Holiday thoughts
Today’s Blogliner:
Curry made with leftover turkey? Grandma’s boiled cake? Windowpane cookies?
With Christmas fast approaching do you have a favourite recipe?
By popular request we’re having a non traditional smoked haddock, leek and potato chowder for Christmas eve with the granddaughters and my mother’s turkey dinner on Christmas day (my belly’s already rumbling in anticipation) but I’d love to hear some recipes from you. None needed for the leftover chowder ta, the dishes are licked so clean you could put them straight back in the cupboard.
Coming up: As soon as this mad work stuff is over there’ll be the… Daisy Christmas Competition! * In the meantime, new visitors might like to have a look at the Christmas 2003 archives. Old timers should know better.
* Stop groaning you there at the back.
December 17th, 2004 00:48
I always used to make curry with my leftover turkey. Alas I’ve not been able to find the curry power I like here in the states, it just doesn’t taste the same. I buy some when I get home or I get my mom to mail some over but it never lasts.
I think I need to make a phone call, I I have the urge to make curry now.
December 17th, 2004 01:17
I make a mean New Mexican Red Chile with Lime turkey salad :)
December 17th, 2004 04:31
Somewhere along the line, our Christmas main dish changed from turkey to a whole beef tenderloin, cooked medium rare and served a jus, with a warm horseradish sauce on the side.
God, how I miss those meals.
December 17th, 2004 06:58
Is it a peculiarly Welsh thing Lynne, this turkey curry thing? Come to think of it, I wonder if the people who run the sewage plants across Wales gear up every 26 December for the onslaught on their pipes?
Noelle, that sounds delicious, would you like to share the recipe on your site?
I don’t often eat beef Allan, but even at 7 in the morning that is making my stomach rumble. Mmmm….
December 17th, 2004 07:18
we tend to rotate around beef wellington (a nice tasty fillet smothered in a homemade mushroom pate and wrapped in puff pastry), goose stuffed with veal & peaches (I know you don’t like this) or a “Rehrücken” marinaded in Huwge’s special sauce (herbs,spices, olive oil, port & brandy) for 3 days and cooked long and slow -. served with a celeriac mash and red cabbage cooked with cranberries.
As a starter - prawns left to marinate with an obscene amount of cracked black pepper for a couple of hours, cooked with garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. Chopped fresh parsley added at the end and served with crusty bread.
A proper, super-rich pavlova (fluffy like marshmallow) for pud.
Now you know why it will always be huw(ge)-mawr and not huw(ge)-bach
December 17th, 2004 07:35
Huwge, I just read that out to ‘im indoors and he’s practically passing out with envy. I think we’ll be eating beef this weekend ;-0)
December 17th, 2004 13:03
I’m half Italian and Half English/Scottish/a few other things.
The Italian tradition on Christmas Eve is called ‘The feast of the 7 fishes’. We have stuffed calamari (hands down my favourite), fried dressed smelts, cod with crumbs and a cream sauce, stuffed quohogs, bacala, sometimes lobster, sometimes octopus and some pasta dishes as well. The meal is usually finished off with some sweets and sliced, fresh chunks of finochio (fennel bulb).
Christmas Dinner was the English/Scottish family (Mom’s side) it was traditionally a Prime Rib or Rib Roast, roasted potato, squash, puréed parsnips and a family dessert called Fairy Banquet Pudding with chocolate sauce.
But now that I have wed the Brit we alternate Christmas Eve at my Italian cousin’s house with a restaurant meal. You see Christmas Eve is his birthday and I feel like he is getting cheated if he doesn’t get to do exactly what he wants on his birthday. And 25 screaming Italians is a bit more than even I can take every Christmas Eve…lol.
And for Christmas dinner I found a company here that sells traditional British pork rib roast with the crackling still on. It is incredibly hard to find good pork here. Shhhh don’t tell, I even bought extra crackling…..
December 17th, 2004 13:32
Our Christmas is a joint-effort affair with 15 family members contributing different parts of the meal. I had the Turkey, Stuffing and Gravy for Thanksgiving and got the desserts for Christmas. It’s up to each person to decide what they want to bring. I heard the “meat” people are bringing a great smoked ham. For desert, I think I’ll bring a Key Lime and a Pecan Pie, a plate of cookies and chocolate fudge, and one other, but I haven’t decided. Maybe I will see something here that inspires me. Love to bake!
December 17th, 2004 18:24
On Christmas Eve we have a cheese fondue (even when it wasn’t retro-cool) which is yum and on Boxing Day my stepdad Hugh makes proper Bubble & Squeak (fried up leftover Christmas dinner for international readers), with a veggie and non-veggie version. Mmmm, can’t wait!
December 17th, 2004 20:10
I posted it a few weeks back but it was at the bottom of a looong post.
http://www.egeltje.org/archives/and_the_irony_is.php
I’d post it here too but even the recipe is a bit long-winded :)
December 18th, 2004 00:07
Okay, does anyone want to adopt me?
December 18th, 2004 02:11
i’ll adopt you, Daisy, but you have to eat my cooking!
December 18th, 2004 15:14
Heh, no matter how bad your cooking is anan, it just has to be better than mine*!
* apart from chowder and omelettes
December 18th, 2004 17:15
Do you think one day the technology will exist so we can have an online pot-luck supper but actually be able to really share and eat the food.
Nah, probably not.