FFS
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Post by FFS on Nov 15, 2021 17:28:29 GMT 1
Anybody get stressed about Christmas Dinner ? Read this from a Sheffield butchers.
Patterson’s Butchers Sheffield 😂Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day…………..! 😂 Here’s my top tip 🎄Christmas Dinner…. I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs… It’s a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!! The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains. 🍷🍷🍷 🙄We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year…apparently not! Here goes…💓 1. Turkey… It’s a big fecking chicken that’s all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees – job's a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer, £3 off the Internet, poke it in the offending bird - if it says 75 degrees or over it's cooked!👏🏼 2. Stuffing – regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions, breadcrumbs, pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing….( no fecking wonder he’s bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)😜 What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉. 3. Gravy – Jamie Oliver is copping for this one as well…. Bisto Jamie…. All you need is Bisto! Neither I nor anyone else I know has got time on Christmas Eve to muck about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour, cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠 4. Vegetables…🍆 Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable… If you don’t like them don’t buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that’s good enough! 5. Roast potatoes… Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉. 6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like…. Aldi or Lidl! (oh and while we’re on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that’s fine – you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!) 7. Family…. Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce – fine leave 'em to it, it doesn’t matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace! Adults… Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc. And Finally….. NO ONE…. And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!! Rant over 😂 🎄Merry Christmas!🎄 Cheers 🍷🍷🍷🍺🍺🍺
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Post by Veem on Nov 15, 2021 17:39:39 GMT 1
That is brilliant.
It's true that we wind ourselves up over Christmas dinner. My mother used to make loads of stuffings and sauces - all from scratch and most of Christmas Eve was spent on those. It seems I can't think about it without going into my mother's full Christmas dinner mode. So now, I've all but stopped cooking turkey and all the trimmings. Except this year, I have a turkey on order and will no doubt do the whole malarkey.
But on the day, we're out to lunch with friends at a lovely french restaurant ............
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FFS
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Post by FFS on Nov 15, 2021 17:56:04 GMT 1
Your mother was lucky, Veem, I can't find a source for scratch anywhere these days.
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JohnnyD
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 15, 2021 18:04:48 GMT 1
We will be having home made curry on our two ring induction hob in France hopefully, no stress........ Might need to bring some Naans over from Brexity land
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Post by exile on Nov 15, 2021 18:41:13 GMT 1
Agree with the OP, except for stuffing - has to be chestnut stuffing but its not hard to make nor time consuming. Takes longer to put it in the neck of the bird than make it.
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Nov 15, 2021 20:55:28 GMT 1
We will be having home made curry on our two ring induction hob in France hopefully, no stress........ Might need to bring some Naans over from Brexity land Naans from the UK are an excellent idea .. more power to whom-so-ever is cooking
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JohnnyD
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 15, 2021 22:08:20 GMT 1
We will be having home made curry on our two ring induction hob in France hopefully, no stress........ Might need to bring some Naans over from Brexity land Naans from the UK are an excellent idea .. more power to whom-so-ever is cooking That'll be me then
Havn't decided on what curries yet, but i can pre make a Dhal and reheat and have two other mains.....with pickles etc, The steamed buttered basmati always goes down well......
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Post by monsieur3seas on Nov 16, 2021 9:40:46 GMT 1
OH bought a Christmas pudding from well known UK store and then made 2 more just in case.
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 16, 2021 10:34:58 GMT 1
Oddly enough, the Xmas dinner has never really been something I look forward to. Just seems like a huge amount of expense and work to prepare for a blowout that leaves you unable to move for hours afterward. I have always thought going out for a curry would serve just as well with no clearing up after.
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Post by lindalovely on Nov 16, 2021 15:38:47 GMT 1
Last year our Christmas dinner was a cheese sandwich and a slice of Christmas cake by the side of the road, as we raced home to try and get past Perigeaux before the curfew. This year I have ordered a turkey from Grand Frais. Hopefully the MIL will make it over in one piece. I always make a Christmas cake, as we like it..but not keen on Christmas pudding so I get a lovely gateaux from our local patisserie. Other stuff is just like any other meal. Will probably do the potatoes in the air fryer this year.
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Post by traveller on Nov 16, 2021 20:15:56 GMT 1
At the end of the day it’s the people you share the food with, not what you provide, as long as it’s hot and edible.
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Post by ibis on Nov 16, 2021 22:03:35 GMT 1
Our xmas "dinner" is actually leftovers from our xmas eve dinner...
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Post by lurcher on Nov 17, 2021 15:05:58 GMT 1
….. and the day after that is curry for us and anything left over for the dog.
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Post by lurcher on Nov 17, 2021 15:09:36 GMT 1
Last year our Christmas dinner was a cheese sandwich and a slice of Christmas cake by the side of the road, as we raced home to try and get past Perigeaux before the curfew. This year I have ordered a turkey from Grand Frais. Hopefully the MIL will make it over in one piece. I always make a Christmas cake, as we like it..but not keen on Christmas pudding so I get a lovely gateaux from our local patisserie. Other stuff is just like any other meal. Will probably do the potatoes in the air fryer this year. That sounds like a well organised event with all the essentials present.
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