. Big dinner on x-mas day at my brothers...usually lasagna, ham, fixings...nothing fancy but lots of food. And hopefully "green bean casserole".It sound disgusting but its not.

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup
* 4 cups cooked green beans
* 1/8 teaspoon pepper
* 1/2 cup milk
* 1 1/3 cups French fried onions

PREPARATION:
Mix soup, milk and pepper in a 1 1/2-quart casserole dish. Stir in beans and 2/3 cup of the fried onions. Bake for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees F. Top with the remaining 2/3 cup fried onions and bake about 5 more minutes, until onions are lightly browned.
Serves 6.

[Miss Olivia]

Prime rib and lobster. Best dinner of the year.
Followed by the ritual smoking of the Christmas bong, followed by attacking of the Christmas leftovers.
You gotta have a ritual.

[The Flayed One]

I'll be having 15-20 Vodka tonics for Christmas dinner, and maybe a bit of food to keep me from getting sick.

Well waddya know. We DO have something in common.

I'd really rather stay home and drink, but my auntie makes this fabulous salad that I just can't stop eating. She only makes it twice a year: Thanksgiving and Xmas. This past Thanksgiving I was a little under the weather, but I managed to put down three bowls of the stuff. Fuck my family's turkey. My leather jacket has more moisture than that.

[bloodrayne]

We'll be having the usual at my mother's...turkey, ham and ALL the trimmings...We always have it on Christmas EVE at her house (at NOON for some ungodly reason)...

Then we'll be having a full-blown Christmas dinner at home on Christmas day...However, THIS year, I have no idea what we're having...Dustin is making Christmas dinner and he said he's going "ALL out"...So, whatever THAT means...


Damn...I am NEVER gonna lose this fucking weight...

[Roderick Usher]

Honey Glazed Ham
New Potatoes
Collard Greens
Bread Pudding

Lots of Beer/Eggnog/Bourbon/Weed

[urgeok]

toikey, stuffin, tatties, and probably summat green.

wont be anyone drinking..

I tried to have a beer with a friend last night and it was a struggle trying to choke it down. its official - i just plain cant drink beer anymore.

now a caesar always goes down nice, or a nice australian red, but i dont plan on drinking by myself..

[Spallalala]

Don't drink beer at all then. I think it all tastes like shit. Make some coctails. Buy some cheapo whites and some bubbly, get some fruit and mix away. :)

[Phalanx]

I tried to have a beer with a friend last night and it was a struggle trying to choke it down. its official - i just plain cant drink beer anymore.

now a caesar always goes down nice, or a nice australian red, but i dont plan on drinking by myself..

Go for victorian or western AUST reds, in my experience they're the best.
As for the beer thing...I'm largely with you there man...never much liked it, on occasion I'll drink it to get drunk with a buddy, but even we both agree that it tastes like piss (although certain german beers, higher-end aust. beers, or something exceptionally cold on an exceptionally hot day where you drink it in about 2 seconds before actually tasting it...exceptions), me and him actually put melon flavoured schnapps in our last lot. Made honeydew melon beer...it was kind've an improvement, but I can think of better.
Actually, it's surprising how easy and cheap it can be to make something MAD tasty and as alcoholic as you want, with just a few decent ingredients..adding fresh fruit to stuff is just crazy...love it.

Oh, forgot something I bought that I'll be doing with the roast dinner/lunch dealy. Got a 1/4 of a large pumpkin, so, I'll be slow roasting it in the oven, with olive oil, salt, pepper, a little chilli, and nutmeg. Either to me eaten whole, or mashed.

I wanna get a goose to cook one of these years.

[ManchestrMorgue]

My Christmas eating officially started yesterday - had a few friends over for lunch.

Started with french onion soup
Then roast chicken with lemon and thyme
And desert was a frozen yoghurt with honey and berries in it.

A few bottles of Henschke Eleanor's Cottage Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon helped the celebrations along nicely.

The next couple of days will be visiting relatives.

[Sliver]

I'm thinking roast chicken, sausage apple stuffing, yams, and corn. Most likely pumkin pie for desert.
Nobody likes stuffing much except me... *rubs hands together and cackles*

[newb]

I tried to have a beer with a friend last night and it was a struggle trying to choke it down. its official - i just plain cant drink beer anymore.

.

Disco and now this......I feel we are growing apart.



that....and you don't hold me anymore:(

[urgeok]

Disco and now this......I feel we are growing apart.



that....and you don't hold me anymore:(


i thought the pillow talk bored you

:p

[Phalanx]

Looks like the bread and butter pudding is sorted.
Just went out with Spal and bought a couple loaves of
light wholemeal with sultanas, eggs, and some strawberry conserve.
I'll make the custard myself (creme anglais anyways...:rolleyes: ), the rest
is pretty much a matter of adding the right spices and putting the rest of
the shit together.

and then the strangest thing...but it was great...on our way out of the shopping complex, as we were getting on our bikes, this guy comes out and says "it's coming" and runs the other way. The sky was pretty overcast, but the day has been sooooo hot...next set of lights, big fat drops start falling, then it went torrential within a minute...it absolutely BELTED down for the next 10 minutes. Just another example of our sometimes erratic weather here.
So, we pulled into a McD's and grabbed a couple of burgers, which we ate there, and they were actually fresh for once, so, that there's two peices of weirdness in one day. As we were heading off, the rain subsided, but we had a light downpour all the way home on our bikes...coolness...
Actually, there's been a bit more rain than usual here this time of year, could be for the first time in about 7-8 years we won't have a stinking hot christmas day. So, yeah...kinda off track there, but I had a story to tell...

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Plans?
Who are you having it with, what are you planning on cooking/preparing?

Just myself and the girl this year...we'll be taking a bike-ride over to her mothers place and delivering what we make and spending a little time with her, but other than that...
There's no "lunch" or "dinner" so to speak, we'll be up SUPER-early cooking. Just snacking as we go, taking our bikeride in the morning.

haha sounds like you're 70 years old.

[Nikkif8]

Tomorrow morning I will make a nice big breakfast for my BF and my Mom and I. Probably some scrambled eggs w/green peppers, onions, tomatoes and chives, dash of garlic salt and pepper. With maybe some bacon on the side. Then I will bake some popovers with parmesan and paprika, sooooooooo delicous.

Then off to my Grams for xmas there and big dinner. I am going to bring homemade cranberry sauce, it is so easy to make but so good. Not as tart, more sweet. We will be having Turkey this year instead of Ham which is fine with me cause my neighbor gave us 2 big hams and 5 small ham hocks, we have enough ham for next year. I made a yummy split pea soup that came out really nice. Along side the turkey the basic sides, potatoes, green bean cassrole, gravy ect and a couple other new dishes I am sure. There will be so much food, my family is huge. Yummy.


Happy Holidays everyone!

[Phalanx]

haha sounds like you're 70 years old
:rolleyes: Yeah, ok...

Have a good 'un, all.

[Amalthea_unicorn]

I bought a sandwich from the tank since I'm alone home tonight.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

:rolleyes: Yeah, ok...

Have a good 'un, all.

Merry Christmas, cheeba. :)

[Phalanx]

I bought a sandwich from the tank since I'm alone home tonight
Hope you enjoy it, and have a nice day for y'self.

[illdojo]

I will have the normal turkey and ham combo followed by.....
Grey Goose and 7up
Willies Wonder
Cocaine
My Ex-girlfriend (she is in town for the holidays)
Xanax (to fall asleep after all the above)

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

I will have the normal turkey and ham combo followed by.....
Grey Goose and 7up
Willies Wonder
Cocaine
My Ex-girlfriend (she is in town for the holidays)
Xanax (to fall asleep after all the above)

Ham and turkey? dayum save some room for the grey goose. :D

[illdojo]

@- Murderdoll -I always have room for grey goose. It is required after too much time with my family. When you hear the same questions every year like......
1) When are you gonna settle down and get married?:mad:
2) Aren't you a little old to still play in your silly band?:mad:
3) Do you still smoke the pot?:mad: