Thereās lovely duck breasts available in Lidl year round @Julio_Geordio
Thatās the right job for your pal
This sounds quite interesting. Tell us more about the entitled bastard- is it a bishop, cardinal, hottieā¦or some class of wealthy heirless yank?
Did you ask him if he wanted anything or did he just come out and say i want duck? The man could he getting slammed for no reason here
Some lad on rte there making the gravy with white wine, lemon juice and zest and a load of soy sauce. He also added more salt after the soy sauce. No stock. He can fuck off with his soy sauce anyway.
Any gravy tips or recipes? cc @TreatyStones @LionelRitchie
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I make the Jamie Oliver Get Ahead Gravy every year and itās a firm favourite.
Made it today, gone into the freezer, will defrost Christmas day and add the turkey juices.
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Mince pies at Parkrun this saturday
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Donal Sheehan does a savage roast spud
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Iād seen that recipe it looks class. Lot of work in it and Iām not prepared for it, think Iāll just go with the standard gravy from a roast recipe Iād do and treble everything. Flour into the roasting pan, wine, then stock.
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Put the turkey on a veg trivet and youāll get a bit of extra flavour into it.
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Good gravy turns an average roast into a banger. Make sure all the hardened scrapings in the tray you loosen in a bit of liquid first before doing anything else.
Add boiled water and mash the living fuck out of all the onions, garlic etc you sat the roast on and boil them in the tray on the stove. Strain and liquid back into the tray.
Wine, stock cubes, bisto from there, boil it up and keep stirring, but canāt fuck it up at this stage.
Lash the liquor into everyone leading up to the meal and no one will give two fucks either way whats on the plate anyway.
Lash into the grub, tis the season
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Weāve finalised the menu this evening
Starters
Black Pudding & Goats Cheese
Melon Balls
Main
Turkey, Ham, mash & roast potatoes, honey roasted carrots & parsnips, a mix of small baby turnips and beetroots, sprout gratin, sage & onion stuffing, sausage & apple stuffing, bread sauce, gravy.
Dessert
White Chocolate & Raspberry Cheesecake
Choc Chip Brioche Bread & Butter Pudding
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Youāre as handy as a small pot
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Herself will look after the melon balls & desserts, but her most important job is to keep lorrying the liquour into me so I donāt lose my cool.
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Iām in pick me up at Ballysteen national school at midday on Monday
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Christmas Day weāll be heading to inner west Sydney for lunch at my nieces newly renovated house (basically her and the Hubble are fucking loaded).
The hubbieās family are Greek and lovely with it, so Iām looking forward to barbecued goat and Mediterranean salads.
The niece and hubbie are hard work tbh, but his parents and nonna are gas. I always have a great chat with them about growing vegetables over a glass of red wine in a beaker.
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Some sort of hydroponic system?
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Great to see the Bread Sauce here - as ever the fulcrum around which the whole feast moves
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The bread sauce revival that happened on tfk 6/7 years ago is one of the great 21st century cultural movements.
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Iām proud to say that the family WhatsApp group (on the Fathers side) will light up on Christmas Eve with various uncles posting pictures of industrial quantities of Bread Sauce that theyāre cooking up.
Whenever I get my first picture of a super-sized saucepan containing a thick glutinous mixture with a clove-studded onion floating in it - Iāll know Christmas has properly started.
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