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Xmas day.
It was a huge concentrated effort in the kitchen but we managed to get it all out. Brussels and bacon, enough stuffing to feed all of Poros, gravy, Yorkshire puds, garlic bread, parsnips, kumara, potatoes and chicken. We had to juggle the trays going into the oven and use the wood burner as well. All good.
Meanwhile, outside the Boy had charged up the wood oven where he cooked copious amounts of pork.
It was delicious, the crackling crackled satisfyingly.
He and the other 2 Boys ate bowls of goats foot soup to warm their cockles.
The stifado, wild pig and onions, didn't get touched and is now in the freezer
No tzatziki or Greek salad this year. No room on the table, no time, no energy. No need.
Various porks
And a few Greek potatoes
The kitchen crew
Kyriakos the Carver
With the jolly little elves
Crackers have been pulled, jokes groaned at and party hats donned
The end
Sprawled out
No energy left for anything but their phones
Feast fit for Kings...😘....still enjoying the leftovers...😍.
ReplyDeleteWe had cold pork, again, today. I finished off the last bit of wine. One glass. Nice
DeleteThe phones are out everywhere these days. It's difficult to put them down. Smashing photos.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be cartoons on tv, no w it's phones. Keeps them quiet. We sometimes play trivial pursuit at the end of a gathering. Too tired this time
DeleteOh that sounds wonderful. I should come to your house to put some weight back on!
ReplyDeleteYou'd be wobbling out of here!! Far too much as usual.
DeleteYou had kumara? nice! we had roast pork too but it was a very quiet day here.
ReplyDeleteWell sweet potato. We baptise it kumara. Much the same.
DeleteI would love a quiet xmas
Whose influence is the Yorkshire puddings in Greece? I like to have them but Christmas Day I have bread soaked in duck fat around the chicken like my mother used to do so no Yorkshire puddings. Bread in duck fat is special for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 60 and 70s our cuisine was mainly English. Xmas was a roast and plum pudding with custard. My grandmother made Yorkshire puddings. We continue what I grew up with
DeleteI’m exhausted just reading that lol
ReplyDeleteMore food than you could ever consume in one day. Yup how very Greek of Thankfully you had many happy helpers. Ke to xronio
I'll be eating that pork till New Year. I've thinly sliced it. At least it's perfect for my diet
DeleteChronia polla
I see you roast your Potatoes the same way as I do; i.e. quartered lengthways. We should start a trend.
ReplyDeleteThose long sliced potatoes are prepared in the traditional Greek way. There's even a name for them 'kythonato'
DeleteHow I love reading descriptions of your meals, they look wonderful. And that picture of the grandchildren with their phones on the armchair, I have a few just like those here.
ReplyDeletePhones keep them quiet and happy. As I said elsewhere, it used to be cartoons on tv. Our grandkids are so alike..... All over the world
DeleteI'm smiling as I read....
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful Christmas dinner, so very traditional, and a great gathering of family.
A lot of work and scheduling especially if you only have the one oven, as we do, but it all gets done in the end :)
Thank you for sharing your wonderful day with us.
Hugs,
~Jo
It took a bit of juggling but everyone helped. It was a wonderful meal. Lots of everything. And lots for them all to take home
DeleteThat reads like a Christmas to remember. Parsnips and fumarate! We did well just managing to have some yams with ours.
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