Alternative Christmas Dinners.....?

[Gorvid]

Alternative Christmas Dinners.

Anyone doing anything different...?

I'm bored of turkey, goose or duck. I want a change.

[coolcatmaz]

Nice big piece of Roast Rib Beef

[Gorvid]

Good call.....I have a friend with a beef herd...

[Wadeski]

Couple of years ago I walked into my favourite butcher with £50, and ordered the best piece of beef he could get his hands on.

best christmas dinner ever. cooked super super slow at low temperature folllowing a Robert Carrier recipe.

the gravy made from an '80 claret that had sadly gone past drinking (even after half a day in a jug) was delicious too, even if i wept with every bite :|

[Desiato]

We are doing a ballantine with, Turkey, Goose, Duck and Chicken.

[sleep envy]

pheasant and partridge

[Plotloss]

Will be making, rather than buying, a nut roast this year (to go along with the normal turkey, I'm not gay like)

Leiths I am hoping will have a recipe, otherwise its a bag of stuffing and a pot of mixed peel.

[sleep envy]

Plotloss said:

Will be making, rather than buying, a nut roast this year

you've changed man

: shakeshead:

[Frik]

We're having pheasant here too this year.

Beef wellington's a winner too.

[Glassman]

sleep envy said:

pheasant and partridge

and, or? Both yummy.

[sleep envy]

both, there's quite a few of us and we're bored of turkey and capon

[Plotloss]

sleep envy said:

capon

You're a bit left for Islington arent you

(Thats geographically rather than politically, I'm not calling you a , honest)

[sleep envy]

take this the way it's intended

cluck off

[JulesV]

We went to a fish restaurant for Christmas lunch a couple of years ago, it was great and no bloody sprouts.

[CommanderJameson]

Lamb this year at Chez Jameson. Nice slow-roasted leg, boned and stuffed. Mashed and roast spuds, sprouts and carrots. No point over-doing things (I'm cooking for 4 and no-one has a particularly large appetite) so I'm working on the "leave plenty of room for beer" theory.

[dougc]

Venison at the dougc table this year. Stopped having turkey years ago. So boring.

[Podie]

Go for the chav option...

[i want an aero]

for years i used to go for a balti in birmingham on christmas day

[Furyous]

Just been to my favourite butcher and bought a 4.5lb carvery rib of beef for the two us on xmas day.

This is scotch beef, hung for 21 days.....

[bikerkeith]

A few years ago it was just the wife and myself for xmas dinner, so we agreed on beef. I found a pedigree longhorn, organic beef producer so phoned up and visited the farm. Not only did I find out the animal I would eat was called Craig, I met Craig's mother as well as numerous other members of the cattle family.

And it was magnificent! Wonderful what you can find on the web these days.

Just wait for the innuendo types to take the p!ss from my posting!