what was your christmas dinner ?

Sunday: Piri piri chicken, pork ribs, salad on doorsteps of Portuguese bread.. No plates, plastic cups of fresh red wine... Under a tarpaulin tent, with 14 friends at the monthly gipsy market. Back to ours, for medronho, ( fire water) mousse and more wine, Xmas cake and cheese... A Yorkshire speciality.

Monday" Prawns, BBQ sausages and mash, vegetables.. Cake, booze 4 hours of wrinkly mayhem, amongst the expats.
Today: 4 more hours,in the village greasy spoon. 18 of us... Octopus salad, roast baby new potatoes, great chunks of roast lamb with sweet potatoes, carrots onions. Sharon fruit Christmas cake.. Cheese .booze, coffee,brandy... Siesta.

Oooh we're stuffed.

Handful of nuts and figs for tea.
On the diet again, till New Year.
 
An Italian platter from asda meats cheeses olives after a smoked salmon and egg breakfast all in the van pub was only open for drink but that was welcome
Van life eh wouldnā€™t have it any other way though
 
Pauljenny said:
Sunday: Piri piri chicken, pork ribs, salad on doorsteps of Portuguese bread.. No plates, plastic cups of fresh red wine... Under a tarpaulin tent, with 14 friends at the monthly gipsy market. Back to ours, for medronho, ( fire water) mousse and more wine, Xmas cake and cheese... A Yorkshire speciality.

Monday" Prawns, BBQ sausages and mash, vegetables.. Cake, booze 4 hours of wrinkly mayhem, amongst the expats.
Today: 4 more hours,in the village greasy spoon. 18 of us... Octopus salad, roast baby new potatoes, great chunks of roast lamb with sweet potatoes, carrots onions. Sharon fruit Christmas cake.. Cheese .booze, coffee,brandy... Siesta.

Oooh we're stuffed.

Handful of nuts and figs for tea.
On the diet again, till New Year.
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hardly surprising !!!!
 
Mine was a ham salad followed by a muller light yoghurt.at least I wasn't stuffed this year.
 
I broke with any tradition this year, Rolled belly of pork on onions, roast pots cabbage and carrots...used the onions then to make a gravy with the meat juices. That's it !! Leon the hound all of a sudden my best mate, playfighting over scratchings. That was it no starter or dessert.

After I had finished I got a phone call, and a neighbour said "your dinner is outside !" She is as barking as I am had done the full turkey pork stuffing pigs etc so had that yesterday which meant dragging the microwave out first time used one in about 2 years !

Anyway today I have a bit of cabbage left over, so going all veggie and having a cabbage Matar a curry with peas

Channa
 
good few pints in the pub the 5 course indian for 15 quid main was turkey vindaloo all yummy and some leftover for boxing day breakfast.

Gimbo done and dusted.
 
11 of us 3 grandchildren
starter melted camembert ciabata bread ,
12llb cockerel (jan saw a Delia prog where she raised the skin on the breast of a turkey and filled with sausage meat my job) pork loin & crackling, roast pots, brussels shredded fried with bacon and creamed (still canā€™t eat em) broccoli, carrots and beans,
pud was trad xmas pud, toffee bombe , madagascan vanilla custard and baileys cream
a good 5 hours before someone mentioned the cheeseboard
 
After 2 years having rib of beef, we went back to traditional.

After Champagne starters we had an Aldi Premium Free Range Bronze Turkey with cranberry sauce, all the usual trimmings, chestnut stuffing, all washed down with bottles of Cote de Blaye.

The Xmas pud was well matured, made by Marguerite 3 years ago, this was eaten with home-made brandy butter.

Copious amounts of Spanish brandy were consumed after the meal.

Then Collapso!
 
. Argentinean king prawns cooked in garlic and parsley butter, followed by whole sea bass baked in sea salt and asparagus, washed down with champagne, to finish Mont Blanc, espresso and old armanac. :cheers::cheers::cheers:
 
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Soup Turkey ham sprouts roasted potatoes parsnips all washed down with 2 bottles of 18 year old extremely rare single malt beer champagne more beer all the family 3 day job. Itā€™ll take till Easter to get back to normal.šŸŗšŸŗ
 
Not quite sure when Christmas day started as we flew to Thailand Christmas Eve. Got an upgrade (free) to business class so had champagne, lobster bisque, chicken breasts in a sauce, loads of wine and Christmas cheesecake desert. How the other half live!!! Back to economy for next seven hours and had plastic plates etc of something pretty boring. Arrived in time for BBQ whole fish stuffed with herbs and lemon grass with various veg, which I think was Christmas meal? . Our luggage ( got left iby emirates in Dubai) finally arrived at midnight. Now on Koh Chang and yet to decide what we will eat for main meal! About 6am in UK now and understand you are having a cold snapšŸ˜” . Pleasant breeze here and sunshine šŸ˜‚.
 
chilli haddock big fish finger chips broad beans and yogurt for desert well alpro dairy free as can have cow juice and a bottle of becks blue usual time 4ish
 
Mahoosive red deer haunch with all the trimmings.Smoked salmon tae start with fresh lochfynne langostines,scallops and home made mayo, yum yum yum.
 
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