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12/6/2020 10:56 am

Sunday Dinner and Niklaustag

Traditional English Sunday dinner all my own work; one with Yorkshire puddings and one without for Mrs J (she is a Philistine from Devon and does not like Yorkshire's) but today is Niklaustag (Santa's birthday) and the second Sunday in Advent so we have lit the Advent pyramid and will be having lebkuchen for tea later.

The vegetables were all grown in our garden, the stuffing and Yorkshire's home made.

bondjam33 70M

840 posts
12/6/2020 11:10 am

A fusion of customs.

SleighBells20 63F

12/6/2020 11:33 am

Yummy

myseek1 80F

1376 posts
12/6/2020 11:56 am

Thanks for the post and the reminder that this is a time where we remember.... Your dinner looks tasty. I would enjoy with you (if invited) without the Yorkshire pudding like Mrs J. LOL
Did you have problems attaching pictures? They only allowed 3 photos on my post!

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi

Maudie1 74F

8151 posts
12/6/2020 1:42 pm

Looks so very tasty, and I love Yorkshire pudding.

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:10 pm:
To me Yorkshire's make a roast dinner ,when they are light and full of gravy.

Abelle2 83F

31231 posts
12/6/2020 2:28 pm

I had never had Yorkshire Pudding until I met Alfie (hawkslayer). Yummy stuff!

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:11 pm:
You were missing a treat but I will let you off as you are a 'foreigner'.

Rocketship 80F

18580 posts
12/6/2020 5:53 pm

Both dishes look sooo yummy to me!!!

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:30 pm:
Now would I expect anything else from the Rocket?

sparkleflit 76F

10271 posts
12/6/2020 6:10 pm

I was a restaurant cook for many years and my specialty was a full English roast beef dinner....This was in a hotel and the dining room was always filled on roast beef day......There was a lot of pressure to garuantee those Yorkshire Puddings.....I baked them all before-hand and gave them a final toast before serving.

Later on I made them for my family....my husband, who the children called Papa was English and loved them....We called them Papa-overs......One with gravy and one with homemade Raspberry jam.....

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:17 pm:
So few people know that Yorkshire puddings can be eaten with savoury or sweet dishes.
They are beautiful with onion gravy or casserole sausages but equally with raspberries and cream , jam or lemon juice and sugar.

lilium6 74F

4498 posts
12/6/2020 6:41 pm

Dinner looks delicious and how much more enjoyable knowing the veg came straight from the garden to the kitchen table. I enjoy Yorkshire pudding although I haven't eaten/made any since living in the UK ages ago - they were surprisingly easy to make. Pardon my ignorance but is that chicken or turkey on the plate? I feel like a roast dinner now, lol.

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:18 pm:
It was a chicken -- there are only two of us at home now so a small chicken is plenty. We make sure we have a roast every Sunday however.

Shartaun03 81F

6200 posts
12/6/2020 10:28 pm

I love Yorkshire puddings. I never make them but have had them elsewhere. I am not English but a connoisseur of many ethnic foods.

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:19 pm:
See my response to Sparkle -- there are many ways to eat Yorkshire puddings.

starwomyn 70F

8872 posts
12/7/2020 12:21 am

Happy Saint Nicholas Day

Abracadabra

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:19 pm:
Thank you, and the same to you.

Archer62 83F

7096 posts
12/7/2020 2:25 am

%MY MOTHER MADE LEBKUCHEN FOR CHRISTMAS BUT I BUY IT READY MADE NOW. WE HAVE VERY NICE ALSACIAN BISCUITS THIS TIME OF YEAR.

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:21 pm:
We have spekulatius biscuits and cinnamon rolls along with the Lebkuchen but we are addicted to cinnamon and ginger.

katylovesjazz 73F

696 posts
12/8/2020 7:09 am

Yum, it looks delicious! You had a nice haul from your garden this year. What all did you grow? I knew you grew flowers...I didn't know about the veggies. I would happily eat your Yorkshire pudding...it looks yummy. Veggies and stuffing too...what a feast!

bondjam33 replies on 12/8/2020 12:28 pm:
It was as delicious as it looked, but it only took 10 minutes to demolish the lot lol.
Mrs J has half the garden for growing vegetables (she raises them in the greenhouse and I plant them out in four beds for rotation).
We grow a lot of fruit and veg; potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini,cucumbers, peppers (bell and chilli) aubergines, broccoli, caulifowers, leeks,carrots,mangetout and sugar snap peas, cabbage, lettuce, beans (french, dwarf, runners and broad beans), onions,spring onions, garlic, blackcurrants, apples, plums, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, crab apples for jelly and a variety of herbs in the herb garden.

Koffla 68M

12287 posts
12/20/2020 3:45 am

It looks yummy!

Merry Christmas!

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bondjam33 replies on 12/23/2020 1:05 am:
Thanks Koffla and the same to you.
I thought you had abandonned logs as your wit and humour (not to mention photographic expertise) had been missing for quite a while.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Koffla 68M

12287 posts
12/24/2020 7:05 pm

bondjam33 replies on 12/23/2020 4:05 am:
I thought you had abandoned logs as your wit and humour (not to mention photographic expertise) had been missing for quite a while.

I took a break for a few months. There is so much I can take of the blogs. Need to unwind away from the madness once in a while.

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