The rib of beef is out of the freezer, as is the gammon - gammon will be cooked tomorrow to have as cold cuts over the coming week. Will collect Turkey tomorrow from the turkey farm. Have made 2 batches of scottish shortbread, one lot dunked in milk chocolate - do they look god or WHAT! Sponges made my Jessica for her choccy log, and James is on cookies and fairy cake duty. Tomorrow I will make the roulade sponge - same one that won first prize back in the summer show...remember? Then I will prep all the veg I can, and that will be that. It should be a reasonably relaxed cooking day on Chrissy day as it is only us and mum, but as you know, I love to cook so like to do all the extras. How are your plans coming along?
My turkey is out and in my little refridg.I will be baking pecan pies. tonight.I will bake a cake.Mixing my dressing tomorrow night to pop in the oven Christmas morning as I bake my turkey all night on 200 degrees and its always perfect.We will have Dooley and dr,Bob to come eat Christmas dinner.Every one after dinner will head for work except for us three thats retired and Cheyenne.Kevin and Paul has to leave about 2:30 and Shanna at 4:30 then Bob at 9m .
The sheep ribs are going in water shortly, the pork side ribs are thawing out, the rutabaga will be mashed, both the red and white sauerkraut is in the larder, we've got the pork sausages, both fresh and dried, ready, and also the small sausages. We've got a heap of almond potatoes waiting for attention. I can safely say we're good to go. Edit: Desserts, I forgot about it. We're having rice cream with red sauce, and there's an almond hidden in there. Whoever finds the almond, wins a marzipan pig.
There'll be eight of us here on Chrissy day.We're having home-made pate, three kinds, with freshly baked French loaves and fresh butter first. Then it's going to be chickens (2) (no-one likes turkey much) with fresh garden peas, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes (done in goose fat) and lashings of gravy. For a sweet we'll have strawberry trifle followed by biscuits and cheese (6 kinds) with decaff coffee made with milk. Later in the evening, if folks are still peckish, then there'll be home-made cakes and choccies - all prepared and finally finished yesterday. After I've cleaned the whole house tomorrow I'll cook the chickens and make the trifle then it's off to bed for an early night for me!!!
I'm catching up on reading everyone's postings since I have been away. I have a few questions. EJ, What is gammon? Eileen, where did you find your pate recipes? I have been searching for some good ones. We love pate and you cannot find it over here so I have been trying to make my own. Any suggestions? (I wish I could have been a guest at all of your homes- your meals sound delicious!)
Gammon is a ham joint, so a leg of pork which has been salted and smoked. I then boil it in a hug pan filled with stock veggies, and cola , then finish it by roating in a hot oven for 15 mins coating it first in honey and mustard.
Ah, I do this know this pork but by a different name. I haven't cooked it your way so I am going to give that a try, it sounds delicious. Thanks EJ!
I notice you put gammon in with coca cola too, its funny I had never heard of doing it that way until a customer told me about it and you are now the second person who has mentioned it, I am going to try it out next time I do some gammon.
