That sounds nice smurfy, I haven't really tried butternut squash yet. I do have a recipe for it though.
We are having beef, pork and chicken as the meats with aunt bessies roasties, yorkshire puds, stuffing and veg. Mum might push the boat out a bit and do pigs in blankets.
I prefer to do the potatoes rather than have frozen - i know its a pain and takes ages but i prefer the taste i think. We are going to have turkey i think
That is one meat I don't think we have ever had on Christmas day.
Well for me Christmas starts on Christmas Eve, that’s when I start to bake, mince pies; sausage rolls, bread, and home made cranberry sauce with plenty of port. I make braised cabbage and mashed potatoes with cream and butter, and refrigerate till Boxing Day, I peel all the vegetables for the next day, and then just before bed I lay the table with the best linen, silver cutlery, glasses and dinner service, flowers and candles. Oh not forgetting the crackers. Christmas breakfast is always the same we get up early about 7am; breakfast is scrambled eggs with smoked salmon served on brioche. Well I haven’t really though about first course but I think either homemade asparagus soup or avocado with tiger prawns. Dinner itself is an organic bronze turkey; with a chestnut and cranberry stuffing (not out of a box or packet I make from scratch) roast potatoes (always King Edwards), parsnips, sweet potatoes, leeks and carrots. No Brussels sprouts as such but Brussels top though you sometimes get small one still on the leaves, home made bread sauce made with double cream, home made gravy made with stock and wine, no granules in this house!!! All of course washed down with good Chablis! As always I can never eat Christmas pudding then I’ll wait till later, the pudding of course is also organic with plenty of booze and being from the west country clotted cream. Oh and pudding wine of course!!! I then don’t cook till the day after Boxing Day. Boxing day is easier cold cuts with pickles and chutneys I made in the year, mashed potatoes and slow roasted braised cabbage, which I made on Christmas Eve. Pudding is always sherry trifle also made Christmas Eve. In my house you never leave hungry or without a drink!
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