christmas dinner

[Legolas]

Feasting starts tomorrow for us

The mum in law specialises in roast duck (drool),

Then, christmas day is my mum with the turkey, chicken, pork, ham and a mountain of veggies, plus that pudding we made last month.

But my favourite christmas meal is boxing day.

Leftover pork with apple sauce on fluffy white buns...yum yum yum

What's your poison?

[bdenny4]

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Crazyness starts tomorrow with the ususal last minute rush! Working out tonight what I still need to get tomorrow.
I've got 25 people for lunch Xmas Day and its going to be perfect weather - 27 degrees.

We will be dining on: turkey, ham, tomato pie, veggies, roast potatoes, gravy and folowed by the pudding with custard.
Dinner will be a BBQ and leftovers with some friends that are comming over.

Boxing Day my boogie board and I fly to Mums near Bundaburg, Queensland to hopefully escape the clean up :D
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[skimax]

tehehe , yep im on cooking duty this year thank goodness, my sister and her partner cooked in 3 ovens in 2 houses over 2 days , and i will do the same stuff in 1 over ( plus bbq ;) in 1 house in 4 hours. tongue.gif
Cooking an assortment of animals, with vegetables and crisp roast potatoes done in a highly fattening mix of butter / oil .
Dinner will be leftover lunch meats in heated turkish bread and gravy , with some awesome mini strawberry pavlovas from my local bakery mmm.

[ 23.12.2008, 07:01 PM: Message edited by: skimax ]

[Legolas]

mmmm... tomato tart.

gravy (seriously, my mouth is watering...whatever happened to gravy!! I love gravy)

[Podlettte]

chrissy day is at my folks place and it'll be ham and pork with vegies and salad, notably mum's beetroot in red wine jelly with feta yum yum. desert will be pavlova cause I hate chrissy pudding!

there'll be chrissy pudding, I'll just avoid it.

Dinner - more ham probably hehe

boxing day - and BH's folks place - not sure yet!

[24]

party at ours tomorrow - housewarming/christmas eve party - should be pretty standard bbq stuff. that is followed up with 2 days of traditional roasts - turkey at my folks place, then roast chicken at 25's olds...

i will be measuring before and after weights!!!

[Silverwitch]

We go out West to the relos and have a traditional sit down christmas lunch of: roasts-lamb, turkey,chicken and ham and lots of yummy crispy roast vegies-with gravy, apple sauce and or mint sauce ( all homemade of course!)Then for desert its pudding, trifle, pav or all 3-with brandied custard, plain custard, vanilla whipped cream or brandied butter- or all of the above!
Then its Christmas cake to top it all off.
Then for dinner its cold meats , prawns ( lots of them!!)and salads of different varities and desert all over again if required!
Boxing Day we all have a huge Barbie with lamb and pork from the family farm served with salad or roast vegies or both! The vegies this time are done outside in the camp oven ( more than one is required!!) and are beautiful and crunchy!! Then for desert we usually have one of those yummy icecream cakes with fruit and alcohol all mixed in and bits of yummy honeycomb!!
Well NOW I am looking forward to it!!
Happy Christmas to all and have a good holiday!

[HelsSA]

Seafood lunch by the pool at my mother in laws followed by the best family secret pudding ever. Back to my mums to cook a bbq with my sister and her family. First time in 4 years that I'm not the hostess. woohoooo. Its going to be 32 degrees so should be great day for swimming.

[Podlettte]

Hey legs....

30 minutes later, now she remembers the feta!!

greek feta crumbled over the top, beetroot cut up and jelly all broken up with corriander or mint sprinkled over it all.

*sigh* my memory wasn't that bad!!

[chunky]

Man I am getting hungry!

[SnoWhite]

We usually start out healthy with cereal and a fruit platter of stuff like mangos, cherries, kiwi fruit, peaches, etc.

Champagne is opened as quickly as Aunty V and I can get away with. Nibblies are usually salted macadamias, cashews and brazil nuts.

Entree is seafood. This year it's freshly shucked oysters. Natural with a teensy squeeze of lemon for me, but the +1 will probably do a dozen or so kilpatrick. We also have prawns and smoked trout fished out of Lake Jindabyne.

Baked dinner will be turkey that has been stuffed with both seasoning and sausage mince, ham off the bone, roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin and parsnips. Steamed vegies will be carrots, beans, cauliflower and brussel sprouts. There will be lashings of gravy and cranberry sauce.

Desert is pudding, made by Aunty H quite some time ago now, with mince pies, custard and or cream and or ice-cream. I'm a custard fan myself. Might just make it from scratch this year.

We usually have fruit cake for afternoon tea. As for dinner........forget it....no room.

We always cook heaps more vegies than needed and on boxing day make a huge batch of bubble and squeek to be had with leftover meat and pickled onions.

Oh God.........can hardly wait!!!!!

[Polaris]

for us it will be a bit of seafood in the morning

[Polaris]

then a bit more nibbling on seafood throughout the day..........

[Polaris]

then a mid afternoon bbq pork roast........

[Polaris]

then a nanna nap................ ;)

[Polaris]

then some sweets............. :drool:

[karen97]

I am doing a heap of finger food this year and some fancy kebabs on the bbq.

[Xena]

Always too hot in Qld to do the hot food thing - usually have a cold cuts lunch, with ham, chicken or turkey, pork and prawns. One year it was so hot that all the lollies melted together and made a big, gooey, lolly-blob.

[ 23.12.2008, 11:53 PM: Message edited by: Xena. ]

[Polaris]

Never can tell down this way X until a few days out whether it will be 35c or snowing so decision was made a while again to go 1/2 and 1/2 ;) I think it will be good for that decision!!

[Polaris]

but the big, gooey, lolly bob sounds nice all the same ;)

[Xena]

Well we'll be in a unit on the beachfront - walk out to the beach at Broadie, pool, tennis court, ground floor unit, so should be relaxed for a change.

[Xena]

Boxing Day at MY parents - that's another thing altogether.

[Polaris]

and then 3 days later be in -20c ................
\brrrrrrrrrrrr ;)

[Polaris]

just finished marinating the lamb......... night all

[Xena]

Originally posted by Polaris:
and then 3 days later be in -20c ................
\brrrrrrrrrrrr ;) Hard to believe.....can't sleep....lucky Trailblazer is working till 12.30am, so I can stay up to go and pick him up. 14 yr olds doing 10 hr shifts past midnight, what's our commercialised world coming to?

[Legolas]

nighty night all,

Just putting a few finishing touches on everything.

Darling cupcake just woke up with a wet bed, so I get to strip that, wash and make it up again, only to return and find her curled up with Mr Legs on MY SIDE OF MYYYYYYY BED :mad:

Oh well, I could always fall asleep gazing at the christmas tree.

night

[spaz]

I don't know what we're doing!
I've been told to do some roast vegies and a chicken for lunch with the inlaws, dad came down yesterday with the Xmas ham he gives us every year. +1's done everything, I've just been working so much! including tonight!!

Boxing day is when it really happens - M&M's (Mum & Mario's), everyone gathers -family, extended family, friends, dogs, kids.. total chaos. We've been told to bring bread rolls- yipee, easy. Only I have to make it to work that evening, could be interesting as i haven't had a real nights sleep since the 20th and there's bound to be some vino, and beer, maybe spirits, a little sparkly too.