PH Cooking Competition – 'Christmas Day Meal'

[Tickle]

As winner of the last PH Cooking Competition (Beef) I have selected 'Christmas Day Meal' as the nominated dish.

I know many will be busy in the run upto Christmas so after some discussion on the Beef thread the PH Compitition will have a break, resuming with the 'Christmas Day Meal'competition.

The theme will be the dish you are prepping and cooking on Christmas day, all entires welcome from traitional Turkey and trimmings to Curries and anything inbetween. Entries can be submitted on the 26th December for three days, the poll commencing on the 30th and will be for one week.

Entries can have multiple pictures (prep, cooking, pre-carved… etc.) and a short description; however, the poll will only use a single picture of the plated dish for voting.

Feel free to comment on the theme, there is some time for refinements.

Cheers,
Tickle

[21TonyK]

I may well bow out on this one. Xmas novelty has already worn off.

I have 178 for "Xmas Dinner", round it up to 200 with those who "forgot" to put their name down or "add a guest".

Have fun all...

1. "I order ordered veggie but still want pigs in blankets" /f*ck off

1. "I always do Yorkshire pudding at Christmas" /I don't so f*ck off
2. #"I've ordered veggie but I'm gluten free and dairy free, what can I eat?" /nothing, f*ck off
3. ##"I've for forgotten what I ordered?"/you are stupid, f*ck off

[TeeRev]

I have no idea whether I shall be able to submit an entry as we are on holiday in St Kitts over Christmas, I believe our hotel room has some sort of cooking facilities though so depending on rum punch consumption it may be possible.

May I suggest that you include food cooked on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day to allow more possibility of entries, Boxing Day is traditionally leftovers day and they could be made to look good enough for the competition.

[Shaw Tarse]

21TonyK said:

I may well bow out on this one. Xmas novelty has already worn off.

I have 178 for "Xmas Dinner", round it up to 200 with those who "forgot" to put their name down or "add a guest".

Have fun all...

1. "I order ordered veggie but still want pigs in blankets" /f*ck off

1. "I always do Yorkshire pudding at Christmas" /I don't so f*ck off
2. #"I've ordered veggie but I'm gluten free and dairy free, what can I eat?" /nothing, f*ck off
3. ##"I've for forgotten what I ordered?"/you are stupid, f*ck off

Having worked in catering

[Dan_1981]

Checking in and bumping

[David A]

Well Pooh, Eyeore and Tigger aren't going to be happy with our Christmas meal !

[theboss]

This 20lb ham won't be ready for tomorrow... but nothing beats firing up the smoker on Christmas Day



After these have smoked of course...



Off it goes

Edited by theboss on Sunday 25th December 13:42

[Cotty]

Cooking for one I didn't want a whole bird. Lemons and red onions to roast with the chicken.

Boiled the cabbage for a bit (not blanched) then fried the bacon lardons (could have crisped them up a bit) and chucked the cabbage into the salty bacon fat to fry/coat the cabbage. Came out ok

[miniman]

Lovely rolled sirloin and some superb Cumberland snags from Pipers Farm.

[21TonyK]

Not an entry but Xmas all they same

[anonymous-user]

Did this for the Austrian in laws, Roast Capon, potatoes, sprouts with chestnuts and lardons, red cabbage, pigs in blankets etc. Followed by cheese, Christmas pudding, and Christmas cake.

[ali_kat]

I ordered Chateaubriand from a supermarket & then decided I wanted Turkey as well (I love using the leftovers!), so bought boneless breast on Friday.

Before



On the table



Plated

[miniman]

ali_kat said:

Perfectly placed Yorkshires.

[jas xjr]

this is our effort from yesterday . lamb for me , which was lovely . my sister bought it from some farm shop which might have helped.the tastiest thing was an aubergine based dish cooked with cheese,tomato , galic and some herbs and spices.
just has some leftover veg cookedin some puff pastry , spinach and god knows what else , very nice too

[ali_kat]

miniman said:

Perfectly placed Yorkshires.

[JKRolling]

I might be late getting this posted but it's a very busy time of year and I've only just recovered from eating this yesterday.

So, whats on the plate - turkey from a farm, pork sage onion stuffing, PiB's, cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes with seasoning, cabbage, carrots, brocali, Yorkshire pud, glazed parsnips again all from farms and cranberry sauce, that was from m&s!

It was outstanding! Not best presentation but it's a lot of food to get on the plate!








Sorry it's late being put up and i know it's not the starred restaurant presentation that I'm sure we all love but it was bloody well outstanding. Also the inclusion of Yorkshire puds is not conventional butyou know what, i like them so we had them!

Merry Christmas to all on PH hope you have had a good one and a happy new year for Sunday!

[superstreek]

Thought I might get a chance to post this, slight overkill for 2 people

Full turkey, sage and sausage meeting stuffing (done two ways), celeriac and parsnip mash, roasted sweet potato mash with walnuts, roasted purple spuds, shallots & parsnip, baby carrots and turnips, prosciutto topped brussels, cranberry sauce and enough gravy to sink a ship.

Edited by superstreek on Wednesday 28th December 16:12

[Tickle]

Thanks all, I will post the poll up today when I get chance.

Hope you all had a good Christmas.