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Truffle logs from Cooplands are scrummy [it's a bakery like Greggs for those unfortunate enough not to have a Cooplands]
They only have them at Christmas...and my sister likes the meringue snow men that they make...and she always asks for one with a purple scarf even if she is 19!
We usually have beef for dinner on Boxing Day but this year my brother wants us to have goose.
I've already had a practice run at Christmas dinner as my mother in law and godson came to visit a couple of weekends ago so we invited my mum too.
On Christmas day the starter is my favourite as I always have some form of seafood - salmon mousse, crab claws, lobster, mussels, etc. I got a seafood platter once from Marks on Christmas Eve for half price (if I remember rightly it was still very expensive, but it did Boxing Day dinner as well so I reckoned it was worth it) I'm with Island Girl loving seafood!
Although I'm not a sweet tooth at all I adore cheese....and wine! My husband would choke if we didn't have a big roast dinner with all the trimmings every Sunday, so the main course is not such a big deal for me. It's the sense of occasion I really like and the fact that we can take a few hours over the meal, chatting and sampling different wines.
Following the seafood trend, on Christmas and Boxing Day mornings I always cook us toasted bagels topped with scrambled egg, slivers of smoked salmon and a sprinkling of chopped parsley.
It is sooo tasty and lines the stomach ahead of the festive booze :-)
roast parnips and chocolates by the tonne lol
although i haven't drank for the last few xmas's i have my eye on a few baileys coffee's to help the day along :)
Sagesse, I always cook us smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for Christmas Day breakfast too! I might have a weak Buck's Fizz to go with it.
I don't like roasts so the lunch doesn't do much for me. But like Red I do enjoy cheese and crackers and several glasses of Merlot. Can't cope with port anymore.
I also enjoy hot sausage rolls and a Terry's Chocolate Orange - but for some reason I never get one. :(
It is a great breakfast, Lily! I saw it in a magazine once, as Nick Nairn said that he always gave that to his family on Christmas Day.
Often we are lucky and the smoked salmon is half price on Christmas Eve! We are right little bargain hunters when it comes to reduced grub!
Hurrah for Lolli. She likes Christmas pud and so do I. I just love it and Christmas cake. Our son has made his first attempt at baking one this year, he says he keeps putting brandy in it, can't wait to taste it.
I lIke Christmas cake too, but hardly ever have one now as I end up eating it all - none of my kids like it - they have NO taste - I blame their father! :)
4 me it's bagels and creme cheese with strong coffee for breakfast. Xmas lunch is a big bird that's well stuffed, plump breast and meaty legs. Trimmings consist of a nice bit o tongue with angels on horse back. And to finish you can't beat a good Yule tide log, thick with a creamy centre. If I get to pull a cracker afterwards I take her, I mean this, as a bonus. O'err, folks and Merry Crimbo one and all!!!
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They only have them at Christmas...and my sister likes the meringue snow men that they make...and she always asks for one with a purple scarf even if she is 19!
We usually have beef for dinner on Boxing Day but this year my brother wants us to have goose.
http://www.cooplands.co.uk/
On Christmas day the starter is my favourite as I always have some form of seafood - salmon mousse, crab claws, lobster, mussels, etc. I got a seafood platter once from Marks on Christmas Eve for half price (if I remember rightly it was still very expensive, but it did Boxing Day dinner as well so I reckoned it was worth it) I'm with Island Girl loving seafood!
Although I'm not a sweet tooth at all I adore cheese....and wine! My husband would choke if we didn't have a big roast dinner with all the trimmings every Sunday, so the main course is not such a big deal for me. It's the sense of occasion I really like and the fact that we can take a few hours over the meal, chatting and sampling different wines.
It is sooo tasty and lines the stomach ahead of the festive booze :-)
although i haven't drank for the last few xmas's i have my eye on a few baileys coffee's to help the day along :)
I don't like roasts so the lunch doesn't do much for me. But like Red I do enjoy cheese and crackers and several glasses of Merlot. Can't cope with port anymore.
I also enjoy hot sausage rolls and a Terry's Chocolate Orange - but for some reason I never get one. :(
Often we are lucky and the smoked salmon is half price on Christmas Eve! We are right little bargain hunters when it comes to reduced grub!
YUCK!
All that Vitamin K and stinky water
Can't blame the cmPuta for that one!