What will your main meal be on christmas day??

[Saluki]

Having read about the red cabbage thing, a few pages ago, I decided that I really fancied it.
Do I have a casserole dish with a tight lid? Do I hell. I do have a multi cooker though. So, shredded red cabbage, couple of Coxes, half a cup of mango (ran out of apples) couple of red onions all in the pot. Drizzled over some white wine vinegar with brown sugar, ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, little bit of garlic and pressed the ‘slow cook’ button. I found the recipe required in an old Delia book. She’s the safest pair of hand out there too. I am not sure you can go wrong with any of her recipes, and God knows, I have tried.

It will either be nice, or it won’t.

 

[Ian H]

 

[Illaveago]

Edible!

I hope !

 

[Dirk]

 

[Brads]

Some veggie delight that Mrs B is rattling up.
Stuck in with Covid so plans destroyed so we’re making the most of it and going all out with clean jammies on for dinner.

 

[Pale Rider]

Mine was to be the same as last year - a Burger King with my older brother at Wetherby services.

However, things went awry because the Burger King outlet was shut this year.

We had to resort to Costa in the shape of a Christmas lunch themed toastie.

It was marked as 'turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce', but also 'vegan', so I'm guessing the turkey wasn't turkey.

Brother thought it 'quite nice', I thought it slightly better than nothing.

Might have to hang the expense next year and book a restaurant, although we used to do that when my mother was alive and the results were best described as variable.

 

[PaulSB]

I didn't really think about our meal till lunchtime though I knew Mrs P had bought some ribeye steak. My Covid isolation means I've been alone all day while Mrs P visited the kids. By the time my dear lady got home I had rustled up:

Ribeye steak
Celeriac dauphinoise
Shredded sprouts with pancetta, onions pine nuts, lemon juice
Carrots in orange juice
Saute potatoes
Yorkshires - we always have them at Christmas

 

[Reynard]

Mine was to be the same as last year - a Burger King with my older brother at Wetherby services.

However, things went awry because the Burger King outlet was shut this year.

We had to resort to Costa in the shape of a Christmas lunch themed toastie.

It was marked as 'turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce', but also 'vegan', so I'm guessing the turkey wasn't turkey.

Brother thought it 'quite nice', I thought it slightly better than nothing.

Might have to hang the expense next year and book a restaurant, although we used to do that when my mother was alive and the results were best described as variable.

Why not take a picnic and just go buy a coffee? There's lots of festive food that can be packed in a hamper and eaten without too much fuss. A nice pork pie, sausage rolls, some cheese, a jar of chutney and some fresh crusty bread... And maybe a sack full of clementines...

 

[Pale Rider]

Why not take a picnic and just go buy a coffee? There's lots of festive food that can be packed in a hamper and eaten without too much fuss. A nice pork pie, sausage rolls, some cheese, a jar of chutney and some fresh crusty bread... And maybe a sack full of clementines...at

That would be an option, although the Whopper Meal was going to be a rare faff free treat - I doubt either of us has had one since last year.

None of this is haute cuisine, but I'm not mad on party food/snacks as a main meal.

At least my mild indigestion has now passed.

 

[Reynard]

That would be an option, although the Whopper Meal was going to be a rare faff free treat - I doubt either of us has had one since last year.

None of this is haute cuisine, but I'm not mad on party food/snacks as a main meal.

At least my mild indigestion has now passed.

A top quality pork pie is far too good to be classed as party food...

 

[Mike_P]

Traditional Christmas dinner done in half a hour and that's the frozen roast potatoes; 25 for the stuffing and pigs in blankets, 12 mins George Foreman Grille and kettle switched on for turkey breasts and saucepan of veg, 5 mins frozen Yorkshire pudding added to the potatoes, then gravy tub in the microwave.

 

[Salad Dodger]

We had turkey, stuffing balls, pigs in blankets, sprouts, cauliflower cheese, carrots, parsnips and roast potatoes. And Gravy.
But I was careful to only have a very small portion of each, so as not to hurt myself!

 

[Pale Rider]

A top quality pork pie is far too good to be classed as party food...

That's true, but it's still cold.

I've no objection to cold meat - left over beef or chicken is just as nice as hot, but I would prefer hot vegetables with it.

If my brother buys the Kia electric car he's thinking of, next year we could plug in a cooker because the car has a three pin socket which I'm told will produce enough amps to run high drain appliances.

 

[Juan Kog]

That's true, but it's still cold.

I've no objection to cold meat - left over beef or chicken is just as nice as hot, but I would prefer hot vegetables with it.

If my brother buys the Kia electric car he's thinking of, next year we could plug in a cooker because the car has a three pin socket which I'm told will produce enough amps to run high drain appliances.

🤔 But will he still have enough power to drive home after cooking lunch.

 

[Pale Rider]

🤔 But will he still have enough power to drive home after cooking lunch.

Thereby hangs a small tale.

Out of interest, upon arrival brother checked out the electric charging points at Wetherby.

All were occupied, and there was a shiny new electric Hyundai waiting to get on.

Thus were he to have arrived in the Kia he would have faced some inconvenience.

A nursing friend of mine has a Tesla, partly due to free charging for staff in the hospital car park.

She told me the infrastructure is still not there for electric car drivers who don't have her facility at work.

An opinion which seems to be borne out by brother's experience today.