As Kavey has just mentioned the food over Christmas.. thought I'd share some of ours with you...

Christmas day...

Breakfast - there is no real tradition with this... sometimes people start with champagne or a bucks fizz... but we don't.

This year I was given a packet of bagels for a present and some sarsaparilla cordial.. So I made toasted bagels with cheese, bacon and mushrooms and a glass of sasp'a'rilla to go with it.

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Christmas dinner... well over the years we have done just turkey, a combo of beef/pork and chicken, and this year we were just going to have a stack of chickens, but we got a turkey as well...

So the day before I cooked the chickens and turkey, let it cool and then stripped the meat from the bones. This allowed me to then make stock for a rich turkey, chicken and veg soup.

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The main course was a plate full of mash, roast potatoes, roasted parsnip and carrots, steamed cabbage and brussel sprouts, sausage in blankets,cranberry sauce and lashings of rich gravy.(not bad going when serving 17 people)

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We had bits for pudding several hours later, but nothing really homemade so no photos... crackers and cheese, sponge pudding and custard, chocolate biscuits, chocolate santas, chocolate money, crisps, nuts.. bombay mix... just about anything anyone fancied once the rest had settled....

You then get on to the days after Christmas where people "tend" to make too much turkey so have some left. I actually make sure I have some left as I find it part of the tradition to try and use it up imaginatively. Often people use it for a buffet in sandwiches, soup comes in but we had that on the day, sometimes I make a big pan of vegetable curry and add the turkey at the last minute, maybe add cream and serve with mini naan breads.

This year I thought I'd try some other things..

So the other day I made an Italian style pasta dish with Turkey and Pancetta

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Today I decided to make some spicy fried chicken/turkey pieces and that used up the last of it.

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Steve

(ps if you click the link the photo opens up, click it again it gets bigger so you can read labels etc)

All look lovely. I saw some of these pictures on your facebook. Your family is lucky, you go to such a lot of trouble for everyone.

thanks Mamta, I'm sure I'm no different from everyone on here when it comes to feeding the family :-)

Steve