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16 kilo turkey, I guess 35 lbs or thereabouts. (On reflection, sorry about the Max Headroom colouration here!)

The turkey is resting prior to carving and serving (my task) while the seafood starter - tiger prawns and clams this year - is being demolished (always a seafood starter - very trad. - an essential part of the Christmas meal which is always on Christmas Eve in Spain).
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Nora Caracci said:

art !
6 years ago

Andy Rodker replied to Nora Caracci:

also food!
6 years ago ( translate )

Fred Fouarge said:

Eten /Drinken voor mij Hetzelfde als de overige 365 dagen !
6 years ago ( translate )

Andy Rodker replied to Fred Fouarge:

True, Fred! The need is exactly the same!
6 years ago

Rosalyn Hilborne said:

Nice shot Andy. I have frozen the leftovers for a later date!
6 years ago

Andy Rodker replied to Rosalyn Hilborne:

Good practice, Rosa!
6 years ago ( translate )

Gudrun said:

Is the turkey a Spanish tradition too? We had roast goose filled with goose liver, apples, prunes, chestnuts and lots of brandy and rosemary:-)
6 years ago

Andy Rodker replied to Gudrun:

Definitely not! My sister is English! She has lived near Madrid since 1980! She has a very Spanish family! Her Spanish is 110% perfect, Her English not so good!
But she does try to do a trad English Christmas dinner!!! It's not easy because even if you think you have the same correct ingredients they always taste different!
But it was very good as usual and yours too sounds very yummy!!
:o)))
I found and add this; it was in a reply to Rosa about my Christmas dinner;
"My sister had done us all proud. A fully traditional Christmas dinner, UK style (at the specific request of Spanish in-laws; turkey with ALL the trimmings. A magnificent gravy, chestnusts in with the sprouts (young, small and nutty), crispy bacon, stuffing using only breadcrumbs, margerine (esential for success) and garden herbs - of which there were just enough left in the (winter) herb garden for me to select the right ones, sausage meat stuffing (how she found that in Madrid is beyond me - definitely 'hats off sis' here) in the neck end and it was perfect, with excellent roast potatoes!.
I am pleased to say that ALL the Spanish element present gave the whole thing a resounding thumbs up!
I also chose the wine and can say that the Tondonia Rioja Gran Reserva 1998 went down a treat!
We also had a trad Spanish seafood platter as a starter!
No one provided a christmas pud and it wasn't missed after all that had gone before!"
6 years ago

Gudrun replied to Andy Rodker:

I always find that after such a good Christmas dinner nobody has room for a heavy pud:-) Sprouts are very English indeed- we had red cabbage which is German traditional ( a whole bottle of red wine and some spoonfuls of jelly went into that!)...
6 years ago

Andy Rodker replied to Gudrun:

I've had red cabbage with wine and jelly and it is delicious!
6 years ago

Gudrun replied to Andy Rodker:

The wine definitely improves the cabbage. In this case it was a bottle of sweetish wine from SE Europe which nobody wanted to drink but it was perfect for cooking.
6 years ago

Andy Rodker replied to Gudrun:

Was it a Cotnari from Roumania. I wonder?
6 years ago ( translate )

Gudrun replied to Andy Rodker:

It was from Moldavia;-)
6 years ago ( translate )

Andy Rodker replied to Gudrun:

Ah yes!
Moldavia started to get a repution for excellent wines (heavily subsidised by the USSR) not long before the fall of communism. Then it all collapsed, and I don't know of anything drinkable since then but it is just possible I suppose!
6 years ago