The Christmas 2007 Eating and Drinking Thread

Cooking for xmas eve:

Roast beef, yorkshire pudding and Roast Potatoes

Drinking:

Sloe Gin, winter pimms and Soda mixed over ice

Cooking:

Trifle

Lox.
Salad.
Seafood risotto.
Cheese.
Chocolate and marzipan.

Drinking:

white rioja
port
armagnac

Black Swan Cabernet.

I don't eat these days, just drink. I'm eating a pecan butter & jelly sandwich now though. I have to eat something.

Xmas eve -

We had Swiss cheese fondue with bread, apples, and pears and then for dessert we had dark chocolate fondue; along with the bread, apples, and pears, we put out marshmallows, blackberries, and bananas.

Xmas Day -

Mom is making prime rib; we're bringing a salad. I don't know what we're drinking, but my parents own liquor stores, so there should be a variety of good stuff.

Saturday at my sister's house, finger foods and "taco soup." I made deviled eggs with a little surprise, sauteed shrimp under the egg filling.

Tomorrow morning, the traditional heart-buster breakfast -- bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy. Tomorrow night, we'll go to my parents' house for chicken and dressing and the usual go-withs.

PANETTONE

Tonight for dinner I made pot-au-feu - short ribs, a chuck roast, and a couple of beef shanks with potatoes, carrots, leeks, and green beans. We ate this with mustard, cornichons, horseradish, bread with goat cheese, and the head of garlic I cooked in the broth. It was a meat orgy.

Drank Old Fashioneds as my wife's grandfather would have made them had we been at home, local-ish red wine and some beers.

Tomorrow morning: bubble bread.

Just got back from the brother's house, where we celebrated Christmas Pt. 1. Our typical Christmas fare of tamales (home-made for the first time in years!) and pozole was greeeeeat. Topped off with a few Sam Adams and getting whooped at Loteria. Yum.

pepperoni, sopressata, prosciutto, lardo, pancetta, guanciale, capicola, bresaola

cheese

mozzarella, tomatoes, basil

tuscan steak

wine wine wine wine wine wine

i kill you with guns

Oh sweet panettone I sing your praises at this late hour

Turkey, ribs, salads, champagne, Lindt choccies & Czech beers. Happy non-denominational holidays!

salmon, sorrel, lemon, radicchio, broccoli rabe, sorrel sauce, pasta, riesling, berries, most of the foregoing with olive oil of one variety or another

Parsnip orange & ginger soup. Turkey with stuffing and roast potatoes/parsnips/carrots, pigs in blankets, pickled red cabbage with apple and juniper berries, cranberry and orange and port sauce, bread sauce, and sprouts (veggies who necessitated the soup being veggie are bringing their own food, but I've not used the turkey fat for the veg so they can have all the trimmings). Raspberry pavlova. Irish coffees and chocolate mints. Traditions'r'us this year (except i don't like christmas pudding so we're not having any of that). Drinking: bucks fizz for breakfast this morning. Rioja, port then I don't know: Baileys, Glayva, whatever I feel like once I get dinner out of the way.

Right now: Panettone I just toasted in front of the fire (which I successfully built when I got up this morning), and drinking a cup of 2nd flush Darjeeling. I think we are going to try to make some kind of eggnog french toast for breakfast, and then I think it will be hot buttered rum for present opening.

I told people last night about this on chat but here goes. Last night we were invited to a semi-private dinner at our favorite place in town -- my mother in law is big buddies with the chef and waitress, and there were only three parties seated. They did a four-course menu with a wine flight of five champagnes. Said menu:

1. Greek antipasto plate: spanakopita, olives, tomatoes
2. Tomato fig soup
3. Salad with strawberries and avocado
4. Four entree choices -- I had the eggplant moussaka, perfectly balanced and light but still substantial; others at my table had a seafood bouillabaisse that made them all go into paroxysms of praise.

Then we had cake and coffee.

Tonight, our traditional Christmas Day baked rigatoni meal, then we play Taboo.

right now one of those three flavor popcorn tubs. 30 Rock inspired me to ask for one like I had when I was a kid.

the rainbow cookies were selling really well at the indian bagel shop

scallops wrapped in bacon
veal ossu buco
also poached pears stuffed with marscapone, canollis, and tira misu (none of which i can eat, thanks to lactardation. soooo sad.

today i cooked:
chicken soaked overnight in fresh lemon juice and then roasted with honey glaze (ended up a bit overdone but still delicious)
roast potatoes and parsnips with carrots, sprouts, shallots and red onion, pork and apricot stuffing (bought)

always takes longer than planned so didn't eat til just after 8pm but that's OK as there was only two of us

Working on:

Honey roast duck with roast carrots, potatoes, and parmesan roast parsnips
sprouts and chesnuts
christmas pudding.

Drinking

Goose Island Honker's Ale
about to mix some whisky sours with black maple hill rye

I drank an entire bottle of sparkling shiraz because no one else wanted it. Kinda wobbly.

Today's lunch will be:
Bubble & squeak made mainly with sprouts (!)
leftover turkey and some streaky bacon that didn't get served with the sausages yesterday.
Boxing Day trifle - the cause of a row yesterday because my dad crossed the trifle spnges off the list but didn't actually buy them.

rice cakes
3 gin and tonics (someone else's tab)
3 bud lights (someone else's tab)
2 tacos al pastor
1 tamarind jarrito
jack and daniels to taste

fuck-you-christmas delite

refried xmas pudding, refried roast veg and sausage patties for breakfast (forgot to make stuffing)

tea and ginger Kombucha (if I didn't have stuff to do today I would have ginger in the Kombucha as that is fabulous).

Yesterday, we had:

Breakfast:
Coffee Cake
Scrambled Eggs
Bacon
Coffee
Mimosas

Throughout the day
Champers, Mimosas, and Guinnesses
Crackers and dip

Dinner:
Ham
Mac and Cheese
Sweet Potato Casserole
Green Bean Casserole
Garlic Peas

The brandyest figgy pudding ever.

xmas eve:
standing rib roast
asparagus
rosemary potatoes
rose napoleon
some kind of cab-sauv i don't remember which
a taste of my sister's vegetarian entree: polenta w/ goat cheese on top, surrounded by a sauce we've deemed "arrabiesca" (somewhere between arrabiata and puttanesca)

xmas:
morning:
mimosas
egg/spinach caserole
fruit salad (strawberries, bananas, mango, pineapple, coconut flakes)
panettone

afternoon:
bloody marys
arrabieschetta (bruschetta made with leftovers of the above mentioned arrabiesca sauce! i had fun making up these words)

dinner:
a random red (i know this does not make sense but no one remembered to chill a white in time)
paella w/ tons o' seafood
cheese/fruit/nut course
mixed greens
touch of port

this afternoon:
vietnamese noodle soup with shrimp, fish balls, and pork MMMM

above-mentioned rose napoleon

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