#90251
12/25/2002 11:49 AM
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Is anyone having turkey for Christmas dinner this year?
I recently heard a radio programme that said that turkey is becoming unfashionable, and more and more people are going back to the old tradition of goose. As if to confirm this, I've just been told that we're having goose this year as well, a first ever break in our family tradition (at least since WWI when turkeys became popular). Any preferences?
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#90252
12/25/2002 11:51 AM
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turkey in Vermont! 
formerly known as etaoin...
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#90253
12/25/2002 2:30 PM
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We're having ham, baked yams, etc. etc. And I got a really nice sweater for Christmas. I'd kinda hoped for a moaner or a screamer, but....
TEd
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#90254
12/25/2002 3:03 PM
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TEd aside (you bad boy!)
Turkey's sort of the 'in' thang here still, gentle little German Shepherd, and now some farms sport "organic fowl," meaning, I guess, they let the turkeys eat whatever can't run away from them.
Meanwhile, here in upstate Noo Yawk, we're snowed in but we had the foresight to stock up yersterday. We're gonna do an Antipodean Christmas, with shrimps (OK, prawns) and tropical drinks with little umbrellas in them.
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#90255
12/25/2002 10:09 PM
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> Any preferences?
Sitting down to a meal of hot roast poultry isn't that appetising in 30C heat, but if I had to choose between goose and turkey, then turkey (overpriced and unmremarkable) wins over goose (vile and inedible) any day. Of course, freshly caught crayfish and paua(abalone) on the barbecue leave them both for dead.
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#90256
12/26/2002 3:28 AM
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journeyman
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Oh, sjm, abalone is just about the most perfect food there is, but there isn't very much of it anymore. When I was little, my brothers and his friends used to skin dive for it off the coast of California and we would have wonderful feasts. Now it is a delicacy....
My christmas ham was delicious, served to family and close friends... I hope your dinner was as sweet.
MM
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#90257
12/26/2002 3:07 PM
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From my childhood memory...Mother was a great cook!
Waiting-for-dinner snacks : dates stuffed with walnuts and rolled in confectionery sugar, prosciuto ham rolled around melon, chilled shrimp with horseradish/tomato sauce; celery stuffed with Roquefort and cream cheese mix.
Main meal : Baked turkey and baked ham - a serving of each. Jellied Ocean Spray Cranberry sauce, apple sauce with cinnamon, squash - green beans - sweet potato with brown sugar and pecans. Baked potato. Stuffings: both bread and potato choose your favorite.
Desserts : Apple, Mince, Pumpkin pies with a scoop of Vanilla Ice cream for those who have room !?!
Really good Kona coffee for the crowd and some decaf Colombian for me!
We saved inventive meals for the New Year meal!
Even today Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners are Turkey! Turkey! Turkey! Don't surprise me with a goose!
The trick is to diet BEFORE the holiday~~~~~ ho ho ho!
Merry Christmastide Dec 25 - Jan 6
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#90258
12/26/2002 4:52 PM
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After having the goose yesterday, I think turkey's probably better - especially the idea of cold turkey sanwiches on boxing day! You just can't get that much out of a goose. Can't say I can imagine anything else but roasted poultry at Christmas though, despite the mild Christmas we're having - 12 degrees C in rainy Eastern England!?! Merry Mild err... new year everyone! 
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#90259
12/29/2002 8:29 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Our family has never had turkey for Christmas dinner! When I was a child at home, we always has a capon and for a fair few years, I continued the tradition once I married.
Then we started to have pheasant, instead, and continued with that for a few years. One year, we had a sirloin of beef, we have had duck, and last year we tried Guinea Fowl (delicious - and just right when there are only two of you!)
When we go to my daughter's for Christmas, (as we did this year), she usually serves goose. That also is delicious, if cooked and served properly.
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#90260
01/04/2003 3:38 AM
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No turkey for Christmas here. We had pork tenderloins marinated overnight in a very spicy concoction which I made up as I went along and turned out terrific. Also had North Carolina pulled pork barbeque, which Madame learned to make from a wonderful lady of color, NC native, who cleaned for us years ago (she would do the first part of making the barbecue while she was cleaning and leave it in the oven to finish so it was done when we came home). We were going to have fresh asparagus and mac&cheese, but since only one of our sons could make it with wife and our granddaughters (the other 2 couldn't get out of northern Virginia and the DC suburbs because of heavy snowstorm), we didn't cook that and saved it for Saturday following Christmas when we had Christmas dinner all over again with everyone there, all 3 grandchildren, and a great time had by all. (Barbecued chicken and spareribs from the Amish market in Burtonsville MD replaced the Christmas Day burnt offerings).
What I really want to do some year when I have the time to do it is an Italian Christmas Eve dinner. In Italy, Christmas Eve is a fast day, so there is no meat. But they make up for it with very special foods of fish and seafood. Depending on what part of Italy you're in, there are either 7 or 12 fish dishes served. The two which are almost always included are Sarde in Saor - Sweet-Sour Sardines (fresh) and Baccalà con Polenta - Salted Cod with cornmeal mush. (That last one sounds horrible, -- almost as bad as Lutfisk -- but it's delicious, although it takes the best part of 2 days to make since you have to reconstitute the fish, changing the water frequently to get rid of the salt.) Eels are popular, as well as whatever fish is available, as are prawns, clams, etc. Despite the fact of it being a fast day, it's a real feast and fuels you up to attend midnight Mass.
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#90261
01/04/2003 2:58 PM
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7 or 12 fish dishes served.
Sigh. Perhaps if I'd been born in a coastal state...
I really, really, really do not like fish. But I bet I'd be a lot healthier if I did. Thanks for that info., though. Golly, there sure is a lot to learn about other places, isn't there? I love that, about this board; I'll bet stales is the only one of us who's been to Mongolia, and I am so glad he shared that experience with us!
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