Christmas menu

[SandyDown]

Chef if your wife is a hotel manager, and you are such a good cook - I can see a plan B in the making

[DiscoStu]

My Xmas dinner isn't just turkey, it's M&S turkey

[IR35 Avoider]

I don't know if this is normal, but when my wife cooks duck it takes 4-6 hours, at a low temperature, and all the superfluous fat melts away in the process.

Whatever bird she roasts, the skin is coated in Soy sauce and various spices, the bird comes out black looking like it's been burnt, but it's really nice, better than any other roast bird I've ever had.

I reckon her duck method should work for cooking the traditional christmas bird, goose, but for some reason she shudders at the thought of eating goose. I'm sure a goose cooked like this would beat the pants off that recent American import, Turkey.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Generous servings of various seafood.

[SandyDown]

I don't know if this is normal, but when my wife cooks duck it takes 4-6 hours, at a low temperature, and all the superfluous fat melts away in the process.

Whatever bird she roasts, the skin is coated in Soy sauce and various spices, the bird comes out black looking like it's been burnt, but it's really nice, better than any other roast bird I've ever had.

I reckon her duck method should work for cooking the traditional christmas bird, goose, but for some reason she shudders at the thought of eating goose. I'm sure a goose cooked like this would beat the pants off that recent American import, Turkey.

Sounds yummie, would you mind asking her for the recipe for me?

[chef]

Chef if your wife is a hotel manager, and you are such a good cook - I can see a plan B in the making

my girlfriend is the manager for the Executive Lounge of Hilton Manchester but has been a hotel manager for other smaller independent hotels.

i enjoy cooking as a hobby but im not at the masterchef form fillign stage quite yet, i just like experimenting and recreating things ive eaten in restaurants.

I would quite like to own a boutique b&b / bistro style restaurant as a plan B possibly in the future, its on the cards, just need some more practice first

[Churchill]

Best crimbo dinner is a nice slab of Roast Aberdeen Angus (and by roast I mean warmed in the oven) that still bleeds as you cut it MMMMMmmmmMMmmmMMMmmmmmmmmmmm

If it's been hung properly, it won't bleed.

[Ardesco]

If it's been hung properly, it won't bleed.

I'm not talking arterial pumping here, but a fresh peice of meat will retain a certain amount of blood in the flesh. That tends to mix with the fat and makes superb gravey. You need a good bit of blood to give the gravey some real flavour (and a dash of red wine)

[Churchill]

You need a good bit of blood to give the gravey some real flavour (and a dash of red wine)

Firstly young man

Secondly, add Cognac, a dash of vermouth and a couple of glasses of port, stir into the gravy, throw the meat away and get pished on the gravy!