Is Anyone Having Anything Exotic For Xmas Dinner?

[Jahulaye]

Seems that many just follow the adverts of eating turkey/trimmings/Xmas pud,/mince pies instead of being adventurous on Xmas day.

The usual boring fare, so is anyone going to eat something exotic? Croc, ostrich, buffalo etc?

My friend said she wanted to have lobster but was unsure that that was around in jesus’s times, LOL, she’s not even religious.

I said I don’t think vol a vents, Camembert cheese or rose champagne were either unless m&s’rs were a thriving chain back then,lol, so anything exotic or a break from the norm this year?

[RATTER15]

Octopus, it tastes crap but everybody gets a leg!

[EcclesCake]

A selection of canapés. TBD.

Fresh figs stuffed with blue cheese, wrapped in prosciutto and then baked in the oven.

Beef wellington and dauphinois potatoes for main with red cabbage, roasted sprouts and shallots and maybe a roasted parsnip.

Dessert will be either Elton Mess or pavlova with blackberries and blackberry coulis.

A selection of BRitish cheeses will be served much later

[Islay]

Elton Mess Eccles?
Is that where you get serenaded as the sun goes down?

[Quizproquo]

Roast potatoes with dinner round them.

[EcclesCake]

Damn autocorrect......

[Meg]

We'll be staying in a Premier Inn ready to go to son on Boxing day. Taking a picnic of ham and beef sandwiches with salad and crisps, chocolates for afters, plenty of beer and wine. Definitely a break from the norm for us.

[jourdain2]

We'll be browsing this year. Bacon sarnies and smoked salmon for breakfast and then, well I'll do a buffet thing - pate, prawns, prosecciouto, cheeses, olives etc. - all sorts of bits and bats with wines.

[Old_Geezer]

Don't do exotic at Xmas, one spends the year looking forward to tradition at that time. One has the rest of the year for new experiences.

[Quizmonster]

As usual, after a couple of lunchtime pints in my local, I'll settle down in front of an open coal fire with my home-made Prawn Madras and all the trimmings plus a glass of ale. My wife will be sitting nearby with her home-made Lamb Rogan Josh. Neither of us likes turkey and we're convinced the Creator - if there is one - never intended the Brussels sprout as human food!

[-Talbot-]

Bonsai cabbage

[jim360]

My Mum's turkey dinner is emphatically NOT boring. :)

[jno]

Romans ate lobster, so your friend won't be anachronistic

[jno]

you're right about sprouts, QM. Compliments of the season.

[tamborine]

Can I join you mamya, I can bring baked beans ;)

[kvalidir]

I'm doing the usual suspects for Christmas lunch but Boxing day we've got about 30 people here and are having a haunch of Venison, not really exotic, but not a Turkey xx

[shoota]

Pheasant (shot by me.)
Beef hung for 28 days. (I didn't shoot the cow...)
All the trad trimmings (including sprouts.)

[Quizmonster]

Same to you and yours, J.

[Zacs-Master]

I was going to say fried aardvark starter followed by smoked Meerkat. But that would obviously be in very bad taste. Indeed.