has any body got any ideas for an alternative christmas dinner thats not turkey.. anybody having anything different this year ??
2006-10-13 08:59:14 · 27 answers · asked by grumpcookie 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I'm gonna try rosemary roasted lamb, minted roast potatoes, with sweet carrots & pea's.
And strawberry cheesecake and double cream for pudding :-)
2006-10-13 09:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We never have turkey - it's too readily available throughout the year and not Christmassy enough!
The traditional Christmas dinner - before they discovered America and consequently turkeys - was goose. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a much richer flavour than turkey and is delicious served with apple sauce. If you use some of the fat from the goose to roast your potatoes, you'll find that they are crispier and even more delicious than usual. And, because there aren't as many trimmings traditionally served with goose, you save yourself a lot of work!
I used this recipe last year and it was absolutely yummy:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/roast-goose-with-forcemeat-and-spiced-cranberry-and-apple-stuffing,951,RC.html
Enjoy!
2006-10-14 07:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah A 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Turkey is not actually originally traditional to Britain it was introduced to us by the Americans from their traditional thanks giving dinner. So if you would like & can afford to do it, go for a traditional English banquet. I did this one year when I had a lot of geusts and it went down a storm. Do up loads of dishes of veg including mash & roast pots & game chips. For the meats etc, have beef, ham & pork. Pheasant, goose & partridge (don't go for the swan otherwise you will be slung in prison by the queen as they belong to her), do a jugged hare too, basically thats a hare stew with red wine (got recipe if ya want it). you can do all this on a smaller scale. Then get everyone to dress medieval
2006-10-13 23:39:23 · answer #3 · answered by Denise W 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We will have a traditional Danish Christmas dinner of stuffed roast goose with red cabbage and browned potatoes. Only instead of stuffing the goose with prunes in the Danish style, we’ll be stuffing it with a mixture of prunes and chestnut. For desert, instead of Christmas plum pudding we’ll have Ris ala mande, which is a creamy rice pudding with almonds, instead of having a sixpence in it, it has a whole almond and the person that finds the whole almond gets a present. (N.B. The Danish Christmas is on the 24th, so if we’re feeling greedy we could have two Christmas dinners!)
2006-10-13 10:11:51 · answer #4 · answered by gremlin_trees 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There can be only one Christmas dinner and that is Turkey and Ham with sprouts, batchelors marrowfat peas (not the no soak ones, they taste like soap) celery, home made parsley and thyme stuffing done in the rear end of the turkey and the ham boiled not roasted. Gravy and white sauce. Followed by home made plum pudding with fresh whipped cream. Then tea with a slice of home made Christmas cake. Jesus I can taste it all now, think I will have to open my top button on the trousers. Feeling a little bloated and sleepy now zzzzz.....
2006-10-13 09:11:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I've done Cornish game hens, pasta, you name it. As long as it's festive.
One of my most memorable Christmases was when my ex-mil forgot to turn on the oven for the turkey. We all ordered out for pizza! It was still Christmas, and highly remembered in the good way! We all had a good laugh about it.
2006-10-13 09:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know eating Turkey is traditional.......but why?!
It's so dull......christmas dinner should exciting and full of tasty things!
We have lobsters for our christmas dinner - one for each person to tuck into....finger licking good too!
If it has to be a bird on the table - I prefer goose which is "proper" traditional and very Dickensian
Hope you get your christmas dinner sorted......you know how time creeps up on you 'round this time of year!!!
2006-10-13 10:08:55 · answer #7 · answered by isle_ofsheppey 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My sister always cooks beef for her husband because he's a pain in the a*se and won't eat turkey. If you cover the bird (not the missus) with streaky bacon and wrap it in buttered foil it's juicy and delicious, not dry. I always put the timer on the oven so it cooks overnight, but I always leave a note out for Santa, asking him to turn the oven on. Aah. Plus I always do yorkshire's, because we all like them, and last year there was a massive chocolate trifle for pudding for those who don't like the traditional. Anything is special on Christmas Day, enjoy!
2006-10-13 09:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by Twisty 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our kin does a generic top rib roast some years, an entire filet of pork different years. you additionally can do an entire boneless long island striploin. decrease the element you prefer and shop something. Roasted rosemary lamb rack or chops, with a cabernet decreased wine sauce Small roasted new potatoes, glazed carrots in brown sugar and a candy wine. finished baked tomatoes crammed with celery, butter and garlic, sauteed chinese language long beans, acorn squash crammed with wild rice, raisins and dried apricots. some recommendations
2016-10-16 04:07:41 · answer #9 · answered by mcfee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duck is nice but you can have anything you like instead of turkey but remember that if your catering for lots turkeys are a lot bigger but you could get a big bit of beef
2006-10-14 00:07:57 · answer #10 · answered by rebecca n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don t dig turkey either. Not my fave meat so normally I have roast chicken or pork. Hell, one year I even had McDonalds! One of the best Xmas dinners ever!
2006-10-13 09:17:49 · answer #11 · answered by azteccamera 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋