What you having for your Tea/Dinner, tonight. ?

Not sure what I'm having for Christmas tea yet, it depends on the size of the portions for lunch. But I do know breakfast will be bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast with a cup of builders.
 
Its -2c here at the moment , so I am just roasting my nuts in front of the open door of the log burner trying to fight off the sniffy noses of the dogs whose interest has been awakened by the unusual morning routine.
 
Ian Key said:
Not sure what I'm having for Christmas tea yet, it depends on the size of the portions for lunch. But I do know breakfast will be bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast with a cup of builders.
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Good luck to you! Vicar of Dibley springs to mind.

I do the one big one with maybe a salad later and a cheese board. Gotta have some Stilton!

I'm not a huge fan of Xmas pud, but I do like a mince pie.

But whatever everybody is planning to eat, I hope a good time is had by all.
 
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Sitting the front deck of our friend's houseboat. A boneless ham roll, jar of gherkins, round of Brie, tomatoes off the vine, 1kg block of Bega Vintage Tasty cheese ..... and a big kitchen knife ..... consumed 4 light beers, designated driver and my head was near ready to exploding before we even started, so more alcohol was not going to help ..... wife and our friend Brian, who owns the houseboat, polished off 2 bottles of red wine between them ..... and a most enjoyable afternoon chatting, then we consumed his box of Cadbury's Roses chocolates someone in the Marina gave him for Christmas.

T1 Terry
 
Had a ham and mustard sandwich followed by Comte and Cheddar cheeses with Ritz crackers after an expensive but disappointing lunch.

SPOILER ALERT:
Major moan ahead.

First time ever I went with my brother and his misses to the New Bath Hotel in Matlock for Christmas lunch. The lettuce in the prawn cocktail was limper than Larry Grayson. The roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding was from Aunt Bessie's, the roasted root vegetables consisted of two carrot sticks, the pigs in blankets was one pig in a blanket and the smallest piece of hard stuffing imaginable with two pieces of turkey. All served lukewarm. This was followed by a thin slice of Bakewell tart which was supposed to come with coconut ice cream but didn't. All this for £85!

Next year it'll be a ready meal from Sainsbury's.
 
Ian Key said:
Had a ham and mustard sandwich followed by Comte and Cheddar cheeses with Ritz crackers after an expensive but disappointing lunch.

SPOILER ALERT:
Major moan ahead.

First time ever I went with my brother and his misses to the New Bath Hotel in Matlock for Christmas lunch. The lettuce in the prawn cocktail was limper than Larry Grayson. The roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding was from Aunt Bessie's, the roasted root vegetables consisted of two carrot sticks, the pigs in blankets was one pig in a blanket and the smallest piece of hard stuffing imaginable with two pieces of turkey. All served lukewarm. This was followed by a thin slice of Bakewell tart which was supposed to come with coconut ice cream but didn't. All this for £85!

Next year it'll be a ready meal from Sainsbury's.
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So, will you appreciate that home cooked Christmas dinner all the more next yr?

A few Christmases back, I bought a Turducken as a special treat to replace the forced meat chicken I had been making each yr.

It was the oiliest/fattest thing I've ever eaten ..... everyone had at least 1 slice, just so they knew to never be tempted to buy one themselves :LOL:

Over the next week, all the left over meats, except for the Turducken, had been consumed on sandwiches, being the brave garbage guts I am, I decided to cut a slice and eat it to reinforce memory .... the juices had turned to jelly between the layers and the fat drained out and set in the dish, it was great ..... didn't mention it to anyone else so it would all be for me ;) The next Christmas, while doing the food shopping, the wife forbade me from ever buying another one :eek: .....

T1 Terry
 
T1 Terry said:
So, will you appreciate that home cooked Christmas dinner all the more next yr?
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Too right.

I live on my own and usually go to my brother's for lunch with my two nieces but this year they both went abroad for Christmas and my brother didn't want to cook lunch just for the three of us.

I'm doing well for Christmas meals this year as the previous Friday a group of us went to a local pub for a meal and my mate knocked his full pint of beer over me before the main course had arrived. We had already been waiting for over an hour and that was the final straw so I left. I wasn't going to sit soaking wet stinking of stale beer.
 
Ian Key said:
Too right.

I live on my own and usually go to my brothers for lunch with my two nieces but this year they both went abroad for Christmas and my brother didn't want to cook lunch just for the three of us.

I'm doing well for Christmas meals this year as the previous Friday a group of us went to a local pub for a meal and my mate knocked his full pint of beer over me before the main course had arrived. We had already been waiting for over an hour and that was the final straw so I left. I wasn't going to sit soaking wet stinking of stale beer.
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You could have just poured a bit of each beer down the front of yourself to keep the beer smell fresh ;) :ROFLMAO:

I was at a works Melbourne Cup lunch many moons back, and they had all the food on a lazy Susan in the centre of the table with maybe 25 people sat around it.
At the start of the meal, everyone was very careful where they placed their beer glass, but as the day when on and everyone had downed a large quantity of free beer, glass placement was a matter of finding the table .....
The jokers in the group would watch, turn the table just enough to not quite knock the glass, then set it up for one of the others to ask someone in the rotation direction required, to pass them some of .... what ever ..... always eager to play spin the wheel, they would whip it around, collecting the beer and spilling it all over who ever was in line :eek: Naturally, those who set it up, were not seen to be to blame, it was the one who had spun the table :rolleyes:

T1 Terry
 
T1 Terry said:
Sitting on the front deck of our friend's houseboat. A boneless ham roll, jar of gherkins, round of Brie, tomatoes off the vine, 1kg block of Bega Vintage Tasty cheese ..... and a big kitchen knife ..... consumed 4 light beers, designated driver and my head was near ready to exploding before we even started, so more alcohol was not going to help ..... wife and our friend Brian, who owns the houseboat, polished off 2 bottles of red wine between them ..... and a most enjoyable afternoon chatting, then we consumed his box of Cadbury's Roses chocolates someone in the Marina gave him for Christmas.

T1 Terry
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Life can be hard 🤩
 
Archev said:
Life can be hard 🤩
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You have to be tough to survive, I'm trying my hardest .... Pity our other friend with the really big houseboat, has sold it and moved to Qld coal country ..... great memories of tying up opposite the barge that the fireworks were launched for New yrs .... so none dropped into the town, they were fired in the air but towards where we were tied up, they were going off over our heads, but the buzz of feeling like they were being aim at you :cool:

T1 Terry
 
Ian Key said:
Had a ham and mustard sandwich followed by Comte and Cheddar cheeses with Ritz crackers after an expensive but disappointing lunch.

SPOILER ALERT:
Major moan ahead.

First time ever I went with my brother and his misses to the New Bath Hotel in Matlock for Christmas lunch. The lettuce in the prawn cocktail was limper than Larry Grayson. The roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding was from Aunt Bessie's, the roasted root vegetables consisted of two carrot sticks, the pigs in blankets was one pig in a blanket and the smallest piece of hard stuffing imaginable with two pieces of turkey. All served lukewarm. This was followed by a thin slice of Bakewell tart which was supposed to come with coconut ice cream but didn't. All this for £85!

Next year it'll be a ready meal from Sainsbury's.
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Shades of a disastrous Christmas dinner in the Pond Hotel in Great Western Road in Glasgow with my university colleagues in about 1980. There was another one in The Ubiquitous Chip in Byres Road about the same time. It's a rip-off.
 
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