The CHRISTMAS Thread

[leedswolf]

I do quite like a mince pie as a holiday treat but really only in the actual period of the festivities.

To be honest I have no idea if they are really a thing here. I have seen Christmas puddings on the shelves in Coles this week but I don’t remember seeing mince pies at all yet. I will have a mooch at the weekend.

Yep, mince pies are available over there. The best ones according to wife, daughter and son-in-law are from David Jones (there's one in Brizzy).

 

[leedswolf]

Thinking about getting ine of these as a centrepiece for Christmas day lunch.

 

[lemonjelly]

My nan used to bake mince pies, and so much more all year round. She was a phenomenon, and her mince pies were the stuff of legend.

I made scones the other day at home, and in my head everything felt like I was in her kitchen, with her behind me giving instructions and encouragement.

I still remember coming home from school at the age of 6-7, and entering the kitchen every wednesday, as her and my mom would have spent the day baking. Every surface in the kitchen acted as a cooling tray!

 

[leedswolf]

My nan used to bake mince pies, and so much more all year round. She was a phenomenon, and her mince pies were the stuff of legend.

I made scones the other day at home, and in my head everything felt like I was in her kitchen, with her behind me giving instructions and encouragement.

I still remember coming home from school at the age of 6-7, and entering the kitchen every wednesday, as her and my mom would have spent the day baking. Every surface in the kitchen acted as a cooling tray!

When dad was alive mum's Sunday ritual was to cook Sunday lunch and then bake cakes and pies for the week.

 

[Paul]

With my Mom being a district nurse and working every third weekend, my memories are always of my Dad cooking, still have memory of the fear watching him remove the valve off the top of the pressure cooker whilst he got scalded by the high pressure steam, his Sunday dinners where always my 'industry standard' until I met my wife.
My gran was the cook at the handicapped care home in Cannock, my earliest memory of her in the kitchen was jam season, where they'd be multiple pots / cauldrons bubbling away with what I can only describe as strawberry or blackcurrant flavoured lava.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

My Gran's cakes were awesome. As I was the youngest, she always used to bake extra for me much to the annoyance of my brother and sister!

She was from Wales so she used to make amazing Welsh Cakes. I still miss them now. I tried making some at home myself but failed miserably

 

[lemonjelly]

My Gran's cakes were awesome. As I was the youngest, she always used to bake extra for me much to the annoyance of my brother and sister!

She was from Wales so she used to make amazing Welsh Cakes. I still miss them now. I tried making some at home myself but failed miserably

keep trying! I'll never bake as good as my nan, but I love the fact I am doing something she loved, and I can still hear her advising me when I do very basic things.

My mom and dad had a massive chest freezer in the garage. For years we still found random pies in there. her apple and blackcurrant pies were amazing!
More than once we'd find a pie at the bottom, defrost it and get excited whilst eating dinner, then cut it and find out it was a meat pie, so no pudding!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

My mum could have challenged Rhea from Butterflies. However she could make a brilliant quiche or Spag Bol or Lasagne. Her roasts were okay but dad used to do that meal most weeks.

 

[Sniffer]

My mum could have challenged Rhea from Butterflies. However she could make a brilliant quiche or Spag Bol or Lasagne. Her roasts were okay but dad used to do that meal most weeks.

Weren't all the meals in Butterflies horrendous rather than brilliant quiches, spag bols, lasagnes and adequate roasts? Somewhere in my mind I'm still convinced that Rodney was so slim due to his mother in a previous sit com being such a bad cook.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That’s the point. Apart from a few dishes she could burn water

 

[Sniffer]

I like a few chutneys in at Xmas to go with a cheese board. Aldi have a cracking tomato and chilli chutney with a real kick to it. I'm not up with the hotness of different sorts of chillies but its made with the birds eye version.

 

[leedswolf]

 

[Lupo]

Had a Danger Dog yesterday at Much Wenlock Christmas Fayre, £9 but very nice with proper sausage, bacon, caramelised onions, jalapeños and crispy onions

 

[EpsomWolf]

Weekend in Birmingham so went to the Christmas market yesterday evening.

Firstly, fair play, that is a cracking market to be fair.

Secondly, dangerously crowded. Security tried to get a circular flow going but it was hopeless. Quite literally unable to move at times and you did think this could turn into a crush.

Was far more impressed with the market than I was expecting but they are going to have to do something about crowd management because that was on the cusp of trouble.

 

[Johnny75]

Had a Danger Dog yesterday at Much Wenlock Christmas Fayre, £9 but very nice with proper sausage, bacon, caramelised onions, jalapeños and crispy onions

That's a lot for a hot dog

 

[Lupo]

That's a lot for a hot dog

It is but was very nice and quite big, so big I tried to add a picture but the file was too large

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It’s a fucking rip off. What’s it made of - Panda?

 

[Kenny]

Got chuck in everything I guess.

Presume a local business buying decent produce, renting a spot at the market, fuel to run their wagon, wages for themselves and maybe help + the requirement to make a profit.

£9 may sound ridiculous but I doubt they clear much profit from that amount

 

[Lupo]

It’s a fucking rip off. What’s it made of - Panda?

Nah, didn't taste like panda

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

And that’s why Christmas markets are a rip off.