christmas dinner

[Lady E]

has anyone had an earlier christmas celebration than me?

because we are going away for a month next week and are missing UK christmas (hooray!) we had a full christmas dinner at our house last night for the staff of red design. smoked salmon, turkey etc, christmas pudding, mince pies, crackers and presents.

also suprise guests in the shape of kieran hebden and dan manitoba. which was nice.

ive only just finished cleaning up.

[decadnids]

surely it cant be called christmas dinner?

[Lady E]

why not?

[decadnids]

Originally posted by emma
why not?

because it is not christmas
hmm but then i guess, on reading your post and ignoring the title of the post you do say a christmas celibration, which could be allowed, as long as you did celibrate the birth of little baby jesus.

[V Knid esq]

Well given that Jesus's actual birthday is supposed to be in April or something, I reckon you could celebrate it whenever you want - as long as you don't end up like that freaky child-frightning bloke beloved of uninspired local news reporters who 'loves christmas so much' that he celebrates it every day and eats turkey for every meal.

Don't we have to learn to refer to Mr Snaith as Dan Caribou or something nowadays?

[decadnids]

it was thanks giving yesterday tho. for the americans out there.

[Orang Utan]

I had Santa a month early once cos we were going to stay in New Zealand for a couple of months and my parents couldn't convince us that Santa would be able to get to all the way to NZ on Xmas Eve from the North Pole (my dad told us he had a hatch he slid down which went through the centre of the earth, but were sceptical). We even wrote him a letter and got a reply that he would make an early delivery specially for us.

[decadnids]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
Well given that Jesus's actual birthday is supposed to be in April or something, I reckon you could celebrate it whenever you want

tis true, but considering christmas is a christian thing (well nowaday's really a capitalist / consumer thing) the dates been set. innit.

but hey i was only being a nob :) and splitting hairs.

[darrell]

Originally posted by emma
has anyone had an earlier christmas celebration than me?

we had a full christmas dinner at our house last night

.

earlier i had one all most a year ago nowlol

[thomas hooked]

Originally posted by emma
has anyone had an earlier christmas celebration than me?

because we are going away for a month next week and are missing UK christmas (hooray!) we had a full christmas dinner at our house last night for the staff of red design. smoked salmon, turkey etc, christmas pudding, mince pies, crackers and presents.

also suprise guests in the shape of kieran hebden and dan manitoba. which was nice.

ive only just finished cleaning up.

you total joliver

[Lady E]

Originally posted by thomas hooked


you total joliver

thats not fair. my tongue is normal size and there was no camera crew present.

[thomas hooked]

ostentatious display of gastronomic generosity check. sleb friends check. relaxed attitude to tidying check.
joliver.

[Lady E]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
ostentatious display of gastronomic generosity check. sleb friends check. relaxed attitude to tidying check.
joliver.

relaxed attitude to tidying up? i was slaving at it from 8.30 am. cheek.

[V Knid esq]

'Joliver'... what a boke-inducing word!


Sorted lovely jubbly cushty *boke-arama*

When we went to Marrakesh a while ago, blokes from the food stall in the market would run up going "top nosh! lovely jubbly!"... I hope the Joliver cancer hadn't spread that far and they were just being generic cockernee.

[thomas hooked]

i cannot claim credit. it is from the Parker Tapes

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by emma
has anyone had an earlier christmas celebration than me?

because we are going away for a month next week and are missing UK christmas (hooray!) we had a full christmas dinner at our house last night for the staff of red design. smoked salmon, turkey etc, christmas pudding, mince pies, crackers and presents.

also suprise guests in the shape of kieran hebden and dan manitoba. which was nice.

ive only just finished cleaning up.

I love Christmas dinners - I try to have as many as I can, I love cooking them too. The more dinners the merrier in my opinion...

Hey, Emma, don't you mean Dan Caribou - you wanna be careful you could get him into trouble... :)

[JonnySpeed]

Did you cook and do all the cleaning-up!?

Emma, I'd be helping you with the washing up ... and it is Christmas Dinner, if the night was to celebrate Christmas!

No veggie options? Well I ain't comming next year ;)

[thembuzz]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
When we went to Marrakesh a while ago, blokes from the food stall in the market would run up going "top nosh! lovely jubbly!"... I hope the Joliver cancer hadn't spread that far and they were just being generic cockernee.

i wouldn't worry about it. probably 'only fools & horses' exports

[Lady E]

Originally posted by JonnySpeed
Did you cook and do all the cleaning-up!?

Emma, I'd be helping you with the washing up ... and it is Christmas Dinner, if the night was to celebrate Christmas!

No veggie options? Well I ain't comming next year ;)

thanks jonny. there was nut roast for me, the lone vegetarian. and my boyfriend cooked it all so i didnt mind cleaning up.

[pille'ocheoni]

thanksgiving rocked. fake everything.

[bencodec]

i'm with you pille! I even had soy pie!

[Loz]

We've decided to ditch the turkey this year, as it's crap. We're going for goose instead.

[JE:5]

I think i'm going for an indian meal this year :)

[JonnySpeed]

Originally posted by emma


thanks jonny. there was nut roast for me, the lone vegetarian. and my boyfriend cooked it all so i didnt mind cleaning up.

good old nut roast.

Christmas Dinner is generallly a strange one for veggies - mainly cos veggie food isn't really just the vegatables and a meat substitue - its generally pasta or rice with a full of flavour vegetable dish. Most meat eaters don't do anything with the vegetables but put salt, herbs and butter on them

I find meat eaters (especially the mum & dad kind) don't like you making a curry or such, because it 'smells'. Personally the smell of Turkey cooking makes me feel ill and ruins my meal.

[pille'ocheoni]

Originally posted by bencodec
i'm with you pille! I even had soy pie!

yeah ben it was awesome, i go up to raleigh every yr for a vegan thanksgiving. unturkey, tofurkey, pies, casoroles, stuffing, all the common foods as well as curry stuff, and soups. it was a vegan feast, then we all got drunk, and woke up 20 hours later. it was nice

[bencodec]

ahhh, my mums incapable of cooking food for less then 12 people at a time (and there are only 4 of us) so it really was a mental feast.

[Goonie]

talking of early christmas antics me and my sister put the christmas tree up in october once and got shouted at by my mum, we were about 18 and 21 at the time.

reading this thread brings back memories of me and virus having two full christmas meals in one day once by two separate mums, it was a right vicar of dibley affair, got to the point where the booze just took no effect at all, i don't recommend this.

[Mui]

I'm having christmas dinner on the 10th, 18th and 25th this year....3 weeks in a row. 3 different partys. I'll be the size of a barn after new years if this keeps up

[scott confusion]

i have to go for xmass dinner with my new team in work.. i really cant be arsed cos there all twats, however im still on probation so i have to go or they will think im not being a team worker all that bollocks.
fuck man its a karoke night aswell, bastards!

[JonnySpeed]

lol...

tell them you are going then pull a sicky the day before for 3-4 days.

teach 'em for making you do 'team' bollocks

[Scoz]

Or pretend to have a killer cold and "lose" your voice, so even if you go you won't have to do the karoke crap.

[thembuzz]

Originally posted by JonnySpeed


good old nut roast.

i fucking hate nut roast

[Hagbard]

I always used to cringe for my cousin, the only vegetarian in my family.. every year she would pretend that she was content with the same shitty nut roast she got every year.. cos that was the most imaginative turkey substitute my parents or aunt/uncle could come up with...

[JE:5]

Can't go wrong with a quorn roast though. I always find nut roast too dry.

[Hagbard]

All my vegetarian and Vegan friends go nuts when I mention Quorn. they start whispering conspiracy theories about how its actually made from orphaned childrens hair or something.

[thembuzz]

the shit i've been fed by well-meaning but ignorant meaters! nut roast/cutlets, creamed broccoli in filo pastry, carrot supreme, hi-vegetable ponce surprise, death by cheese... jesus... GIVE ME A FUCKING SAINSBURY'S MEAT-FREE BURGER AND GIVE ME ONE NOW! just because i don't eat meat doesn't mean i don't want to eat stuff that tastes exactly like meat! and barbecues, they're a minefield. "i've got some linda mccartney sausages for you, buzz. that alright?" honestly! linda mac sausages! for a barbecue! madness!

yeah, quorn roast is always good for a posh dinner

[nikrem]

we usually have all our (slightly well-known idm) friends over for baby jesus-shaped rissoles.

[johnny]

we usually have a large family gathering at my fokes place or my aunt's. It usually involves a traditional greek xmas feast of lamb cooked on the spit, souvlaki, baby octopus, prawns, oysters, dips, salads etc. This year where going away coz my sis has been living in london for 4 years so mum wants to just have our family togeth. So where going up the coast to blueys beach in one car (no escaping). Bush fires tend to occur around xmas time and i've got the feeling fires will spring up along the pacific hwy around blueys beach whilst where there. The freeways close due to the fires and i get stuck at blueys beach for nye with a bunch of shark fuckers!
Last year i saw jamie lidell for nye, dunno what's on here yet, hopefully i make it back in sydney though.

[Lady E]

nut roast can be lovely, all depends. get a fresh one from waitrose or a cashew one from a health food store or make your own.

i dont do substitute meat products much anymore, certainly avoid quorn and very rarely have the sausages and burgers.

they are highly processed and full of bad fats etc.

actually since growing up i always liked the vegetables best, so i would be pretty happy with just the roast vegetables and parsnips and all the other veg.

[wheezer]

for years I wanted to celebrate mexican christmas, which was basically just my idea of mixing the flair of a tex-mex restaurant with christmas, i.e. everybody wears ponchos, plastic cactuses with little lights in them hanging all around, christmas piñata, and of course the whole range of mexican food to eat.

sadly, my parents would never budge on this matter so 2 years ago I arranged my own mexican christmas with my sister; we built a 7-legged donkey piñata and had a shitload of friends over, made a giant minced meat nacho dip and got well pissed. best mexican christmas ever.

[grobelaar]

I love making vegetarian roasts - On the contrary I don't think the meat eaters have it too flavoursome either - roasts dinners are very simple wholesome food - it's all about the spread and the of course the gravy - I love gravy - my roast dinner has to litterally be setting sail for the other side of the world. I really hate it when you go into a restaurant and you get a roast with a drizzle of gravy on it and when you ask for more they give you a tiny jug with some gravy in it - I usually feel like going a bit Bob Hoskins at this point...

But any way I love stuffing, to be honest I came to the conclusion that vegetarian roast dinners are like making 3 or 4 different types of stuffing - nut roast - is really just another type of stuffing. Of course I mean unstuffed stuffing - but most people cook it like that these days anyway.

I'm a sucker for those nice vegetarian sausages, last year we got some of that fake bacon and made veggie 'pigs in blankets' - but yeah I think they are full of bad (hydrogenated) fat because they give me a bad stomach and I seem to be getting increasingly sensitive to these things.

[GodDog]

i love xmas food,. my mum gets Bernard mathews geometric chicken. It looks perfect, tastes like swarfega. We pull a cracker, put on a hat, tell the joke, my dad pretends he's found a 20 pound note in the christmas pudding even thought we all saw him put it in. Then we open presents, my brother acts like the elf to hand them out. dog gets jelous he hasnt got anything, so i try to buy him a selection pack. mince pie. then i go for a long walk get in and we have a light tea, my dad puts on some Jungle Classics, mum gets out the Dyson hoover i eat the fruit pastells u get in a tube, just like the ones u used to get at the Cinema, much better than the packet one i reckon.

[kams]

Originally posted by Goonie
talking of early christmas antics me and my sister put the christmas tree up in october once and got shouted at by my mum, we were about 18 and 21 at the time.

Haha! I love stuff like that.

[thembuzz]

Originally posted by emma
i dont do substitute meat products much anymore, certainly avoid quorn and very rarely have the sausages and burgers.

they are highly processed and full of bad fats etc.

surely that's the point..?