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What's your favourite Christmas food?
I love the sprouts, turkey and roast parsnips.
Not so keen on all the sweet things like mince pies and Christmas pud.
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I also indulge in some good cheeses too.
What's that leave me? Taters?
My mum makes delicious sausage stuffing. I love the crispy bits.
yeah baby.
So, let's go for favourite food instead, and I'm with COS, chocolate. All else, immaterial.
But we don't.
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No? My partner cooks roast parsnips all year round, and does a fine stuffing (which I can't eat but still...) you can buy mince pies from September onwards, Christmas puddings about the same time and sprouts have a long winter season as a veg. I eat turkey every week at a local carvery ...
me too - with lashings of gravy. Don't like the Christmas pud or Christmas cake (too heavy, man) but OK with mince pies if they're made with puff pastry.
And you've just reminded me to ring up the farm shop and order me free range, organic, happy before its beheaded turkey...
This will be my first Christmas since we lost our Mam so the organisation has gone to pot. I'll go see my grandson in the morning and then to the pub at noon and home to sleep it off. No dinner (I was never keen on Christmas dinner anyway - no chilli in it ;)) but more beer and back out at night.
There's something different about a Christmas roast.
I agree with that. I don't have anything special or different at Xmas. To be fair I hardly eat a roast dinner as it is so that's occasion enough. I love mince pies and look forward to those and only have them in December to make me feel Christmassy.
Mulled wine could be one but I have that around Halloween and Bonfire Night too.
I'm veggie and don't really do sweet so a lot of what has been mentioned doesn't really fall into my camp. But I do eat the big purple ones from Quality Street as a Xmas tradition.
You'd think that'd be a USP wouldn't you BB?
You should serve them to kids with a bright red cherry tomato on top.
Yeah the old crystalized fruit used to come out at crimbo - and the nuts and the Eat Me dates, the last of which were usually still waiting for someone to take them up on their offer long after the tree had been put back up in the attic.
Neither have I but I've swallowed a few plums. I love fruit so good for you.
me neither. :(
That's just the way I am.
Next year, who knows? Everything seems set fair to change in 2011, sending out thoughts it will be so.
Roast Turkey, glazed carrots, roast parsnips gravy made with all the meat juices and some wine, roast taties, tater and parsnip mash, button sprouts,christmas pud (with Cream Ice cream and Brandy butter) mince pies, trifle, cheese (Brie, camembert [both very runny], stilton, danish blue, mature cheddar, double gloucester) and crackers. pickled onions, red cabbage, cold turkey, ham, salad, Christmas cake (with loads of marzipan) stollen, trifle. D'ya want me to go on?
I like chippolata sausages wrapped in bacon with the turkey, and eating a hot turkey drumstick in your fingers is lovely too, with cranberry sauce to dip it in.
i think it's because we never eat to excess, or drink to excess... so can''t even on Christmas day. I certainly can't look at chocolate.
But I do love all the little treats in small amounts over the following week.