Alternative Christmas Dinner

[Graye]

"roast parsnip, sprouts, cranberry and chestnut bubble and stilton rarebit cake"

Any chance of a recipe, that sounds lovely!

[MKG]

Christmas - bugger my principles for the rest of the year time!

We will be having a 4-rib beef joint. The thought of that would frighten me at any other time of the year. At Christmas, I anaesthetise myself with homebrew, spend the money whilst scrunching up my eyes, then relax completely as Christmas Eve draws to an end - there's nothing more you can do at that point. After that, Christmas Day is just a relaxation. And that beef is LOADS better than a bloody turkey. It will be just the two of us plus the aged Mama - so plenty of beef for all.

Oh - tell the truth - plenty of beef for ME!!!!!!!

I could get to like Christmas.

Mike

[contadina]

For Graye. Luckily someone else must have bought that particular issue of Good Housekeeping as the recipe is here http://www.food.com/recipe/roast-parsni ... bit-193059 I'll try and remember to take a picture of it this year as it really does make a nice centrepiece :-)

[Keaniebean]

I haven't any inspirational ideas I'm afraid as Christmas dinner is always at my mums house so I have never been able to spread my culinary wings in that way.

I did have to have a little giggle at your Fidget Pies SusieGee. Our dog is called Fidget, and we are constantly threatening to stick him on the BBQ as he's a real pain in the posterior, so maybe next year when he's weed up the sofa for the squillionth time we might just have to make some 'Fidget pies' too

I did once make a really tasty pork in a creamy cider dish though, although I can't for the life of me remember where I even got the recipe from, but it was basically lots of cider, lots of garlic and lots of cream thickened up with pork cubes in it. Simple but tasty and it would lend itself to being inside a pie for certain - unlike my dog

[MuddyWitch]

We have our 'big' meal on Boxing day & we're quite tradtional 'cos we have a goose. It comes from the farm about two miles away & we can have it live, freshly killed, just plucked or fully prepared. (It'll be the full monty this year).

MW