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Looking for a menu for Christmas day...

Wanted to have a nice braai but Mother in-law said no. She wants roast or something... (Yea, she's at our place for Christmas).

Thinking, maybe a leg of lamb, roast potatoes, rice and some veggies (Pumpkin, green beans or something) and then for snacks during the day, Cold chicken legs, tongue and meatballs with dip and 2 or 3 salads?

Edit: Added Trifle as per Ockie :drool:

No too sure.

So what are you guys dishing up?
 
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Lekker lamsboud!

Going away for a short break for the weekend and my rule and holiday is braai everyday. So I will be making it on the Weber. Still deciding on what to make with it, but it will be some vegies or something along those lines.

Mother in law will be bringing some Gammon along also.
 
Pitbull said:
Looking for a menu for Christmas day...

Wanted to have a nice braai but Mother in-law said now. She wants roast or something... (Yea, she's at our place for Christmas).

Thinking, maybe a leg of lamb, roast potatoes, rice and some veggies (Pumpkin, green beans or something) and then for snacks during the day, Cold chicken legs, tongue and meatballs with dip and 2 or 3 salads?

No too sure.

So what are you guys dishing up?
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well what you got right there is a pretty decent menu I say. You could cook the lamb and the chicken at the same time, but take the chicken out a bit sooner. slow cook, low temp, for longer. always better.

You could always make pumpkin fritters as well? :D

edit : cant not have broccoli and colli with cheese sauce! yum! :p
 
techead said:
well what you got right there is a pretty decent menu I say. You could cook the lamb and the chicken at the same time, but take the chicken out a bit sooner. slow cook, low temp, for longer. always better.

You could always make pumpkin fritters as well? :D
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I actually wanted to post this in your thread but thought I'll derail it. Sounds tasty. Lots of work I suppose?
 
hmmm not really hey. If you got a steamer then you can just pile some pumpkin/butternut in to cook and get on with something else. Needs to be cooked dead, as you need to then blend it. Just use a stick blender or something.

Then its literally a case of throwing everything (incl pumpkin/butternut) into the mixer. Then either deep fry of you want ball shapes or fry in a pan if you want flap-jack style

Add more castor sugar and cinnamon to taste
 
We are making roast veggies, lamb shanks and roast potatoes. Some sort of ice cream for dessert.
 
We're having Springbok Loin (marinated) and wrapped in bacon, cooked in the kettle braai, served with a cold Asian noodle salad.
 
Pitbull said:
Looking for a menu for Christmas day...

Wanted to have a nice braai but Mother in-law said no. She wants roast or something... (Yea, she's at our place for Christmas).

Thinking, maybe a leg of lamb, roast potatoes, rice and some veggies (Pumpkin, green beans or something) and then for snacks during the day, Cold chicken legs, tongue and meatballs with dip and 2 or 3 salads?

No too sure.

So what are you guys dishing up?
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side note : I didnt know you were gay?? :confused:

thought it was only ockie and that other chap... cant recall now
 
We usually have:

Starters:
Crayfish, mini prawns in pink sauce in avo. (Replace the fish with biltong shavings for those that don't eat fish)

Mains:
Roast, lamb, beef, chicken and gammon
Roast potatoes, pot potatoes
Cauliflower and cheese sauce
Wide range of veg (corn, green beans, pumpkin etc)
Gravey

Sweets:
Banana trifle
Strawberry pavlova
Fruit salad
Ice cream

Probably left out stuff because it's usually to much to eat everything but yea! Nom nom.
 
Roast chickens with my mum's world famous stuffing. Mutton curry by my fiancee. Butter chicken. Prawns.

And tomorrow night my sister and brother-in-law will be coming down from Jozi so I'll be making individual racks of lamb for them, my parents, brother and his gf and my fiancee and myself, with a broccoli soup starter.

Pitbull said:
Looking for a menu for Christmas day...

Wanted to have a nice braai but Mother in-law said no. She wants roast or something... (Yea, she's at our place for Christmas).
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She's at your place. Your place. If my future MIL tried that with me I'd have a pretty long chuckle.

techead said:
well what you got right there is a pretty decent menu I say. You could cook the lamb and the chicken at the same time, but take the chicken out a bit sooner. slow cook, low temp, for longer. always better.
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Put the chicken in later.
 
Freaksta said:
We usually have:

Starters:
Crayfish, mini prawns in pink sauce in avo. (Replace the fish with biltong shavings for those that don't eat fish)

Mains:
Roast, lamb, beef, chicken and gammon
Roast potatoes, pot potatoes
Cauliflower and cheese sauce
Wide range of veg (corn, green beans, pumpkin etc)
Gravey

Sweets:
Banana trifle
Strawberry pavlova
Fruit salad
Ice cream

Probably left out stuff because it's usually to much to eat everything but yea! Nom nom.
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That's it. I'm bringing my family to your place ...
 
Usual menu is normally -

Breakfast -

Croissants and Bagels with cold meats and cheeses

Lunch -

Leg of lamb
Chicken
Gammon
Chippelata's wrapped in bacon
Stuffing balls (just get the WW flav of choice, roll balls, deep fry)
Broccoli and Cauli cheese phyllo parcels
Roast potato's
Pumpkin
Green beans with bacon bits

And then we have like trifle, xmas cake, xmas pudding, etc for when the lunch has gone down, usually around midnight :D
 
We normally do the glazed ham, salt beef, roast chicken thing, but we got lazy this year and are throwing some chops, sosaties, wors and bum-on-fire-peri-peri chicken wings on some post-incineration wood remnants.

We have kept the dessert menu, Mom's infamously famous baked fruit cocktail pudding with custard and a strawberry cheesecake I'm hacking together with the arc-welder later today.
 
bruce_the_loon said:
We normally do the glazed ham, salt beef, roast chicken thing, but we got lazy this year and are throwing some chops, sosaties, wors and bum-on-fire-peri-peri chicken wings on some post-incineration wood remnants.

We have kept the dessert menu, Mom's infamously famous baked fruit cocktail pudding with custard and a strawberry cheesecake I'm hacking together with the arc-welder later today.
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Nothing wrong with a nice braai with the family around the pool.

My folks though love doing this Turducken crap... Yuck... (Now that is lazy :D)
 
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