The CHRISTMAS Thread

[Alan]

Eh? Oil garlic rosemary and a bit of salt. Honey is fucking horrible.

Save the bees!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I suppose the oil would help it slide off the plate into the bin

Fucking peasant

 

[Lupo]

Paul you and I differ! Roast parsnips and sprouts are up there as the best things on a roast for me with the roast potatoes, stuffing, cracking, Yorkshire Puds!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Parsnips are horrible. I'd rather eat a plate of them than a plate of sprouts, but then I'd rather have Mark Atkins at right back than Ronald Zubar.

 

[BillyDee]

Sprouts are fucking disgusting. IF boiled to fuck.
Roasted they are fucking beautiful, and actually retain the goodness in them instead of it being leached away...

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Toby Carvery:

"Festive yorkie calzone". Turkey, pigs in blankets, camembert and stuffing in a giant yorkie, with roasties served separate.

Someone go and try one in the name of research. I'm not going, the nearest one is bloody miles away and Kenny got food poisoning there once.

It gets 5/5 here

‘Which bit of the turkey is this supposed to be?!’ I ate 12 Christmas dinners in 12 days – here are the best and worst!

I could eat a Christmas dinner every day – and so I did, all in the name of research. But from Wetherspoon’s to Beefeater and Toby Carvery, which chain had the perfect roasties, the best brussels and the poshest pigs in blankets?

www.theguardian.com

 

[BillyDee]

Roasted 'nips are lovely, as long as they've been parboiled first. No one wants a crunchy 'nip...

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I love parsnips.

Sprouts are ok. If they’re on my plate I will eat them but wouldn’t miss them if they weren’t there.

 

[Kenny]

It gets 5/5 here

‘Which bit of the turkey is this supposed to be?!’ I ate 12 Christmas dinners in 12 days – here are the best and worst!

I could eat a Christmas dinner every day – and so I did, all in the name of research. But from Wetherspoon’s to Beefeater and Toby Carvery, which chain had the perfect roasties, the best brussels and the poshest pigs in blankets?

www.theguardian.com

The state of this one!! Lost for words

Hungry Horse​

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a decent Christmas dinner. They say the first bite of any meal is with the eye – so what in the name of all things festive is this? Where’s the green? Which bit of the turkey is that supposed to be – its biceps? The advertised cranberry sauce and stuffing are awol and the gravy tastes of petrol. I wouldn’t feed this last turkey in the shop of a Christmas dinner to my dog, but, in the interests of journalism, I eat it anyway.
Score: 0/5

 

[Wolf Hunting]

We decided to have a change of colour on our Christmas tree this year after about 9 years of plain white bulbs, so we went and bought a box of those very neat inline bulbs (String Bulbs?). Now the smallest box we could get had 75 metres on the string but they were coloured and tiny, so we thought this was gonna be good, So armed with a decent whisky I set about our 7 foot tree with around 225 + feet of coloured lights...
Having wound the whole roll (bit excessive really but too late now) we realised, as Susie started hanging baubles and things on it that it was too bright by a mile. You couldn't actually see the baubles and things, they just became little dark patches...
So they all had to come off. Took hours. For FUCK'S SAKE!!!

We put the old white ones on this morning.

 

[BillyDee]

No.1 rule of decorating the tree; check the lights before putting on the tree...

 

[Kenny]

No.1 rule of decorating the tree;..

leave it to someone else.

The wife had the pleasure of decorating 3 trees at the weekend. I helped by keeping out of the way

 

[Alan]

No.1 rule of decorating the tree; check the lights before putting on the tree...

Pfft, if you were really hard core you'd use candles.

 

[sycophantia]

If you don't like sprouts or parsnips, you're either cooking them wrong (don't boil them in water for an hour is a good start) or your taste buds are fucked.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

No.1 rule of decorating the tree; check the lights before putting on the tree...

I did check the lights. They all worked. I even realised there was going to be a lot of winding, a 7 Foot tree that has to accommodate 225 feet of lights... It was just.... cumulatively, they were too bright. Very pretty, but a bit bright.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Par boil and then roast with garlic and Rosemary bit of seasoning and maybe a dash of butter in with the oil to be decadent. That’s the perfect parsnip.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I did check the lights. They all worked. I even realised there was going to be a lot of winding, A 7 Foot that has to accommodate 225 feet of lights... It was just.... cumulatively, they were too bright. Very pretty, but a bit bright.

Buy a set with a dimmer switch. It’s only a small resistor

 

[Kenny]

Par boil and then roast with garlic and Rosemary bit of seasoning and maybe a dash of butter in with the oil to be decadent.

Best of part of that I was really confused as to what you do with your Christmas lights!

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Buy a set with a dimmer switch. It’s only a small resistor

Never seen them!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Really????

Virtually every commercially sold tree with in built lights has a dimmer