Ethos83

Over the next few weeks I intend to consume the following:

Arrive in London this weekend:
Dinner at Pearl Liang in PAddington. Chinese roast pork with crackling and fried pork dumplings. Gouging at the Borough market in the morning, mostly emporium and konditor mincemeat pies. Lunch at an Austrian bistro in the city with a sachertorte to follow. Cool crisp draft at a pub somewhere along with slices of aged English cheddar and chewy bread if I'm hungry. Dinner at the Harwood Arms (gastropub) in Fulham where I might order the wild rabbit and prune faggots with turnip puree and horn of plenty mushrooms followed with the Whole roast North Yorkshire Grouse with smoked bacon, watercress and brown bread sauce.

Then to Somerset......

My ma will do her fried chicken to welcome me home, along with a tart cherry tart with a dallop of creme fraiche or homemade custard (my all time favourite).

Then a week of rich stews, pastas and roasts fortified with plenty of booze and apertifs, which will be crowned with:

Standing rib roast
Yorkshire pud/popovers
creamed vegetables
Potatoes in goose fat
Roast parsnips
Christmas cake
Plum pudding
Brandy snaps
Cookies and cookies galore
Smoked salmon from the outer Hebrides
Smoked mackerel pate
Shrimp/prawn pate with cayenne pepper
Aged stilton
Oysters soup with crackers

And that's just the Eve.

I don't even want to think about what will go into my belly from the 25th onwards...

What are you eating for the Christmas holidays?

co durham boy

This year our Christmas will be spent in my wifes family home in Kent and i'm told on good authority that it's a Christmas Lunch of Dorset Longhorn Beef rib roast and a local Kentish Goose.

Followed by a trip to the North East where i'll sample local Northumberland Black pudding , freshly smoked haddock , crab from the bottom of the Harbour and best of all...North East fish and chips...the best on the planet...

Patsy Stoned

Moet/Clicquot/Taylors late bottled vintage and the occasional large glass of baileys

oktoberon

As above but some Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque with the ooccaional Remy XO very large

Meow

Very traditional lunch in my house:

Turkey (boned and stuffed wth my legendary home-made stuffing)
Chipolatas wrapped in bacon
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Brussel sprouts with lardons & chestnuts
Carrot puree
Peas
Gravy (home made)
Bread sauce (home made)
Cranberry relish (made by a friend)
Selection of good wines

Followed by my home made boozy apple and date cake, with ice cream

Served around 3.00pm, as we'll have had a late breakfast of bagels with cream cheese & lox, plus bucks fizz.

Bahtatboy

Turkey with all the trimmings, especially roast parsnips and sprouts with garlic.

More brandy butter than Christmas pud, and a selection of cheeses from Booths supermarket.

Mumm Cordon Rouge, fizzy red and some port.

And a decent cup or two of Yorkshire tea.

Ethos83

From the North?

Why is it people from the North seem to vastly outnumber people from the South in Dubai?

Bahtatboy

I'm not in Dubai and I'm not from the North (strictly speaking). And wherever I was from, part of the attraction of Yorkshire tea, made in Yorkshire, is the water: Londoner's seem to have The Thames coming out of their taps, in Suffolk if you use water straight from the tap for a cuppa, you have to scrape the shite off the top of the tea before you drink it, but in Yorkshire its fresh, clean, crisp and sparkling straight from the tap.

Ethos83

That, I won't argue with.

It's the reference to Booths.

Ethos83

Mmmm....hmmm....mmmm I love fruit cakes of all types. Finding a good fruit cake, any kind of fruity cake, when I lived in the US was a near-impossible mission.

Millhouse

From 6am onwards, I will be working my way through a tin of celebrations and a bottle of Baileys.

Bahtatboy

Fair enough

Millhouse

Maybe they like the sunshine...?

Ever noticed no matter where on earth you go on holiday you bump into a Geordie?

Bahtatboy

Really? I can get through about 6 celebrations (although my wife usually tries to wrestle the tin from me after the 3rd), but chocolate AND Baileys? Maybe its yesterday's Christmas party booze revisiting (we started at 1, finished at 1--food at the Intercon was barely passable), but that combination makes me feel distinctly queasy.

Jim Smith

Few come from further South than Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.

Unfortunately I haven't been home for Christmas since 1971!

However it's on my "to do" list after retirement!