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Post by sesley on Dec 22, 2011 21:14:23 GMT
I have just come home with a 3 rib bit of Aberdeen Angus beef from tesburys,which will be perfect with yorkshire puddings. and all the roast trimmings.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Dec 22, 2011 21:35:13 GMT
The Mancub is cooking a Chine of Beef for our Christmas lunch....it's been hung for 24 days now and we're picking it up in the morning..
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Post by Weyland on Dec 22, 2011 23:05:50 GMT
The Mancub is cooking a Chine of Beef for our Christmas lunch....it's been hung for 24 days now and we're picking it up cutting it down in the morning.. We're having leg of Welsh lamb. Freshly slaughtered by naked Druid priestesses on the south meadow at dawn on Xmas morning. Anyone want the fleece? It's golden. [I know that's not the exact Solstice, but we're not fundamentalist Druids around these parts.]
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Post by aubrey on Dec 23, 2011 9:22:14 GMT
Red Sprouts!!! Red Sprouts!!!
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Post by jean on Dec 23, 2011 12:20:26 GMT
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Post by rjpageuk on Dec 23, 2011 18:50:52 GMT
I wanted goose but karen insists on having turkey.
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Post by everso on Dec 24, 2011 0:09:25 GMT
I bought a nice bit of beef and also a turkey crown - that's turkey without the legs and all dandied up with chestnut stuffing, from M & S. I ordered the turkey on line a few weeks ago, thinking I was being clever, and was even able to select a collection date and time. When I arrived at M & S today, the queue was the length of the queue I joined to buy tickets for The Rolling Stones when they appeared on stage at the Odeon, Romford, in 1964. Bloody long.
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Post by jean on Dec 24, 2011 9:37:48 GMT
Yesterday I tried out this interesting recipe. It's surprisingly good:
Wash & pick over the sprouts, remove all the grotty and woody bits. Now chop them into slices cross-wise. Heat a generous knob of real butter in a heavy pan, and stir-fry the sprouts briefly over a high flame, adding 1-2 tbsp of water so that their sizzling steam cooks the sprouts through without them going soggy. Season with light soy sauce and coarse-ground black pepper, and immediately before serving, turn off the heat & stir in the magic ingredient - 2-3 generous tbsp of seville marmalade, so that the sprouts are glazed with it.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Dec 24, 2011 11:57:55 GMT
Fiona Bruce.
AH
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Post by Weyland on Dec 24, 2011 12:09:42 GMT
Not much meat on that. Watch out for bones.
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Post by Patrick on Dec 26, 2011 15:42:03 GMT
Business as usual for some folk this Christmas Day:
From the Lancashire Evening Post
They’re lovin’ it!
A Preston fast food restaurant which decided to open on Christmas Day was forced to rush in extra staff after huge queues formed for festive McDinners.
The McDonald’s restaurant at the city’s Deepdale Retail Park opened for business on Christmas Day for the second year running in response to huge customer demand.
And the hordes of fast-food seeking festive revellers didn’t disappoint as large queues started forming from early in the day in the clamour for a Maccy Christmas.
One customer today said demand was such that he was there for almost an hour and a half.
Dave Sammons, 29, went to McDonalds for breakfast.
He said he saw extra staff running into the store as queues grew and at one point he believes the drive thru was even closed down to allow staff to man the counters inside.
He said: “It was absolute chaos.
“I have never seen anything like it. We got there and must have been waiting over an hour to get served. It was incredible that so many people were there on Christmas Day - just shows that not everyone wants a turkey dinner!”
Nigel Dunnington, a franchisee of eight McDonald’s restaurants, including the one at Deepdale, was not available for comment.
Earlier this month he said he had hoped to double the 150 sales made on Christmas Day last year.
“Are people going to trade in their turkey for a Big Mac and fries? Probably not,” he told the LEP when the plan to open was announced. “There’s been the odd per-son I’ve spoken to who doesn’t think we should be doing it. “That’s fine, I respect their view. I hear more supportive than non-supportive.”
The rush for McDonald’s food on Christmas Day in Preston was echoed across the country. In total 60 McDonald’s stores out of the 1,200 across the UK were open on Christmas Day. A spokesman said the move was to give customers “a convenient choice.”
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