What is for Christmas dinner? (post your pictures)

octatonic

What is for dinner?
I made a 3 bird roast- partridge/guinea fowl/chicken stuffed with sausage meat + honey roast carrots, roasties and greens.
Dessert is Mrs Oct's Tarte Tartin.

Before it goes in:

octatonic

Coming along nicely:

thomasross20

Phwoar great thread! 

I got a marks voucher from work so we've got turkey breast with poultry gravy, honey and mustard parsnips, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, carrots, brocolli, Yorkshire puddings, sausage rolls, other gravy, cocktail sausages, red cabbage braised with Bramley apples, pork sage & onion stuffing, haggis neeps & tattie croquettes, potatoe tot stars, cheesecake, profiteroles, toffee roulade, mulled wine, schloer and some other stuff!

mgaw

Turkey is in poached first then roasting......root veg roasting, potatoes roasting, gravy made....all coming on very nicely.

Bellycaster

Jeez, How many are coming round?



It's the usual Turkey and trimmings here, but I did have a change for Breakfast, some nice Kippers. Yum.

thomasross20

@octatonic that's great. I have no idea how you make something like that.

octatonic

thomasross20 said:

@octatonic that's great. I have no idea how you make something like that.

Thanks.
It is pretty simple actually- I was shown how to do it on a butchery course recently.
You debone the chicken, guinea fowl and partridge, put one in the other with sausage meat and then use some twine to put it all together.
Takes me about an hour to do 3 birds but I'm an amateur- pro's can knock it out in about 15 mins.

thomasross20

Phwoar sounds good. 
Butchery course.. that's a great idea for something to do!

octatonic

thomasross20 said:

Phwoar sounds good. 
Butchery course.. that's a great idea for something to do!

That was last year's christmas present from Mrs Oct. 

octatonic

Buuuuuurp!

rsvmark

Good work @octatonic We have a leisurely menu today:

smoked salmon man and scrambled eggs with pink champagne
Home made sausage rolls, tempura prawns and pigs in blankets
beef Wellington with a shallot and red wine jus, roast potatoes, green beans and carrotts
Cheese and chocolate port
christmas pudding and mince pies

Start time 10am
Add The Queen and strictly to taste
Fall asleep- probably
Carriages- 10pm zzzzzzzzzzzzz

viz

octatonic said:

Takes me about an hour to do 3 birds but I'm an amateur- pro's can knock it out in about 15 mins.

SC please, Mods.  

Handsome_Chris

octatonic said:

Coming along nicely:

@octatonic , you may feel very clever; however, I know where you live .  Om nom nom

Paul_C

Sporky

I made slow roast lamb with pomegranate - pretty good, but the wastage is shocking, Nigella's timings and temperatures are way out - cheating dauphinoise potatoes - again, Nigella has some odd notions about "quicker and easier" and chilli-cashew-broccoli.

Lady BMcH has provided a lemon tart which we will broach shortly.

octatonic

viz said:

octatonic said:

Takes me about an hour to do 3 birds but I'm an amateur- pro's can knock it out in about 15 mins.

SC please, Mods.  

Well, I like to take my time and do a thorough job of it.
You have to treat the birds with respect- you don't want bits of them all over the place afterwards.
Takes ages to clean up and makes my wife angry.

thomasross20

digitalscream

We decided to abandon the traditional thing, so I was to have a Grasmere fillet steak (of obnoxious size), gravy, asparagus and chips. Wifey was going to make a veggie curry of some sort.

Unfortunately, she's pigged out on this morning's fried breakfast (I cooked for everyone, including the child's boyfriend and my mother-in-law) and chocolate, and I'm ill so I'm not wasting a perfect steak on tastebuds that don't work.

Merry fucking Christmas, eh?

Heartfeltdawn

octatonic said:

Takes me about an hour to do 3 birds but I'm an amateur- pro's can knock it out in about 15 mins.

Thus demonstrating that food porn and actual porn aren't so far removed. 

cruxiform

I had this yesterday as my son was with me. It was lush. Today, I've been on a ride on my motorbike. Empty roads, mmm.

JanekLubanski

Borscht...but no piccies.