Christmas main course

No main course here as we take a picnic out to escape Christmas Day. We stayed in for the first time in years last year and hated it. This year's location is Glen Affric.

 

Go for Goose ! , use the fat to roast the spuds , takes them to another level , absolutely delicious

 

Last year we went to our local ALDI shortly before closing shop for the Christmas days. They had a ton of stuff for half price due to the upcoming "best before" date. We bought a ton of duck breasts.

Those were the best ones I ever made and ever ate. Slowly baked them at 140°C in the oven after marinading them for the night in a oil/herb mixture. A sauce made from the duck fat, together with water, roux and a slight infusion of smokey whiskey. They just melted on your tongue and we ate until we could no more.

I will definitely go back to that shop again this year and see what kind of "leftover" treasures are waiting there for me to try.

 

As christmas is like a normal day it going to be the same food as we have on any other day of the week

 

Chinese as usual for us when we have Peking Duck.

 

We like a nice quiet Christmas, so the traditional turkey roast serves us fine

 

Often Americans do not have turkey for Christmas as they will be having it today, Thanksgiving. Very often it is a ham joint with the same trimmings and in The South (where we lived) it will include sweetcorn and cornbread. We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving but usually have turkey of some sort. Today we actually have a large chicken breast which we will have sliced with fresh made mushroom sauce, potatoes and sweetcorn.

 

That's a good question:
My Grandaughter Kat will only eat Beef and pigs in blankets without the blankets
My daughter likes Turkey/Chicken.
Myself I like Pork/Gammon/Lamb.
As I'm cooking it will probably be Turkey & Beef...........Roll on Boxing Day

 

Victoria your making me hungry, sounds fantastic

 

I will be serving my traditional dressed turkey, mashed spuds, variety of vegetables, lots of gravy and cranberry sauces. Dessert will be pumpkin pie/whipped cream and apple pie/vanilla ice cream. And trays of cookies and Christmas cake for snacking.

I serve ham at New Years and it is usually buffet style/casual help yourself dining.

 

I love it but T'other Half does not. I just had pate on toast for lunch plus a piece of toast with butter and pumpkin jam on it since we don't eat desserts.