Christmas 2022.

[rudie111]

Strictly come dancing live tour tickets for wife and daughter. Was too expensive for a 3rd ticket so I will have to give it a miss.

 

[Trumpet]

Strictly come dancing live tour tickets for wife and daughter. Was too expensive for a 3rd ticket so I will have to give it a miss.

Masterstroke.

 

[Bob]

 

[Glam]

Pinched from a friend on Farcebook........................


Anybody get stressed about Christmas Dinner ? Read this from a Sheffield butchers .

Patterson’s Butchers Sheffield


Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............!
Here's my top tip

Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!!
The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains.

We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes.....
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking .
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor anyone else I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy
4. Vegetables...

Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same .
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over
Merry Christmas!

Cheers

 

[littleme]

Pinched from a friend on Farcebook........................


Anybody get stressed about Christmas Dinner ? Read this from a Sheffield butchers .

Patterson’s Butchers Sheffield


Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............!
Here's my top tip

Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!!
The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains.

We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes.....
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking .
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor anyone else I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy
4. Vegetables...

Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same .
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over
Merry Christmas!

Cheers

I love this. Its exactly how I feel about Christmas. I get one day off work for it, and I really dont mind .....Christmas is for kids, let them enjoy it, it really just is over-rated Sunday dinner.

*not that I dont appreciate the huge effort that @Just little old me:) goes to every year to make Christmas eve, Christmas day & boxing day special for the family.

 

[Just little old me:)]

I love this. Its exactly how I feel about Christmas. I get one day off work for it, and I really dont mind .....Christmas is for kids, let them enjoy it, it really just is over-rated Sunday dinner.

*not that I dont appreciate the huge effort that @Just little old me:) goes to every year to make Christmas eve, Christmas day & boxing day special for the family.

Best time of year for foodies

 

[proactive]

Best time of year for foodies

Depending very much on your definition of best and foody.

 

[Noah]

roast them in goose fat

Rape seed oil is just as good for roasting potatoes, vegetarian/vegan friendly and cheaper - particularly if you buy supermarkets' vegetable oil (look at the label, normally 100% rapeseed oil and cheaper than the stuff labelled rapeseed oil)

 

[littleme]

Depending very much on your definition of best and foody.

The carers a foodie, he does the BEST Christmas dinner.

 

[Just little old me:)]

Rape seed oil is just as good for roasting potatoes, vegetarian/vegan friendly and cheaper - particularly if you buy supermarkets' vegetable oil (look at the label, normally 100% rapeseed oil and cheaper than the stuff labelled rapeseed oil)

Lard is the best. Par boil the spuds, rough them up around the edges in the colander then give them a good coating in a 50/50 mix of mustard powder and cornflour before coating in the melted lard. Gives a super tasty crispy coating

 

[Just little old me:)]

Depending very much on your definition of best and foody.

Just love the Christmas day tea which is largely 4 or 5 cold cut meats, 5 or 6 different cheeses, multiple pickles /olives and various chutneys. All served with a few warm buffet snacks and a nice glass of ya favourite tipple.

 

[Glam]

I'm working Christmas and Boxing Day night(s), so we're having our meal on the 24th. I just shove the spuds in with the beef, basting them with the fat once the meat has been removed. Normally shove them back in the oven for about another 30 minutes. Bob's your Uncle, Fanny's your Aunt, done.

 

[Bob]

Tesco Christmas delivery slots are out this morning!

 

[staffordjas]

Mrs T has already wrapped several.

Mine are all wrapped and cards written today ( sending out early at end Nov with new address this year)

I was looking for my new jumper last night when we went out for a meal.
Then remembered its the one I'd tried on and liked , hubby outside the changing room said he didn't like it, said pass it out & he'd put back on rail. Then in his loud ' whispering' asked the changing room assistant to take it to the till for him! So I know I've got it wrapped up for Xmas day. I love surprises on xmas day, but hey-ho..Will have to act surprised

 

[Alee]

Tesco Christmas delivery slots are out this morning!

Dam it , I missed them

 

[Bob]

I was told that 10pm is when the cancelled slots come back on, no idea if it’s true or not though

Dam it , I missed them

 

[Glam]

Does anyone know where you can take a little one to see Father Christmas in town this year please?

 

[Thehooperman]

Does anyone know where you can take a little one to see Father Christmas in town this year please?

I believe he is coming to Amerton farm on 10th December but it's a bit early in the day.

 

[BobClay]

I believe he is coming to Amerton farm on 10th December but it's a bit early in the day.

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[Noah]

Dobbies at Gailey have a Santa's Grotto, do Breakfast with Santa and have a Santa Paws Grotto. Some dates & times may be fully booked already. https://events.dobbies.com/events-by-venue/?v=14 Sorry, don't know anything in town.