The rest of my family seem to turn my nose up at me because I find turkey immensely dry and I'm not a major gravy fan

Nevertheless I shall be munching on roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and stuffing to name a few

How could OP miss stuffing

>>2834

OP here, I hate sage and onion stuffing although sausage meat stuffing is acceptable. Inb4 sexual inuendo.

Pork and beef, honey-roast parsnips with parmesan, sprouts (I actually love sprouts) with pancetta, garlicky roasties, pigs in blankets, chestnut stuffing, sausagemeat stuffing, peas, and shitloads of gravy.

All with family awkwardness and paper hats a go-go. Love it.

>>2840
>honey-roast parsnips with parmesan
is the recipe at
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/vegetarian/honeyed-roast-parsnips-and-carrots-with-parmesan-recipe_p_1.html
similar to how you make it?

>All with family awkwardness
yes, but masturbating in my old bedroom brings back such sweet memories that it is worth it

>>2847
Pretty much. I tend not to use recipes, but that's essentially how I cook my parsnips. I cut them a bit smaller than the pic though, and roast for a shorter amount of time.

Told my ma to give them a try one year and now she's hooked. Same with the pancetta. Nom.

My family always foregoes Christmas dinner in favour of a buffet of treats for us to pick at over the course of a couple of days. It usually has a roast ham and some absolutely top grade roast beef (a sirloin, commonly) thrown in there for sandwiches. We'll load up a cheeseboard and make lots and lots of little snacky foods - sausage rolls, mini scotch eggs (from quail's eggs), pigs in blankets, little kebabs of varying type and so on.

We all greatly prefer our tradition to the proper tradition. My brother and I are quite fond of cooking, so we see it as a tremendous excuse to make all the little things we fancied trying over the year but didn't get around to making.

>>2851
That's really cool. My ma traditionally does a buffet for Christmas Eve or New Year. I like them for the very same reasons you do. Especially for the being able to add to it yourself, which comes in handy when your mother rages anytime you go near the kitchen when she's in there, so I get to cook bits at home and take them over.

I'm living with my parents at the moment (THE SHAME) so we'll be having the traditional turkey and trimmings as cooked by my dad, who spends literally a couple of days preparing it. Can't fucking wait if I'm honest, it's always the best meal of the year.

I love sprouts. But understand there is no point trying to argue with others about it.

>>2856

I don't think I've ever eaten a sprout. They have such a frightful reputation that loads of people seem not to bother. I might give them a shot this year, it seems a silly thing not to have tried.

Something similar to >>2851, but we have a proper sit down at 2pm dinner, (dinner is usually at 6/7pm when I'm at home), with turkey and millions of vegetables. Beef, ham, sausage rolls etc. are for later and Boxing Day and all the days after until New Years.

I'm jewish

>>2865

Two bacon rolls coming right up!

I've known some Jews who ate them. I suppose they aren't all too fussed about it in modern times.

I'll go with a little of everything this year. Mostly savoury and with a turkey for centre. It shall not be dry.

>>2867
I am also a vegetarian

>>2868

Christ on a bike. Why are you even here? I can't imagine the misery you and your taste buds go through. It can only be a matter of time before you kill yourself, presumably around the time of the endless Christmas feasts.

>>2868

Please tell me you're the resident communist lesbian vegan feminist pot smoking student.

I'd love to be able to add Jewish to that list.

Normally I'm not a fan of Parsnips but ... Parsnips and Parmesan ... sort of do want.

>>2871
I'm quite certain she isn't Jewish. And how dare you associate pot smoking with the rest of those labels.

>>2876 Right, why is that again?

>>2871

No, I am the resident communist lesbian vegan feminist pot smoking student, except I'm 50/50 on the chicks and I enjoy meat a lot. I'm almost certainly too poor to be Jewish. Thank you.

>>2877
Many right wing people smoke pot. There's no reason fiscal conservatism should be linked to a fear and loathing of drugs.

>>2880

They weren't linking the two, merely stating that I both smoke pot and hold extreme-left political views.

Sausage.

Mash.

Stuffing.

Assorted Vegetables.

Any time spent with my family always culminates in an argument between someone or other to the extent that I now despise christmas. I shan't be attending the family gathering.

>>2942

:( You should try and find some equal-minded mates and set up your own gathering.

I cook for me and the missus every Xmas day after our traditional afternoon walk in nearby countryside by a canal.

We have a Quorn roast thing with parsnips, spouts, roast taters and lotsa gravy and wash it down by attempting to drink the whole case of Lidl lager that my lovely barmy uncle gets us every year.

I'd like to say its about one thing on the plate.
But last year my aunt and uncle cooked for our family, she's bulgarian so there was a few twists in there.
The whole lot was bloody epic.

Whats everyones usualy plan of the day, food wise?
Our family has usually always had champagne and orange juice for breakfast. Served with cold meats - salmon, pate, toast, etc. All light stuff.
This is usually around 11am, which sets the day up for drinking from then on in.
The main christmas meal is usually at around 4 in the afternoon, then drinking carrys on from then till the wee hours of boxing day.

this christmas I'll wake up around 11, make some coffee and go online for a couple of hours, pot noodle for brekkie, then I will have a microwavable birdseye roast dinner and a few bottles of stella while watching doctor who on tv.

Then I'll go to the pub

>>2951
Yeah but it'll still feel warm and jolly and christmassy inside and cold outside and you'll be happier for the fact it's christmas.

Aldi are doing turducken for a tenner. So whilst I don't think thats going to be my christmas dinner I'm definitely going to buy one. Though I'm still trying to get the mrs to let me get a goose.

Christmas dinner 2007. Cheap waste food from the M&S where I worked. Best fucking Christmas ever.

>>2969
I once managed to buy the entire meal from M&S from Christmas Eve in the afternoon, same. It was one of my best Xmas's. I think I spent the entire day alone though, that might have made it.

>>2969 That looks delicious. Dunno if I'd choose it over a Christmas roast... Did you have a Maryrose sauce? that would be the deciding factor.

>>2971
Oh, I can't bloody remember... the fish was probably the starter I think, while the turkey was in the oven.

>>2969
Looks like a bomb went off in iceland.

The scally supermarket. Not the country.

I'm not sure I could ever fully trust a man who didn't like gravy.

Bump.

>>2830

Spoke to parents today and apparently we're having goose this year :)

>Spoke to parents today and apparently we're having goose this year :)
We had goose last year and it was found lacking in most respects to the usual turkey. It produces a huge amount of fat but very little jelly in the dripping, which is a shame because the jelly is where the taste is. This means all the post-christmas niceties like fried bread (my god I love that shit), bubble and squeek, soup etc lacked the important, most tasty addition. I'm not particularly fussed on the meat either when compared with turkey.

Don't get me wrong, a goose is still a fine bird for christmas, but report here after the fact and state your preference. Either is superior to chicken or duck, that much is a given.

>>3246
I respectfully disagree. Chicken is too mundane to be a suitable Christmas bird, but duck can be prepared sublimely (cooking time and OCD basting are requirements, though). Don't get me wrong: I love goose, but putting down the humble duck just because a single bird won't serve the family is heresy: Make 3/4duck per person and all end up happy, with much more carving fun and more wings, legs, breasts, skin etc. to go around.

Duck's too dark for my taste. I'd go with goose over it for sure, regardless of volume.

Skin though, mmmmh... god I fucking love this time of year.

I will be sitting in my flat alone, drinking Gaymers cider and eating bacon, scrambled egg, sausages, beans and toast.

Sometimes I love the fact that I have managed to alienate every single person I know to the point that I actually get some peace and quiet one day a year.

My grandmother is making a turducken this year - I have tried it before, but it was made then in a postmodern and ironic way so I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to enjoy it or not. My grandmother is making it simply because she is insane, so I'm sure it'll be wonderful. Aside from that she is making her chicken and a couple of turkeys stuffed with a family-secret recipe (yes we still have that sort of thing) so I'm looking forward to that with lashings of fat laden gravy, honey roast parsnips, walnut and bacon tossed sprouts, stuffing balls, sausage balls, and all the related veggies like carrots and broccoli and peas and of course GOOSE FAT ROAST POTATOES.

You might be wondering how you could prepare so much food, including four large birds (well technically six). My grandparents live in a converted farmhouse, and their only neighbours live in two other nearby farm buildings. For as long as I remember my grandmother has used all three ovens to make the food, and everybody, three families worth of people, including extended relatives, has gathered at my grandparents house, in their oversized living/dining room that was originally a barn, to have a massive christmas feed up/piss up that will pretty much last until New Years. Christmas day is where most of the craic is, though, and it truly is my favourite day of the year because of it. You can't help but stand back and look and compare the scene to some sort of schmaltzy Christmas card. It's wonderful. I only wish the rest of my life was nearly as idealistic as that.

You might also wonder how one woman can cook so much food, and so do I, but she does.

>>3095
Oi, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? That's expensive lobster, that is. Well, expired reduced lobster.

I've started defrosting my nut roast.

Soup, prawn cocktail, turkey dinner, bunch of desserts

Also lots of starters and nibbles.

and cake

and so the excess continues, lobster for dinner tonight...

>>3309

I just had left over christmas dinner for dinner tonight :3

I eat considerably less at this time of year; I get my pleasures from hearing people in clothes shops complain that they can no longer fit into their usual trouser waist size.

A fist-sized portion should be enough for anyone, if you train yourself to get used to it for a couple of days ;).

>>3311

Clearly you miss the point of christmas.

>>3311

>A fist-sized portion should be enough for anyone, if you train yourself to get used to it for a couple of days ;)

fnaaarrrrr

also, I eat what I like and stay the same size, though I'm also not a gorger, I tend to eat what I need and then stop.

>>3311
Fist-sized portion of what?

>>3315

Naaga infused lard.