Christmas Dinner

[Anthony Williams]

since most of you won't see this until after you've eaten, I pose the question...

what did you have for Christmas dinner?

well, we'll be having goose this year. we normally have turkey, but my parents decided to go with something a bit different this year. should be nice! we've got a potato, apple, onion and herbs stuffing to go inside it, as well as red cabbage, peas and parsnips to go with!

Ant x

[Dave Lewis]

A hangover, the flu, and no sleep, followed by a lot of sparkling wine and text messages.

[Captain Tancredi]

M & S Nut and Mushroom Roast (me), turkey breast (Mum, Dad and quite probably the cat later on). Trouble with a nut and mushroom roast in onion sauce is that it either tastes of nuts, mushrooms or onions- the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

At least I was better off than my cousin, who had five for dinner and defrosted the turkey to find that it was off...

[Doctor Vendetta]

I had some Fiz-Wiz and a Sherbert Dib-Dab.

[Milky Tears]

Lobster Soup (!!??)
Prawn Cocktail

Turkey
Roast Potatoes
Yorkshire Pudding
Pigs in Blankets
Brussel Sprouts
Broccoli
Carrots
Peas
Cranberry Sauce


Christmas Pudding
Mince Pies
Mulled Wine
Stollen

Then I got stuck in about the chocolate and sweets.

[Stephen Morgan]

Beef.
Pork.
Boiled potatoes (in their skins)
Roast potatoes and parsnips.
Cauliflower.
Peas.
Carrots.
Sprouts.
Loads of gravy.

Almond chocolate pyramid.
Toffee and vanilla ice cream

chocolate mints

Two bottles of wine.
Tea/coffee.

And afterwrds, while playing Blockbusters od pop quiz DVD game, tucked into the Roses or whatever other sweets/chocolate we have.

The kitchen is still trying to recover after all the upheaval on its busiest tday of the year, today, thankfully we're at my mother's for Boxing Day lunch. I don't envy them, they're cooking for ten of us as we did yesterday.

[Mike Saville]

Well, Niamh and I decided it would be suitably fitting to eat the now redundant Rudolph, so we had venison. Fantabulous it was too.

I normally go for something more fitting for a special occasion, and in recent years have had quaill, pheasant, partridge, duck, goose... not all the same time obviously.

[Trudi G]

Turkey
Pork
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Peas
Sweetcorn
Brussells sprouts
Carrots
Gravy

And for dessert..
Fruit flan (made by me!) and squirty cream!

[Larry]

just the usual - turkey, chipolatas, roast potato, mash potato, peas carrots, stuffing. parsnips and the usual sauces followed by christmas pud, cream and a mince pie..

[sugartongs]

Today we had our Christmas lunch and i sat next to a very yummy co-worker who touched my thigh twice. Oh the food... erm... Turkey slices with some sort of stuffing in a cuboid shape with sprouts and parsnips and sausages wrapped in bacon. And potatoes. And not very much gravy and no cranberry sauce
My sexy co-worker friend swapped me potatoes and the sausage/bacon thing for my sprouts and parsnips - result!

And "chocolate torte" which was cold and had what appeared to be a few milliletres of cold thin cream on it.

And later on she touched my shoulder. I am so easily pleased

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Depends what she touched your shoulder with.

[Si Hunt]

Our works Christmas lunch at the Harvester was held in good company (so we all had fun) but the food wasn't up to much. All a bit dry and sparten, and there were no peas. The Christmas Pud was a bit lifeless too. And no crackers!

But you get what you pay for and three courses for ?13.50p isn't bad.

Si.

[Jon Masters]

The Science department went out Tues Night to the local pub - didn't fancy Christmas dinner so had chilli fried beef with noodles , and then lamb curry.

Verrrrrrry nice.

At home this year I decided to have a go at goose (and ordered from my friendly local Sainsbury's too)

[WhiteCrow]

We went to eat at the Gurkha Palace - Nepalese food is really interesting. Generally and this isn't surprising, it's like somewhere between Indian and Chinese food, leaning more on the Indian.

I love turkey, so it'll be standard turkey dinner for us at Christmas. I have a friend who's Chinese and they have all kind of unusual fish dishes for Christmas day which she says is a real treat.

[sugartongs]

Depends what she touched your shoulder with.

with her HAND!

[Captain Tancredi]

Went out for a Christmas meal with some friends on Wednesday and the service was terrible- we sat down at about 8 and didn't get our main courses until around 9.30, added to which a party of 18 seemed to have exhausted the restaurant's stock of cutlery and teacups.

I missed the team Christmas meal last Friday but as they went for tapas I don't think I missed anything- the veggie dishes were basically potato, courgette, potato and courgette and courgette and potato-bu this year I'm having vegetarian haggis for Christmas dinner.

[sugartongs]

Vegetarian Haggis? Isn't that like making a wooden nail?

[Captain Tancredi]

Well, since I wrote that Mother has rung and now I'm having it on Boxing Day with neeps and tatties. The tatties are vegetarian but the neeps aren't- last time I was chasing the little blighters all around the garden.

[Stuart Wallis]

Am I the only person in the world who dreads Christmas dinner with family because i can't stand chicken and turkey?

[sugartongs]

yes. most people dread the sprouts

[sugartongs]

at our bash we had what appeared to be little tubs of butter for starters. A couple of people then said how there wasn't enough toast served with their pate and that all good pat?s have a butter topping. The chap then turned to me and asked, in all earnestness

"Have you ever made pate?"

I suddenly felt very working class.

[Pip Madeley]

Turkey. Yorkshire puddings. Roast potatoes. Loads of vegetables. Gravy.

Yum.

[shada pavlova]

We're having a couple of pheasants, along with the turkey, this year.

Do any of you chaps stand up and listen to the Queen's Speech?

[Dirk Gently]

Listen, yes. Stand up, No.

[Stuart Wallis]

Prince Philip will be shooting a couple of peasants along with the turkey this year. Possibly...