What is everyone cooking today?

[Mrs Dobby]

Bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms and beans for tea tonight, a light meal tomorrow night, then turkey with 13 veg n trimmings on the 25th! Cant wait!

[Flummery]

That pumpkin soup was pants. Recipe just said water and pumpkin - it was predicatably bland, so I've just thrown an onion and 3 cloves of garlic at it.
Another half hour to wait now. Might fill the time with a (medicinal) ginger wine...

I like to start with an onion lightly fried, add a crushed clove of garlic and some curry powder or paste. Then add the pumpkin and stock. Simmer, whizz up - you won't find it bland.

[TonyF]

OK, you asked for it .........

Xmas Eve is the big day in France tho we are going to friend's for a traditional English lunch tomorrow. So today was lunch for 9:

Canapes: Organic (from the woods) mushrooms in a cream sauce with maple syrup jambon cru plus leeks in orange butter with scallops, both on blinis.

Home made organic pumpkin soup

Entree: assiette de charcuterie with mini gherkins and home grown and made pickled red cabbage

Mains: Organic sausages from the farm I work at, with onion gravy (French recipe, using bay) or salmon en croute stuffed with rocket and freshly grated nutmeg. Veggies were puree with haricot vert and greens, wilted then cooked in the sausage fat with organic noisette.

Assiette of cheese with lemon and kiwi confiture or organic honey and nuts.

Desserts: Organic cherries in alcohol or choc fondants with the trimmings

Coffee, home made petit fours, fair trade chocs and chum's fruit and nots as required.

Wine as appropriate, mix of reds and whites and sweet wine with the desserts.

And tomorrow ............

Some other poor bugger is doing the cooking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy.

[Two_Sheds]

I had flu, on the sofa. OH went to pub anyway. Was due home at 4 ... obviously didn't come home on time, so I went to find him. Swaying, not quite on the floor...

[shirlthegirl43]

That was some load of cooking TonyF - bet you are glad you are not cooking tomorrow!

TwoSheds hope the flu is better now - I fancied Chinese too but couldn't be bothered driving to the restaurant!

We just had honey roast ham (baked in cider) with chips and egg. Do I detect an alcoholic theme with my cooking?

[hawthorns]

we have just made roast parsnip and potato balls. christmas braised red cabbage too

[jacob marley]

Today Venison burger mashed garlic potatos sprouts it was nice jacob

[Hazel at the Hill]

Just about to tuck into left over roast beef, potato and parsnip mash with kale and carrots (yay!) from the Hill.

Then to the pub.

[Alice]

Sounds great TonyF. Enjoy the fruits of your labour. And enjoy the meal being prepared for you tomorrow. Joyeux Noel.

[Two_Sheds]

I made pumpkin soup with my five pathetic little Golden Nuggets ... blended it up, started to eat ... its full of hundreds of little shards of skin (I thought I'd cut it all off )
Inedible. what a shame, I saved those Nuggets for like 4 months

[shirlthegirl43]

What a bother. I got one carnival squash - about the size of a small orange - and by the time I had decided to cook it it had gone mushy. It only waited a week - thought they kept better than that.

[smallblueplanet]

We managed one Black Futsu, it made a good soup with a couple of leeks, but it was very sweet. (Too sweet for me, trying Uchiki Kuri this year.)

[bubblewrap]

Harvested JAs today
Tomorrow JA soup.

[trousers]

i grabbed the kitchen today, made us both blt's for brunch and then sausage bake and ja gratin for dinner washed down with g and t's and then red wine ,i hope wellie will do a pud later of home made ice cream with some maltesers MMMMmmmmmmmmmm

[shirlthegirl43]

We had roast chicken with spuds, frozen corn on the cob and peas and gravy (half instant) today. Madmax is off on his travels tomorrow and fancied a home roast. Ran out of time to do it all from scratch though.