What will you be having for Christmas Dinner?

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Were you cleaning your roof?

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Christmas is the grand national of the cooking year.
All the mugs are out in force.
I love to see fellas saying they have the gravy made dayā€™s before with the turkey still sitiing in the butchers.

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You have the all mugs on here off to a tee. It driveā€™s them demented as well which makes it even better

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They look superb

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Where did you pull them out of? Iā€™d ate them now

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Mulroogā€™s finest KP. The ould lad is cracked for them.

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Good eye Fitzy. The paupers here wouldnā€™t recognise quality like that.

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:clap: we got a bucket from the same bed recently

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Thatā€™s practically on his doorstep at home

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Nothing better, especially if sourced fresh on your doorstep. A few of them just shucked with a pint of stout is one if lifeā€™s great pleasures.

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:clap:

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I donā€™t get the stout thing myself but good oysters with lemon and Tabasco are a real treat, buying and shucking them myself would possibly remove some of the joy. An rud is annamh is iontach.

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The ham is done

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Round two on the ham. Lovely toasted sandwich after a feed of Guinness

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Youā€™ll have fuck all left for the dinner. You probably had another lump of it for breakfast?

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The shrewd ham chef cooks two hams, one for hacking and one for dinner

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And he uses beef dripping for the spuds rather than goose fat.
Iā€™m finding it quite relaxing today, Iā€™ve done the same Christmas dinner for the past few years, lucky weā€™ve adouble oven that can be transformed into a huge single, thereā€™s a 19 pound bird just gone in

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Ham was outstanding. Turkey was lovely. Cookedit for the bare 3 hours then took it out and insulated it with tea towels and tin foil. It was perfect. Potatoes, carrots and sprouts were spot on. Stuffing wasnā€™t great. Too moist.

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I ended up the same , it looked done to me after 3 hours but the supposed cooking time was 4hrs 45mins. I turned off the oven and gave it another half an hour before taking it out and wrapping it. Was nice, would have been destroyed if Iā€™d left it in any longer.

The dinner was a serious spread, must have been 13 different items on the plate between meat, veg, stuffings and sauces. Pure gluttony.

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Incredible honesty as you come to expect from Fagan. Unlike you to have a blip of this proportion.
Itā€™ll all be forgotten next August when you land the big one.

Nollaig Shona to you btw.

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