I do like to learn. And I have been interested to find out what niggles people with my attempt to cover Thanksgiving. But it's also a relief that it's being picked up as a Holly thing.
Yes, yes yes. Turkey tastes like someone dragged their poultry out of the old chicken's home. I know it can be done well, by an extraordinary chef, but generally, it's dry and stringy and tasteless. And seriously, if someone dragged me through terrible traffic to serve me turkey and cranberries and root vegetables, and then put pumpkin in my *dessert*, and then turned on a football game, and there weren't even any presents or chocolate, I'd stab them with a turkey bone.
There's been a nice evolution in Australia. We clung to British Christmas traditions for a long time (not the boiled sprouts, thank goodness, which could only reasonably be a festive food in a Russian gulag), but winter roast dinners don't make so much sense when it's nudging 40degC, so these days you're just as likely to find cold cuts or salads or seafood. If we do roast something, it could be turkey or ham or lamb or a leg of pork. I did a barbecue for Christmas this year, kangaroo and prawns, and it was great. And we've ditched Christmas pudding because it's disgusting and nobody likes it except for really old people.
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Re: Couscous salad
Date: 2015-03-17 02:15 pm (UTC)Thanks iskra!
I do like to learn. And I have been interested to find out what niggles people with my attempt to cover Thanksgiving. But it's also a relief that it's being picked up as a Holly thing.
Yes, yes yes. Turkey tastes like someone dragged their poultry out of the old chicken's home. I know it can be done well, by an extraordinary chef, but generally, it's dry and stringy and tasteless. And seriously, if someone dragged me through terrible traffic to serve me turkey and cranberries and root vegetables, and then put pumpkin in my *dessert*, and then turned on a football game, and there weren't even any presents or chocolate, I'd stab them with a turkey bone.
There's been a nice evolution in Australia. We clung to British Christmas traditions for a long time (not the boiled sprouts, thank goodness, which could only reasonably be a festive food in a Russian gulag), but winter roast dinners don't make so much sense when it's nudging 40degC, so these days you're just as likely to find cold cuts or salads or seafood. If we do roast something, it could be turkey or ham or lamb or a leg of pork. I did a barbecue for Christmas this year, kangaroo and prawns, and it was great. And we've ditched Christmas pudding because it's disgusting and nobody likes it except for really old people.
S.