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| pammyT |
 Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:15 pm |
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I was planning a nice lazy day all to myself with a roast pork joint,
lots of books and Xmas telly all snuggled up with cats and dogs. Sheer
heaven. My son's Italian partners mother and sisters were coming from
Italy to spend the Xmas break with them and I thought I'd let them have
anice time together. That plus I really like to be alone. So I get a
call the other day to find out that my son will be working xmas day and
his partner cannot cook English food very well. I somehow found myself
offering to come over on the day and cook a traditional English Xmas
dinner.The thing is, because I wasn't planning on a turkey, I didn't
rear one. Luckily my local auction house have an annual sale of
deadstock so I wrapped up well and went out to see what I could get.
Not many birds but a good selection of norfolk black and standard white
turkeys, also geese, ducks, pheasants, partridges and chickens.
I bagged a nice oven ready turkey free ranged and weighing 7 kilos for
£28. Not bad at all.Drove the 8 miles home at 25 mph because of the
very thick fog and left the bird in my car which, I'm sure, is colder
than my 'fridge. Brrrr
Everything will have to be planned meticulously because the reputation
of English traditional food is at stake. I'm cooking for my country on
Xmas day :0)
I wonder what they'll make of stuffing and yorkshire pudding lol.
Yes I know I know, yorkshire pudding for beef, but I love it so we'll
be having it with turkey. I have the fat bacon for the breast, we'll
have carrots and brocolli, cranberry sauce, mashed and roast potatoes
and lashings of thick onion gravy with a sherry trifle for afters since
none of us likes Xmas pudding.And in case there is a little corner of
anyones appetite left, I have a nice xmas cake too.
Merry Christmas/Bueno natale |
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| Catherine Jemma |
| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:26 am |
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Golly what a feast, I reckon I'll pop on over to your place for Chrissy
dinner
I'm only a few hundred kilometres out of Perth (western Australia, NOT the
Scottish "Perth")
.....is that far from your place ? Oh it is, what a pity.
Golly and I thought I's lashing out with some frozen chicken pieces to knock
up a bit of a potato casserole !
Ah yes, "yorkshire pudd" I sometimes make that myself, my Mum's original
English recipe, well my Mum's originally English so her recipes must be
English too, eh ? Mum and I've found they work out better using the
segmented baking dish that makes lots of individual ones, instead of the one
big one. Also they only take 15 or 20 minutes at most, to bake a tray of
individual sized ones
Ha ha ha here I am sitting sweating away, well not quite, it's a cooler day
today, hasn't quite got upto 30*Celcius yet, and here you are LEAVING your
shopping outside in the car BECAUSE it's as cold as a fridge
Hereabouts whenever ones been shopping , it's a case of "unload the car ASAP
and get everything inside and in the fridge/freezer as soon as possible".
Many country folk have 12 volt fridge things for the back of the car, or at
the very least large polystyrene foam boxes or "Esky"s to bring shopping
home in.
Best wishes for your "White" well at least "cold" Xmas
Catherine
Central Wheatbelt
(almost) Outback Western Australia
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| Mary Fisher |
| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:44 am |
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"Catherine Jemma" <xena@agn.net.auREMOVEthis> wrote in message
news:458df421$1@quokka.wn.com.au...
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Ah yes, "yorkshire pudd" I sometimes make that myself, my Mum's original
English recipe, well my Mum's originally English so her recipes must be
English too, eh ?
Ah - but they won't be perfect until you can go to the back door and neat in
some Yorkshire air :-)
Quote: Best wishes for your "White" well at least "cold" Xmas
It's neither white nor cold this morning, in Yorkshire. I'm in shirt sleeves
and the heating hasn't come on - which it does at 10C.
Mary |
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| C.C.P |
| Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:23 pm |
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hello to all the chicken .aka .chook friends on our planet hope all had
a safe &merry holiday Best wishes for the new year too Bye for now
Jean in PawPaw michigan good ole U.S.A. |
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