What's for Christmas dinner ? 🙂

Anniekay

Anniekay

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Since we are all from different areas of the globe, I was wondering what you might want to make, and eat, for Christmas dinner. I'm by myself, just me and my dog Rags and we are going to have :
Pumpkin pie ( most importantly) 😂
Corned Beef cooked in the slow cooker with onions, carrots and cabbage.

What are you going to have ?🤗
 
Quorn roast, sage&onion stuffing, roasted veggies, whatever greens I can dig out of the freezer and garlic gravy. Then we have pudding - traditional plum pudding, or if we have a cold it becomes plub pudding - with custard.
Haven't you got any family to dine with Annie? You can pop in here and join us if you like.
 
What on earth is Quorn roast?.You have an animal named Quorn? 🙃

I'm an only adopted kid and all my family are dead but for a cousin I barely know. Thanks for the invite , though I might have to pass on the Quorn !!😂
 
Quorn is mycoprotein. It's a replacement for proper meat, and something I have, somewhat unwillingly been using on and off because Lord Awful proclaimed he was a vegetarian. Although it hasn't killed me yet, I am actually thinking I will have to go back to eating proper meat, especially as the farmers are needing our support more than ever. I would prefer to eat turkey, goose, duck, chicken, beef, lamb, or pork. A quorn roast has an acceptable flavour, but it goes against the grain for me really. I used meat all the time before I knew Zigs. We do eat fish - I try to source the freshest, frozen deep sea, and lots of real dairy without additives, as well as eggs.
 
Tetters said:
Quorn is mycoprotein. It's a replacement for proper meat, and something I have, somewhat unwillingly been using on and off because Lord Awful proclaimed he was a vegetarian. Although it hasn't killed me yet, I am actually thinking I will have to go back to eating proper meat, especially as the farmers are needing our support more than ever. I would prefer to eat turkey, goose, duck, chicken, beef, lamb, or pork. A quorn roast has an acceptable flavour, but it goes against the grain for me really. I used meat all the time before I knew Zigs. We do eat fish - I try to source the freshest, frozen deep sea, and lots of real dairy without additives, as well as eggs.
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Ooooh, over here they sell that as "Impossible" meat, you can get burgers, chicken, sausage, etc. I've tried the sausage and burgers and it's good but, IMHO, not really appropriate holiday feasting food !! 😂

I love duck but can hardly find it here and lamb is almost impossible to source in my area. I hope you and His Majesty enjoy your Quorn meat anyway @Tetters !! 😄
 
Roast turkey with homemade sage and onion stuffing made with good quality sausage, onion and bread crumbs, pigs in blankets,roast potatoes,roast parsnips, sprouts, peas, carrots, cabbage and gravy. Home made Christmas pudding with whipped cream and cranberry sauce.
For tea we have a slice of triple chocolate gateau with whipped cream and cranberry sauce.
 
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Logan said:
Roast turkey with homemade sage and onion stuffing made with good quality sausage, onion and bread crumbs, pigs in blankets,roast potatoes,roast parsnips, sprouts, peas, carrots, cabbage and gravy. Home made Christmas pudding with whipped cream and cranberry sauce.
For tea we have a slice of triple chocolate gateux with whipped cream and cranberry sauce.
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Now that is going to be a really fancy spread !! I have no idea what chocolate gareux is but if it's chocolate it's right up my street !!. Yum !!🤗
 
Anniekay said:
Now that is going to be a really fancy spread !! I have no idea what chocolate gareux is but if it's chocolate it's right up my street !!. Yum !!🤗
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Thanks,Chocolate gateau is layers of chocolate cake and a chocolate filling.
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Our son will be by himself on Christmas day because he likes to be and he doesn't like turkey.
 
Going to daughter's, so not sure, but traditionally we would have mushroom timbale with roast veg, sprouts, onion gravy, etc. We are also veggie, Tetters, it's mushroom, egg, breadcrumbs, herbs and seasonings cooked in a steamer, much more delish than quorn or nut roast, but takes hours and steams up the house.
There is so much energy wasted producing meat I can drive a car without guilt being veggie :)
Good sprouts are great, tatty old ones are horrid and give you wind (Proper posh)
 
I agree with @Logan that @Tetters should buy herself some meat !!😁

@olly-buckle if you have egg that seems like non veggie to me. It takes hours to steam the timbale, meat cooks much quicker !!😂😂😂

Now, see, I don't like eggs, never have. I'll eat the chicken once it's grown and lived it's life, but I'll be danged if I'm going to cook an embryonic animal right out of it's shell!! 😫 There's just something about that that seems wrong to me.

But I do have to use them , like for cake, etc. But then I'm not watching that embryo cook, am I? 😋
 
Anniekay said:
I agree with @Logan that @Tetters should buy herself some meat !!😁

@olly-buckle if you have egg that seems like non veggie to me. It takes hours to steam the timbale, meat cooks much quicker !!😂😂😂

Now, see, I don't like eggs, never have. I'll eat the chicken once it's grown and lived it's life, but I'll be danged if I'm going to cook an embryonic animal right out of it's shell!! 😫 There's just something about that that seems wrong to me.

But I do have to use them , like for cake, etc. But then I'm not watching that embryo cook, am I? 😋
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I love eggs, and they are so versatile. It's just the hens on a free range farm where the eggs have the occasional speck in them anyway, and that's only if they keep cockerels too.
I really do believe that we are, at the present time, very fortunate indeed to have so much choice - it should never be overlooked. Things can change !!
I pickled 30 eggs for the stock cupboard just a few days ago....good with a gherkin and a bag of chips.
 
Logan said:
You'll be more than welcome, but why don't you cook some meat for yourself?

That gateau supposed to serve 8 but 6 is better.
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Ok then but you'll need to quickly buy the house next door to us though. It IS for sale. It's just a bit too far now for me to travel, and would cost a fortune on the bus.
PS. Hoping to go to the farm shop tomorrow, So I shall have a look to see how much the meat is :unsure:
 
Tetters said:
Ok then but you'll need to quickly buy the house next door to us though. It IS for sale. It's just a bit too far now for me to travel, and would cost a fortune on the bus.
PS. Hoping to go to the farm shop tomorrow, So I shall have a look to see how much the meat is :unsure:
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Oh sorry can't move house, that's a shame.
Sainsbury's sell taist the difference beef, cooks better than the normal sort but more expensive.
They don't sell the big joints of beef anymore.
 
Logan said:
Oh sorry can't move house, that's a shame.
Sainsbury's sell taist the difference beef, cooks better than the normal sort but more expensive.
They don't sell the big joints of beef anymore.
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That's interesting Logan. I don't buy food from supermarkets now though, only washing stuff, bleach, loo rolls etc etc. We prefer, under the circumstances to support our farmers. We buy from local farm shops, and buy food without additives. It is quite possible that the Quorn will be off the list now, actually, and we'll use other proteins like cheese, eggs, and fish. Arla milk products are definitely off the list as well, as they are using a chemical substance to feed the cows and stop them pharting, which is totally daft, and we do not support that at all.
 
Anniekay said:
Ooooh, over here they sell that as "Impossible" meat, you can get burgers, chicken, sausage, etc. I've tried the sausage and burgers and it's good but, IMHO, not really appropriate holiday feasting food !! 😂

I love duck but can hardly find it here and lamb is almost impossible to source in my area. I hope you and His Majesty enjoy your Quorn meat anyway @Tetters !! 😄
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I could eat fish every day but I live by a river but can't get anyone to take me.

I might add I looked up why people eat meat?

Seems Protein is something craved by humans. Oh but you can get Protein from plants.

True but Protein from meat breaks down faster.

Christmas we're staying home so all will be ok but next day going to our sons so my wife will have to fix me a special meal.

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Anniekay said:
Now, see, I don't like eggs, never have. I'll eat the chicken once it's grown and lived it's life, but I'll be danged if I'm going to cook an embryonic animal right out of it's shell!! 😫 There's just something about that that seems wrong to me.
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There are not many egg farmers who keep a cockerel, nearly all commercial eggs are unfertilised and could never grow into anything. I don't like eggs as eggs much myself, not squeamishness, I just don't like them, but they are great for binding things. I am veggie, but it is more about the practices of fishing and meat farming on the whole, I'm not worried by dead things, more curious. My father and brother were both biology teachers and I grew up watching dissections, did a dogfish myself when I did 'A' level biology, though I don't think they do anymore.
The 'curious' bit made me warn friends who were going to visit Arizona about not touching any wild animals they saw dead, as bubonic plague is endemic among the wild animal population, the reply, "Darling, we're gay, we don't do things like that" :) Thinking of it makes me think it is nice I have friends like them and they have friends like me, people should get beyond the usual insular groups.
 
olly-buckle said:
There are not many egg farmers who keep a cockerel, nearly all commercial eggs are unfertilised and could never grow into anything. I don't like eggs as eggs much myself, not squeamishness, I just don't like them, but they are great for binding things. I am veggie, but it is more about the practices of fishing and meat farming on the whole, I'm not worried by dead things, more curious. My father and brother were both biology teachers and I grew up watching dissections, did a dogfish myself when I did 'A' level biology, though I don't think they do anymore.
The 'curious' bit made me warn friends who were going to visit Arizona about not touching any wild animals they saw dead, as bubonic plague is endemic among the wild animal population, the reply, "Darling, we're gay, we don't do things like that" :) Thinking of it makes me think it is nice I have friends like them and they have friends like me, people should get beyond the usual insular groups.
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I have been known to skin things. I skun a raccoon that had just been hit by the car
infront of me. That was my first try. I cured him in Alum and when I went to the druggist to order the alum he asked what I wanted it for?

His eyes got big as saucers when I told him !!😂😂😂

This is a mole that I skun in 2002. He's still in perfect shape too !!
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