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Yavanie
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 Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: christmas dinner |
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this year my mom wants to do a traditional english dinner for christmas eve, however, we can't seem to agree what that would be. So, any of the nice folks on this site who reside across the pond from me, some help please? suggestions welcome!
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Start with a dry sherry as aperitif. That's while your mum is still cooking...
Next comes soup - "Oxtail" (or beef) is common, or cream of tomato. Must be a thick soup and not a consommé.
Fish next - but I've only once had a fish course for Christmas dinner so my mum usually misses this off.
Main course: Turkey, stuffing, sausage meat wrapped in bacon, cauliflower in cheese sauce (or broccoli, or both), sweetened carrots (carrots then coated in brown sugar), roast potatoes, croquet potatoes or mashed potatoes & carrots (plenty of butter), garden peas, thick onion gravy made with Birdalls Gravy Salt (must not be thin gravy), cranberry sauce and bread sauce.
Seconds.
Dessert: Mince pies, Chiristmas pudding (from Marks & Sparks), Brandy sauce, ice-cream and another dessert for those that don't like fruit (e.g. chocolate mousse, lemon meringue pie etc)
Cheese and biscuits (if you're still up to it, I'm not, by this stage)
Retire to lounge for coffee, port, chocolates (After Eight mints, usually) and lots of burping.
Anything less than that and it's not a Christmas dinner 
(Why, oh why, did I leave home?)
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yummmmm ...
Do you walk out or just roll away? 
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mistressofbucklebury
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Wow that's a whole lot of courses 
In my family it's usually
- Sherry (or Champagne since I can't stand sherry!!)
- Prawn Cocktail
- Roast Chicken (we're not big turkey fans) with all the trimmings (stuffing, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce, the works)
- seconds (obviously!!  )
- Flaming Christmas pud with brandy butter and mince pies with custard
... actually we do eat a lot!! 
This year though we'll be doing roast lamb as I've worked out I'm allergic to poultry!! (How'd a thunk??? )
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:30 am Post subject: We have.... |
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Normally, we don't have starters, but we do have:
Roast Chicken (again, not big turkey people!)
Roast potatoes
Peas
Sweetcorn (kernels not on-a-cob)
Carrots
Sprouts
Roast/mashed parsnip
Yorkshire Pudding
Gravy
Dessert is usually some sort of fruit pie/crumble type thing, chocolate gateaux and the traditional Christmas Pudding with custard and/or ice cream. We have the Christmas cake later in the day as well as the mince pies.
Hope this helps
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SpaceWeavil
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Ours involves:
Roast turkey, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts, carrots, peas, chipolata sausages wrapped in bacon and sage & onion stuffing.
For dessert we have either Christmas pudding, cloutie dumpling or ice cream depending on preference, but we also have Christmas cake, biscuits and mince pies on the table, as well as crackers with cheese, pickles, cranberry sauce and butter if anyone wants them.
Occasionally we take wine with dinner (I don't) but in general no one drinks in our house.
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Hathor
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Coming from a common as muck family with the wonderful heritage of Scouse and Midlands *is oddly proud* our Christmas dinner is LOT simpler than Robs.
Although we share the aperitif of sherry.
1st course is prawn cocktail because it's a sort of unwritten tradition. For the main meal there has to be a huge turkey with lots and lots of stuffing, mashed potatoes, raost potatoes, sprouts, carrots, possibly cauliflower and oodles of thick gravy. For afterwards, we have this amazing apple pie that Mum kaes herself - the secret is the nutmeg.
After that, you have a coffee (or tea) with lots of the Christmas chocolates (I agree about the After Eights) and digest whilst watching some form of Christmas telly.
Yavanie, you're having an English Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve? Or just an English meal? I could rhapsodise about English food FOREVER, the stuff is DIVINE. Best of luck either way!
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| Maram68 wrote: | yummmmm ...
Do you walk out or just roll away? |
 I was thinking that! |
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Yavanie
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Hathor wrote: |
Yavanie, you're having an English Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve? Or just an English meal? I could rhapsodise about English food FOREVER, the stuff is DIVINE. Best of luck either way! |
It was going to be on Christmas Eve after church but my sister and her husband won't be there in time so it will be late afternoon on Christmas Day (after all the presents have been opened).
My Mom is really looking for an alternative to turkey (had that Thanksgiving) and ham (New Year's day). We do so traditional American on Thanksgiving and very southern for New Years with ham, black eyed peas and corn bread an greens, that she wanted to something different for Christmas. Depending on when all the family arrives, we do Mexican tamales a night or two before Christmas. I have Trifle bowl I received as a wedding gift that I've never used and mom wants to make trifle. Popovers are also planned. She was thinking some kind of roast beef or pork and neede ideas for traditional sides. Shrimp (prawn) cocktail is also common here. We'll be having red wine with dinner this year because my husband brought some back from his business trip to France. OF course after dinner and desert there will coffee and plates of pies, cookies, chocolates and other sweets out until the last person goes off to bed that night.
So far am getting great suggestions. I will be calling my mom tonight to update her as we make final plans.
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I'm getting hungry...
- backs away from this thread and runs-
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*huge sigh*
Why did I marry someone allergic to all the good stuff!!!!! 
Anybody got a good suggestion for fish that doesn't involve dairy or eggs???
*determined to resist the tofu this year*
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| DarkElfChilde wrote: | I'm getting hungry...
- backs away from this thread and runs-
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I'm not. Half of that food sounds disgusting. (Sausage wrapped in bacon??? Ugh) I'll stick with the traditional Amish Christmas dinner, thanks. Ham, chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, green bean cassrole, sweet potatoes, lots and lots of rolls, and pecan pie. Now, I'm hungry.
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | *huge sigh*
Why did I marry someone allergic to all the good stuff!!!!!
Anybody got a good suggestion for fish that doesn't involve dairy or eggs???
*determined to resist the tofu this year* |
Canadian White Fish is the best...boiled. MMM.
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| VanatheEverYoung wrote: | | DarkElfChilde wrote: | I'm getting hungry...
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I'm not. Half of that food sounds disgusting. (Sausage wrapped in bacon??? Ugh) I'll stick with the traditional Amish Christmas dinner, thanks. Ham, chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, green bean cassrole, sweet potatoes, lots and lots of rolls, and pecan pie. Now, I'm hungry. |
The sausage in bacon thing is a traditional Scots thing. My mum calls them kilted sausage but they have another name that totally escapes me right now.
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Pig-in-a-blanket or so my old school canteen used to call them...
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