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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: disgruntleddog on December 25, 2011, 12:10:22 am
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We're having a quiet Christmas with just my wife, sister in law and myself here.
So, were spending the day cooking and watching movies. Here is a list of things we've made for Christmas.
I made some bread rolls last night and this morning I made some butter and then some hollandaise sauce with said butter.
So breakfast was bacon, eggs, tomato, mushrooms on toasted wholemeal buns with butter and hollandaise sauce. All just great.
Probably don't need lunch.
Just going to make some gingerbeer.
Let you know what else is on the menu when I do.
Chris
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Hi Chris. OUrs is self, DH, DD and ma in law who is kind of crazy. Dh has gone to pick her up.
We had blueberry pancakes for breakfast, they were lovely. Morning tea was lovely coffee and Christmas cake. I've been nibbling on the nuts and finishing off the salads for lunch, slicing the meat and tasting that too. Decorated a pavlova for sweets with trifle with lots of sherry and fresh fruit salad.
I have lots of lovely cookbooks to check out this afternoon if I don't fall asleep.
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I just took Bimby's Chocolate Cake out of the oven. Damn it looks good. Can't have it until after dinner. :(
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all sounds lovely. we're just cooking along as we go, too. the morning started with banana pancakes; while that was happening, i mixed up a batch of dough for bagels to have with salmon and cream cheese. while the dough was proving, i cooked some chicken with ginger and garlic to have with garlic rice. my sister's mixing up some takoyaki batter now. we'll have roast pork with crackling tonight with potato pizza. i'm sure there'll bemore food happening, but isn't it nice we can be so relaxed about it?
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Mmmm bagels.
I just put on a roast chicken. I used this recipe for stuffing from Taste on advice of a friend. http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/11232/prosciutto+pine+nut+currant+stuffing
Made too much, it wouldn't fit into the cavity so I had to eat some. It was a tough job but someone had to do it.
Ah relaxing Christmases. A friend is have 35 people over and another is having her parents and her new partner's parents over for Christmas dinner. The two lots of parents are meeting for the first time. Both from Italian backgrounds. No pressure there.
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I just unwrapped my new Pizza Maker so no I am off to make Pizza dough.
And my new dehydrator so slicing bananas to go into that.
DH has a new eReader and DGS has new Wii games are both are quietly playing.
So far Christmas has been pretty relaxed.
I hope to get an eReader in a couple of days for my birthday and then it will be my turn to play.
Tho I do love my new gadgets that I did get today..
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Was happy with the kitchen items I received today - heavy cookie sheet, heart shaped pan, plastic/bamboo patterned tray and bowls plus a subscription to BBC Australian Good Food..
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Well I feel as though I am about to burst. I've eaten far too much and still have dinner to go. We've hardly made a dent in the food. Ma in law seemed pretty good today but she is looking very old and is having difficulty walking and using her right arm. She only wanted to take all the serviettes from lunch. Told me she will smooth them out and put them over empty tissue boxes! Not too sure of any logical reasoning. She said she still has last years she got from our place. Gotta love her. She loved her zhu zhu pet. I think she will get a lot of pleasure from it.
I was pleased with our pavlova. DD doesn't like cream much so I filled it with mascarpone and put fresh raspberries and blackberries on it and served it with strawberry coulis. Different but nice.
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I feel a bit like Mr. Creosote. Ate so much.
Everything worked a treat except I decided to whip some cream with sugar and vanilla to use as icing. Put it on for 20 seconds as per the book. Ended up being whipped butter. Very tasty but not quite the desired effect. Moral is 10 seconds to whip when it's double cream.
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Was happy with the kitchen items I received today - heavy cookie sheet, heart shaped pan, plastic/bamboo patterned tray and bowls plus a subscription to BBC Australian Good Food..
I love the heart shaped pans. They look great. Look forward to seeing photos of what you create in them.
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Was happy with the kitchen items I received today - heavy cookie sheet, heart shaped pan, plastic/bamboo patterned tray and bowls plus a subscription to BBC Australian Good Food..
That's the sort of presents I like JD ;D
Just put the turkey in the oven.We're off to have a drink with neighbours soon.Haven't opened any presents yet as we are waiting for our DD to arrive later today so we can all enjoy that event altogether. :)
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Have a lovely day CC, especially tonight with DD coming. :-* :-*
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She only wanted to take all the serviettes from lunch. Told me she will smooth them out and put them over empty tissue boxes! Not too sure of any logical reasoning. She said she still has last years she got from our place.
How cute is that! (not to mention a cheap gift - if they all could be that easy...) what is a zhu zhu pet - it sounds like a something low maintenance?
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We just had the four of us DW and 2 DDs. Started the day with lots of cookies and other treats while w opened presents. Then had croissant for breakfast.
Then had traditional turkey and roast veg for late lunch (3:30ish) Finally finished off with plum pudding made in themomix a couple of weeks ago and custard made by DD2 in her new thermomix she got for Christmas.
It has been a nice quite Christmas for us. Tomorrow will be pretty quite too with just the 4 of u intil later in the afternoon when DD2's boyfriend arrives.
Sounds like everyone had a lovely Christmas.
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I hope everyone had a lovely day.
We had a busy day with breakfast at mum and dads, then lunch at the in laws and then mum and dad came to us for dinner.
Wasn't sure if I was going to be well enough this morning as I was in bed all day yesterday with gastro!!! Lucky it wasn't today. Anyway I woke up this morning and managed a bit of food but was careful cos the tummy was still complaining a bit!!! Absolutely drained now, think it's time for bed.
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Cc zhu zhu pets are Roy Guinéa pigs that whiz around all over thé place... Lots of fun... Kids lové them :)
We had à very slow morning had planned on alot of cooking but dh said take it easy and i normally go Ott with what i prépare so decided to listen and dh got pâtisserie from thé bakers for breakfast with à chai latte opened présents (that took hours) then did webcam with my parents and kids etc.. Had à basic lunch (spaghetti bol) then got organised for traditional dinner tonight... Turkey roll with cranberry and pistachio stuffing, stuffed mushies and potatoes and carrots cooked in Duck fat (yum) and peas with échalotes and. Butter and dessert choc mousse yule log... Off to bed early for us as so tired but big clean up in the morning... Heart wasnt in it tonight!
Hope everyone had à lovely xmas...
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:) My kids got zhu zhu pets yesterday aswell.
They love them..
Great day here, we had 16 for lunch, very relaxing though.
Robyn
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Ours was pretty good too. Arrived at DD2's 11 am, nibbles awaiting us which were very tempting so I kept going back, opened presents (how quickly do kids open presents these days :o), quite a large crayfish, prawn, mango & avocada starter. Mum, DH and I could quite easily have stopped there :-)) but a bit later the full on turkey & pork roast lunch, a bit of a break then the lovely pavlova - always got room for dessert ;) Home later that afternoon to our quiet house to just veg out - DH had a banana for tea (only because he has tablets he has to have with food and I had a bowl of watermelon and rockmelon. No way can we eat 2 large meals a day in this house. Phone call from DD1 in Melbourne after lunch to top off a very nice day.
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Our day.....
Miss 8 woke at 6.00am hoping miss 10 would do the same but she didn't wake until 7am (good girl!)
Opened pressies and made 3 lots of the beetroot and carrot salad with pomegranate molasses.
Headed off to the beach for an hour. OMG it was packed!! Kids had so much fun.
Came home got ready and went to in laws to open pressies.
Then went to lunch......this year there was 102 :o yes 102 at family lunch!!!
What a great turn out!! My mother in laws family have kept this tradition going for the past 53 years.
Kids had so much fun seeing their cousins and we had a great time too catching up with adults.
Lots of food!!!
Then off we went to my side and it was only a small gathering (compared to in laws) of 55.
Had a very relaxing time. Stayed there for dinner.
Got home at 9pm exhausted.
House looks like a dump :-))
Kids and hubby still in bed and I am getting ready to go to work.......
Absolutely dreading the boxing day hell day.
Rara x
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rara, what a lovely tradition our in laws have, it must get bigger and bigger ever year, do u all meet up at a park or a restaurant?
by the time you say hello to everybody, it would have been time to go home lol
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The question is do you exchange pressies with 102 others?? ;) :) :) :) :)
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Not only that but do they wear name tags :o I wouldn't remember all their names :P
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:o i didnt think of that :o.
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Wow, 102 people. Who does all the cooking?
When DH returned from dropping Ma in law and her zhu zhu back we had a drink and started on the leftovers. I'm not used to eating 2 large meals a day and felt really uncomfortable. Serves me right. We had a lovely relaxing dinner and went to bed fairly early for us as we were all exhausted.
I love today (Boxing Day). All the food is cooked, wse rarely have visitors so we all just chill out. DD has been catching up on her book blog, I'm reading some of my cookbooks and DH is of course out with his old cars.
I've loved reading about the varied days everyone had yesterday.
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/birdsam/Thermomix%20recipes/P1020258.jpg)
The Italina Food safari was from Santa ;), the Dan lepard books from DH and DD bought the other 2 as she new I loved them but hadn't bought them. I am really trying not to buy too many new cookbooks. I'm not really succeeding though.
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I agree with you Cookie Boxing Day is usually my favorite as well. Christmas day has always been just the family, me, DW, and 2 DDs. Then on Boxing day we would have DWs father and Grandmother when they were both still with us. Eventually it became DWs sister and nieces and nephews plus our friends for a campaign brunch.
DW loves Christmas so there is always a theme for both Christmas day and boxing day. Having a big day on boxing day kind of stretched out the holiday so all the preparation didn't seem like it was for a few hours on Christmas day. We never really drink on Christmas day but seem to make up for it on Boxing day.
This year however it is just the four of us for today and while it is nice and quite it does seem strange. I didn't have to jump out of bed and start preparing food and we had brunch a bit later than usual.
All in all it has been a lovely couple of days with the girls back home.
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rara, what a lovely tradition our in laws have, it must get bigger and bigger ever year, do u all meet up at a park or a restaurant?
by the time you say hello to everybody, it would have been time to go home lol
The same hall is hired every year as well as cleaners although this year they didn't turn up :o
The question is do you exchange pressies with 102 others?? ;) :) :) :) :)
No we don't exchange gifts however we bring a present for your own child ($10) so that "Santa" can hand out after lunch has been eaten.
Not only that but do they wear name tags :o I wouldn't remember all their names :P
It's been 15 years that I have been attending and there's absolutely no way I can remember names!!! My husband on the other hand remembers everyone!!
We arrive just before 12pm for nibbles and champagne.....seated for lunch no later than 12.15pm......everyone eats, sings carols Santa arrives and dessert is served......all by 3pm!!!! Madness I say
There is a Christmas lunch committee and each year a different family will host. Each families are given a dish to make eg this year 2 salads from my MIL side had to bring plus MIL made the leg of ham. Another family will bring the salmon another 2 families will bring potatoes etc.
It is so well organized and each year it's documented what was eaten, how may drinks were left over etc....
Rara x
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Thanks for all the answers to our questions Rara - it sounds like a well-oiled machine. Love to see it in action.
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it's lovely reading about everyone's Christmas. We had a quiet day with just the 2 of us. Went for a walk in the Peak District in the morning - only a very short walk as it was very windy but it did blow the cobwebs away.
Lunch was roast duck, with numerous vegetables including a new recipe of red cabbage cooked with grated beetroot and apple which was a great success. I gave my TMX a holiday for the day as everything was done in or on the Aga. We were so full that we didn't eat our Christmas pudding but will eat it today (hopefully!)
We ate at about 3:00 pm and didn't manage to do much after that as we felt so stuffed. I think we may try and eat later if it's just us again next year
It's a beautiful sunny day here today so I think another walk is called if we can face the winds again :o :o
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It sounds as though everyone had a super day,including me.I got thoroughly spoilt,Dan Lepards book Short and Sweet,a Pullman bread tin,a Bannaton,pinking shears,a box of chocolates :-)) :-)) and a new fleece to wear when walking Chance. ;D
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It sounds lovely CC.
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Gosh Rara. That sounds fantastic!
We had a lovely Christmas day at my parents beach house. Very relaxed and fun! We had sourdough, ham and fresh juice (and chocolates) for breakfast, a big traditional meal with all the trimmings for lunch and prawn and salad platters for dinner. I really love not having to travel anymore on Christmas day and the boys enjoy having a big play with their new toys (we have an extended family BBQ later in summer). We took the boys for a play on the beach during the morning (without packing their bathers) and of course they ended up walking back home in their undies. Very fun! ;D