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Diminuendo

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What are you really looking forward to tucking into this Christmas or have you already started?
I love all the fruit and veg thats available at this time of year. Local kale and baby turnips etc go great with Christmay Day dinner. Steaming mince pies with cream for pudding or do you prefer Christmas or Plum pudding?
I like all the extras that are on offer when visiting friends and family. Nuts and figs, yummy. It's a great time to pile on the pounds!

Whats the best Christmas tipple? I like a wee drop of Ginger Wine or a glass of bubbly.
 
A disease in the meat chain will kill you all
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Caj - I bought a bottle of Bolly today to start Christmas Day off! :D

I also love the sausagemeat/chestnut/cranberry stuffing best of Christmas Dinner I reckon - mmmmm.
 
It's a great time to pile on the pounds!
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DIM just WEIGHT!! for it babe don't start too soon, :o you'll be screaming just after that you can't get into this and that! and you need a new wardrobe of clothes...

And slimmers world will be oversubscribed too.......... :lol:

But yes without being egoistic I can have Christmas most days!! with regards food.

I am chief dish washer cleaner and cook and shopper etc etc etc

But its nice to see my granddaughters enjoying it with their new prezzies......
 
Pigs in blankets on a Christmas night buffet. I know, you can have them all year round but at Christmas they taste so much better.

I'm a Christmas pudding person, last year Tesco did a very nice Channel Island cream with Cointreau but they don't seem to have it this year.
 
steam your veg its a different taste even sprouts taste supurb, roast your parsnips though.................

S/L trust you to talk about stuffing.... :o :lol: actually I bought two pkts today on offer in TESCO'S.........
 
I'm a Christmas pudding person, last year Tesco did a very nice Channel Island cream with Cointreau but they don't seem to have it this year.
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Did you see the chap from Padstow (RICK??????) on the box last night they taste tested 7 Christmas puddings......

winner was

WAITROSE
2ND
M&S
3RD
ALDIE
:o :o :o
 
Give a thought to the starving kids in Africa whilst you're stuffing yourselves everyone. What you have spent on Christmas could feed a family for weeks.
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Dec 20 2005, 07:39 PM
I'm a Christmas pudding person, last year Tesco did a very nice Channel Island cream with Cointreau but they don't seem to have it this year.
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Did you see the chap from Padstow (RICK??????) on the box last night they taste tested 7 Christmas puddings......

winner was

WAITROSE
2ND
M&S
3RD
ALDIE
:o :o :o
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Merlin you got that completely wrong!

The winner was Aldi, second was Sommerfield & third was M&S. Rick Stein was horrified initially that he had taste tested the cheapest version as being the best but it goes to show you that often this is the case.

Triptych - I think I have seen Waitrose doing the cream version with Cointreau in it - at least I hope there is some left as I was intending to get some again.
 
Jinny I thought he had voted and they came 2nd?? I was half awake or half asleep tho; sowwy............ :P :D

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Pigs in blankets TRIP but there are so many varieties of this..............
 
Originally posted by jinnyj@Dec 20 2005, 08:45 PM
Triptych - I think I have seen Waitrose doing the cream version with Cointreau in it - at least I hope there is some left as I was intending to get some again.
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Thanks Jinny, problem is there's no Waitrose within miles of me. I suppose I could try making my own if I've any Cointreau left by then.
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Dec 20 2005, 07:39 PM
Did you see the chap from Padstow (RICK??????) on the box last night they taste tested 7 Christmas puddings......
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Enjoyed all his 'Food Hero' series and had looked forward to last nights Christmas special... bit of a let down I thought :rolleyes:

I, along with Mr Stein, also thought the scrawny looking cooked turkey was the orchard reared one... :shy:
 
Grand Marnier works just as well - mix it up with some double cream & put it on your Christmas Pudding (or most desserts) - mmmmm....
 
Well, Diminuendo, I have been warned :o My wife and I recently watched a film where the star is the love of Cheryls ( My wifes ) life, the actor in question, Johnny Depp ;) the film, Willie Wonker and the Chocolate factory, yes, quite a simple little story by R. Dahl but excellently put on the big screen by Tim Burton, Cheryl has told me she never, never, ever wants to watch this film again without the access to lots and lots of chocolate :lol: she has not so much given out hints, rather threats :( that she wants lots of boxes of black magic and Terry's all gold.

And to think one of our sons has purchased Pirates of The Caribbean for one of Cheryls Christmas presents, again the main character is none other than Johhny Depp :( so what am I supposed to do ? make sure she has bottles of rum a plenty :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Damn. Fanny Craddock and her green brandy butter studded with glacé fruits has disappeared (along with the trifle with added false eyelashes .. ) :ph34r:
 
I bought two packs of streaky bacon today to make my pigs in blankets and to roll around my stuffing of APRICOT & WALNUT for my Pork and CHESTNUT & CRANBERRY for my enormus Turkey breast :o 5.48 kilo grammes which I took out of the freezer at 2pm to cook on Saturday evening, was fresh but had to freeze it......
 
Originally posted by Muttley@Dec 22 2005, 07:35 PM
Damn. Fanny Craddock and her green brandy butter studded with glacé fruits has disappeared (along with the trifle with added false eyelashes .. ) :ph34r:
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:lol: I replied to that this morning so I'll just repeat myself again!

My eldest daughter is Fanny Craddocks biggest fan :huh: She saw one of her festive programmes a few years ago on UK Food and has been hooked on cookery programmes ever since. Fanny was cooking pheasants and she also made an orange trifle. Guess what we had to have for Christmas dinner that year? :brows: Whenever Fanny Craddock or Delia Smith are on telly all my girls will sit there in front of the telly transfixed :lol:
 
Humour's never quite the same when it is repeated but since the item I posted last night disappeared into cyber space I'll mention again...

... the time when Fanny (and Johnny) Craddock appeared on STV's tea-time journal to demonstrate how to make doughnuts. Afterwards, the host turned to the audience and said, totally straight-faced (which might have been an act), "Why don't you try that at home, and let's hope your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's."
 
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But weren't they hilarious - intentionally or not? Old Fanny looked like she'd been embalmed for years, while poor old Johnny was, or acted, the put-upon, nagged, and humiliated idiot sidekick. I'd love to have seen Fanny and Barbara Cartland together on the same show. The make-up girl would've had a major run on false lashes and turquoise eye shadow. And didn't Fanny Fannackerpants always dress in the MOST absurd frocks? Jewellery everywhere, and those long, painted claws digging away at the dough looked very unsanitary. And then sometimes she'd lick her fingers before going on to something else. A Health & Safety nightmare, and all the more camp fun for it.
 
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