Not a tournament just an interesting question.
(Tournament coming tomorrow or Monday.)
If you could only pick one item, what would be your favourite part of the Christmas Day dinner?
I had Colman Apple and Cranberry sauces before and I would recommend both.
Don't be anywhere near an M&S Sporina so can't help you there, but I did make some Colman's bread sauce with the dinner yesterday as we had a ham fillet, it's not everyone's cup of tea but I love it.
do M&S stock em all year round?
Bread sauce galore in Aldi this morning. They had their own brand and the Shwartz brand - they were marked as seasonal sauces but there was a lot of them left. the Shwartz ones were reduced to 49c.
I always thought bread sauce was a popular thing but I suppose it could be more of a traditional thing in some houses now.
M&S do tubs of it as part of there Christmas food even.
that explains why its popular where i'm from - the last county to be planted.. like, the same reason why we eat potato bread (divine)..
Just looked it up there and bread sauce dates back to medieval times in England, cooks used bread as thickening agent for milk based sauces then added herbs and onions to taste.
It accompanied turkey, chicken and duck back then.
Don't know, I'm from Meath and apart from living in Dublin for about 7 years about twenty years ago I haven't exactly moved around a lot 😃
It must be popular enough when the likes of Knorr, Colman's, Schwartz etc make it, maybe it's originally an English thing?
We always had it with Christmas dinner (dubs, but the cooking Mammy was from the west of Ireland). Haven't heard of it in years though, had completely forgotten about it! I was never mad about it myself.
is it a regional thing?
none of my mates down here in the South had ever heard of it - but its v popular at home in the NW
Very sorry for your bad news during the year, hope you all are doing better now.
My wife always picks up a few packs of bread sauce around Nov time as it can be very hard to get closer to the big day and one year we couldn't get any at all. Out of the 6 of us only 3 like bread sauce so it's not for everyone alright and your right I have known people who haven't got a clue what it is.
lol I over looked your post apologies.. funny you should mention bread sauce.. I created a thread about this last Christmas; we are from the NE but live in the South now.. and last Christmas was our 1st here.. and we always have bread sauce at home with turkey.. but we couldn't find it anywer here.. and I asked a load of my mates down here had they ever heard of it - and they hadn't..
I don't like it myself but himself loves it..
We didn't think of it Christmas gone.. our hearts weren't feeling v festive as we had been bereaved a few mths beforehand..
We couldn't find knorr bread sauce this year at all I tried various supermarkets in towns and normally I've no issue getting it.
I eventually got Coleman's which I never saw before but from reading the packet it all seems to be made from Unilever.
I do know you can make it from scratch but it's a lot of hassle to be honest.
My 10 year old said he's be happy enough if we just served him a massive lump of ham! Must be done in cider though and baked with a glaze to finish. I think we're spoiling him a bit.
Funnily enough its usually hard toi find in the run up to christmas, every year if I leave it to the last week or so before I struggle to get it in any of the local shops, so I usually pick a couple od sachets up earlier than anything else for the christmas dinner. Did see loads of it in Dunnes on Saturday though ( now the demand has dissipated 😀)
Have to admit I've never heard of bread sauce let alone tried it. Must keep an eye out and give it a try.
We have turkey, ham, potato stuffing, sausage meat stuffing, another bread stuffing(Crumbs, herbs, onion, salt, pepper and bacon lardons or some of the Christmas ham chopped up, veg(Carrots, cauliflower, parsnips, sprouts, Broccoli), potatoes, bread sauce, gravy.
I'd day I my favorite part is the ham.
My family always had it and we're all Dubs... though we have family in kilkenny too... but never associated it as being a regional thing.
Half of my inlaws are from Yorkshire and they put gravy on corn flakes 😅
Yeah I’m a bread sauce kind of guy too. None of the Dublin folk I know like it. They prefer gravy too.
Although I never had sausage stuffing until I came up to Dublin.
Good call. I love bread sauce and always have it with Christmas Dinner... none of my inlaws had ever tried it before I put it on the table for Christmas Dinner just gone, one or 2 tried it but said they preferred gravy and left me to eat 90% of it. Happy days.
They are missing out so!
I work with some people from Donegal so I'll quiz them up on the bread sauce. 😃
No - absolutely none. It's more like a meatloaf but is delicious. It's a Delia Smith recipe that I've used for years.
I'm delighted you've mentioned bread sauce. For me, Christmas dinner wouldn't be Christmas dinner without bread sauce, but up here in Donegal no-one has ever heard of it and everyone just has gravy!
Hi Cork Lass, is there no breadcrumbs in this stuffing recipe?
We always use sausagemeat stuffing - sausagemeat, chestnuts, apple, onion, egg and a bit of salt and pepper. My husband prefers it to any of the meat.
While Christmas dinner at home is just about my favourite meal, bar none - turkey and ham on catering/banquet scale is up there with the most disappointing meals in the world, bar none!
I've never had sausage-meat stuffing, it sounds bizarre - I love stuffing (which for me is breadcrumbs with herbs), and I love sausages - but the two together with chicken/turkey??? Dunno about that!
This thread is flippin' mouth watering 😋 I have to agree that sausage meat stuffing is fab. I don't get to make that though because my mam just likes ordinary stuffing which is also gorgeous too. Love the gravy too. The whole thing is gorgeous. My favourite dinner. I always said if I get married I know what the menu will be - turkey and ham!
All of the above, and yes, I'm hungry too now.
Honorable mention to goose fat roasties.
God I'm starving now.
Homemade sausage stuffing and homemade cauliflower and cheese, couldn't choose between them.
