Bushcraft Christmas Dinner Anyone?

[qweeg500]

What are you guys and gals having for Christmas Dinner? I know what I'll be stuck with - a bland frozen turkey which is basically a middle of the road option to keep most of our guests happy. Still, the trimmings will be nice.

I'd love to have something more traditional like goose or duck for instance with a bushcraft slant. If it's wild and cooked in the outdoors even better.

 

[scanker]

Not wild or outside, I'm afraid, but we will be having duck. There's just the three of us - our son will be 3 months old - his first Christmas.

 

[stovie]

What are you guys and gals having for Christmas Dinner?.......

A lot to drink I've lost count of how many are coming 'round for christmas dinner, and I'm cooking

 

[Abbe Osram]

We have a ham from the oven. As my wife is from Finland we are celebrating for years a traditional finish christmas dish. I dont drink much alcolhol but enjoy a couple of red wine bottles over the Christmas season.

Here is an example picture how the finish "kinkku" looks like:

cheers
Abbe

 

[Kane]

Goose and ham here

All the best to everyone

Kane

 

[NickBristol]

I was thinking about this too last night... must be something about only a month till Christmas

Do any of your Essex bushcrafters know a good source of pheasant? Preferably oven ready (the in-laws won't appreciate a fresh bird being prepped in front of them!) that can be delivered or collected just before Christmas Eve, anywhere in Essex / north M25?

A few years ago, we had some really lovely venison flown down from Islay for Christmas dinner - absolutely delicious in a red wine and cranberry sauce. Not sure of the company exactly but these people ( http://www.caleyco.com/home ) do a very similar deal.

 

[dtalbot]

We only tend to eat meat 5 or 6 times a year when we come by a bunny or pheasant or similar. But for Christmas we make a point of having a nice bit of venison. And as an apperative to Chrismas lunch it is just the time to crack open the first bottle of last years (2004) sloe vodka!

 

[Danceswithhelicopters]

This Xmas we will be mainly eating......
Chinese crispy duck with Hoi Sin sauce, plum sauce, pancakes, spring onion and cucumber followed by trifle.
As for drink, Bucks Fizz and a fresh cask of Houston ale.
As for Bushcraft stuff? I am officially lazy in December.

 

[shaggystu]

me and gemma are hoping to get out into the woods somewhere locally for christmas and i've been wondering about food, this would seem like an ideal place to ask for suggestions. so what would you all recommend for a bushcraft christmas dinner? i won't be able to dig any holes for pit cooking but other than that i don't think i'm really limited to anything. i've never cooked any kind of poultry on an open fire so this could be the ideal opportunity to give it a try.

cheers

stuart

 

[Rod]

We're off to Norfolk - lamb, turkey, ham

 

[tomtom]

i still want a Gooducken i didnt get one last year and i reeeally want one this year, but its not looking hopeful!

i love food!

 

[Labrador]

Whatever the Missus does!
Seriously though it's fillet of beef with all the trimmings.

A few year's ago we cooked Christmas dinner over a hardwood fired BBQ in Cumbria, delicious!!!!!!!

 

[innocent bystander]

I'm having a big curry

 

[jdlenton]

Tomtom I’m contemplating a multi bird roast this Christmas, Huge Fernly whats his chops did a ten bird version recently but I might just and up getting a free range traditional turkey if the other half says no to a quail in a pheasant in a chicken in a duck in goose in a turkey how much do I want to cook that

James

 

[monkey_pork]

Ok, it's clear I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but I won't be doing anything special at all.

It'll be like most weekends - probably take a bit of humous, some rice cakes, and a bit of dried fruit out along the coast, or into the woods somewhere, maybe a billy or a flask if I know I can't light a fire, have a bit of a walk, then just sit, look at the view and enjoy that magical cup of tea watching it go dark.

Bliss ...

 

[beachlover]

Ok, it's clear I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but I won't be doing anything special at all.

It'll be like most weekends - probably take a bit of humous, some rice cakes, and a bit of dried fruit out along the coast, or into the woods somewhere, maybe a billy or a flask if I know I can't light a fire, have a bit of a walk, then just sit, look at the view and enjoy that magical cup of tea watching it go dark.

Bliss ...

I don't see why you think your post is out on a limb.
One of the sad things about Christmas is all of the hype, consumerism, added on turkey - eating and partying.
I admire you for going for a simplistic approach at a special time of the year. :You_Rock_

 

[beachlover]

This Xmas we will be mainly eating......
Chinese crispy duck with Hoi Sin sauce, plum sauce, pancakes, spring onion and cucumber followed by trifle.

We did exactly that last year and it was different, yet brilliant. :You_Rock_

 

[locum76]

im going to eat some of this years lamb that i reared... probably the biggest one, his name is red 5.

 

[elma]

All our Christmas meats are free range
venison that I've shot, honey glazed ham from a mates small holding, beef from the same place and we'llhave duck or goose if I can get down to the foreshore.
plenty of exercise after the hols towork it all off and a new years resolution (again ) not to make such a pig of myself

 

[Longstrider]

Most (notice I say most, not all ) turkeys are only fit for fox food in my reckoning, so Xmas dinner will be wild venison and a leg of lamb from a local butcher who gets his meat from a farm 5 mins up the road.