What are you serving for Christmas lunch

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I have learned, way too late in life, to make the foods I only adore as well as the foods the others like. I am happy, so very happy, eating my rutabaga and mom’s special, Christmas jello mold. (Now I see others chomping on my faves too and I do not say a word.) So please throw a few parsnips in your oven while you are cooking other things. Treat yourself!

as a matter of fact i just ordered a bag with the groceries this week
i will peel and freeze them dripping wet and unbaged to try to mimic the effects of a frost on the root still in the ground( to convert the starch to sugar to try to make them sweet like a winter parsnip)
North island parsnips are a poor substitute for the ones grown down home at the best of times

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

ive just been out to the fridge freezer in the laudry to check on space
and is aw a bag of chicken drums from the last meatbox Gary's daughter gifted us a few weeks before cancer took her
Mel was not a senimental person but Gary will apprate the effort
ive desided to cook then spread with pesto and wrapped in bacon for Christmas eve
ill be tired after a day at work so ill get it ready Thursday night

as Gary was divorced we susually didnt have christmas day with his grown up kids
it was too hard with the traffic to exspect them to visit everyone on the big day so we used to do our thing boxing day
once Gary's mum passed away and his sister moved back to the region she kind of desided to organise christmas so we would all be together on Christmas day (us having to battle the traffic)

them when poor Mel got sick we would sometimes have xmas at her house with her mum and her man for the grandkids

but no disrespect to all those lovelly christmass but the best ones were always just the two of us .....having steak for lunch

anyway i thought if i cook Mel's chicken on xmas eve it will somehow include her in the festivitie

 

[elizat]

We are going to grill chicken and a steak.

I will make green beans and roasted butternut squash.

Possibly individual muffin cups of cheesy potatoes.

Pretty simple!