Food

£45!

Definitely a premium price but hopefully if I cook it as well as last year it's going to taste fucking brilliant

Just a quick flash back to last Christmas

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I don’t think that’s too bad tbh - saves the hassle of tying the bloody thing at midnight on Xmas eve. And you look like a total baller bringing one of those bad boys out

That's £45 for a portion about the size of last years, right? Right?

It's about 2.5kg, so should be bigger than last year I think

any suggestions for good stuffing recipes? for traditional xmas dinner.

in-laws a bringing a Jamie O one with sausage meat, chestnuts and peaches so not that one but i do have 1kg of sausage meat to use.

But I mean not £45 for those whole bellies in the photo. Or I'd have driven straight to London. (Disregarding the £120 I'd probably spend on fuel).

I cooked the first of two hams yesterday. Didn't do a porchetta though I couldn't tell you why.

Had ordered two smallish 2kg ones but was then informed we would be bringing one of them to the in-laws on Christmas Eve so called up Philip Warren (local humble brag) and they swapped with 2 x 4kg and I feel a lot better about life. House smells porky. Planning on making beans with the liquor.

Ours doesn't sound very different to the JO one, though doesn't include the sweetness of peaches.

Grate carrots and onions to a fairly fine texture, salt and drain some of the liquid from them. Crumble in cooked chestnuts, sausage meat, breadcrumbs, egg, handfuls of parsley, tons of salt and pepper. Banging every year. In fact, need to do that this eve along with bread sauce.

sounds decent - will aim to follow that (approximately...)

Lamb

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Phillip Warren is your local butcher? Goals mate

Oh fuck no. They're about 5kg so a whole one would be £90-100.

Swings and roundabouts. Means I live driving distance from Launceston.

That still seems like good value. Fully would if I hadn't spent all day looking for bloody eggs.

It’s not fucking Easter!

We don't all have chickens m8

Egg hunt? Seems seasonally maladjusted

Do you have a recipe for that? It looks amazing.

I leave having chickens to other people.

Any good spots around bow for a late lunch? don’t know the area at all well but going to Abba voyage (pudding mill lane) and want to get some drinks/food in before…..

It was just a last leg of lamb cooked in red wine and beef stock (plus the usual aromatics). I took the meat out when it was done after a bout 4 hours, strained and reduced the stock, pulled the meat off the bone and recombined. Left it over night and reheated the next day.

Thanks

What was your Christmas dinner?

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Oh aye..

Cooked our porchetta this evening, turned out decent. I don’t think you overpaid, ours was £40 for 2.5kg and the butcher prepped it.

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