Apolyton Cuisine: your meals throughout the HOLIDAYS

[Ecthy]

Fried leftover dumplings

[-Jrabbit]

Christmas dinner:

A lovely 4-pound beef roast
Yorkshire pudding (yum!!!)
Fresh fruit salad (apple-banana-pear-orange-blueberry IIRC)
A lovely bottle of Schoolhouse's Recess Red 2002

Always awesome.

[Ecthy]

We've also had lots of wine, ice wine, home made liquors and the like.

[Solly]

Yorkshire pudding

[Ecthy]

New thread topic: New Year's Eve!

Do you anglosaxons eat carp for NYE? How do you cook it? So far we've done "blue" (cooked without spicing) many times, as well as with a special herb crust, very tasty

Any new ideas?

[Solly]

You're meant to drink on New Year's Eve, food just slows you down.

[Fake Boris]

For Christmas I made roasted pork with ginger and a black tea marinade, accompanied by flambées apples.

For the 31st I made a lamb biryani (Indian style stew).

[Imran Siddiqui]

Not sure I'd call biryani a 'stew' per se. It's more of a casserole, really... with the meat and spices being cooked in rice at the end.

[flipside]

Originally posted by Ecthy
New thread topic: New Year's Eve!

Do you anglosaxons eat carp for NYE? How do you cook it? So far we've done "blue" (cooked without spicing) many times, as well as with a special herb crust, very tasty

Any new ideas?

Nah. as said we just get p***ed.
But, with any fish I would recommend that if it is big roast in salt or if small pan-fry it. Twist of lemon.
Add a decent pinot and all is good,

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Not sure I'd call biryani a 'stew' per se. It's more of a casserole, really... with the meat and spices being cooked in rice at the end.

The way I did it, the meat and vegetables were on top of the rice. The lamb had been pre-cooked in stock (with some spices) and thus was reheated with the evaporating liquid (that was also cooking the rice). Is this what you had in mind?