Christmas Dinner! As usual, we have celebrated with our friends and neighbours, the Fairweathers. We have done this for years - it's a nice tradition and it allows us two ovens to cook in, so we can have lots of things with less of the stress of planning how to get it all cooked. We usually have a turkey and some other meat (sometimes beeef, sometimes pork); this year we also had a non-meat main dish - cranberry and lentil bake - as Olivia is a vegetarian now (she's never been much of a meat eater). Then the side dishes, which (except for the chipolatas wrapped in bacon) are all veggie friendly: bread & sage stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, brussels sprouts with cream (and a bacon crumble, if one eats bacon), cranberry sauce, and two types of gravy. Seriously, yum. We were, of course, all stuffed afterwards, and had to take a break before eating dessert, which I managed NOT to photograph, but it was cheesecake and pumpkin pie. And leftovers for Boxing Day - what more could we want?
Christmas Dinner! As usual, we have celebrated with our friends and neighbours, the Fairweathers. We have done this for years - it's a nice tradition and it allows us two ovens to cook in, so we can have lots of things with less of the stress of planning how to get it all cooked. We usually have a turkey and some other meat (sometimes beeef, sometimes pork); this year we also had a non-meat main dish - cranberry and lentil bake - as Olivia is a vegetarian now (she's never been much of a meat eater). Then the side dishes, which (except for the chipolatas wrapped in bacon) are all veggie friendly: bread & sage stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, brussels sprouts with cream (and a bacon crumble, if one eats bacon), cranberry sauce, and two types of gravy. Seriously, yum. We were, of course, all stuffed afterwards, and had to take a break before eating dessert, which I managed NOT to photograph, but it was cheesecake and pumpkin pie. And leftovers for Boxing Day - what more could we want?
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