ASK ME ANYTHING - Day Thirteen

[agt_spooky]

ASK ME ANYTHING - Day Thirteen - candygramme - wants to know what am I going to be eating for Christmas dinner, and what's my favourite Christmas treat that I only ever have then?

I'll be having roasted duck, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots and stuffing for dinner. Yum!

As for a treat, my birthday (on the 28th) is always so intertwined with Christmas that it's my birthday cake that I only get once a year - Milky Way. I live for this cake!

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[tracys-dream.livejournal.com]

Ooh roasted duck sounds lovely, I do like duck.
And that Milky Way cake sounds divine! Would love to try it one day.
For Christmas dinner I will be having roasted chicken, roasted potatoes, carrots, sprouts, stuffing and gravy.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I don't find too many people who like duck here in the U.S. It seems to be much more common in France and the UK. My fellow Americans don't know what they're missing!

I will make a note to post the recipe for Milky Way cake. :-)

Ooh, your Christmas dinner sounds lovely! Yum!

[tracys-dream.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

I'll be eating with friends, and having goose. Duck is for New Year.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I have never had goose and always wanted to try it. They had frozen ones right next to the ducks at the store, but they were huge. Too much for just the hubby and I. One day if I can find a smaller one!

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

They do tend to look large :-) The farm we got them from originally did sell half birds, but of course the big stores don't do that. Though I've sometimes been able to get half ducks...

There's not quite as much meat on them as you might expect. The bird we get does three of us for Christmas, then my two friends for at least one more meal, then I usually get the carcase to boil up for stock (they don't make soup, but I do) and I can pick enough bits off it to do me at least two meals before using it for stock (which I think you call broth? To me 'broth' is a soup in itself, heavy with vegetables). And of course once it's cooked the meat can be frozen again, so you wouldn't be having it four times in four days. I think there's actually more meat on a turkey.

Do you have stores that sell only frozen food (like our Farm Foods and Iceland, which probably isn't much help as an example)? Around the end of November/early December it might be possible to get stuffed breast from there (Iceland carries that, Farm Foods doesn't). With the stuffing, which I find is a generous amount, one of these might do you twice.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for all the info on goose! Sounds like the ones I saw in our stores would definitely feed us for several days. And the cat. :-) But I think we might give it a shot next holiday season. I'm all about trying something new!

Yep, to us broth is just a plain liquid which is used to enhance the flavor of dishes, not really a soup in itself.

No, I don't believe I've ever seen a store that only sells frozen foods around here, but that's a really interesting concept!

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

As I said, we have the two chains that specialise in frozen food. They do sell some non-frozen stuff too, but not very much. The frozen food encompasses pretty well everything apart from soup. Meat, poultry, fish, things like pizzas, potato products (mostly roast or chipped - your fries?), mixed vegetables, cakes, ice cream (of course :-) ) pre-made meals (what we call ready meals and my American beta has called convenience meals). Some is pre-cooked, most isn't. Pretty well everything you'd see in the frozen food section of a supermarket all in one convenient place.

The two do carry slightly different things and I prefer Iceland, but our more local one is Farm Foods (if you can call somewhere an hour away 'local'). Iceland is 2.5-3 hours away, depending on weight of traffic/roadworks, which makes transporting frozen food a little more problematic.