Food for Christmas
I love Christmas dinner. I don't get tired of it. I love turkey. I love roast potatoes. Most of all I love the extras: really good stuffing, pigs in blankets, red cabbage, roast parsnips, bread sauce and gravy. I don't feel like experimenting with goose or rib of beef, much though I love both. I don't want to do unusual things with salmon and prawns. I am a traditionalist. For Christmas, only a turkey dinner will do. This year our turkey will come from friends who somehow find the time and energy to run their family, a business and a part time teaching career while keeping sheep and hens, sometimes pigs and, in the months coming up to Christmas, turkeys. This is about as local as you can get without raising your own. The turkeys will have scratched and strutted in their little orchard about a mile and half away. They are fed organically, mature slowly, and will eventually be slaughtered locally too. The potatoes are o...