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Christmas dinner, what you having?

What’s jingling your bells?

  • Traditional Turkey dinner I’m part Tory and miss the Victorian era

    Votes: 35 64.8%

  • Beef or Lamb

    Votes: 11 20.4%

  • Other poultry

    Votes: 6 11.1%

  • Curry I’m a complete rebel

    Votes: 2 3.7%

  • Pot noodle and a wank

    Votes: 3 5.6%

  • Cheese on toast

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Pork or gammon

    Votes: 10 18.5%
  • Total voters
    54
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The missus is braising a lump of beef and doing a nut roast for her veggie self and daughter. She's a good cook, if a little too much of a perfectionist.

This one meal has necessitated three THREE, 14 mile round trips to the hell hole that is a supermarket, in the last three days, as she got increasingly manic about the importance of yet another trivial, overlooked ingredient or other, or that the cauliflower wasn't big enough etc. She came back yesterday ready to pick up a chain saw and go back into town to seek revenge.

Today we lack the necessary cinnamon sticks. I've encouraged her to embrace individuality and not be a slave to a recipe. I've also hidden the car keys.
 
Traditional Turkey roast with all the works beautifully prepared by Mrs Whittle. We, as usual, will have a house full. We sit down looking like the trooping of the colour and several hours later, leave the table looking like Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.
Once the grub reaches the table, Mrs Whittle is done. All clearing up, washing up, drying up is managed (in theory) by the rest of the family, but (in practice),by me. Lovely grub!
 

Lamb, Gammon, Beef and Chicken for my son who only used to eat Chicken. He now eats all the meats but the Chicken has remained purely as some sort of tradition.
The usual array of vegetables are also served. All prepared by yours truly.
 

I'm a huge fan of the getting-more-common gammon substitute for turkey. It goes well with all the same sauces and the big plus for me is that it can be done on the hob rather than the oven. I've always done it in a tweaked Nigella style by boiling it in Dr Pepper instead of Coke (it's called Pepper Pig) and you end up with a fruity edge to it. I've always had a small oven so anything I can do on the hob instead is a bonus.

I've swerved turkey entirely for decades however my current workplace provides us with one so I now have to cook that as well... I'm going to be doing that tomorrow (fruity stuffing rammed inside it, garlic butter & herbs under the skin and a bacon lattice) so it's not a hassle on the day. We'll just reheat up some big breast slices for Xmas day dinner and freeze most of the rest for Jan. I've also got a small beef joint in to roast rare because why not?

Whilst meats are the centrepiece, the meal is made by the trimmings. We've got the lot, almost (I refuse to cook that nasty red cabbage stuff). Roast potatoes, honey mustard root veg, sprouts with bacon, cauliflower cheese, bread sauce, cranberry, sausagemeat stuffing, garlic buttered leek & cavolo nero, yorkshire puds & there are 5 packs of pigs in blankets available if needed (all different). All this washed down with gravy, naturally.

I cook the lot and usually consume a full bottle of wine as I go. If you can't tell yet, Xmas dinner is my favourite part of the day! Cook, drink, eat, drink again, watch Dr Who, collapse into coma. Then you don't need to cook for days as you're nibbling on the leftovers.
 

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