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Post by soop on Dec 3, 2018 11:37:27 GMT
The holidays are upon us! What are you guys planning?
I get to cook again this year, so it's gonna be amazing. Gonna slow roast a leg of lamb, or a lamb shoulder, and all the fixings: Carrots, roast potatoes, sprouts, spring greens, parsnips, sausage stuffing, Yorkshire puddings and home-made gravy. I have all the timings planned out already. And I got myself a xmas gift in the Amazon Black Friday sale - a massive Lego Technics set! Nothing like waking up on xmas morning, popping a bottle of prosecco and starting a lego set!
What are you guys planning? And most importantly, what are you eating?
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Post by lordcack on Dec 3, 2018 13:13:00 GMT
My in-laws do Christmas morning Breakfast. So I eat whatever they have for breakfast. But it’s always great.
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Post by Galahad on Dec 3, 2018 15:46:27 GMT
Spending time with family and eating a massive amount of turkey,there will also be drinking.
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Post by soop on Dec 3, 2018 16:08:34 GMT
plenty of drinking!
I have some games ready for us to play too, party style games. One is "the pretender" - all but one person has a word that they take turns to mime, a la charades. They have to be specific enough to avoid suspicion, but not overt enough for the pretender to guess what the word is. The rest have to guess the impostor, and the pretender has to "fake it till he or she makes it".
The other game is Codewords. That's harder to explain, but basically, you have to get your team to select the right words from a board based on clues, and whoever gets all their words first wins.
I think codewords will be more my cup of tea, but both should be a laugh.
Also, I just put my grocery order in and ordered a new roasting tray, so everything is being taken care of!
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Post by spenoza on Dec 3, 2018 17:06:30 GMT
Christmas day will just be us and the kid, with stocking and presents, and we're not sure what the Christmas dinner plan is, yet. But then we'll go down to the in-laws and spend time there, eating and drinking with them and whoever else is in town.
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Post by Mathius on Dec 3, 2018 22:46:52 GMT
Gonna take the wife over to my parents' house Christmas morn for some southern style biscuits and gravy, sausage patties, and fried eggs.
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Post by soop on Dec 4, 2018 10:18:25 GMT
Gonna take the wife over to my parents' house Christmas morn for some southern style biscuits and gravy, sausage patties, and fried eggs. I really want to try biscuits and gravy, even though I'm sure I won't like it
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Post by spenoza on Dec 4, 2018 14:13:40 GMT
Why are you so sure you won't like it?
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Post by Galahad on Dec 4, 2018 14:15:46 GMT
Biscuits and gravy,sausage is excellent you really should try it.
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Post by soop on Dec 4, 2018 15:13:30 GMT
Why are you so sure you won't like it? I've seen reactions of other English people trying it, and there's a general trend towards us not having a palette for it. The closest thing I can think of is spaghetti carbonara (the non-traditional version), which has cream, salty pork and carbs. That's not something I'd ever eat, it's very rich for me. Moreover though, I'm a pretty good chef. I watched a recipe on YouTube, and the amount of seasoning that went into that dish, I could just about taste it through the screen. Kind of blew my mind on that one. There's plenty good about southern food, The different kinds of BBQ (I tend away from overly sweet glazes and towards a sharper tangier recipe. Carolina style is nice, but very distinct). Not a huge fan of cornbread I've had, but I strongly suspect that there's a type out there that I'd like, something a bit crisper and less sweet/bland. Fried chicken is awesome when it's well done. Biscuits are just scones in this country. LOVE collard greens. I'd try grits. Never want chitlings.
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Post by spenoza on Dec 4, 2018 15:57:15 GMT
As a former southerner... Those strong flavors are what the south thrives on. Southern cornbread is typically dry, a little gritty, and not at all sweet. Northern cornbread is more like a corn cake. It's softer and sweeter and more moist. I'm also a fan of the sweeter BBQ sauce, as long as it's dark and smoky and a little spicy. The sweetness needs to have molasses and brown sugar in it and look like it.
But yes, biscuits and sausage gravy is indeed rich and fatty. But the nice thing is, you can use however much or little gravy you want if you are making it yourself. So if the salty, fatty American-breakfast-style sausage is just too much for you, you can either make the gravy with less of the sausage in it, or simply use the gravy itself more sparingly.
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Post by wildfruit on Dec 4, 2018 16:13:43 GMT
Turkey and potatoes and Yorkshires and any vegetables thrown down. Then wait for turkey to go cold for turkey and ketchup sandwiches with copious amounts of marks and spencer square crisps. It’s a novelty for me to be home for the day.
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Post by soop on Dec 4, 2018 16:43:26 GMT
Turkey and potatoes and Yorkshires and any vegetables thrown down. Then wait for turkey to go cold for turkey and ketchup sandwiches with copious amounts of marks and spencer square crisps. It’s a novelty for me to be home for the day. Gotta have them Yorkshires. All the Americans are missing out, we should introduce them As a former southerner... Those strong flavors are what the south thrives on. Southern cornbread is typically dry, a little gritty, and not at all sweet. Northern cornbread is more like a corn cake. It's softer and sweeter and more moist. I'm also a fan of the sweeter BBQ sauce, as long as it's dark and smoky and a little spicy. The sweetness needs to have molasses and brown sugar in it and look like it. But yes, biscuits and sausage gravy is indeed rich and fatty. But the nice thing is, you can use however much or little gravy you want if you are making it yourself. So if the salty, fatty American-breakfast-style sausage is just too much for you, you can either make the gravy with less of the sausage in it, or simply use the gravy itself more sparingly. I might give making biscuits and gravy a shot. I'd also love my own meat smoker. Did you ever watch that US show that was about barbeque competitions? They had it on Netflix over here, I binge watched it
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Post by spenoza on Dec 4, 2018 17:05:50 GMT
I did not watch the BBQ show. It just made me hungry. I like in the midwest, now, and it's much harder to find truly good smoked pulled pork BBQ. The sauce is actually the easy part. It's the meat that's truly the art.
Can you get American-style breakfast sausage there in the UK? If you can, look for the stuff with less fat (but don't actually go full-on lean). You'll end up with more sausage chunks in the gravy, but it will be a tad less heavy.
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Post by soop on Dec 4, 2018 17:06:41 GMT
Here, here's a good recipe for yorkshire puddings from fat-tongued mockney, Jamie Oliver
You can see the texture from this, they're kind of a savoury croissant in terms of texture and flavour. Usually we have them with a roast dinner, they go with a rich gravy and especially well with roast beef.
Try them out!
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