Christmas food?

**Ixion** · 19th December 2007, 22:40

There can be no shortcuts to a proper Christmas Dinner. The hemisphere is irrelevant.

I shall cook it,I do every year. I am the good cook int he family. A proper working man's christmas dinner. Roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, roast onions, green beans, glazed carrots, gravy, mint sauce (proper mint sauce, not that muck out of a bottle).Christmas pudding by my great-great-grandmother's receipt, with clotted cream and brandy butter (quarter of a bottle of brandy in the pudding, too).

A decent sherry to begin, then I have been fortunate enough to score a bottle of Stonyridge red to accompany the lamb. A botrytis Reisling will be rich enough to cope with the pudding. Champagne with the after dinner cherries and strawberries , and a good port with cheese to finish. That will do for me, I'm a traditionalist, the good old simple colonial christmas dinner is all I want.

**rainman** · 19th December 2007, 23:13

Ham and lotsa salads. And lots of desserts - definitely a sherry trifle. And booze, although less of this as I get older, I find. Perhaps a good single malt for sampling as the mood takes me.

Although lunch at Ixion's place sounds like a good second best!

**kiwifruit** · 19th December 2007, 23:18

Originally Posted by Ixion

There can be no shortcuts to a proper Christmas Dinner. The hemisphere is irrelevant.

I shall cook it,I do every year. I am the good cook int he family. A proper working man's christmas dinner. Roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, roast onions, green beans, glazed carrots, gravy, mint sauce (proper mint sauce, not that muck out of a bottle).Christmas pudding by my great-great-grandmother's receipt, with clotted cream and brandy butter (quarter of a bottle of brandy in the pudding, too).

A decent sherry to begin, then I have been fortunate enough to score a bottle of Stonyridge red to accompany the lamb. A botrytis Reisling will be rich enough to cope with the pudding. Champagne with the after dinner cherries and strawberries , and a good port with cheese to finish. That will do for me, I'm a traditionalist, the good old simple colonial christmas dinner is all I want.

^ animal steel

myself;
we'll see how it goes, might get a pie in

**MisterD** · 20th December 2007, 05:10

Main meal isn't my department, breakfast is smoked salmon and scrambled egss with champagne. FTW, oh yes.

**Trudes** · 20th December 2007, 05:54

Lambs fry, bacon, eggs and mushrooms for breakfast.
Ham, BBQ meat from Island Bay butchery, salads, and bacon and egg pie for lunch.
Pavlova, trifle and choc dipped strawberries for dessert.
Left overs for a week.
Yummmm

**Usarka** · 20th December 2007, 05:58

Ham, bean salad, potato salad, and prawns and scallops on the BBQ. And lashings and lashings of savignon blanc. hic.

**Maha** · 20th December 2007, 06:20

Scollops/Crayfish/King Prawns...and Pavalova with Strawberry's....it is Xmas after all...

**Joni** · 20th December 2007, 07:41

Originally Posted by maha man

Scollops/Crayfish/King Prawns...

Food fit for Gods..... yum!!!!

Well christmas day we will be having what ever the Ferry has on offer I suppose.... and then dinner somewhere in Wanganui!

However we will be celebrating Christmas the day before.... having a nice BBQ, good old steak and chops for Kickaha.... Maha has inspired me to do some seafood for me! Then a quick good night, before Divvo, Kick and myself head north @ 5am Christmas morning

Have a super day everyone!

**Her_C4** · 20th December 2007, 08:01

Hmm, we will be up early and off to Palmy to see my youngest and have a quick cup of coffee, then straight onto Wanganui and ensure that everything is 'A OK' for racing the following day.

With the focus being on getting race bikes (and rider

) organised, Christmas dinner / food has taken a back seat for the last couple of years.

There was one sad sad tale of a chinese restaurant a couple of years back in Wanganui that wasn't actually a restaurant and the food didn't taste like food

and after that we cottoned on to the idea that a BBQ at the various motels might be just the ticket.

This year we have Lynda B on the case and she has us well sorted with a 'real' restaurant/cafe that have a menu and everything!!!

**Joni** · 20th December 2007, 08:03

Originally Posted by Her_B4

This year we have Lynda B on the case and she has us well sorted with a 'real' restaurant/cafe that have a menu and everything!!!

Yay! let us know where hun!

**Mom** · 20th December 2007, 08:07

Breakfast of pawpaw, melon, pineapple, strawberries, rasberries, any other berries I can find with a bottle of Lothlorian Fejoa Bubbly..........ahhhhhhh!

**jrandom** · 20th December 2007, 08:17

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

we'll see how it goes, might get a pie in

**Lias** · 20th December 2007, 08:53

I'm a hardcore traditionalist.

Roast Turkey + all the trimmings for lunch, followed by Plum Duff
Ham + leftover roast veges for dinner. Followed by pavlova

Anyone advocating xmas bbq's , summer on the beach, or any variations of the above should be shipped to the camps with the other dissidents

**Usarka** · 20th December 2007, 08:59

Turkey.....

**yungatart** · 20th December 2007, 08:59

Originally Posted by hXc

Well we're doing chicken breasts, stuffed with cranberry and brie, wrapped in bacon and roasted. With mini roast veges and an assortment of herbs. And coleslaw and green salad.

For dessert, pavlova and ice cream.

Or something similar.

And the best thing about this menu, is that Zac is doing the cooking!!

Well you can't be first in Year 12 Hospitality class and not do it, eh?

But I will make the salads and the dessert.