Apolyton Cuisine: your meals throughout the HOLIDAYS

[Ecthy]

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In your face! Seeing how we have so many Jewish and Hindu posters I'm going with the neutral phrasing. Do Hindus celebrate anything these days?

What big meals do you have these days? All days or just the 24th? What special ingredients did you put?

For Christmas Eve (24th) we went with two ducks for the 5 of us(parents, me and my brothers). My father would go with a goose but I got through with the two ducks. Duck tastes better than goose, also two ducks have more legs than one goose, amd öegs are always very popular pieces during the meals. Plus, one big goose has lots of dry meat in the interior (if done badly), while two smaller ducks are juicy and tasty. One of them was spiced with rosemary (my idea as well), the other with mugwort (very German). Both were filled with apples and minced meat. Very tasty.

They were served with red cabbage and carameled potatoes. Delicious!

Today for Christmas Day (25th) we'll settle with a rabbit. Bought in pieces and, like the ducks, just chilled and not frozen because it's better this way. Didn't make much difference in price surprisingly. So far I don't know how it'll be cooked, but it'll be tasty as hell.

For Boxing Day (26th for illiterates of Western culture) we'll have salmon, two fishes. We'll have all the family around with grandparents as well as the families of my father's brother and sister. So it'll be lots.

Great family, great culture, great meals. What do YOU have to offer? Meal size = balls size!

PS: Turkey is boring

[Ecthy]

If someone's interestes in how to cook potatoes with caramel I will post the recipe.

[Solly]

Partridge last night, salmon this morning, partridge for lunch, erm beer for tea.

[Ecthy]

Shall settle with a beer right now. Berliner Pilsener

[Saras]

We just had a large turkey stuffed with rice nuts and dried fruit. My wives aunt marinated it for two days, but obviously overdid on the salt. It was inedible

Turkey is not only boring, it somethimes yuck as well.

On 24th we still fast (i.e., not eat meat ) here , so we had a large, fat salmon and 11 more dishes (there have to be 12, the number of apostles. The horrid, soggy pike in dough done by my aunt was obviously for Judas). It's also my brothers' 25th birthday tonight, party downtown!

Tomorrow we're going to a posh dinner out in the city with a client to celebrate a transaction closed on 22nd, and then for coctails and lots of drinks at my friend.

[SlowwHand]

My mother is cooking enchilada casserole and pinto beans.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Saras On 24th we still fast (i.e., not eat meat ) here , so we had a large, fat salmon and 11 more dishes (there have to be 12, the number of apostles. The horrid, soggy pike in dough done by my aunt was obviously for Judas). It's also my brothers' 25th birthday tonight, party downtown!

My parents who studied in POland told us how people there also eat 13 plates of which none shall contain any meat. Your slav culture is interesting.

Sloww, that sounds awful. That's what you eat on some regular summer day in some TexMex restaurant. How far have you moved away from your Western roots?

[SlowwHand]

I have Texas roots.

[Ecthy]

Just because you root in Texas doesn't mean you have roots there.

[Tim_Augustus]

For me either cold meats and salad or a barbie in large quantities are the traditional Chrissie meals - traditional roasts are out as christmas is usually one of the hottest days of the year...

The beach is usually pretty good in the latter part of the afternoon too (after the food's had a chance to settle!)

[LordShiva]

I had steak last night

But I have steak every night

[Nugog]

Turkey - flavoured with Lemon grass, Kaffir lime leaves, Thai basil, Coriander and Galangal. Then slow roasted in a Weber - yummmmmmmmmmmm!

[Saras]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Your slav culture is interesting.

Lol, east German calling people slavs

[Solly]

Originally posted by Tim_Augustus
For me either cold meats and salad or a barbie in large quantities are the traditional Chrissie meals - traditional roasts are out as christmas is usually one of the hottest days of the year...

The beach is usually pretty good in the latter part of the afternoon too (after the food's had a chance to settle!)

Don't you have record cold temperatures there for Christmas Day?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Tim_Augustus
For me either cold meats and salad or a barbie in large quantities are the traditional Chrissie meals - traditional roasts are out as christmas is usually one of the hottest days of the year...

The beach is usually pretty good in the latter part of the afternoon too (after the food's had a chance to settle!)

WTF is a barbie?

Barbecue?