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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 2:41:45 PM

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Fuck the dinner I want my damn BB gun.

NS.....somehow I have a feeling you would end up like my brother's 'special' friend did. In the ER having BB pellets removed from his bits.

Orrrrrrrrr..............like my son. Paying for an old Mustang's headlights, the garage's windows, and the very large and expensive living room window on the house the garage was next to and the Mustang was parked behind.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 2:42:49 PM

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i tend to do traditional thanksgiving but for christmas,......

roast lamb bristling with garlic and rosemary
rosemary roast potatoes
i don't do candied yams for xmas

fresh mango trifle is becoming a favourite for dessert and pavlova is always an option as well. both good for the coolness factor on hot xmas days

once or twice we've done the salads and seafood or bbq for christmas day too. those are best if one happens to want to wander down to the beach for xmas lunch

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 2:43:34 PM

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I just want to shoot something in the face. Is that so much to ask? =(

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 2:45:22 PM

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I just want to shoot something in the face. Is that so much to ask? =(

I am rather ambivalent on the whole self harming thing...

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 2:47:26 PM

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Yeah, you'd like that wouldn't you? Less competition!

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 2:49:36 PM

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Yeah, you'd like that wouldn't you? Less competition!

I don't compete. I don't have to!

(that is probably the most arrogant bit of fluff I have typed in ages...)

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 5:13:12 PM

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Christmas is prime rib and yorkshire pudding. Tons of cookies and a buche noel.

Cornish pasties aren't a holiday meal here, they're the original hot pockets, quickly heat and eat and made with leftovers.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 6:19:35 PM

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i like braised cabbage as a side dish with duck and goose. i will try to find the recipe, but basically you slice red cabbage, yellow onions, and granny smith apples as finely as possible, and macerate them overnight in a mixture of (red wine, port, red wine vinegar, a little red currant jelly, and christmas spices such as cinnamon, clove, allspice, star anise, etc.) You need to place a weight over the cabbage to that it remains submerged in the liquid overnight. By the next morning, it's wilted, and so you throw it in a hot pan with butter, oil, and a little of the macerating liquid, and saute it over very high heat until it's just cooked through. i think the idea behind macerating it and then cooking it quickly (instead of braising it for a long time like most cabbage recipes) is that it's not so strongly cabbage tasting in the end.

Paul Prudhomme has great recipes both for glazed yams and for this killer eggplant-sweet potato sauce, which i will try to find.

i tried cooking goose for Christmas, twice, and it was a disaster both times. It ended up dry as toast. You might want to consider cooking the breast separately from the legs. If you know how to roast goose well, you kick my ass.

One of my favorite starches is a bread salad made from cubes of French bread tossed with kalamata olives, pepitas, raisins, dried cherries, pomegranate seeds, and extra virgin olive oil.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 6:46:31 PM

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I just want to shoot something in the face.

You've got a face, what's stopping you?

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 7:12:45 PM

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My family always makes turkey with sausage stuffing, cranberry-orange sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.

For Christmas it's always a glazed spiral ham, bot boi <a type of Pennsylvania Dutch soup since my family is part PA Dutch>, mashed potatoes, halupkis, oplatky <a type of wafer that is traditional at Christmas in Slovakian families..my family is part Slovakian also>, pierogies and kolaki <walnut and poppyseed rolls>.

I always enjoyed the traditions and ceremonies during Christmas but we never really celebrated or did anything special for Thanksgiving so it's never been a real big holiday for me.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 9:24:57 PM

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If you know how to roast goose well, you kick my ass.

i'll let you know on the 26th, i've never fucking tried before. i figure what the fuck, it can't be all that hard, and cheri is here and she's a good cook.

and that cabbage thing sounds fucking good, i might add that to the menu as well. thanks.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/9/2011 10:38:15 PM

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It's not so much Thanksgiving and Christmas
dinner with us but more holiday season eating.
We launch on Thanksgiving and keep going
through Twelfth Night.
Thanksgiving is relatively bland and small.
Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet
potatoes, asparagus, homemade bread,
pumpkin and apple pie.
Around the first of December we begin
making our first batches of spice tea and
sweets. Fudge, divinity, peanut brittle, etc.
We usually have a neighborhood cookie
exchange which brings in more bounty.
We don't have turkey for Christmas.
We have roast chicken, roast beef and
ham or pork roast. We've had quail and
duck in the past.
For sides we usually have Brussels sprouts,
roasted potatoes, glazed carrots, squash
casserole and monkey bread.
We always make a fresh coconut cake
and trifle and sometimes hummingbird
and red velvet cake.
We make fresh eggnog which if my stepdad
has a hand in will put you on your ass.
Christmas morning pancakes and baked
apples stuffed with sausage.
New years eve cheesecake.
New years day hoppin john and greens.
Twelfth Night kings cake.
I'm thinking of trying a seven layer salad
this year with bacon, lettuce, cauliflower,
green peas and cheddar cheese. It may suck
or might have to tweak it because it calls
for a big glop of mayonnaise.
My grandma made kick ass Cornish pasties
and kick ass Shepard's pie.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 12:34:49 AM

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Bison is so popular here we have our own store that deals only in bison and elk meat.

Since our Thanksgiving and Christmas are pretty much the same, we make up the difference on other days.

Christmas Eve is a traditional roasted ham, scalloped potatoes and creamed carrots. My Dad cooks - gets everything ready and by the time we are all home from the family church service, dinner is ready.

Boxing Day is all about (no - NOT the shopping!) the Ukrainian food. Cabbage rolls, either fresh or left over from Christmas Day, pyrogies (homemade if I'm feeling up to is, store bought just in case), and this fabulous oven roasted chicken dish that my Baba use to make. You start at 8 in the morning and dinner is usually ready between 5 and 6 - the house smells wonderful for days! The funny thing about this dish is somehow I am able to channel my Baba when cooking it - because it always smells and tastes right - my Mom could never figure out how I did it because she couldn't replicate her mom's recipe.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 1:53:00 AM

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We used to do the big traditional turkey meal, but since none of my kids actually like turkey, we don't bother anymore, its just too much work for just the Ex and I, so we just don't bother to do anything. Which is a bit of a pity, as either of us can put on a really top quality turkey feast.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 4:21:13 AM

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my relatives usually keep the turkey for thanksgiving and do something else for christmas. when grandpa was still here, we always had a turkey no matter what, because he loved turkey legs. =p my family used to be pretty big, and they used to eat a TON of meat (and so did i before the veggie thing). now the family is much smaller, and it's mostly women who are left. my brother will actually probably be the only dude at Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner this year; the other two fellas are elsewhere; one positive, one negative.
last year they did a crown roast -- those things are interesting as sculpture. =p another year, they had cornish hens.

when the family was still pretty big, we'd mostly have cheaper stuff because it balanced out the cost of feeding so many people. now, though, they get more interesting things that might be more expensive because there isn't a need for so many portions.

as for what i have? i try to come up with a veggie approximation to what they're having. i still help them with cooking and all the fun prep stuff -- it's fun to cook together. even though i don't eat meat anymore, i'm still pretty good at cooking it. back home the kitchen is pretty big, and we'll all pile in there together and talk over each other and laugh together and it's really fun. someone will be washing dishes, while someone else chops something, while someone else is checking on whatever's in the oven, blah blah blah. my aunt usually makes some kind of really ritzy dessert, and my mom is the queen of really fancy side dishes. my brother makes sweet potatoes that are so good, they're suicide. my grandma's getting terribly forgetful and doesn't cook so much anymore, she just usually sits at the table and smiles and talks.

but it's always kind of sad because we remember the "good times" when "everyone else" used to be here, too. my grandpa's illness set in over thanksgiving last year, and he died before christmas. that year, everyone was sort of floating around in shock. this year will be the creepiest, i think -- no sports game on the radio or the TV, and listening to him laughing at the top of his lungs or shouting at the TV. that'll be very weird.
we always made a special dessert for him because he was diabetic, and it's sad to realize that we don't have to do that anymore.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 6:24:09 AM

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We have our dinner on Xmas Eve in the usual Danish tradition. Xmas IS the Xmas eve dinner.

We have roast duck stuffed with prunes and apples, along with sugar-browned potatoes, hot red cabbage (made by cooking with apples and blackcurrant juice) and fresh vegetables.

For pudding we have Ris a l'amande which is rice pudding, made with cream, vanilla and chopped almonds. It's eaten cold with hot cherry sauce and is delicious. It's traditional to slip one whole almond in the rice and whoever finds it gets a small gift but I slip one into everyone's bowl ...lol The table ends up like a war zone with wrapping paper, party poppers and bits of cracker everywhere.

We have engleroll for nibbles, which is chicken livers cut into small pieces then rolled in strips of streaky backon with parsley, onion and paprika and baked.

We spend the days running up to Xmas eve making rum-balls which keep all over the Xmas hols (if they don't get scoffed as everyone loves them) They are made by mixing oats with cocoa powder, fresh coffee, butter, sugar and rum, then rolling into bitesize balls.

All of these things are a tradition in our home and looked forward to by us all.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 6:32:04 AM

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agirl, I'd love it if you could send me the recipe for the rum-balls.. sounds just the thing for the Co. xmas party!!

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 11:35:00 AM

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agirl, I'd love it if you could send me the recipe for the rum-balls.. sounds just the thing for the Co. xmas party!!

Here you go, Greedy.

This recipe has been handed down through my husband's family. It varies from family to family and region to region. All the measurements are approximate as we have always made it by *eye* but this will be a fair guide.

250g porridge oats
50g     sugar
50g     cocoa powder
50g   softened butter
Rum according to taste
Make a pot of very strong coffee and use 1/2 a mug of it;

Blend the oats with the softened butter using your fingers.
Add the cocoa to the sugar, then add to the mixture.
Add the warm coffee.
Add rum.
Mix well.

If the mixture is too sticky, adjust by adding a few more oats, if too dry add a little more coffee.
Roll into balls about the size of a small walnut between your palms and lay out on trays to dry out.

These last for ages in a tin. We make masses of them and give them in little parcels as gifts.

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 11:38:08 AM

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excuse me agirl----

But are those RUM BALLS baked? If so for how long and at what temp.?

Many Thanks!!!!

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RE: fill yer boots b'y - what's your christmas dinner - 11/10/2011 11:44:02 AM

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Here you go, Greedy.

This recipe has been handed down through my husband's family. It varies from family to family and region to region. All the measurements are approximate as we have always made it by *eye* but this will be a fair guide.

250g porridge oats
50g sugar
50g cocoa powder
50g softened butter
Rum according to taste
Make a pot of very strong coffee and use 1/2 a mug of it;

Blend the oats with the softened butter using your fingers.
Add the cocoa to the sugar, then add to the mixture.
Add the warm coffee.
Add rum.
Mix well.

If the mixture is too sticky, adjust by adding a few more oats, if too dry add a little more coffee.
Roll into balls about the size of a small walnut between your palms and lay out on trays to dry out.

These last for ages in a tin. We make masses of them and give them in little parcels as gifts.

*smoooch* thankis!!

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