Turkey and all the trimmings for us on Christmas Day but my SiL - La Grinch - won't eat Xmas pud so I've bought a small Blumen Hestonhall sticky toffee apple pudding.
I don't like Xmas pudding either. Can you do me the sticky toffee pudding, but without the apple.
Oh and a big dollop of ice cream on side will be lovely too.
Capons have not been sighed up North then? I wonder why they are not around anymore
I think your mother must have told you about capons Min. You can't possibly have eaten one. Caponing, or is it caponisation?!, has been banned in the UK since the early/mid 70s.
Adding ice cream for Itchy to the list of last minute fresh things to buy......
Mrs Grinch's OH is perfect like me, Lil - he's my brother!*
I'm not good with raw meat either Sacha - I have to take gulps of fresh air before entering a butcher's shop. Not keen on the sawdust either, if I'm honest. Mr Nell reckons I'm a closet vegetarian.
*He ain't heavy though because Mrs Grinch keeps him on a very strict diet. All to the good though.
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Capons have not been sighed up North then? I wonder why they are not around anymore
I think your mother must have told you about capons Min. You can't possibly have eaten one. Caponing, or is it caponisation?!, has been banned in the UK since the early/mid 70s.
Hmmmmm......does that mean our young Mim has been sprung?
Turkey, trimmings and lots of cranberry sauce, and again later in a sandwich I hope.
I remember capons very well. When I was growing up that was always our Christmas Dinner, with roast pork on Boxing Day. I don't remember having turkey, other than the inevitable work lunches, until I was married and started doing Christmas myself.
Capons have not been sighted up North then? I wonder why they are not around anymore
I think your mother must have told you about capons Min. You can't possibly have eaten one. Caponing, or is it caponisation?!, has been banned in the UK since the early/mid 70s.
Is it!? Maybe we were behind the times in Wales LOL
Basically a capon is a castrated cockerel. Bred for the table. It was mainly done chemically. And that genuinely was banned in the 70s. But maybe Dai the Chop did em surgically in your neck of the woods Min. That was never banned to my knowledge but it must be a tricky manoeuvre.
The banning of the chemical treatment is why they're no longer standard Christmas fayre.