The 12 days of Old Style recipes

greenbee

Goose eggs are delicious... maybe you should be thinking long-term with some of these gifts and keep a few poultry to wander about in your pear forest? As has previously been suggested, you could sell the eggs (or use them in your local barter/LETS system)

Given the fate of the budgies, I suspect that nothing with legs has managed to stay alive longer than a couple of hours from its arrival at your front door, but hopefully your blood-lust has now been satisfied (besides which, I can't believe you really want to do all this cooking over the holidays) and you can consider setting up a small-holding in your garden with a view to ensuring a good supply of eggs and meat in 2009. After all, there's a recession looming, food prices are going up... and these gifts could set you up nicely!

splishsplash

Can I just clarify... did you say FIVE geese? You got FIVE geese?

I'm also worried about the undertones of your last post - 'any good a certain someone might have done to his cause....'

You don't specify how long you've been with your OH, and didn't go into details about the history of your relationship with the old flame, but please don't get carried away by the lavish gifts that are being heaped upon you. Remember these are mainly due to the inefficiencies of a fledgling courier company.
They're not exactly standard Christmas gift fare either, so unless you've expressed a particular predication for poultry in the past, they're pretty off-the-wall choices. Is your ex entirely stable?

Your budgie recipe sounds yum, and the goose dinner sounds scrumptious. Our Christmas eve traditional evening meal is salted ling with white sauce and spuds, which we all hate, but still have every year... yay for traditions.

I'm bursting with curiousity - can you tell us, what jewellery did you get?

Tabatha_Kitten

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Dont start me off again. Please !!

I have to go into work for a few hours this morning.
They already think Im not quite right without me sitting there grinning to myself like an idiot again !!

jfennell

Seeing Julieq's comment about Lords with heating made me wonder if we could come up with a credit crunch/old style version of a certain song. As in Lords a leaping to Lords with heating.

EssexHebridean

splishsplash wrote: »

fledgling

Possibly a poor choice of words?! :rotfl:

splishsplash

Ahh, you caught me EH... no doubt you also caught the seasonal reference to the ex-OH's state of mind?

Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas:xmassmile .

julieq

Well, Merry Christmas everyone.

Up with the lark this morning (not enough of the them for tongues in aspic though sadly), and surprised to hear something honking from behind the sofa. On closer investigation it turned out to be a spare goose, complete with egg. I'm not sure how I missed it yesterday, but I put the egg to one side for breakfast with toast and Lidl smoked salmon and set to to clean the khaki patches off the carpet.

Anyway, there's no post today, so this discovery apart there'll be a merciful respite from the avalanche of poultry and plenty of time to get things ready. I left the OH sleeping in for a bit, like most people I suspect he's had a difficult time at work recently and he has to go in tomorrow, which is a shame. But I enjoy getting a few things done in the kitchen on my own on Christmas morning, listening to carols on the radio. It is a morning when you can feel truly tranquil and content, whatever else is going on in the world and whatever worries you have, Christmas morning puts you in a bubble centred around your home and family.

rosieben

hmm, so lets see, now you have six geese? enough for a pillow then? or will you keep them for the luscious eggs they would provide?
Merry Christmas Julie and everyone who passes by... :rudolf: hope you're all having a great day!

julieq

Right.

I'm absolutely INCREDULOUS.

I spent the entire morning preparing food and tiptoeing for the most part succesfully around lethal pieces of upturned lego, bits of torn up wrapping paper and chocolate money casings.

The geese were roasting in the oven and smelling absolutely delicious, veg chopped and ready to go, blanketted pigs lined up in serried ranks, and a large glass of mulled wine sitting on the chopping board ready to provide that all important Christmas fuzz factor which can smooth over all manner of culinary mishaps.

And then there was a rap at the door. The OH went to answer it, and initially all I heard were raised voices, so I went into the hall to investigate, where I found him in animated conversation with his boss, who had turned up out of the blue and was apparently asking him why he hadn't come in for work as he claimed had been arranged.

I was just about to throw a bucket of goose intestines over him when there came an extended set of guffaws from the street, and a procession of what I can only describe as complete muppets marched into the hall, laughing, shouting and singing. The OH's boss, who was evidently completely paralytic and fairly reeking of spirits ushered them past mumbling something incomprehensible about our mortgage, then told us he wanted us to have a decent dinner for Christmas and had invited himself and a few friends to share it with us. He lurched into the kitchen explaining that he'd heard that I was partial to a bit of fresh game, whereupon his companions, still cackling away, brought out a number of very large (and completely illegal) birds from under their coats.

Lovely thought that. Wait until Christmas dinner is ACTUALLY half cooked, then turn up with another kind of bird and demand you drop everything and serve that instead, whatever effect that has on your meal planning. And presumably fire your OH if he doesn't agree.

Still, this is a bird I've always rather wanted to try, so I'm off to the garage in a moment with the largest. See you after the Queen.

midge61

OMG:eek:

Well at least you have enough to go round! Enjoy your dinner.

Hope you manage to have a good day.

Merry Christmas :santa2:

This thread has made me chuckle so much.