What are ye eatin' and drinkin' - The Eatening

Surreptitious

I ate before expected. Bronze butterflied turkey with wild berry stuffing. Honey roast carrots and parsnips with roasted roosters and rosemary. Red cabbage in apple cider vinegar and apple. Turkey gravy all over. I had smoked salmon with prawn cocktail for starters (no pic)

Rows Grower

Weighted the turkey around 2 o clock only to realise it was a lot heavier than it looked and would take about 7-8 hours to cook. In steps the eldest lad with his cool, calm and collective skills, a choice was offered and a decision was made to spatchcock it, and not only did he do that he made the gravy from the backbone and the neck separately.

Took a heap of pressure off of us and was the best tasting turkey we have had ever. Enjoyed with all the usual trimmings, some nice wine, profiteroles for dessert and another Irish coffee to finish it off.

A Happy and Healthy Christmas and New Year to all.

Autosport

Mashed potatoes, Brussel sprouts, roast lamb, spiced beef and smoked ham and parsley sauce

Dessert will either be chocolate Yule log or baileys cheesecake

Happy Christmas one and all

PTH2009

Pringles are dangerous

Once you eat a few its quicky followed by the full tub

RMAOK

PTH2009 wrote: »

Pringles are dangerous

Once you eat a few its quicky followed by the full tub

That's why they came up with the catchphrase "once you pop, you can't stop"

Strumms

Normally make our own stuffing but for whatever reason this year with a busy lead up, we just ordered it from the butchers.. Turkey ‘with’ stuffing on the receipt even but not a flake of stuffing on checking this morning... the only dissatisfaction of a pretty perfect day it’s got to be said...

Grandeeod

Christmas day was round two of the Chinese food. I had fried rice,beef sezchuan, chicken curry and satay chicken skewers. A late night brandy and ginger ale times too many!

A traditional roast dinner today and defo no more brandy.

Grandeeod

We don't do turkey, so it was a roast chicken with ham and stuffing. Served up with mash, broccoli, cauliflower and a big roastie. The pic is before the chicken gravy and the sliced centre cut ham is under there somewhere. A typical roast dinner for us.

Finally did the turkey dinner a day late today, ate too many sweets yesterday morning and couldn't face it Chipped a tooth on some skittles so down to 50% gorging capacity for the rest of the festivities

Surreptitious

Tea and four slices of crusty brown toast with chicken liver pate.

Autosport

Autosport wrote: »

Mashed potatoes, Brussel sprouts, roast lamb, spiced beef and smoked ham and parsley sauce

Dessert will either be chocolate Yule log or baileys cheesecake

Happy Christmas one and all

This part 2

Mystery Egg

Currently having a Coke and some Lidl knock off After Eights while watching Jurassic Park. I'd love a Baileys or a nice beer but sadly work beckons in the morning!

Grandeeod

Mystery Egg wrote: »

Currently having a Coke and some Lidl knock off After Eights while watching Jurassic Park. I'd love a Baileys or a nice beer but sadly work beckons in the morning!

I spent so many years working around now that it nearly broke my Christmas spirit. The 26/27/28/29th were work days for at least 15 years and then another 5 years after that in a similar role on maybe 3 days over the same dates and even NYE.:eek: Great money. At least you have the knock off mint choccies, a decent movie and the dream of a beer! Hope you get more time off. Another beer for me. Sausages and black pudding out of the freezer to thaw.

46 Long

Poached salmon with hollandaise, Nigella's mushy peas and buttery mash. Mince pies and a hot port for dessert.

cj maxx

Guinness and ferro Rochets

Graces7

Now you have made me hungry! Wonder if I can rustle up a turkey and/or stuff ing buttie.

See you much later

Mystery Egg

Grandeeod wrote: »

I spent so many years working around now that it nearly broke my Christmas spirit. The 26/27/28/29th were work days for at least 15 years and then another 5 years after that in a similar role on maybe 3 days over the same dates and even NYE.:eek: Great money. At least you have the knock off mint choccies, a decent movie and the dream of a beer! Hope you get more time off. Another beer for me. Sausages and black pudding out of the freezer to thaw.

I've had the 24th/25th/26th off this year.

I've worked every Christmas for the last 4 years. 15 is extreme! Now I'm in a team where we can take it in turns. Much better.

funkey_monkey

Why do the bits you nibble from the pots/pans/bowls taste better than the full serving on your own plate?

jellybear

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Why do the bits you nibble from the pots/pans/bowls taste better than the full serving on your own plate?

This is especially true for stuffing!!:D

Grandeeod

Breakfast - two sausages, four slices of black pudding, beans and toast.Some stollen cake too.

Lunch - a chicken, ham and stuffing sandwich with crisps. Followed by some mince pies.

Dinner - I made a cottage pie. I might keep my portion for tomorrow as I fancy chicken goujons and chips with that new Chef bottle of curry sauce.

No pressure on me today so I'm actually enjoying a few early beers.

dasdog

I think I just won the leftover lamb Christmas sandwich world cup.



The butter discs were made of brie, parmesan, garlic, rock salt, fresh thyme and rosemary to a calloristic heart attack level melting on the meat on griddled ciabatta.

Jaysus that was good.

Mystery Egg

Tangfastics.

46 Long

Mug of tae and another bloody Fruit & Nut. The Tiffin situation is not looking good and I will be very displeased if Cadburys have discontinued them again.

Autosport

Some celebrations and club orange

Wine and a sharing bag of Keoghs cheese and onion crisps , I didn't share and I'm feeling really sick now.

bassy

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Wine and a sharing bag of Keoghs cheese and onion crisps , I didn't share and I'm feeling really sick now.

greedy

did you eat them all?.

i taught it was cheese and crackers with wine

bassy

bassy wrote: »

greedy

did you eat them all?.

i taught it was cheese and crackers with wine

I did and I'm paying the price, trying not to think about them now.

Did you sell the chipper bassy?😂

bassy

Deleted User wrote: »

I did and I'm paying the price, trying not to think about them now.

Did you sell the chipper bassy?��

ah the chip van had to go due to covid-19,it broke me heart to lose her

bassy

bassy wrote: »

ah the chip van had to go due to covid-19,it broke me heart to lose her

That's a shame, Mam is not the same since you shut shop, she loved your onion rings.😂

bassy

Deleted User wrote: »

That's a shame, Mam is not the same since you shut shop, she loved your onion rings.��

ah sure mam left me in the lurch and now she don,t even talk to me any more

Rows Grower

Frozen pepperoni pizza with leftover ham and spice beef added with extra cheese on top, about 1.5 million calories I'd say. 2 slices left for later.

Cold beer now.

Grandeeod

bassy wrote: »

ah sure mam left me in the lurch and now she don,t even talk to me any more

I'm on the PUP since you sold it!

Grandeeod

Gonna lay off the fry ups. Had another one this morning and then my portion of Cottage Pie this afternoon. Along with the usual Christmas sweet indulgence.

The troops just ordered quarter pounders, chips, a pizza and garlic chips. Let them at it.:D Don't know what I facy food wise. I'm still stuffed.

SineadSpears

Takeaway pizza bacon mushroom & pepperoni. Extra garlic dip.

I get terrible spots after eating takeaway pizza but I've been thinking about it since Christmas eve so feck it, I'll worry about it tomorrow

Donegal Catch battered cod fillets and frozen chips with a lots of bread and butter, so lazy but we didn't know what we wanted and the plates were cleared. A lovely chilled white wine now .

Grandeeod

Does anyone find that your appetite goes when you are sitting around on your arse all day?:D I'm not one for extended grazing days. The odd one okay, but I need to really work up the appetite by doing stuff. I just watched my fellow grazers mill that takeaway out of it. I'll be hungry later on, but right now I still can't think of anything. Feck it. I'll see if a beer puts the hunger on me.:D

Surreptitious

I only eat when I'm hungry. I'm not a picker.

SineadSpears

I nibble out of boredom. But when it comes to actual meals, I'm not great for eating if I'm sitting around all day. Lockdown has been very bad for my eating. Especially the first one. Even the kids didn't want to eat meals

Mystery Egg

Nibbling away here. Sour cream and onion Pringles and a glass of La Trappe blonde. Stopping at a glass because work in the a.m.

Fathom

Yo The Eatening folks. I'm in a culinary rut. Snacking coffee cake (again). Coffee too. Any suggestions for dinner?

SineadSpears

Fathom wrote: »

Any suggestions for dinner?

More cake :pac:

I absolutely love coffee and walnut cake, my friend makes it beautifully, about a thousand calories a slice I'd guess.

What about cereal, back to basics after all the rich food?

Fathom

SineadSpears wrote: »

More cake :pac:

Amusing Spears. Already eat too much. Good I workout. Or I would start to look like one. :pac:

Fathom

Deleted User wrote: »

What about cereal, back to basics after all the rich food?

Yo Duvet. Burned out on cereal. Too available during quarantine. Looking for something naughty for dinner. :P

Grandeeod

Fathom wrote: »

Yo Duvet. Burned out on cereal. Too available during quarantine. Looking for something naughty for dinner. :P

I could cook, but nah. I could order in but nah to that too. It's not a bad thing to be sick of food and want it at the same time. I've a beer left and just spotted some Austrian smoked cheese in the fridge for later. Could be with buttery toast or buttery wholemeal bread. But it will do the job nicely.

bassy

Grandeeod wrote: »

I'm on the PUP since you sold it!

lot of people happy being on the PUP apparently.

Grandeeod

bassy wrote: »

lot of people happy being on the PUP apparently.

Well I'm not one of them anyway.

Fathom

Looks like take-out. Nearby burger fast food.

bassy

Grandeeod wrote: »

Well I'm not one of them anyway.

of course i was,nt reflecting on you m8.

Joe Don Dante

Superquinn Sausages