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Post by JennyWrenn on Dec 20, 2012 9:02:58 GMT
Just wondered what the Members are cooking for these two days I am out Christmas Day but my Menu for between five and seven persons for Boxing Day is StarterSpanish Bean Soup with Croutons MainMild Lamb Curry with Rice and Papadoms & Mini Naan breads (from Nigella's Christmas Book) PuddingOrange Cointreau Cake with Thick Whipped Cream Film to fall asleep to will be The Polar Express  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 20, 2012 9:35:21 GMT
Sounds delicious JW. We'll most likely have a turkey curry of some kind and anyone who does'nt want that can eat left over ham. All very informal here with the family. Don't forget the Christmas specials of Downton Abbey and Strictly Come Dancing on Christmas evening.  |
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Post by Auricula on Dec 20, 2012 9:39:42 GMT
We're only here for Xmas Day, when there will be just the 2 of us. OH will have turkey etc and I will have nut roast. Both will have Xmas pudding and mince pie for dessert. That's probably all we'll eat and we'll have it about 2pm  The following 3 days we'll be away and family will cater for us  |
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Post by Jilly on Dec 20, 2012 10:00:52 GMT
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Post by isabella on Dec 20, 2012 20:03:33 GMT
All the Family are going to Paul and Louise for Christmas Day. On Boxing Day my Sister and her Family are coming to us- we will be having gammon,turkey,new potatoes, creamy mash,rice salad,coleslaw,beetroot,green salad and tomatoes.Served with lots of pickles etc. Pudding will be pavlova or fruit salad or mince pies We won't have a tea - just a lovely cheese board with grapes and dates,sausage rolls,parmesan and parma ham pinwheels. I will be cooking a huge roast dinner for everyone on 30th December i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif |
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Post by Amber on Dec 20, 2012 21:12:06 GMT
OH and I will be spending the day quietly on our own, just how we like it.....Dinner......nothing specific planned yet, but fillet steak will be the main course. Youngest Son will be bringing grand children (18 and 14) through on 28th for lunch....which is good of him.....we are unable to visit anyone atm...until OH gets his drivers licence back |
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Post by Geranium on Dec 21, 2012 7:04:33 GMT
If we manage to get to our daughter's, (floods permitting!) they'll cook a traditional turkey dinner at about 1.30. Jan usually provides an alternative to Christmas pudding, as not everybody likes it. There should be nine of us there. Boxing day lunch will be leftovers and additions. We'll travel home late on Boxing day after the 'sales addicts' have gone!
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 7, 2013 16:13:01 GMT
I'm adding to Jenny's thread - nice to see the year before...
So - what is everyone eating over the Christmas days - too much I know, but what in particular - something traditional or just what takes your fancy perhaps??
We are alone this Xmas, happy to say, and OH has his Christmas on Christmas Eve 24th, as does all Germany.
He has decided to have goose leg this year with red cabbage (with bacon bits and apple) and potato dumplings. I can't eat it - I like it but it doesn't like me.
I have found a great recipe for the leg which is to lay the leg on apples and onions with herbs for 2 hours..
I am having pork fillet wrapped in bacon with veg and spuds in some form.
English Christmas day we have turkey and have had for all the years we have been together. This year (and a few before) I have bought a turkey breast from roughly 5 lbs (from a turkey factory here where we live and sooo fresh) which I shall put in the oven covered in bacon and done very slowly. Then veg, spuds, bacon rolls, sausages, sage and onion and bread sauce...
No pudding as we are both too full after that little lot...
In the evening and Boxing day, it is cold meats with potato salad (OH's Mum's potato salad recipe from near the Polish border), egg salad, pork pies, fresh bread etc etc...
OK - what are the rest of you having??
RF
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Post by Jilly on Dec 7, 2013 16:44:22 GMT
It'll be turkey at Mum's on Christmas day & I've already made the Christmas pudding so that's sorted.
We do another Christmas dinner on Boxing day for us & a friend, we'll be having turkey again, mostly so that we've got it for cold over the next few days, but we usually roast a gammon joint too & have both hot for dinner, with the traditional veg & accompaniments.
One thing I might change this year is that now we've got the slow cooker I might get a big piece of gammon & cut it in half, then I can roast half on Boxing Day as usual, but do half in coke in the slow cooker (cherry coke if I can persuade OH) on Christmas eve. That way we'll have something to eat Christmas evening when we get back from Mums. That meal is always a problem as we've had a big dinner (but early) so we're usually hungry when we get home & end up eating loads of nuts & crisps as we haven't got any cold meat.
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 7, 2013 17:32:43 GMT
It'll be turkey at Mum's on Christmas day & I've already made the Christmas pudding so that's sorted. We do another Christmas dinner on Boxing day for us & a friend, we'll be having turkey again, mostly so that we've got it for cold over the next few days, but we usually roast a gammon joint too & have both hot for dinner, with the traditional veg & accompaniments. One thing I might change this year is that now we've got the slow cooker I might get a big piece of gammon & cut it in half, then I can roast half on Boxing Day as usual, but do half in coke in the slow cooker (cherry coke if I can persuade OH) on Christmas eve. That way we'll have something to eat Christmas evening when we get back from Mums. That meal is always a problem as we've had a big dinner (but early) so we're usually hungry when we get home & end up eating loads of nuts & crisps as we haven't got any cold meat. Half in coke and then cherry coke.. Sorry, but are you serious, and if so can you explain pretty please?? RF |
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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 7, 2013 17:35:54 GMT
We're all together at Ruths this year and it'll be Roast Turkey and Baked Ham with all the trimmings, stuffing, gravy, brussel sprouts and roast parsnips with carrots as well as roast and boiled potatoes. Home made trifle or Christmas pudding for afters although it might be a while after, dinner sometimes has to settle down first. Jelly for the kids who don't like trifle. Later that night, turkey or ham sandwiches or just toast and / or cereal for the kids supper. Boxing day I'm happy to eat left overs, there's usually enough with the turkey and ham for the 2 days. I'm not sure if Ruth has anything else planned but I'll eat pretty much anything and be very happy someone else is cooking it for me.  I've done the Ham with coke Jilly, it's delicious.  |
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Post by Auricula on Dec 7, 2013 18:29:34 GMT
OH will have turkey,stuffing, chipolatas and veg ( neither of us likes sprouts though so none of those) I will just have the veg ( I get too full with the cooking smell to eat much) Then Xmas pudding and mince pies with custard or cream. Nothing in the evening ( too full)
Boxing Day much the same.
I don't get too fussed as it's just the 2 of us. It's just like a slightly larger Sunday roast.
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Post by Tig on Dec 7, 2013 19:35:26 GMT
Just the two of us as well, and this year we are having a chicken breast rather than turkey, still with all the trimmings, pigs in blankets, stuffing, parsnips, sprouts, carrots, roast tatties and gravy. I have a luxury pud to try, but often we are too full straight after lunch and have it later. For tea it will be a small salad with prawns or crab. Boxing day it will probably be roast beef and yorkshire puds, depends if my head is clear, or not |
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Post by Jilly on Dec 7, 2013 20:49:42 GMT
Sorry, but are you serious, and if so can you explain pretty please?? RF It's not as alarming as it sounds Rosefriend, I've done it before but in a saucepan it's a Nigella recipe, basically you boil your bacon but use coke instead of water. It doesn't come out tasting of coke, it just gives it a slight bbq sweetness when it's cold. You have to use full sugar coke, not diet as it's also the enzymes in the coke that make the meat more tender. I think Ladygardener said she'd tried it before, it really is lovely. The idea with the cherry coke is from OH's football forum (where they've got a big slow cooker thread & they like to experiment) apparently it makes it the gammon even sweeter, sort of like honey roasted. Someone even tried it with Lilt (a pineapple drink) and that came out very well too, I imagine it would actually, gammon & pineapple being a classic combination. Basically what you do, is roughly slice an onion & put it in the bottom of the slow cooker (not really necessary, just an extra bit of flavour & to stop the gammon sticking to the bottom) put your gammon joint in & top up with coke to about half way up the joint. Slow cook for however long it takes for the size of the joint, then take out the gammon & let it cool. I just chuck away the coke & onion, some people make a sauce, but I think that would be a bit too much. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 8, 2013 8:05:54 GMT
I totally agree with Jilly Rosefriend. Honestly, don't knock it until you try it. I do it with ordinary coke, never tried cherry coke but I don't like cherry flavoured things anyhow and with the ordinary coke, it's good enough for me. I do it in a saucepan and cover the ham 3/4 coke and top up as necessary. You can drop a few cloves into the water too, I do. It tastes so tender and as if it has been baked in the oven but without all the flaffing around with tinfoil and basting etc..... |
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 8, 2013 9:48:42 GMT
Sorry, but are you serious, and if so can you explain pretty please?? RF It's not as alarming as it sounds Rosefriend, I've done it before but in a saucepan it's a Nigella recipe, basically you boil your bacon but use coke instead of water. It doesn't come out tasting of coke, it just gives it a slight bbq sweetness when it's cold. You have to use full sugar coke, not diet as it's also the enzymes in the coke that make the meat more tender. I think Ladygardener said she'd tried it before, it really is lovely. The idea with the cherry coke is from OH's football forum (where they've got a big slow cooker thread & they like to experiment) apparently it makes it the gammon even sweeter, sort of like honey roasted. Someone even tried it with Lilt (a pineapple drink) and that came out very well too, I imagine it would actually, gammon & pineapple being a classic combination. Basically what you do, is roughly slice an onion & put it in the bottom of the slow cooker (not really necessary, just an extra bit of flavour & to stop the gammon sticking to the bottom) put your gammon joint in & top up with coke to about half way up the joint. Slow cook for however long it takes for the size of the joint, then take out the gammon & let it cool. I just chuck away the coke & onion, some people make a sauce, but I think that would be a bit too much. I totally agree with Jilly Rosefriend. Honestly, don't knock it until you try it. I do it with ordinary coke, never tried cherry coke but I don't like cherry flavoured things anyhow and with the ordinary coke, it's good enough for me. I do it in a saucepan and cover the ham 3/4 coke and top up as necessary. You can drop a few cloves into the water too, I do. It tastes so tender and as if it has been baked in the oven but without all the flaffing around with tinfoil and basting etc..... Just been taking to OH about it all and he says that we ought to try it , so try it we will. We don't get gammon here in Germany but have Kasseler which is salted and smoked pork, so very similar.  We'll use normal coke as I don't like cherries or anything with a cherry flavour. I'm looking forward to it!! RF |
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Post by owdboggy on Dec 8, 2013 10:50:37 GMT
If you are into making Pea and Ham soup with the remains of your gammon, DO NOT use the stuff from these Cola recipes, it tastes utterly foul.
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 8, 2013 11:14:40 GMT
If you are into making Pea and Ham soup with the remains of your gammon, DO NOT use the stuff from these Cola recipes, it tastes utterly foul. Love it owdboggy - Pea and Ham Cola soup!! I am interested to see how the German@owdboggy Kasseler turns out.. RF |
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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 8, 2013 12:48:38 GMT
Best of luck with it Rosefriend. Do let us know what it turns out like. |
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Post by Jilly on Dec 8, 2013 16:29:03 GMT
I'm sure you'll like it Rosefriend. This is just a personal thing, but I only like it cold, if I'm going to have gammon as part of a roast dinner, I still always roast it. As owdboggy so rightly says, I've never found anything useful to do with the cooking liquor. If you weren't just joking & actually did try to make soup with it OB, I admire your sense of adventure, I don't think I'd have even been that adventurous & if I had been, OH would probably have left home |
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Post by owdboggy on Dec 8, 2013 17:42:53 GMT
Not me, eldest daughter. Her sons adore the Gammon cooked in Cola.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 20:27:29 GMT
we'll be haveing the normal for us.ham turkey cranberry sauce mashed potatos with giblet gravey and stuffing.right along with what ever else everyone fix's.and as for boxing day goes (had to do a web search on that one..  ) nope we dont do that one.we're all at home by this time.and trying to recope from day before..
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 12, 2013 10:07:57 GMT
we'll be haveing the normal for us.ham turkey cranberry sauce mashed potatos with giblet gravey and stuffing.right along with what ever else everyone fix's.and as for boxing day goes (had to do a web search on that one.. ) nope we dont do that one.we're all at home by this time.and trying to recope from day before.. Sounds good to me @jimle - do you only get one day off for Christmas in the USA?? RF |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 13:26:11 GMT
i get as many day off as i need and want..but then again thats because of the jobs i have.i work part time in the evening 7 days a week.pluse i have a seasonal job that i work dureing the summer only.the part time job i work for my mom due to her health.and the seasonal job is rakeing hay for someone while he bails the hay..
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 12, 2013 14:20:45 GMT
i get as many day off as i need and want..but then again thats because of the jobs i have.i work part time in the evening 7 days a week.pluse i have a seasonal job that i work dureing the summer only.the part time job i work for my mom due to her health.and the seasonal job is rakeing hay for someone while he bails the hay.. ...and next year your new garden with hopefully a fantastic harvest !! RF |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 14:45:42 GMT
i sure hope so.. i deffintly wanna see good or bad i am with a garden of that size.and at same time,i wanna try my hand at the canning
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) nope we dont do that one.we're all at home by this time.and trying to recope from day before..