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John Farrell

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:37:30 +1300

I must admit we cheat – we buy christmas cake from Couplands, and christmas pudding from the Danish Delights bakery, in Hillside Road. No one complains.

Carol Stewart

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:41:00 +1300

Christmas day tends to be complicated with us, with many different nuclei of family around the country. This year we're hosting it at home, with a subset of family, plus various overseas students and their partners who'd be on their own otherwise. I've had so many kindnesses while I've been…

Gareth

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:25:17 +1300

Of course... Cale or Kale?

Gareth

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:21:12 +1300

We do expect to have some truffles around Christmas – but before, or after? Big question... ;-)

Grant McDougall

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:18:43 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IKnVVRsmk

Grant McDougall

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:15:56 +1300

Wot ? No mention of truffles, Gareth ?

Bart Janssen

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:22:09 +1300

You do realise, Bart, that now we will require pictures of your whole piggishness…

hmmmm They might have to be the early pictures, since roasting pig requires a constant supply of apple cider – some of which is used to spray onto and baste the pig.

It's not my fault…

Gareth

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:22:35 +1300

Yes: my grandmother used to insist on the family stir, and she kept silver threepence for the lucky coins. Which we didn't get to keep, because luck was good enough.

Gareth

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:21:23 +1300

You do realise, Bart, that now we will require pictures of your whole piggishness...

Ross Mason

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:11:54 +1300

And the ritual stirring in of thruppences. Then my uncle (younger than me BTW) and me would spend the after dinner match to get the most loot out of the pudding.

stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:37:36 +1300

One food thing I remember from being a kid was the ritual around the making of the Christmas pudding.

Mum always used to make them from scratch (well, apart from the ready-glacéd cherries and dried fruits…and beer…and suet…and flour…but you know what I mean…) and that meant a week or…

Bart Janssen

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:39:57 +1300

Your days of feasting is definitely something to admire Gareth.

Our Xmas feasting has become a slightly disjointed period.

I grew up with a somewhat confused idea of what Xmas food was. With Dutch parents there was the Xmas ring, a butter, sugar and almond mix that was usually made…

Emma Hart

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:52:56 +1300

Christmas is a time of year that reminds me very much of my mother, and not just because that's when she died. Every year, her kitchen would turn into a factory for making Christmas mince pies. Hundreds of them, I swear. When I lived at home, I was SO sick…

Fraser Gardyne

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:43:06 +1300

A very enjoyable read thanks Gareth. It all sounds delicious and I'm sure helps bind relationships and friendships. Great food does that. Sad to see Paul Prudholme died in October.

Russell Brown

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:41:14 +1300

fair point, Russell… please go ahead and consign me to the fire using your mod power… it’s entirely deserved…

Cheers. But I was serious about hearing about non-meat Christmas feasts – it will interest people.

PS: And I didn't necessarily disagree with you. I don't pretend to be able to…

R A Hurley

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:17:29 +1300

fair point, Russell... please go ahead and consign me to the fire using your mod power... it's entirely deserved...

Russell Brown

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:08:33 +1300

UPDATE: The below is now an explanation of why the first few comments have been deleted. It wasn't going anywhere ....
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A post and discussion about Christmas feasts is highly likely to contain mention of meat.

If you disapprove of that, or simply don’t eat meat, you can suggest…

Public Address

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:47:23 +1300

Discussion from blog post.