Xmas Dinner

[Jennywrenny]

Originally Posted by Tormentil

Good grief !! Thats my MiL.

I chuckled when I found out what MiL meant

[Boddie]

Originally Posted by Jennywrenny

Me? Ugly?

They really are pug ugly arent they.

[mim]

Is it me or does that look like someone has knitted it a little hat ?

[badgerwatcher]

I think he's lovely, and a great colour sense!

[smartie]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Deliahs recipe for cooking the goose is good,potatoes cooked in the fat are heavenly

I agree, goose is the best. Particularly good stuffed with a stuffing based on dry mashed potato with onions and lots of fruit and nuts, which soaks up the juices beautifully. We used to have it at Christmas when I was a child, and my father always insisted on giving the goose a name before we cooked it. This used to put me off a bit - I've never really liked eating anything that I've been introduced to socially, like those lobsters that wave at you when they are taken out of the tank.

We have to have duck now, as the friends we share Christmas with won't eat goose.

[wildfire]

ah reading this thread has made me hungry! we also name our turkey every year - but only after ppl we wouldn't mind roasting, last years was Simon Cowell
(sorry simon)

[smartie]

Originally Posted by wildfire

we also name our turkey every year - but only after ppl we wouldn't mind roasting, last years was Simon Cowell
(sorry simon)

Ah, now there is a very a good idea. We've got two ducks - I might run a family competition on who most deserves roasting

[honeybee]

Originally Posted by Jane_Russell

My father was always bigging up the virtues of goose fat! I will see if I can find a good goose. Hope the animals won't mind sharing!

Jane

You'll find that tons of fat comes out, think you need a deep tray to collect it all.

I prefer my geese, turkeys, ducks et all happy and alive. Hope all you meat eaters get free range?

[smartie]

Originally Posted by honeybee

I prefer my geese, turkeys, ducks et all happy and alive. Hope all you meat eaters get free range?

We eat mostly vegetarian food but I do still like meat occasionally - I always try to get free range and organic. Our ducks have been reared on what seems like a very good small farm in the South West. So I hope at least that they were happy while they were alive.