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I probably (most likely) would use them. I'd get more use out of a smaller whisk than I would from a masher really, so that'd be my option if there were bits with it, but I could even go without them, either or really.Will you be using the extra pieces you get with it?
My main uses would be soups/smoothies.I've got the Russel Hobbs hand blender with the bits, and I don't believe I've ever used the whisk or the tall glass. The immersion blender is very good, and it's handy that it clips onto the food processor bit, but that tends to leak when in use.
I'm thinking I might actually get a proper food processor, or a stand mixer with a dough hook. Cos (drumroll) I'm getting a new kitchen! Well, a new second hand kitchen, but it's taking over half my living room (no more being stuck in a freezing, damp kitchen by myself, hello open plan ground floor). I'm considering if a gas hob with a canister would be worth the effort of drilling holes through the wall, but I'll get to get an actual oven! That actually works! And didn't come from Lidl! And I'll have cupboards and drawers and maybe even a big press!
Thank you all so much for your helpful replies.Dizzyblonde wrote: »I'd definitely go with an 800w one over a 300w one. And I'd buy a metal rather than plastic one, otherwise you have to wait for soup to cool a bit before blending it or it will melt the casing around the blades.
Congratulations on the new kitchen
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I've got the Russel Hobbs hand blender with the bits, and I don't believe I've ever used the whisk or the tall glass. The immersion blender is very good, and it's handy that it clips onto the food processor bit, but that tends to leak when in use.
I'm thinking I might actually get a proper food processor, or a stand mixer with a dough hook. Cos (drumroll) I'm getting a new kitchen! Well, a new second hand kitchen, but it's taking over half my living room (no more being stuck in a freezing, damp kitchen by myself, hello open plan ground floor). I'm considering if a gas hob with a canister would be worth the effort of drilling holes through the wall, but I'll get to get an actual oven! That actually works! And didn't come from Lidl! And I'll have cupboards and drawers and maybe even a big press!
Wooooh, exciting!!! It's a great thing having a new kitchen - well, once the mess from getting it in has been cleared away, and everything has found its forever home
I would not want to miss my 5 ring gas hob, and would be willing to drill through almost everything for it.
I've got a combined food processor/stand mixer, it's a Kenwood. Best christmas present I ever got, it gets used nearly every day in one function or another. I would absolutely recommend it, you'll use it more than you think now.0 -
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That's great to hear about plastic blender sticks not all melting - the one that melted on me was a cheap one from Argos, so that explains it
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Made plans for Christmas yet?
We're going to my Mum's this year but I'm doing all the cooking. So it'll be prepped in Dublin, loaded in the car and finished in Cavan.
Because we'll need the space in the car, I can't decide whether to leave the dogs or the kids' presents behind!!!! :eek:
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Gloomtastic! wrote: »
(And when can we start the Christmas thread?)
I've been looking for someone to start the thread too.0 -
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Staying home this year. I'm stupidly excited. This'll be the first year our boy understands what's happening (he will be 3 mid December).
In saying that, he's not the best grubber when it comes to sit down meals and he eats better at lunch than dinner. So our Christmas "dinner" will be served at lunch time, on the table but likely eaten on the sitting room floor with a Christmas film on in the background.
Then when the little fella goes to bed myself and my husband will have our Christmas sandwiches at the table with the fancy champagne glasses and nice music.
So upside down food wise but I don't caaaaare. I'm so excited.
Question for ye. I don't eat meat so turkey and ham to feed 1 and a half men. Would I be as well off to get a duo from M&S or are they much better when you get from a butcher?
Does your husband have a preference for white or dark meat? We like dark meat, so we quite often buy just a turkey leg to roast - a decent sized one would be easily the equivalent, size-wise of a roast chicken and provides plenty of cooking juices for making gravy and so on. They are also a lot easier to cook well than a whole turkey - much less inclined to get dry and tasteless. If he's more of a white meat person, a turkey crown might be the way to go, though for some reason they tend to be stupidly expensive, compared to a whole turkey.
If a leg suits, be sure to get one well before Christmas and freeze it - they are pretty much impossible to get closer to Christmas
FX Buckleys and Troys in Moore street Dublin usually have turkey legs.
Hams are much handier - as long as you don't want them bone-in you can get them any size you want 0 -
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Does your husband have a preference for white or dark meat? We like dark meat, so we quite often buy just a turkey leg to roast - a decent sized one would be easily the equivalent, size-wise of a roast chicken and provides plenty of cooking juices for making gravy and so on. They are also a lot easier to cook well than a whole turkey - much less inclined to get dry and tasteless. If he's more of a white meat person, a turkey crown might be the way to go, though for some reason they tend to be stupidly expensive, compared to a whole turkey.
If a leg suits, be sure to get one well before Christmas and freeze it - they are pretty much impossible to get closer to Christmas
FX Buckleys and Troys in Moore street Dublin usually have turkey legs.
Hams are much handier - as long as you don't want them bone-in you can get them any size you want
As far as I know 4 adults, a 3 year old and a baby this year. Cooking will be done between myself and my wife, and kept as simple as possible if I get my way; Turkey, ham, roast potatoes, carrots and another veg.
I might try these stuffing balls that get a lot of mentions too; 2 coeliacs at the table, so outside the turkey is the way to go, or GF stuffing...
We had to have 3 types of spuds last year; roast, boiled and mashed; hoping to strip it back to 2 max.
Intrigued by the turkey leg option, had never even thought of it. Do they generally work out cheaper, as the less desirable pieces?
I have no interest in turkey breast meat; although I doubt I could convince the in-laws who I think are coming again this year that dark meat is better.
Full turkey will most likely be the result again.0 -
He wastes all the leg meat on a chicken, takes the breast meat and then tries to feed the rest to the cat and dogs, I usually end up stripping the carcass and making a curry but he wouldn't be mad about the texture. So maybe a crown would be the best idea. Is boned and rolled a bad idea?
The tofurkey looks AWFUL, would be interested to try though!
If it was for me, I'd pick boned and rolled over a crown because the meat would probably be tastier and keeping it nice and moist would be easier, but it sounds like he definitely prefers breast meat so a crown would probably suit your needs best.
And yeah, I'd love if someone else would buy the vegan turkey just so I could have a taste
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As far as I know 4 adults, a 3 year old and a baby this year. Cooking will be done between myself and my wife, and kept as simple as possible if I get my way; Turkey, ham, roast potatoes, carrots and another veg.
I might try these stuffing balls that get a lot of mentions too; 2 coeliacs at the table, so outside the turkey is the way to go, or GF stuffing...
We had to have 3 types of spuds last year; roast, boiled and mashed; hoping to strip it back to 2 max.
Intrigued by the turkey leg option, had never even thought of it. Do they generally work out cheaper, as the less desirable pieces?
I have no interest in turkey breast meat; although I doubt I could convince the in-laws who I think are coming again this year that dark meat is better.
Full turkey will most likely be the result again.
A good sized turkey leg (to be clear I mean the thigh and drumstick, not just the drumstick - those you can get in a lot of supermarkets.) cost between 6-8 euro the last time I got one, and there is plenty on a good one to feed 4-5 adults for a sunday roast dinner. With all the extras like ham, 3 types of spuds, bread sauce, 2 veg etc etc, there's even more to go around. To be safe though, I'd get two for Christmas and have plenty for Stephen's day sammiches
Cooking-wise, you just don't have the worry that the breast will dry out which is always my concern with a whole bird, particularly a large one. With a leg the meat is much more evenly exposed to the heat so it all cooks at the same rate.0 -
Say you're a vegan now & threaten to serve Tofurky.
That'll see 'em off.
Himself is practically vegan, so that might be a goer....
Ah, they're not so bad. I just have to bear in mind that my dad won't eat anything that doesn't come with a side of potatoes (no noodles, curries, rice, or cous cous. Pasta under sufferance). I'll probably bake a side of salmon if they come; they're not too traditional.0 -
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A Sunday dinner is my idea of hell generally but I have to say, I love my traditional Christmas dinner. Although Christmas Day and Stephen's Day does me for the year I don't see the appeal of eating turkey and ham at every single event for the entire month of December. 0
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StripedBoxers wrote: »Thank you so much. I will check out the Panasonic website and see what they have.
Are there any hand blenders you'd recommend? I had a look on Amazon and they have loads from different price points so I'm a bit lost with which to go for
I bought one in DID ten years ago - not available anymore but this is what it had: Old Philips Blender
It is BRILLIANT and used almost every day. I drag the food processor/jug blender out from under the stairs when making paté or a lot of coleslaw for a party but the hand blender does almost everything else. Here's the replacement I'd buy if ours finally gave up the ghost: New blender? but I can't find a European stockist. If anyone comes up with one, tell me!!! 0 -
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