Christmas Day Meat

[malbon]

Chicken? Turkey? Capon? Guinea Fowl?

Fancy a bird with a side accomponiment (sp?) of another meat. Last year we had pork with crackling !

What else goes? What kind of cut of meat? Maybe beef or lamb.

What says?

[calibrax]

Gammon always goes well at Christmas. I'm under orders to pick up a nice unsmoked one from the local farm shop before I travel up to my parents this year

[21TonyK]

/should be a wavey

Go "old skool"... roast beef

Only prob is that it can upstage the turkey.

[dan101smith]

Beef forerib for me.

But no turkey this year - chicken is the bird of choice, by popular* demand.

* Not popular with me - I wanted goose.

[Big Al.]

Have you tried Ox tongue?

[littlegreenfairy]

We're having rib of beef. I can't wait.

[malbon]

Gammon I'm thinking as a Xmas Eve or Boxing Day thing. Swaying towards beef. White and Red meat combo !

[chard]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

calibrax said:

Gammon always goes well at Christmas.

Is it wrong to have Turkey AND Gammon ?

No that's perfect (if your oven is big enough)

[pad58]

I think that turkey sale have hit an all time low,I was talking to a fellow butcher and he
was in the same boat as me that the turkey are way down on last year.

On a better note at least the beef sales have increased.

[Pete Franklin]

This year we are having a haunch of antelope, I kid you not. I think my mum fell victim to a pressure sale in the rare meat shop.

Now I need to figure out how to cook it.

[HiramHoliday]

21TonyK said:

/should be a wavey

Go "old skool"... roast beef

Only prob is that it can upstage the turkey.

As long as it's Silverside.

[Cotty]

littlegreenfairy said:

We're having rib of beef. I can't wait.

Same here

[calibrax]

chard said:

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

calibrax said:

Gammon always goes well at Christmas.

Is it wrong to have Turkey AND Gammon ?

No that's perfect (if your oven is big enough)

Exactly. The gammon goes great with the turkey, and makes the post-xmas sandwiches much better. The combination works well together. You've heard of surf & turf as a combo?...

...well, this is squawk & pork!

[grumbledoak]

It's goose or duck, for me. This year it'll be goose, apparently (we're on starters, sister on mains).

[CommanderJameson]

Slow roasted pork shoulder this year at Chez Jameson.

Six and a half hours in the oven.

Laaaaaavely.

[CatherineJ]

Turkey crown here this year.

Edited by CatherineJ on Friday 17th December 09:51

[AdamBomb]

Has to be a good 3 bird roast!

[Pints]

Pork joint, silverside roast and chicken in the Homestead Pints this year.

[escargot]

Turkey lurkey.

[Odie]

Not sure what we are having this year (we do always have a gammon) but previous years we have had, duck, beef wellington, beef, lamb, goose, turkey, pork (was a bit odd having gammon, pork, pork stuffing & pigs in blankets.. But it was tasty).

Moving away from the tradtional ive also had, a chinese banquet, fillet steak, pizza & mixed grill (got up really late and made the stuff id bought for breakfast plus some other bits into a mixed grill, it was good )

I think really the perfect christmas dinner for me would be gammon with a bird.