Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Elcie on December 06, 2009, 09:26
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This will be my first Christmas cooking at home and, when I asked the OH what he would like for 'starts' (what my children have always called starters!) he said tomato soup! I haven't asked my daughter yet as I know she will want prawn cocktail. So, do you have any favourite recipes for tomato soup and/or prawn cocktail that will help me out please?
Thank you :)
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Elcie, I roast a mix of root veg, onions, peppers and garlic and then bung it all in a big pan with passatta, stock, herbs and seasoning. Cook til veg soft and blitz with a "whizzy wand".
It freezes well so if room in your freezer you could make it ahead of time to make the day easier.
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We've just eaten this recipe (http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/?s=rugbymad+tomato+soup) for lunch and can recommend it!
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I've never had a starter, after the amount I eat during the main, I can't eat dessert til 2 or 3 hrs later.
Always have a late brekkie though, something nice like scrambled eggs with salmon.
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Thanks for the advice everyone :)
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On Christmas Day we always have as a starter Prawn and Advocado, peel an advocado and slice and lay out as a 'fan' put prawns (ready cooked prawns are fine) plus a few salad leaves and then a seperate bowl of 'Marie Rose' dressing or 'Seafood dressing from Colmans' if you don't want to make your own. Only ever eat starts and main in our house , pud (I don't eat but Paul may) comes later.
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We dont do starts either ......always eat a huge roast.........i have to make a ton of pigs in blankets for my lot :lol:
and for the past seven years have alsways had the same pud - delia's melting choc puds - they are heavenly but like you etherelda dont eat them til much later - think i might do a late brekkie this year tho.............
kids are older so i was thinking maybe a liquid brekkie :wacko:- i usually fall asleep at some point so might as well make it worth my while :lol:
but i might ask the family if they would like a starter.......i love cooking so wouldnt be any more trouble
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We will have starts and then a big roast (with one of Grannie's turkeys :)). I will have a desert, not sure which one(s) yet, but they will probably be saved for later in the day as we will probably be too full!
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Mum and I usually get through most of a bottle of sherry by the time dinner is served, usually when the queen is on tv.
At dads this year, and cooking myself! Can't wait, but i'm going to have to bring my own utensils, napkins, table decs etc, as he is a man living by himself, say no more!
We are doing trifle for pud, none of us like Christmas pud, and most are not keen on mince pies.
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At dads this year, and cooking myself!
Nooooooo, cook the turkey not yourself :lol: :lol:
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If she cooks herself, she knows she's cooking a nice, young tender hen bird .... :ohmy: :D
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:lol: :lol:
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No starts for us... Turkey for the men in the family.. vegetarian option for the girls. DEFINITELY home made Christmas pud with choice of custard, brandy sauce and cream..or all three... followed by mince pies (if any room left) and lots of wine and chocolates.......... YUMMY :D :D :D
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I think we will be going for very small starters - mere appetizers - due to the vast main course & big gap until dessert - perhaps Christmas pud with ice-cream mmmm....
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I can recommend a walk between main course and pud, it makes the pud so much more enjoyable.
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I can recommend a walk between main course and pud, it makes the pud so much more enjoyable.
That's if you can still stand up, of course.
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2 hands under stomach to support distended shape helps :lol: :lol:
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you could always rest it on a zimmer frame :lol:
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eggy bread with brown sauce ;)
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What is eggy bread with brown sauce? ???
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It's a slice of bread dipped into beaten egg and fried...........brown sauce err do you call it chop sauce? It's like tomato ketchup but tastes more like a spicey chutney?
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We always have tinned grapefruit - from the days when my dad was a little worse for wear on Christmas morning :lol:
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What is eggy bread with brown sauce? ???
It's a slice of bread dipped into beaten egg and fried...........brown sauce err do you call it chop sauce? It's like tomato ketchup but tastes more like a spicey chutney?
Mom, brown sauce is nothing like ketchup!!! ??? ??? ??? :D
Trillium eggy bread is 'french toast'.. You'll know that one I reckon ;)
Brown sauce is HP sauce ( or it should be) it was made here until a few years ago. They had a factory in Birmingham ( the factory was a true landmark for us midlanders) 8)
It's now owned by Heinz and the production has moved to some place else...( Scandanavia, I believe)! :(
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Didn't the HP stand for 'Houses of Parliament'?
I do love my HP (or substitute). Every Friday morning at work we have bacon or other butties from the shop round the corner. My regular is sausage and egg with brown sauce.
Mmmmmmmm.
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Didn't the HP stand for 'Houses of Parliament'?
I do love my HP (or substitute). Every Friday morning at work we have bacon or other butties from the shop round the corner. My regular is sausage and egg with brown sauce.
Mmmmmmmm.
It did, there is even a pic of them on the front of the bottle.. :happy:
I have HP on my bacon butties too.......M mmmmmmmmm
I love it on beef stew and sausages aswell. My brother puts it virtually on everything he eats.. :wacko: :tongue2:
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Are you saying you start your Christmas meal with eggy bread and brown sauce??? Surely that's a meal by itself!
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What is eggy bread with brown sauce? ???
It's a slice of bread dipped into beaten egg and fried...........brown sauce err do you call it chop sauce? It's like tomato ketchup but tastes more like a spicey chutney?
Mom, brown sauce is nothing like ketchup!!! ??? ??? ??? :D
doh .....Ketchup is cold and in a bottle brown sauce is too ::).......I only explained it that way cos 'sauce' can mean a hot sauce/gravy ???.......didn't mean it tasted like ketchup at all :D
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What is eggy bread with brown sauce? ???
It's a slice of bread dipped into beaten egg and fried...........brown sauce err do you call it chop sauce? It's like tomato ketchup but tastes more like a spicey chutney?
Mom, brown sauce is nothing like ketchup!!! ??? ??? ??? :D
doh .....Ketchup is cold and in a bottle brown sauce is too ::).......I only explained it that way cos 'sauce' can mean a hot sauce/gravy ???.......didn't mean it tasted like ketchup at all :D
Aaah I see... :happy:
And of course one is brown and one is red... ;) :D
Ketchup is fab on chippies by the way...you can't put brown sauce on chippies 8)
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Mayo is good on chippies too :D :D :D
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Brown sauce is excellent on chips!! Chips with brown sauce on a buttered roll (or barm cake as we call them where I come from) ooo mouth watering now :D
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Oh................ I thought barm cakes had currants in.......from 'Confused in Kent' ???
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In NW they are flattish soft white rolls with flour on, not to be confused with Barm Brack which does have fruit and spice in.
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In NW they are flattish soft white rolls with flour on
Ahhh...they're what we call baps (behave you lot with norty minds :) )...not to be confused with burger buns....which are yucky ::)
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It is amazing actually how different some of the foods are between the north/south. I always remember some friends visiting from t'north and they had never heard of a saveloy!
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I did once hear that a plate of chips is called a salad in Glasgow. :blink:
With apologies to our friends north of the border. :lol:
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I did once hear that a plate of chips is called a salad in Glasgow. :blink:
With apologies to our friends north of the border. :lol:
Not all parts of Glasgow, Ice ;). I think its a "joke" related to the perceived bad diet.
:)
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Perceived? :ohmy: :tongue2: :lol:
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Yes. There's a huge generalisation about that. Yes it does exist in Glasgow, but bad dietary habits exist everywhere else too.
:)
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Getting back to topic - this year we are having Thai chilli lobster - not down to me - we are sharing the cooking with friends , so we all take a turn in the kitchen.
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Getting back to topic - this year we are having Thai chilli lobster - not down to me - we are sharing the cooking with friends , so we all take a turn in the kitchen.
That sounds delicious! Maybe I will try lobster next year :)
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Getting back to topic - this year we are having Thai chilli lobster - not down to me - we are sharing the cooking with friends , so we all take a turn in the kitchen.
That sounds delicious! Maybe I will try lobster next year :)
I'll let you know . By the way I've managed to get some parsnips - these are rarities down here - not many folk know how to cook them - can't get swede either (oh my, and they call this the land of fine cuisine!!! ) They don't know what they're missing do they? I'll be preparing the meal for New Year's Eve - - now just need to find me a haggis tree and we'll be away :D
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Do you grow your own veg? We can send you seeds if you want :)
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Do you grow your own veg? We can send you seeds if you want :)
Thanks for that Poolfield, that's really kind, but I :unsure: have tried many times and given up - too hot in the summer and no water (at least, no FREE water). Several of us parsnip starved brits have tried but have all given up one after the other - need to live much much higher up our mountain to get cool enough for them ,and I don't think OH would move house for a parsnip! ;)
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Do you grow your own veg? We can send you seeds if you want :)
Thanks for that Poolfield, that's really kind, but I :unsure: have tried many times and given up - too hot in the summer and no water (at least, no FREE water). Several of us parsnip starved brits have tried but have all given up one after the other - need to live much much higher up our mountain to get cool enough for them ,and I don't think OH would move house for a parsnip! ;)
Rent a field in the hills?
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Rent a field?? for a few parsnips?? No, I don't think so, I'll just support the local economy and buy them when available. :lol: The advantage of them being a rarity is that they are treated with a lot more respect! I'm making mine into a souffle. Yumm. Merry Christmas to you all - I'm off to start celebrating.
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Well we will just have to send you a food parcel in return for your hot dry summer :D