Re: What is on the menu for Christmas this year?
 

Christmas eve - codtriade - fish and potato soup, you server the broth separately.
Christmas day - roast venison, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pud, caulli cheese (having the venison so it works better with the yorkie and caulli cheese.)
Boxing day - pot roasted cockeral, mash, steamed veg etc.
Some other day we have a spiced duck with curries, rice etc.

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Sure i posted yesterday but it's gone walkabout.

Wife and I cooked for 9 last year. So we having a quiet easy one this year. No cooking at all. Christmas day dinner at St Luke's and the Winged Ox, 4 course meal and drink included.

Then home for a chilled evening.

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The venison sounds lovely!
What time do you want me to come over? ;)


Good call with the caulliflower cheese.

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Going out to a restaurant for Christmas lunch.There is only my son and I so it just seems a better idea to eat our lunch looking out over the Solent towards Cowes.

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Christmas Day will be SWMBO, me, daughter, son-in-law, grandson, and son-in-law’s father.

Wife and son-in-law will undertake the cooking, which will be prawn & avocado salad, turkey with roast potatoes (cooked in goose fat), Yorkshire Puddings, parsnips, brussel sprouts (with pomegranates, pancetta, & chestnuts), cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, two different stuffings, and Turkey gravy. The son-in-law’s father will be bringing a cooked ham, and puddings yet to be decided.

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Some sort of food, i have not decided yet :D

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Stop it, you're making my mouth water ;)

Chez daveeb Turkey, pork roast, homemade parsley and lemon stuffing, pigs in blankets, roasties, homemade turkey gravy and stupid amounts of various veg. Guest list as yet to be finalised.

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Not much for breakfast as we like to save ourselves for the main.

Turkey crown
Roasties
Swede
Parsnips
Carrots
Stuffing balls
Pigs in blankets
Yorkies
Gravy
Cauliflower cheese

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The codtriade is moving to this Friday and our planned guest for Christmas eve are in Nicaragua. So I need to plan something for Christmas eve, something not too heavy or hard. We have some lamb fillets in the freezer so sear those up and server with a summer fruit reduction, some sort of potato and veg. I would think of a curry butter but too much fat doesn't agree with my wife.

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Because our last 2 Christmases have been blighted by ill health and our appetites are not what they were, I plan to order a Chinese take away. i.e, Kitchen special with noodles, 2 x King prawns in batter with sweet and sour sauce, egg fried rice and prawn crackers.
:)

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I'm at my sister's.


It will be the first without our dad, it's gonna be a tough day.


As it stands I don't think I'll bother with the tree this year, my heart just isn't in it.

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My dad died when I was still in my late 20's (October,89).

We still did christmas pretty much as normal, all the decorations inc lights and trees, my Mum and Sister were there, as were my Grand-Parents (who were my Dads parents). He would have loved it. We did a toast for his life over xmas dinner.

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I certainly know that feeling. This is the third Christmas without my dad. It used to be every year we'd either go to him or he would come to us for dinner with my mum before she was in the care home, though she was at ours once when she could still get out.

It's a tough feeling. I've really not felt much in the Christmas spirit since that last Christmas in 2021. We just lost mum so had him over. Never thought that would be his last. Christmas really doesn't feel the same now. My wife lost her parents around the same time as each of mine. So we really don't enjoy it the same, however we do try.

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I'm not in the mood either having lost my husband last year.
My daughter lives in Norwich,doesn't drive and will spend the season with her wife's family.Rest of the family(my husband's sister and her family) are on the Welsh border so too far to travel.
So it's just me and my son and we have decided on a lunch at the Indian restaurant on the seafront with a view of the Solent and Cowes across the Solent.

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Sometimes keeping it simple is best, avoids stress too.
I hope you enjoy your chinese.