Christmas Dinner

Its only the 4th December in our house but we have already had the tree up for 3 weeks and last night we celebrated with a house Christmas dinner. Without saying Ba-humbug too many times on the lead up to Christmas, I'd like to point out that all the festivities is not something that i would immediately think of. Joe had organised this dinner about 4 years ago i think and he invited queen and country to come along. Unfortunately they didn't but we (Me Joe and Anika) had a fun time with our guests Nick and Charlotte (Our old housemate). Dinner did actually tun out to be quite fantastic. See the shopping list:


Christmas dinner shopping list:

Carrots
Brussels sprouts
Parsnips
Potatoes
Petit pois peas
Yorkshire puddings
Big baking container
Chicken
Stuffing
Hullumi
Cashew nuts
Bread
Walnuts
Almonds
Red pepper
Coriander
Black olives
Melon
Raspberry coulis
Raspberrys
Crackers/ more cheese?
Cranberry sauce
Mulled wine
Pigs in blankets?
Vegetable oil
Bisto
Ice cream
Christmas crackers
Trifle mix
Orange juice


Joe cooked a mean nut-roast and my roast potatoes were very good (recipe stolen from my mum)- me and Joe also managed to cook a chicken (despite the vegetarian- ness we both suffer) and Anika whipped up a very satisfying trifle. We actually had a five course meal- including a melon starter, cheese board and a round of port o help it all go down. Very satisfying- although by the time we had finished it was dark and Joe and Charlotte's challenge of making a snowman fell slightly short at... well at that it was very short i suppose. There was also a big snowball fight, which usually you can't have after the traditional timing of Christmas dinner which made the night unique (although i stayed way out of it- I'm very miserable when it comes to snow- i can't bare people throwing snowballs at me)
We finished with a quiz that i hosted- a DVD quiz that i had made a couple of years ago for my family to play (Which was quite obvious when i started asking questions about the Olympics in the 60's and Christmas songs from the 20's) I remember one year i had made a bonus round for my family based on songs from Disney films and they were quite livid because the questions weren't in their time frame of knowledge- my brother and sister did very well in that round though. To be honest i think that Disney quiz would have gone down a lot better last night than the 30 year old one. The DVD part of the quiz was good,  despite me forgetting what most of the answers were- there was a zooming in section where you had to be the first to guess what the image was and a drawn conundrum section where you had to guess what the pictures meant.
Anyway, Charlotte won- due to her luck in the DVD rounds and Anika was upset that i had given people extra points for silly answers. I think i wasn't the best quiz master, but we all had fun!
Not looking forward to cleaning the dishes this morning...