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some rather strange Christmas traditions...........

http://health.ninemsn.com.au/family/469620/12-of-the-worlds-strangest-christmas-traditions.slideshow

Number 1....... is similar to my avatar :-D

We went shopping yesterday, looked for a few Christmas bits & pieces

Looked at turkeys. Not a turkey breast in sight....... except for some in boxes, already marinated & spiced. YUK. Marinated in what? Spiced with what? Half of the listed ingredients I couldn't pronounce.

So we bought a turkey, frozen. Will feed 14 people. That should be enough for my DH.

There's only one supermarket in our town, we have to travel quite a way to find more shops.

There's a Fishermen's co-op not far from us.......... we'll get fresh prawns from there next week. :-D

Well both the men in my life always hold the view - doesn't really matter Christmas Day but on Christmas Eve if there is not served homemade veg soup made with ham stock followed by homemade ham studded with cloves accompanied by fried egg and chips there would be a riot.

well as my train driver son and nurse daughter in law have both pulled shifts for Christmas Day, both starting at 2:00 pm I shall be cooking a turkey dinner with all the trimmings - haven't had to cook a Christmas dinner for some years now so it'll be hard going - we're having a Christmas dinner at their on Boxing Day. I;ll be cooking for four of us, them, me and my son's mother in law

I went to Aldi's on Sunday and got a frozen turkey crown, also got four shells with smoked salmon and cream cheese - frozen - for starters, and one of their luxury Christmas puddings - great stuff in Aldi I must say. Have already made the Christmas cake which I have yet to decorate. Will be making the usual sherry trifle for Boxing Day

Oh, and I've made the stuffing -parsley and thyme, as I had lots of parsley in the garden

When they've gone I shall probably fall into a deep deep sleep as no doubt everything on TV will be a repeat

We will be having turkey at our daughter, a fresh one is on order, there will be 7 of us.

As regards ham, we always when I was young, and since I was married have had gammon as well as turkey, one slice with Christmas lunch then lots to have cold later and the next day. At daughter we don't have it with lunch but do still have it cold in the evening.

I think it will be turkey as invited out,,,,,we dont like it so a very very tiny slice just to be polite and not putting any pressure on to cook something different just for 2....

Chris - crafty and conniving? Moi?? :-D :-D

Before I saw the Minion onesies, we were looking at Minion dressing up outfits. They were 3 times the price of the onesies, not much different (except they weren't cotton with a fleece lining) and not as practical :-D

Maggie - you are correct re Tesco branch. You are a crafty conniving grandma - one thing is true - the older you get the wiser you are. ;-)

We are going out. OH having soup, roast suckling pig and turkey, roast potatoes, veg., stuffing, Christmas pudding and mincepie with coffee. Me I'm having fillet steak and salad.

Sharron..

i love bread sauce too,i often have it at other times of the year too... :-)

do it yerself ... a a brace of pheasants I shot recently, creamy sauce with imported French mushrooms. A bottle of Margaux Grand Cru. Smelly French cheeses, profiteroles made by OH who is a patissiere,

Christmas Eve pate de foie gras on toast, cold Sauternes wine

joyeux noel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIENeXfJqIA
:-)

I do have bread sauce, which is my absolute favourite part of Christmas dinner , with my pie, as well as stuffing and cranberry sauce.

I just love cold bread sauce the next day.

As i am vegetarian i will be having salmon, new pots, peas, carrots, green beans... rasperry cheesecake for afters..followed by after eights.

:-D

Maggie, we had chicken on Christmas Day when I was much younger, but I honestly cannot remember what we had on Boxing Day. With four in the family, there would have been few leftovers.

As I grew older we had Turkey, but the probably left overs for the 26th

When I was small, we used to have ham on Boxing Day.

Please, this is a genuine question, not one of my usual flippant comments :-0

I notice ham creeping into the UK Christmas Menus...when did this happen?

I left the UK in 1982 and up to then the traditional Christmas dinner was usually Turkey, possibly pork as well

Similarly, when we arrived in Australia, for many years the traditional dinner was Ham and seafood, usually prawns.

Now in Oz the various magazines have recipes for 'traditional' Aussie roast turkey. Still see the hams and seafood etc, but all have equal prominence.

:-S :-S :-S :-S

we are having turkey and beef at the big house this year
but I am cooking a Christmas dinner at home on the boxing day :-D :-D

and we will have turkey and pork :-D :-D

Thank you for your kind offer, Scozz, but I couldn't afford to have the oven on for two years continuously only to throw the tough old bird out.

OH wouldn't take kindly to being thrown out either, I would imagine ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D

btw, our turkey won't be one of those feathered fiends that have been digging up the garden.

:-(

But........ if I catch one, I'll send it to Allan, to go with his bread & dripping.

Bread and dripping, if we have any (both bread and dripping)

Bah humbug