Christmas Groceries

[NoMercy]

What eats and drinks are you treating yourself to this Christmas?

My treats list is as follows:

Cheeses:

Ossau Iraty
Comté
Gruyere
Stilton
Goats cheese

Other foods:

Stollen
Crackers for cheese
Quince chutney
Duck and truffle paté
Mejool dates

Wines:

Meursault
Puligny Montrachet
Brazin Zinfandel
Bubbles

Other drinks:

Harvey Nichols Port
Tanqueray
Drambuie

I will not be consuming all that by myself, I hasten to add!

What will your festive indulgences be?

[The Builder]

...er...Cleese?

[Mick-Talbot]

no

[Mick-Talbot]

His family’s surname was previously "Cheese" but his father changed it to "Cleese" in 1915 upon joining the Army. Therefore, he was born as John Cleese.

[The Builder]

No problem, but apologies to Nom for diversions :o(

[NoMercy]

Builder... What, no queso or formatge? ;)

[aelmpvw]

John

[The Builder]

Ah ... formatge. Is that Spanish or Catalan?

[MarkRae]

It's Catalan. The (Castilian) Spanish for cheese is queso.

[NoMercy]

It's Valenciano.

I forgot to mention M&S Colossal cashews ...

[The Builder]

Thanks Mark. Must have queso then, and formatge, if I can find any in deepest Devon.

[boxtops]

NoM, have you tried stuffing your dates with marzipan?

[ummmm]

Nothing much. We'll buy some cheeses but we do that anyway. Also some extra booze but we don't need an excuse for that either...

I find there's too much 'real' food to be eaten so never have room for extras so stopped buying them. Plus, the shops are only closed for a couple of days.

[NoMercy]

No I've not tried Marzipan but that sounds like a good idea.

[AlwaysConfused]

Mussels and a bottle of Champers for brekkie. Cheese, and lot's of it, including, but not exhaustive: cheddar. brie, stilton, austrian smoked, edam, bavarian smoked. Eaten with Crackers, breadsticks, pickles, twiglets, cheeselets, pringles, cheese straws, sausage rolls, various dips and some pate.

Wines will be: another bottle of bubbles, Oyster Bay, Montana Sauvignon Blanc, probably a bottle of Pouilly-Fume and Chassagne-Montrachet. More drinks to include Buffalo Trail, and in my family it's traditional to get rather merry on Malibu, washed down with cider!

Thats my plan, but I will probably be asleep by 10am after the Champagne, and miss most of the day! THAT seems to be tradition for me :)

[RATTER15]

Im hoping Xmas will be over in a flash so we can get on with life, we may buy a good bottle of whiskey for an Irish coffee or two and we may have a bit of turkey, apart from that we really have more enjoyable ways of spending money.

[shaneystar2]

We don't have anything different really and certainly no turkey :)
I usually buy a few sweets ,extra fruit and some assorted cheeses and cold cuts I'm not a lover of all this rich food they heave out at Christmas .
I'll probably buy extra whisky though !

[brenda]

All the food and drinks suggested sound delicious, but I never do a Christmas lunch. Will be having a Lancashire hotpot with all the additions, like pickled red cabbage, siver skin onions and beetroot.Followed by rice pudding with sultanas.Then I shall hit the vino.

Enjoy everyone -- and happy times all round.

[EcclesCake]

A bar of galaxy bubbles, on the off chance I get a chocolate craving.

[craft1948]

Bugger, my Xmas order has been with Waitrose for about a month, I logged on tonight to add to it and it tells me the sea bass I ordered is not available in the York store.............I'm now going to sulk.

[Just-Jude]

Good to see that everyone will be tucking in to some really nice food this Christmas. Not sure what we're having yet, but it won't be much. I lost my job this year, so the plan is to have loads of roasties with veg and scrounge a bit of meat from somewhere. Please don't feel sorry for us, there are more deserving cases, just be happy with what you've got.