What are you making for dinner?

Caroby

OMG I'm so stuffed  ... Almond, walnut and mushroom slice, walnut, red onion and chestnut mushroom roll, 

Caroby

Wot happened there? ... vegan feta cheese, lemon chickpea and toasted sesame oil dip, red lentil and sun-dried tomato dip, herb stuffing, gherkins, cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers, french mustard and piccalilli, three kinds of crackers with vitalite, mince pie and dairy-free cream, rum marzipan and a glass of blackberry cider, now hitting the rum and coke ... hic

Florenceem

Went to Church then volunteer drivers ferried in guests for Christmas dinner. Drivers took dinners to those unable/chose not to come. Dinners were cooked for the homeless shelter and some of the rough sleepers came for their dinner - in all 140 meals were prepared in a small kitchen.
There was entertainment and quizzes and we watched the King's Speech.
Drivers returned to ferry guests home - everyone went away with a goodie bag of treats.
We were out from 9.30 to 5.30 and came home tired.

Caroby

Just found room for some turkish delight ... mmmmm 

kerri_gt

Hats off to you @Florenceem I've no doubt all your efforts were greatly appreciated.

Relatively relaxed xmas dinner here with only minor feelings of 'no no don't worry, I'll manage in here myself' simultaneously coupled with 'omg will everyone get out of the kitchen and give me space' 🤣🤣 
Seriously though, a lovely day, everyone well fed, two batches of roast potatoes, carrots and pigs in blankets cooked so plenty of left overs. Nearly lost the mash in the back of the oven 🙈 
Only disappointment was the plant based stuffing balls i bought for OH 🤮 grim, the rest have gone in the compost caddy, they are unredeemable. And the frozen parsnips from Lidl were ok but a bit large so didn't cook in the time listed.

mumf

This morning,two boiled eggs from my fowls. And my bread and butter. Fridge full of stuff ,so sandwiches and my home made pickled cabbage- love it! Tonight,a beef dinner,using veg etc that got left yesterday. You know what? I’ll reckon that will be nicer! 

We have a lot of ‘ issues ‘ at home right now,and this Christmas lark,does seem to be a lot of hassle to a lot of folks! Can’t be simple- especially with food.👍

mumf

Sorry, can’t BEAT simple! 

Islandmaid

Hope you all survived and that @Florenceem gets a chance to put their feet up x

bit more chilled here today, after a bit of a clear up will make baked Camembert, charcuterie etc for dinner

Brie

Florenceem said:

Went to Church then volunteer drivers ferried in guests for Christmas dinner. Drivers took dinners to those unable/chose not to come. Dinners were cooked for the homeless shelter and some of the rough sleepers came for their dinner - in all 140 meals were prepared in a small kitchen.
There was entertainment and quizzes and we watched the King's Speech.
Drivers returned to ferry guests home - everyone went away with a goodie bag of treats.
We were out from 9.30 to 5.30 and came home tired.

It's a shame there's a need to provide for so many - but I'm guessing that some like to come to the party for the company rather than an inability to feed themselves.  And for those that like turkey - well it's not the sort of thing that can easily be done for 1 or even 2!  Well done on you @Florenceemfor feeding the masses!! 

I was pleased that on Friday the OH came to work with me so I could do the pickups from the banks where there were food deposit boxes.  And we were supposed to deliver a couple of dinners and a bag of goodies to a chap that sleeps rough but we couldn't find him so had to return to work with his portion.  Someone managed to contact the chap who agreed to go to a meeting point and OH went off on his own to do the delivery.  Chap forgot why he was going some place different and returned to his normal spot on the high street but OH managed to track him down so the delivery was completed. 

I can't describe how pleased I am about this.  Not just for the chap, but also for my OH who doesn't get out nearly enough and has, in my first 4 months in my job with the food bank, not wanted to engage at all due to an excess of sympathy for some of our clients.   I'm a bit teflon on the sensitivity front and he makes up for that in spades and hasn't had the emotional fortitude to participate even in a minor social way so this was a good step forward.  

Florenceem

Brie - I didn't realise that you worked in a food bank - well done.
Yes a lot of folk who came to the meal live on their own - at least two people had lost their partner in the last year so were dreading a lonely Christmas.
Today is my first at home for 20 days - it has been so busy at SA leading up to Christmas Day. We have the week off as volunteers but breakfasts for rough sleepers will still be provided from 6.30 - 9 am.