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jack
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Location: England
Registered: September 2006
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Well Christmas is almost upon us, I am interested to know what kind of Christmas dinner you have in your countries.
Here in the U.K. our family have turkey and roast beef our breakfast is ham eggs mushrooms & sausages.
life is to enjoy.
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Roast turkey and stuffing, brussels sprouts, carrots, swede, beans, peas, roast potatoes, pork sausages, bacon, gammon. Am I missing anything?
Brandy butter with cream, Christmas pudding and little foily bits. Optional mince pies.
Every year I get the wedding bells. Methinks Chance is playing with me.
David
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jack
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Location: England
Registered: September 2006
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parsnips.!
life is to enjoy.
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I trust your family started to cook the brussels in the traditional way by putting them on the stove in April.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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The main course is sirloin of beef ordered six weeks in advance so that it can be hung until black, then roasted sufficiently to leave it pink to red in the middle. All the bits and pieces with it including roast spuds. Certainly not turkey. In earlier years we had goose.
You can't beat a good goose or anything well hung at Christmas.
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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When I was a child we had the luxury of a capon, now outlawed by the EU. With the capon we had sprouts that had been cooked since October in order to be nice and soft, roast spuds, bread sauce, stuffing and various vegetables. Quite often a whole cauliflower (well cooked[!]) with butter fried breacrumbs poured onto it
Now I am grownup we tend to have a turkey, though had goose one year and loved it, though hated the small amount of meat.
Jacket spuds, no sprouts ever! Parsnips, cauliflower, broccoli, roast onion, bread sauce, several kinds of stuffing, mini sausages and bacon strips.
Christmas pudding in both cases, but where to put it?
Home made Apfel Strudel with whipped cream
And for "tea" slices of Christmas Eve's ham, cold turkey, pickles.........
[Updated on: Tue, 21 November 2006 17:39]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Ah, yes: how could I forget cauliflower and parsnips?
David
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Jedediah
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Location: Made in NZ
Registered: March 2006
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All English Christmasses so far. Well, when i was growing up my gran and my mother used to cook traditional English roasts, (usually lamb), with all the trimmings and hot brandy puddings & custard.
The family crowded around the table & ate until they were stuffed in the sweltering Summer heat.
These days, we tend to have a barbie on the beach, unless it's raining. Then it's cold meat & salads with fruit. Lots of fruit, especially cherries.
cheers
E Te Atua tukuna mai ki au te Mauri tauki te tango i nga mea
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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When I was young we had the traditional British goose (Down, Nigel!) with a huge range of home-grown vegetables and stuffing.
Since marrying and raising a family, I've succumbed to that nasty American import, the turkey; I even tolerate cranberry sauce! Still, as much as possible is home or locally-grown. But my absolute favourite component is sage-and-onion stuffing, made from home grown ingredients, and with enough sage to risk removal of the roof of your mouth! I'm so addicted, that in addition to stuffing the turkey, we make a huge bowl to roast and eat on its own. Oh bliss, oh utter bliss!
For afters, Christmas Pudding and, as a long-standing favourite, Ginger Log - a delightful confection made from ginger nuts, sherry, chocolate and indecent amounts of cream. Followed, of course, by mince pies.
All this accompanied by several bottles of wine and liqueurs, and followed by acute digestive pains and headaches.
Wouldn't miss it for the world!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Aussie
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Registered: August 2006
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Cossie you have never told us before you have ginger nuts.....and smothered with cream .....crikey the mind boggles.
Aussie
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When turkey with trimmings is served, I enjoy the trimmings much more than the turkey, and I'm a meataholic. Now don't get me started on veggies.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I like the leftovers best, with dill pickled cucumbers, pickles, and eaten with fingers.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I have been fortunate in having been home for every Thanksgiving and Christmas for 65 years.
We have had the same menu with the exception of replacing the turkey with prime rib on occasion.
Turkey, stuffing made with an old family recipe (kind of like cubed up French toast with onions and fried) cranberries, mashed potatoes, mashed turnips, olives (black and green), lionize potatoes, spinach augrotten, and dinner rolls. Then pie and ice-cream.
Gary
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Whitop
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Location: USA
Registered: June 2005
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Growing up in the middle west (USA), our Christmas Dinner was virtually the same as y’all’s, except always turkey and stuffing and no meat and nothing hung. Until Navyone checked in, nobody mentioned turnips – Rutabagas, mashed yellow turnips with butter (and mashed sweet potatoes (with marshmallow topping [UHG, after about 16]) were always on the table. After moving east, Brussels sprouts were added, but cooked the same day. Bright green and a nice crunch along with all the mush!
After I married into a Dutch/Austrian family in New York, Christmas Dinner became roast tenderloin of beef jardinière, and chocolate soufflé on Christmas Eve with presents; then we drove to my parents’ for Turkey dinner on Christmas Day, more presents and a nap. By the way, Thanksgiving Dinner was always the same as the middle western Christmas Dinner. Now our children do all three and we go to them.
Merry Christmas to all! Try Bagies; they’re really good1 – Mac
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Whitop said,
>Until Navyone checked in, nobody mentioned turnips – Rutabagas, mashed yellow turnips with butter (and mashed sweet potatoes (with marshmallow topping [UHG, after about 16]) were always on the table.
I did -- I mentioned swede, which is the English name for rutabagas (yellow turnip). Round here (Southern England) no-one calls it turnip: turnip means white turnip. I don't think I've ever tasted it.
Potatoes with marshmallow topping? It makes me feel ill just to think of it!
David
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Well, for our family, we live in Idaho........ it will be turkey or ham, mashed potatoes.........stuffing...... cranberry sauce...... and a veggie of some sort........ nothing spectacular, or extraordinary, but great non-the less...... hehehe........... know why it's great?...... cuz I made it........ oh yeah, and mustn't forget dessert.......... pumpkin pies...... and maybe my cheesecake.......... yummo
~When you are down to nothing........
God is up to Something.~
Annon
* If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. *
~Catherine~
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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Good post - pretty mouthwatering! Hope we hear more from you!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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