What's your Christmas Dinner?

**zazen999** · 21-12-2011, 04:34 PM

Nachos with guac and sour cream at 11

Chilli with remaining guac and sour cream, at about 6

Just making a raw chocolate ganache for dessert; although the ingredients are quite expensive so making my own version. Hugh F-W's version would have come out about �20 for one tart.

**Piggle** · 21-12-2011, 04:37 PM

nowt - don't do Christmas in any way, shape of form.

**OverWyreGrower** · 21-12-2011, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by zazen999 View Post

Just making a raw chocolate ganache for dessert; although the ingredients are quite expensive so making my own version. Hugh F-W's version would have come out about �20 for one tart.

Ouch! �20 for one tart is pretty pricey - it better be the best chocolate dessert ever!!!

**veggiechicken** · 21-12-2011, 04:40 PM

Beans on toast if its anything like last year!

**Florence Fennel** · 21-12-2011, 04:42 PM

Roast Turkey (butterfly), roast potatoes and my own parsnips, mashed potato (just used to do it for youngest GG but then everyone decided they wanted it), my own steamed carrots and sprouts, my own cauliflower & broccoli cheese. Sausages wrapped in bacon. Family recipe forcemeat stuffing, sage & onion stuffing, bread and cranberry sauce. Christmas pud, mince pies with custard or cream, trifle or ice cream. Cheese board with biscuits, grapes and kiwis. No starter this year because people were stuffed halfway through the main meal and no after dinner mints because they were stuffed after the main course and dessert. Wine with the meal, brandy and/or port after with coffee.

**OverWyreGrower** · 21-12-2011, 04:44 PM

Woo! FF - how many are you feeding then?!?

**Florence Fennel** · 21-12-2011, 04:49 PM

There are only 10 of us this year OWG, so it will be relatively easy

**piskieinboots** · 21-12-2011, 04:55 PM

Goose - we do goose every year, it is wonderful and the roast spuds from the goose fat are the mutts nuts.

Breakfast is always smoked salmon, scrambled egg and champagne.

**Aberdeenplotter** · 21-12-2011, 05:15 PM

Goose too expensive imho. We will have a turkey crown and a bit of roast beef with all the usual trimmings. All the veg will be our own. It really is the time to showcase the benefits of growing your own

**piskieinboots** · 21-12-2011, 05:19 PM

It's true it is costly not least because there is less meat on than say a turkey for the same size in kgs - it has a very large breast bone - but the meat is so worth it to me.

**janeyo** · 21-12-2011, 05:21 PM

I only have 7 this year (Marc's parents not coming after the falling out and my uncle and his daughter promised somewhere else), so I am refusing to switch the oven on til 12 so I cna spend all morning with my boys and their things - provided they have bene good enough for a visit from FC

We are having stuffed turkey crown, roasties, mash (nan doesn't like roasties), parsnips, carrots, sprouts, brocolli, cauli, peas, yorkies, and cheesy leeks. No starters, but a bottle of champers for opening the pressies in the morning. Christmas pud and probably a homemade (malteser) cheesecake for the boys as they don't like pud.

Feel full up just writing it!

**OverWyreGrower** · 21-12-2011, 05:30 PM

OK, we're having:

Pate to start with

Individual homemade beef wellingtons with a pink peppercorn sauce
Roasties
Celeriac mash
Carrots, Leeks, Parsnips

And a melt-in-the-middle choc pudding from M&S

**piskieinboots** · 21-12-2011, 05:31 PM

Originally posted by janeyo View Post

.....parsnips, carrots, sprouts, brocolli, cauli, peas, cheesy leeks.

It's good to ensure one gets one's seven-a-day!

**zazen999** · 21-12-2011, 06:29 PM

Originally posted by OverWyreGrower View Post

Ouch! �20 for one tart is pretty pricey - it better be the best chocolate dessert ever!!!

I know. I'm making the base with not quite so expensive dates and bog standard nuts; and the filling with avocados, plus cocoa, and not coconut oil [@�7 a pop] but I'll find an oil to suit when I go shopping; plus palm sugar I found on offer last week rather than agave [honestly, i thought that would be the expensive ingredient until I looked for the coconut oil

].

I do like to do a special pudding each year, rather than the roast and trimmings. I made 8 decent sized mini-ganache bases, and 16 tiny sized mini ganache bases today - so we'll have a fair few in the freezer to last us.

It's mainly to take away the boredom from the day itself, which I can't stand.

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