I've never been a fan of any of the holy trinity (Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, Mince Pies). Our Dickensian pudding makers clearly had a glut of raisins and dried fruit they couldn't get shot of.Originally Posted by Giggles
I've never been a fan of any of the holy trinity (Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, Mince Pies). Our Dickensian pudding makers clearly had a glut of raisins and dried fruit they couldn't get shot of.
Raisins are rank.
Take that back. Raisins are great when used correctly.
With bran flakes, in scones, in little cardboard boxes for a delicious snack.
They do go well in a scone. Especially the ones that are on the outside
I'd rather eat actual shit.
It's worse when they're sneaked in somewhere.
Oh a delicious apple pie? RUINED by these little devil shits.
Nicest use of raisins I've ever experienced was in couscous with shitloads of butter, was class.
Couscous
I'm a twit
This is the most offensive post in the history of TTH. Couscous and raisins for fuck sake. Have some shame.
Raisins in coleslaw [the in-laws do this] is the sort of thing that people should be sent to the gulags for.
I'd have sultanas in couscous rather than raisins, but it does work.
Fruit in couscous is standard fare - sultanas, apricot, cranberries - come on lads.
I used to dislike raisins too but thankfully my balls did eventually drop and little hairs appeared on them. Hang in there, champs.
Honestly thought raisins and sultanas were the same thing
Chicken or seafood paella?
Raisins are acceptable in Alpen, but that's about it give or take some exceptions.
Edit: in fact, they are a necessity.
How about raisins on pizza
Giggles had it right with scones. That's the only place they're actively welcome. I'll tolerate them elsewhere. But not in couscous, which is miserable enough without adding to it, and certainly not in fucking coleslaw. Don't the yanks put them in potato salad?
The Yanks put all manner of shit into their potato salad.
Eggs, sugar, relish etc etc.
The Americans put marshmallows on top of sweet potato [already in and of themselves an aberration] so they're just beyond hope.
Yank potato salad is at least lumps of potato though, so no matter what they put on it it’s still going to be better than the cold mash abomination that we have.
I realise this is potentially dangerous territory, but what sort of potato salad doesn't have lumps of potato in it?
You'd very rarey see one here that isn't just cold mash with some stuff in it. Awful stuff.
The yank one tends to be baby potatoes that are halved or sliced.
I had that the other day at a Thanksgiving. Very fucking weird
Think that might be just the non-Irish varieties.
The ones I get sometimes are little cubes of potato. Definitely not mash. Is that what you mean and you're just being dramatic, Giggles?
Yorkshire puds on Christmas day. Yes or no?
Nope definitely like mash. And not even like nice stuff, it's like that puree that posh chefs make and call mash.
I had to pick up some in Tesco very recently and, like everything else in that shop, had BRITISH emblazoned somewhere on the packaging.
Take your food, send you food. Can't win can we?
So long as I can still get pork pies.
I'll send you some down from up here. The spar one is banging and there's not a union jack in sight.
No, but not because of the general fainting people do over having them without beef, but because there's enough elements to Christmas dinner without me adding more.
I'm suprised all that stuff is still so readily available here since Brexit. Shortly after it happened M&S was empty but it seems to have done something to get supply again. Must be soming in via whatever double way you lot are running these days.
What Giggles said. I")) eat them if they're there, but on Christmas day there's already enough food to leave me comatose, so they're not really required.
Do you guys have a new year's Day meal? My father in law does steak pie, mushy peas, mashed potato and gravy every year. It's banging.
A handier verision of the previous day.
Yorkshire puddings, like stuffing, belong on any roast as far as I'm concerned, regardless of the meat.
You planning to stuff a cow for your roast beef dinner? You'll need the entire sage output of the western Mediterranean.
A whole stuffed cow
I think you need to be looking at boxing day first.
Was telling my wife that it's a tradition to have cold cuts, hams, jacket potatoes, hot sausage rolls, cheese, etc on boxing day. To my horror, I was told this is not a widely accepted tradition. But surely you chaps do this?? (Apart from Baz's mental in laws)
We'll have a boxing day buffet, usually consisting of tat from M&S.
Bubble and squeak throughout the post-Christmas period. This year we can add the left over rice from the paella. Delicious.
I was about to share the same story.
Are you secretly one of my friends?
Unlikely.
That was an emergency measure, as referenced in the post. Since then the rule has held firm.
Going to watch a panto at the Everyman in Liverpool with work.
Once again, my double Christmas dinner day (work at lunchtime, golf club poshos in the evening) has reared its very ugly head next Friday.
Lunch
Grilled goats cheese, beetroot & horseradish relish, chicory salad, maple roasted walnuts, grain mustard dressing
Twice cooked free range pork belly, spiced quince and apple compote, crackling, buttered kale, creamy mash, cider and wholegrain mustard sauce
Sticky toffee pudding, treacle toffee sauce, vanilla ice cream
Dinner
Spicy tuna tartare with won ton crisp, wasabi creme fraiche and pickled ginger
Garlic & herb marinated Surrey chicken supreme on a breadcrumb soil with roasted pink fir potatoes, fine green beans, mange tout in a chilli and lemon oil, and chicken glaze
Homemade treacle tart with nut brittle and honeycomb ice cream
A selection of fine cheeses with grapes, celery, chutney and mixed crackers
Going to be some real hard prep for that. Probably shutting the gullet down Wednesday night latest.
You could just come to mine instead. 350 miners in a marquee with an open bar.
A few of us moaned about the work Christmas meal last year, but because I moaned the most in front of the people who organised it, I got 'You can do it next year then'. Instead of the usual Dan Snow-endorsed shit system, whereby we get to vote on six options and end up at the least interesting, I just booked us this and told people it was happening. Winner, winner.
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