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Start here => Games => Topic started by: Lestat on December 25, 2018, 07:29:30 PM
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So what did you have for xmas dinner?
Me, started with a tray of nibbles and beer, basically a box with mixed pretzel style stuff in it that one nibbles handfuls of whilst pouring beer down one's neck. Pretzels, pretzel sticks, other kind of pretzel sticks, something like those whassitcalled....twiglets, thats the one, plus various mini crackers.
Beef curry, rice, naan breads, xmas pudding and custard, then xmas cake and stilton cheese.
After sleeping off a stomach full of grub, plus the effect of the beer kinda going to my head a bit what with the anticonvulsant meds (chlormethiazole interacts with alcohol, have to be pretty careful, since it's good at finishing people off too in OD, I know my limits though, but a fair few beers, pain meds, etc. all combined together, not in a bad way mind you.), slept in pretty nicely. Woke up not long ago.
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I had beef jerky, blaze flaming doritos, a couple slices of pizza, and chocolate chip cookies.
Sparking water to drink. I would drink beer but can't because of an operation I have to get in the morning
Basically, the food was all I looked forward to this years. Christmas always sucks, never enough money and too many bills to pay. :laugh:
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Agreed, Christmas does suck. I had a bbq and food coma'ed too but after waking i madeva small pasta meal for my daughter and i later incghe evening
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I had pasta and cheese.
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I had lots of salad - pasta salad with sun-dried tomatoes and vegetables, potato salad and Mum's regular lettuce, tomato, cheese cubes, boiled egg halves and Italian dressing salad. My sister cooked lasagna perfectly, I had two helpings of that. Had some chicken and ham as well.
Dessert was strawberry ice cream and a big piece of cheesecake. I didn't quite get to food coma status but I still left early so I could get home and relax properly.
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My Christmas dinner will happen on Friday with my siblings. 8)
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B'fast = one buttered biscuit with a slice of ham
Lunch = boiled shrimp and sushi
Dinner = nothing
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This year we had pumpkin and Brussel sprouts and fried eggs at a table in a park while we waited for our hotel to have our room ready. Then some really nice ice cream at the beach. Kids were still hungry in the evening so we took them for burgers.
When not on a road trip it's normally turkey with forcemeat stuffing. Gluten free bread used for the stuffing. Roast potatoes and pumpkin and orange sweet potato. brussel sprouts. And pavlova for dessert with mango and pineapple and passionfruit.
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Sprouts? ew, jesus.
There is nothing on earth, that could make me eat one of those filthy, abominable abuses of all that is natural, wholesome and good. Brussels sprouts are not a food, they are a noxious disease, which needs extirpating, like the WHO did, in their massive campaign to wipe smallpox off the face of the earth.
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My wife grew up eating a lot of green vegetables and rice. She loves Brussels sprouts. I cook them in salty water until tender and then drain and toss with butter. If they are in season and cheap sometimes dinner is just a kilo of sprouts between us.
As a kid I learned never to say I disliked any food. I would be force fed mountains of that food until I stopped complaining about it. I had to chug a big glass of literally rotten coconut water once because I said it was yucky. So maybe I adjusted to eating foods that most kids hate. Broccoli and sprouts are my favourite vegetables.
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We splurged a little, but still kept it simple. My wife bought a fourteen pound prime rib eye roast and slow roasted it in the oven. Not much else, but come fresh broccoli to steam up and she made a massive bowl of mashed potatoes and bought some Hawaiian rolls. Made gravy from some of the drippings from the meat.
We have been eating so much pork and chicken lately, my wife wanted to make something special. Oh YEAH! I wanted to smoke it on my outdoor grille and the weather was perfect for such, but NO way I was taking that awesome piece of beef away from her.
She deserved all the credit!
We all love our bloody red beef.
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Sprouts? ew, jesus.
There is nothing on earth, that could make me eat one of those filthy, abominable abuses of all that is natural, wholesome and good. Brussels sprouts are not a food, they are a noxious disease, which needs extirpating, like the WHO did, in their massive campaign to wipe smallpox off the face of the earth.
Let me give you my address. Send them on over.
BTW - The PR doesn't like them either.
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Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and maple glazed carrots.
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There were no sprouts at our Christmas lunch.
When I was in hospital in 2013, sprouts were served at one dinner time. I thought that maybe my taste has changed since I was a kid because I didn't like sprouts then. Nope, I don't like them at all even now. I gave it a try though.
Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and maple glazed carrots.
Your place must have smelled amazing.
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As noted elsewhere, we have yet to cook our Christmas Dinner, but when we do, it will a close to traditional as possible for a gluten-free, corn-allergic (etc) vegan.
We'lll have Walkie's Awesome Nut Roast of course. Nope, I don't have an oven, anymore, as some might have spotted fronm other posts, but I do have a big combination microwave , so it can cook in there
And sprouts. yes, sprouts. we both really like sprouts. I usually pre-cook them , then saute the cooked sprouts along with finely chopped garlic and flaked almonds, then smother the results in chopped parsley. This year I thought I'd try substituting chestnuts for the almonds because chestnuts are more traditional; besides which there was a two-for one offer on 'em *grin * . I used to saute them in a mixyure of butterand olive oil before I became dairy intolerant. I now make do with olive oil and/or some kind of vegan spread .
And roast [potatoes and roast parsnips They can be done in the micrwave too! though it might get a bit overcrowded .
And stuffing. I used to get Mrs Crimbles gluten-free sage and onion stuffing mix. . Dead simple! but the manufacturer has suddenly started putting corn starch in it. So have all the other manufacturers . Grr. So I've bought some "rice breadcrumbs. "The other ingredients are things that I always have in stock anyway. So it's make-my-own-stuffing from here on. And hope it turns out alright.
And vegan gluten-free gravy, which I always make to my own recipe anyways, throwing extra stuff in which i can't normally be arsed with (finely grated carrots, onions and sprouts) to make it extra special at christmas . The essential ingredient is loads of yeast extract- that gives it the "meaty" taste- then herbs (pasrley, thyme, rosemary usually) and some kind of thickener- I used to use cornflour, but lately i'm finding that a mixture of rice flour and xanthan gum works quite nicely. :)
Preparing that lot would totally wear me out before i was halfway finished, these days, but Christmas is one time when I can always count on my son's help in the kitchen :)
Back when used to houseful for Christmas dinner, I used to also throw in a dish of baby broad beans in tomato ,mustard and basil sauce, which complements the other stuff nicely, but that's rather too much nowadays, especially with reduced amenities!
Even back then , i was cack-handed and disorganised and would wind up with sprout peelings, sauce splashes etc all over the kitchen. My favourite compliment ever came from one Christmas Dinner guest who said "Who would guess that something so delicious would emerge from such chaos?" :)
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Me, started with a tray of nibbles and beer, basically a box with mixed pretzel style stuff in it that one nibbles handfuls of whilst pouring beer down one's neck. Pretzels, pretzel sticks, other kind of pretzel sticks, something like those whassitcalled....twiglets, thats the one, plus various mini crackers.
Beef curry, rice, naan breads, xmas pudding and custard, then xmas cake and stilton cheese.
wow! you don't have a problem with gluten then, i guess :D
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We had lunch. Turducken (basically a roast roll of turkey, duck and chicken meat, only sold at Aldi), roast vegies, ham, then prawns later in the afternoon.
7 beers, which I think is a daily record for me :P
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We had lunch. Turducken (basically a roast roll of turkey, duck and chicken meat, only sold at Aldi), roast vegies, ham, then prawns later in the afternoon.
7 beers, which I think is a daily record for me :P
I saw those turduckens at Aldi but thought I wouldn't want to eat the duck bit so I didn't get one. There was more than enough food anyway.
So were you really drunk?
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I thought Turducken were made with real turds.
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We had lunch. Turducken (basically a roast roll of turkey, duck and chicken meat, only sold at Aldi), roast vegies, ham, then prawns later in the afternoon.
7 beers, which I think is a daily record for me :P
I saw those turduckens at Aldi but thought I wouldn't want to eat the duck bit so I didn't get one. There was more than enough food anyway.
So were you really drunk?
They're like my mum's new xmas tradition. A lot smaller and cheaper than a whole turkey anyway.
The beer was drank over the course of a 5-6 hours so no, not really drunk at all. My brother consumed nearly his whole carton and claimed he wasn't drunk either!!
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I thought Turducken were made with real turds.
My thought exactly! :lol1:
Sorry, you can stick that one in your Smeg fridge :zombiefuck:
(or -better yet- your Smeg Frig . as I've seen it spelled)
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They supposedly originated in Louisiana about 20 years ago. But it probably had its origins in the stuffed meats at Medieval banquets.
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Sorry, no sprouts to send anywhere, wouldn't even have them in the house. I'd have to put my gas mask on just to be able to enter the kitchen, and when brought into the lounge, I'd have to clear off to the lab or somewhere else where nobody else was, and eat alone. The smell of sprouts makes me want to vomit. Disgusting. And besides, how could I send them if I did have them in the house, knowing the PR could be subjected to them?
And sounds like poor fare indeed for an xmas dinner QV hun :(
Calandale-finding out it is composed of poultry must have been such a huge disappointment for you:tard:
We got two large crates of Becks lager (bottled, of course), we just opened the other crate, after polishing off plenty of the other one (not counting the fact that I put a lot of the first one in the fridge to get nice and cold. Just grabbed three bottles of the freshly opened crate, pretty much gulped the first one down in a couple of deep, thirsty pulls, having woken up just in time for star trek.
Time for another, methinks.
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Poo with wee gravy.
No, steak. Or chicken. Or lamb. Probably steak.
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We got two large crates of Becks lager (bottled, of course), we just opened the other crate, after polishing off plenty of the other one (not counting the fact that I put a lot of the first one in the fridge to get nice and cold. Just grabbed three bottles of the freshly opened crate, pretty much gulped the first one down in a couple of deep, thirsty pulls, having woken up just in time for star trek.
Time for another, methinks.
Are they slabs?
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Poo with wee gravy.
No, steak. Or chicken. Or lamb. Probably steak.
But no steak knife.
I never got around to cooking a turkey last Xmas, we were on a road trip. We went to a German restaurant and had lots of sausages and pork. And cider.
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Pork lard. Serious. It will change your life.