Christmas Dinner

[lupestripe]

This year I will be cooking Christmas Dinner for Wolfie and I don't know what to cook him.

I'd like to do a three-course meal and have pretty much settled on soup for the starter.

I've never been a fan of turkey as I find it dry and tasteless. Duck and pheasant are usually much moister meats but I have no experience cooking either. Being a vegetarian doesn't help. I'm pretty cool on vegetables, indeed I am relishing cooking those.

Apart from Walls Vienetta I am flummoxed on the dessert too. Perhaps I should go for a pie or some kind as I find Christmas Pudding far too rich.

I also normally have Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve as I tend to eat so much crap on Christmas Day that the last thing I can stomach is a massive meal. I think this year I'll switch it back to Christmas Day though.

Does anyfur have any suggestions? What do you guys cook or have for Christmas Dinner?

Comments

[baloki.livejournal.com]

Ducks nice and isn't that difficult to cook. As for puddings, well there's so much choice.

You could go for a pastry based solution, their your apple pies and etc, a crumble is always nice (not keen on rubarb personally but I had a nice summer fruits one a year or so back) and quite traditional (if that's the style your going for). Then you've got your ice creams as a main pudding dish or side helping. Pafiterolls are quite easy to make, tasty and don't have to have a chocolate sauce. Then of course as Southy said you have your christmas puddings. Cake and cheesecake are always nice too. If your not keen on ice cream btw, there's always the option of making (or buying if ya wanna be lazy :p) Sorbet, which can be quite refreshing with the right items.

With puddings though, the making of them is all about practice, most puddings arn't really that complicated to make or take that long, you just need to make sure you look up your recipe before hand and give it a quick trial run, taste it and then you can make changes to make sure it comes out acely :)

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