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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:conservative amount of boiling water  If you heat it slowly enough they don't even notice.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:17
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Comrade Fakename posted:So, with the lockdown and everything, looks like I'm going to be spending Christmas alone, and I'm sure I'm far from the only one in that situation. Anyone got any tips for making Christmas dinner for one? My first Christmas dinner away from my family was beans on toast because a cheque took longer to clear than I'd expected & I spent my last £40 or whatever on Super Mario Galaxy. Which would've honestly been fine but then my Wiimote batteries died & I spent that day mostly feeling sorry for myself. That's my exceedingly useful advice. Every other dinner I've had alone I've just made whatever normal stuff I'd have like pasta or curry or something because while I enjoy the vegetarian Christmas dinner my mam makes I also have no desire to spend that many hours in the kitchen for myself.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:21
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Go to the local takeaway open on Christmas Eve, buy lots, have a tasty Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinner
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Nov 4, 2020 19:23
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Protip you can get pretty good veg if you microwave it in a plastic pot with some water for a bit and then fry it up in a frying pan to give it some browning. I also like to put a bit of brie in at the end gives it a gorgeous sort of cheese goo coating. Much easier than roasting and boiling and all that poo poo.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:24
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Family keep badgering me to be at theirs Christmas Day but i have my own traditions!
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Nov 4, 2020 19:24
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Sloth Life posted:Family keep badgering me to be at theirs Christmas Day but i have my own traditions! They tell you that but it's actually just their excuse to eat even more food.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:26
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forkboy84 posted:My first Christmas dinner away from my family was beans on toast because a cheque took longer to clear than I'd expected & I spent my last £40 or whatever on Super Mario Galaxy. Which would've honestly been fine but then my Wiimote batteries died & I spent that day mostly feeling sorry for myself. And I know someone is going to tell me that post-dating a cheque carries no legal weight in the UK as the cheque is a negotiable instrument in and of itself, but the newsagent didn't mind, because he was in a poor area and knew cashing it early when someone said "can I make it out for next week?" would mean it bounced and waste everyone's time and money, and it's better to have the money next week than not at all. No idea what people are supposed to do now (other than die of austerity).
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Comrade Fakename posted:So, with the lockdown and everything, looks like I'm going to be spending Christmas alone, and I'm sure I'm far from the only one in that situation. Anyone got any tips for making Christmas dinner for one? While tempting, you shouldn't microwave a turkey.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:29
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forkboy84 posted:My first Christmas dinner away from my family was beans on toast because a cheque took longer to clear than I'd expected & I spent my last £40 or whatever on Super Mario Galaxy. Which would've honestly been fine but then my Wiimote batteries died & I spent that day mostly feeling sorry for myself. This is the saddest sounding christmas
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Nov 4, 2020 19:30
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Christmas meal tip- wrap dried prunes in bacon and cook alongside your pigs in blankets. Some people call them devils on horseback. Watching the reports of the Florida exit polls I'm struck by sheer level of antipathy towards anything even remotely socialist amongst people hailing from South or Central America, to the extent that they'll vote for someone proudly anti-immigrant. There's plenty to argue with like the fact that Biden isn't remotely socialist, or that life in Guatemala, Cuba or Venezuela was tough partly because of the containment policies implemented by erstwhile trading partners. But if the same word means "affordable healthcare" if you're in Vermont and "voldemort" if you're in Florida, it becomes tricky to handle as a political identity.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:31
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Christmas Dinner is really about putting sausage and chestnut stuffing and roast potatoes into a Yorkshire pud and putting gravy on it then eating until you can't move. Me and one of my friends are good cooks and we made a loving incredible roast dinner a couple years back that I can still taste. Shame we probably can't do that again
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Comrade Fakename posted:So, with the lockdown and everything, looks like I'm going to be spending Christmas alone, and I'm sure I'm far from the only one in that situation. Anyone got any tips for making Christmas dinner for one? I did Christmas on my own last year and will be doing the same this year: - Live in alone in flat with full cooker, microwave, fridge, freezer and have room to store left overs plus ability to buy stuff in advance . Don't like turkey so got a a joint of lamb (I think) and a smaller joint will do one person is a big xmas dinner and left overs but not so much you get stick of it. Also less time to cook and takes up less room in fridge before/after. he the rest such as veg, roast potatoes, stuffing, etc is easier to make smaller poritions of, buy fresh stuff, etc to scale what you make. Though if you don't have the "stuff" (equpipment, resources, spoons, anything) to cook/make things, most of the pre-prepared "take out of package, put in microwave/oven" stuff does tend to only come in larger sizes. Sames goes for if you're doign a smaller family dinner, etc. I planned in advance that I would have a "Christmas dinner" + the left overs on boxing day. Did all the timings a few days before by looking at packets and then wrote myself clear step by step instructions and double checked over the lead up and had ready on the day. I found it worked really well form me, I enjoyed the expereince (very really make roast dinner type things) and it was very nice.
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God damnit thread, I'm making kofte and now I wanna throw it in the trash and make roast potatoes instead
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Nov 4, 2020 19:36
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Communist Thoughts posted:Christmas Dinner is really about putting sausage and chestnut stuffing and roast potatoes into a Yorkshire pud and putting gravy on it then eating until you can't move. This sounds incredible. Screw the turkey we're having stuffed yorkies this year.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:36
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The trick to good roast potatoes is to boil them a little in very salted water, drain them and bash them around the colander so they fluff up then roast them in animal fat, either duck, goose or lard or bacon fat if you have it left over. I mess about and add a bit of flour, Balsamic and rosemary before roasting them but that's purely wanking about and isn't really needed
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JollyBoyJohn posted:This is the saddest sounding christmas It was exactly as sad as it sounds. I'd moved to England, it was 2007 so poo poo started going bad in the economy, I couldn't find work, a whole big not fun time.
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Endjinneer posted:Christmas meal tip- wrap dried prunes in bacon and cook alongside your pigs in blankets. Some people call them devils on horseback. The Cubans in Florida are the people who ran away from Castro. While some may have legitimate grievances, the majority are definitely of the "We owned a 10,000-acre sugar cane farm and "employed" hundreds of people then Castro stole it" type. Basically imagine the sort of people who would be living on the Med now if Corbyn had won in 2019. (Obviously those that came over in the 80s when Castro just unlocked the jails and pointed in the direction of Miami are a bit more of a mixed bag socio-economically but a lot of them are still going to hate Castro and socialism for reasons that have nothing to do with political theory)
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Also Bisto is good, my family always does poncy gravy (home made) and proper gravy (Bisto) it is a dialectic and the synthesis is to have both
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JollyBoyJohn posted:This reminds me of an utter bimbo at my old work who said she wouldn't claim unemployment benefit if she lost her job because it would damage her pride. hey now, being a bimbo with silicone tits and impractical nails doesn't mean you can't still be smarter than the entire government put together 
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The Question IRL posted:I'm not defending the Italian Polices actions or even there version of events. What I am critical of is how Amanda Knox offered up an innocent man to save her own skin. The police literally wouldn’t let her leave the room till she told them who her accomplice was, despite her pleas the contrary, so you’re absolutely full of poo poo mate.
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OwlFancier posted:Protip you can get pretty good veg if you microwave it in a plastic pot with some water for a bit and then fry it up in a frying pan to give it some browning. I also like to put a bit of brie in at the end gives it a gorgeous sort of cheese goo coating. Roast veg really isn't that hard, and the idea that microwaved veg is a fitting substitute is terrifying. Also I'd like to fall out with the thread by stating that Yorkshire puddings are just overcooked pancakes and I don't get what people see in them.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Also I'd like to fall out with the thread by stating that Yorkshire puddings are just overcooked pancakes and I don't get what people see in them. Gravy. I see gravy in them.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Roast veg really isn't that hard, and the idea that microwaved veg is a fitting substitute is terrifying. You microwave it to par-boil it and then you finish it in the pan to give it some browning as you would get in a roast, but you only need one pan. I guess if you're roasting a piece of meat anyway you can put it around the meat instead. But I usually cook everything in a pan.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Yorkshire puddings are just overcooked pancakes and I don't get what people see in them. efb lol
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Nov 4, 2020 19:48
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Sloth Life posted:Go to the local takeaway open on Christmas Eve, buy lots, have a tasty Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinner bear in mind that for most takeaways Christmas Eve is literally their busiest night of the year so you'll need to be prepared to wait way longer than you're normally used to
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:
gently caress off This is the babbling of a beast
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Camrath posted:Talking of hearts, mine could use some soothing.. my heart rate hasn’t dropped below 115bpm all day, with spikes of 130-150 even when idle :p If you're not joking you should get that looked at. No one runs at 115 "normally".
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Nov 4, 2020 19:49
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No it's true yorkies are definitely pancakes, which is why I eat them for dessert with syrup on.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:49
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Nice, looks like I’m being let go at work. 2020 strikes again!
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Nov 4, 2020 19:50
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My partner is roasting potatoes for tea right now. It's our only dietary common ground really. Partner doesn't eat meat. I don't eat vegetables- the Lancashire method of preparation being favoured by my parents. I thought carrots were white until I left home.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Nice, looks like I’m being let go at work. 2020 strikes again! Ah gently caress, sorry to hear that 😞
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Drone_Fragger posted:Nice, looks like I’m being let go at work. 2020 strikes again! This sucks, I'm sorry and I hope you are able to find something else soon.
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wish i could just skip ahead a couple of months to find out which ailing fascist they've elected fuhrer of the world, christ the TL is full of poo poo about the US election
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Comrade Fakename posted:So, with the lockdown and everything, looks like I'm going to be spending Christmas alone, and I'm sure I'm far from the only one in that situation. Anyone got any tips for making Christmas dinner for one? If you really want stuffing you can get premade balls from iceland. Put the chicken crown in a baking tray way bigger than you need UPSIDE DOWN, and set a timer for 30 minutes. Grease the tray with butter obviously. During this 30 minutes peel the parsnips and the potato. Wrap 2 of the saussies in bacon. Cut the parsnip into 4 pieces and cut the bumhole off, cut the potato in half then each half in ¼ (ending up with 8 pieces). Boil the potato and parsnips for 10 minutes AND SAVE THE WATER. At the 30 minute mark, put the sausages, potato and parsnip into the way too big roasting dish and turn the chicken over. Put some honey over the parsnips and put it all back in the oven. Set a timer for ten minutes. In this 10 minutes, you just think about what you did. After 10 mins, put 2 yorkshires in the oven on a tray and set a timer for 20 minutes and in that 20 minutes of any fucker tries to open the oven you loving STAB them because if you open the oven while the Yorkshires are cooking it is OVER. When the 20 minutes are up mix up some bisto gravy while the steam bag of veg cooks. Carve the chicken, slam those roast veg on the plate, slip the yorkshires on the side and pour the gravy over the lot, and then sit down at a table and enjoy your last meal before covid or brexit gets you. There will be leftovers. They will be delicious. * The freezer ones where it's the frozen batter NOT the pre fluffed ones THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
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Hopefully I'm going to have Christmas with my two friends that I bubble with but failing that I'm making a Christmas pizza for myself. I think cranberry sauce and stuffing with gravy will be quite a delight.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:If you really want stuffing you can get premade balls from iceland.
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Reheating my sub par frozen balls.
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in terms of cookery chat, i recommend finding whatever bird you can - small turkey, big chicken, whatever. butterfly it (sounds hard, isn't at all, i promise) squish it flat. rub butter and salt beneath the skin and cook it hot. it'll be done in 45 minutes. you can chop up veg and cook the bird by lying it over top, and that's two big parts all done. eat what you want, pull all the meat off of the rest, bag into usable portions. freeze what you won't eat over the next week. if you have a frost-free freezer, it'll be very good quality for a few weeks, if your freezer builds up frost, it'll last for months. you can then boil / pressure cook the leftover bones and skin pieces for beautiful stock (which you can shred the meat into and toss in some of your extra veg later on for free soup). you can also turn some stock into gravy, lay the meat and veg into a pie crust, pour the gravy on top, and you have pie. there are a million ways to use leftovers so if you're up for it, don't just buy the breast because it's the boringest part and you'll also miss out on all these extras. Guavanaut posted:Stuffing mix is much nicer tho, and you can freeze it. It's not so nice reheated from frozen, but it's on par with the premade balls. i'd make stuffing, form it into balls, and freeze before cooking. then you can pull them out and cook them and they'll be basically as good as cooking anything fresh. Guavanaut posted:
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