Kitchen Garden Forum

I'm pleased to say our neighbours enjoy our lights.

Our immediate next door neighbour also doesn't need to switch the loo light on during the night.

Visited the plot yesterday.

We have the following vegetable selection freshly harvested for Christmas and Boxing day
Brukale, Sprouts, Carrot, Butternut Squash, Beetroot, Purple Sprouting Broccoli,

Also got some Sarpo Mira potatoes, Garlic and Shallots left from this years crops to enjoy.

We have one item that we were told would no longer be available on Christmas day ..................... Pa(r)Snip

Daughter has been taking some of our excess crops to the local organisation who are providing food for local elderly and homeless people over Christmas. The organisers were so pleased to be offered fresh veg, they mainly get given tinned.
We hope they enjoy.

Sounds a good list Pa Snip.

For the first time in 30 years I'm not cooking Christmas dinner, No.2 son and his good lady are cooking at their place. I'm looking forward to it as I know it will be a good meal but I feel slightly lost as though there is something I should be doing! I am in charge of bread sauce though and No.1 son and wife are in charge of puddings. Was going to be a meal for 10 but is now down to 9 as No.3 son is unwell and doesn't fancy bouncing up and down on the hovercraft today to get here, quite apart from spreading his germs about!

What's the largest number you all have sitting down to dinner tomorrow?

A mere 6 of us>

Enjoy yourself MW, make the most of not having to do anything other than be the bread(sauce) winner

08:00 Thursday morning... Santa starts his annual round the world trip

Something for the kids to pop in and out of today to see how he is getting on

http://www.noradsanta.org/

Just going to pick up the Turkey from our local farmer....

Swan is off the menu this year, as the Queen sent me a letter stating...."i'm not amused"....

oldherbaceous wrote:Swan is off the menu this year, as the Queen sent me a letter stating...."i'm not amused"....

More than enough round here most winters

Don't know how you two (Alan & OH) have got time to go swanning around

Maybe they have moved to safer ground.

I don't think we would get a full swan in the oven anyway they taste a bit fishy ,we are going to our eldest daughters for dinner there will be 12 of us we normally have fancy dress but my son in laws mother passed away on Sunday so it will be a bit low key this year but not to low key

In days gone by when swan was on the menu of royalty they sometimes had trouble lighting the fire

until that is someone suggested


try a large box of Swan Vesta

Can anyone else see that huge moon out there, i can't remember seeing a Christmas moon like this one, for many a year....it looks quite special.

OH

Makes total sense to me, its Christmas and lots of people are on the moonshine Some more than others