Big Dog's Family Christmas

Posted by Big Dog at 12/19/2008 12:00 AM
Categories: Info
We took the opportunity to have our family Christmas with my sister and her family, I have long given up traveling across Canada to distant relatives, my kids are too big and now we have Christmas morning all to our selves, more importantly we are up early for boxing-day sales.

Many people have asked what we have for special meals and for Christmas day I have smoked a 25 pound ham after a 14 day cure. However for our family's pre- Christmas dinner we went with some of our successes over the year.

To start, we had a Caesar salad in a bacon bowl ( I will post this little dish later this weekend) with over sized croutons and slices of Parmesan cheese. The crouton was a bread stick trimmed of crust and slow toasted in the oven with some garlic herb butter, yum.


 

Our main meal was our "Grilled Rack of Lamb" that took 1st Place at the Canadian Open Barbecue Championship.

We teamed this up with our Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus, garlic seasoned new potatoes and a nice dollop of turnip.

As a kid I hated turnip I had to shovel it in my mouth as fast as I could without tasting it. My mum would say eat your neeps or there would be naw dessert for yer in her best Scottish accent. God forbid that we miss a dessert of Christmas pudding. Somehow, we had to eat turnip in the summer without the prospect of dessert to encourage us, the nasty mush would find it's way into my pockets or stuffed into the cracks of the worn chairs. I would even fill my cheeks and then excuse myself to the bathroom where I could send it to the place where I thought most traditional Scottish food ought to go. This worked out OK except when I was told to swallow what I had in my mouth first. (ARGHHHH).

I have no idea what came over me and why I started liking cabbage, brussel sprouts and turnip; perhaps I do not boil the crap out of them for 16 hours and I learn't what herbs and a spices were for. No matter the reason, I now torture my kids with the same traditional food as me mum did, God bless her soul.

I had to post just one more picture of our lamb, this is such a amazing presentation worthy of any upscale meal.


 

And of course my family wishing yours a very merry holliday,,,



Cheers from the Big Dog

 

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