Reply to: Christmas menu

[Churchill]

You need a good bit of blood to give the gravey some real flavour (and a dash of red wine)

Firstly young man

Secondly, add Cognac, a dash of vermouth and a couple of glasses of port, stir into the gravy, throw the meat away and get pished on the gravy!

[Ardesco]

If it's been hung properly, it won't bleed.

I'm not talking arterial pumping here, but a fresh peice of meat will retain a certain amount of blood in the flesh. That tends to mix with the fat and makes superb gravey. You need a good bit of blood to give the gravey some real flavour (and a dash of red wine)

[Churchill]

Best crimbo dinner is a nice slab of Roast Aberdeen Angus (and by roast I mean warmed in the oven) that still bleeds as you cut it MMMMMmmmmMMmmmMMMmmmmmmmmmmm

If it's been hung properly, it won't bleed.

[chef]

Chef if your wife is a hotel manager, and you are such a good cook - I can see a plan B in the making

my girlfriend is the manager for the Executive Lounge of Hilton Manchester but has been a hotel manager for other smaller independent hotels.

i enjoy cooking as a hobby but im not at the masterchef form fillign stage quite yet, i just like experimenting and recreating things ive eaten in restaurants.

I would quite like to own a boutique b&b / bistro style restaurant as a plan B possibly in the future, its on the cards, just need some more practice first

[SandyDown]

I don't know if this is normal, but when my wife cooks duck it takes 4-6 hours, at a low temperature, and all the superfluous fat melts away in the process.

Whatever bird she roasts, the skin is coated in Soy sauce and various spices, the bird comes out black looking like it's been burnt, but it's really nice, better than any other roast bird I've ever had.

I reckon her duck method should work for cooking the traditional christmas bird, goose, but for some reason she shudders at the thought of eating goose. I'm sure a goose cooked like this would beat the pants off that recent American import, Turkey.

Sounds yummie, would you mind asking her for the recipe for me?

[ThomasSoerensen]

Generous servings of various seafood.

[IR35 Avoider]

I don't know if this is normal, but when my wife cooks duck it takes 4-6 hours, at a low temperature, and all the superfluous fat melts away in the process.

Whatever bird she roasts, the skin is coated in Soy sauce and various spices, the bird comes out black looking like it's been burnt, but it's really nice, better than any other roast bird I've ever had.

I reckon her duck method should work for cooking the traditional christmas bird, goose, but for some reason she shudders at the thought of eating goose. I'm sure a goose cooked like this would beat the pants off that recent American import, Turkey.

[DiscoStu]

My Xmas dinner isn't just turkey, it's M&S turkey

[SandyDown]

Chef if your wife is a hotel manager, and you are such a good cook - I can see a plan B in the making

[Ardesco]

Best crimbo dinner is a nice slab of Roast Aberdeen Angus (and by roast I mean warmed in the oven) that still bleeds as you cut it MMMMMmmmmMMmmmMMMmmmmmmmmmmm

[Board Game Geek]

Hilton Manchester.

Surely those two words are polar opposites to each other and don't belong in the same sentence ?

[chef]

mail order?

errr nope, they deliver the food to me on fridays, the christmas run will be done on the friday before xmas i presume

or if your referring to my g'friend, no i collected her myself. Met her in Latvia while travelling through eastern europe, she was the hotel manager. Now she's still a hotel manager but in the Hilton Manchester.

[wendigo100]

mail order?

It's all right, he's seen a picture...

[sasguru]

xmas eve will be Kûèios (lithuanian traditional dinner) for the g'friend

mail order?

[Zorba]

Chef - interesting, in my family its been a tradition that Xmas Eve is stricktly seafood, no meat. Then Xmas day is the meaty day - usually Turkey, but not gona do the Turkey this year....

partridge & guinea fowl sounds interesting, only its a bit risky don't you think? meat may be quite tough, and too little of it?

My mother in law has a similar menu setup. Funny, that. I never heard of it until I had Christmas there.