Xmas dinner

What a coincidence! Ray was just saying at lunch that Geoff Hamilton and his brother used to have a competition each year. The competition was to see how many veg they could cook for Christmas lunch that they had grown themselves. Ray doesn't recall who the winner was but thinks the final number (including home grown and frozen) was 14. ;-)

Xmas dinner is Chinese this year. But the day before or the day after we'll have lettuces and snowpeas in a salad. Broccoli, steamed and finished with sliced garlic in olive oil. Maybe beet greens or beetroots or both, maybe not, haven't decided. -aem

Only sprouts for me this year, maybe an onion in the stuffing too, everything else will be shop bought, but those sprouts will taste extra special to me as they're one of the first crops of anything I've had worth eating.

Woohoo! I always enjoy those, although ISTR them being on C4?

You too.

Does homegrown pork count?

John!

Of course! from experience I can honestly say that it is much better than the supermarket stuff.

I suppose. But you would have to start with a smart pig and train it a lot.

Bill

-- Ferme le Bush

Salmon Egg wrote in of Wed,

Good one Bill.

They were! Channel 4 being a regional transmitter you then had to search the small print to find out when they were on S4C about a week later. Now they have moved to another channel which does NOT have national coverage ( and never intends to ) so I shan't be able to watch them at all - boo hiss grumble grumble. T.

Nothing's growing here in southern Idaho except for a little bit of cilantro under two inches of snow. But we'll have squash soup for dinner and sugar snap peas to go with the roast chicken. We might have enough lettuce growing in the washbasin on the porch for a salad. And there will be strawberries that we put up last June for Christmas morning.

It is bloody annoying isn't it? I long for the days when it was on the Beeb.

Steve