Festive Food - Winners and Losers

[vegster]

Winner a bizarre two dozen squashed fig effort the size of a cricket ball wrapped in raffia £4.50 from Infinity foods. Remarkable
Loser a 'finest ' Sicilian mouse at Tesco's reduced from 90p to 11p with a day to go and tasted of burnt plastic

Surely that should taste of cheese ?

 

[Tooting Gull]

Winner: My honey roast gammon. Always ready to hone and refine, boiled in cider this year after a tip. Superb.

Loser: Another one for forgetting bread sauce. Schoolboy.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Winners:- My home made brandy butter (made with plum slivovitz); white bread fried in turkey dripping.

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Winner - Sainsbury's turkey crown, first supermarket meat in recent times to actually taste of what it's supposed to!

Loser - The Pinot Grigio served in my local, had to drink 3 pints of Harveys to take away the taste of the sip I had from Mrs Owl's glass!

 

[maltaseagull]

Winner - Sainsbury's turkey crown, first supermarket meat in recent times to actually taste of what it's supposed to!

Loser - The Pinot Grigio served in my local, had to drink 3 pints of Harveys to take away the taste of the sip I had from Mrs Owl's glass!

Really? Sounds like a bit of an excuse to me

 

[somerset]

Winner - Rick Stein Nutmeg and Cardamon chicken and stuffing recipe.

Loser - Lanson pink champagne won in a raffle......dire.

 

[m20gull]

Winners - a dead heat for the home-made gravy and bread sauce

Loser - Tesco mince pies, especially as I'm the only family member that will eat them.

 

[Since1982]

Loser, the gluten free sausages and turkey crown ordered from my local butcher. When I turned up on Christmas Eve to collect them it turned out he hadn't made the sausages and the turkey "crown" had been boned and rolled. Apparently I should have said if I wanted it "on the bone" - I suggested I would have asked if I wanted it boned and rolled.

Winner, last minute purchase of a free range Norfolk turkey from Waitrose which tasted lovely after some clever cooking by yours truly.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Just about to pour the Harrods brandy onto the pud to light it when there was a confession from a younger member of the family that we may want to check as there was a possibility it had been watered down........

 

[Barham's tash]

Winners:

Waitrose turkey crown and the excellent wrap in towels for an hour before serving method that kept it moist and tasty.

Bread sauce with everything.

Black bomber cheddar from the Snowdonia Cheese Company

Losers:

Waitrose Gammon with apricot glaze - dull, insipid and none of that home made clovey goodness.

 

[Hillian1]

Winner: Butterfly Turkey Breast from Bookers (5kg of pure breast meat for £25), Gravy made from the juices, Sprouts.

Loser: Forgot the Bread Sauce.

 

[topbanana36]

Winner - Home made apple, rhubarb and blueberry wine and the bottle of jager which didn't last long.

 

[Hiney]

Winner - M & S Brussel Sprouts with chestnuts and bacon

This

Magnificent

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Loser- tesco chocolate coins. Really poor quality chocolate- binned them in disgust.

 

[Since1982]

Winners:

Waitrose turkey crown and the excellent wrap in towels for an hour before serving method that kept it moist and tasty.

That worked for me as well - although it ended up being two hours, still fantastic though.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

winners... for the first time in years.. everything that I had served up for Christmas dinner was really tasty.. well done mother! covered in bread sauce of course!
oh and my mates homemade pickled onions on boxing day.. mmmm

loser.... mothers homemade sausage rolls.. shame really as her pastry is superb, yet she chose to use shop bought puff crap! yuk..

 

[TheJasperCo]

Winner: Dad's homemade Christmas cake; homemade stuffing; homemade mince pies.

Looosser: Homemade gravy - runny, watery and flavourless.

 

[Trufflehound]

well done mother! covered in bread sauce of course!

There's something not quite right about that image...

 

[WATFORD zero]

Winner - Huge Goose for Dinner (and with only 6 people, still some meat left !)

Loser - Langoustines, part of the starter. Bit like celery, use more calories getting to it than you do eating it.

 

[banjo]

Winners. Turkey from the butchers, and slow cooked gammon in coke then glazed with golden syrup.