Merry Christmas!
 

Merry Christmas to all MLU forum members and their loved ones!

Hanno from Holland

" . . . Santa Claus is comin' to town . . . "

Turkey huntin' with a tank destroyer?!?!?

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you too Hanno and I hope all the MLU Family has a good one as well :)

From The Holgates!
 

Merry Christmas to all of the families of MLU!
(C'Mon Hanno, Where's your family snap??)

PERFECT for in here Hanno!!!

A very Warm and Merry Christmas to you and your Family Master Hanno. May 2008 bring you all what you need and a lot of what you want from life and people ... oh, and MLU! :D

:cheers:

Re: From The Holgates!
 

When she stops snoring and wakes up I'm sure Princess will wish all you lot a Merry Christmas as well! :D

Re: From The Holgates!
 

Ahem, those are my family snaps. . .

Alrighty then, here's another one of my two boys!

:D

Merry Xmas!
 

Merry Christmas from Juliette and myself. It's 8 C and raining here...and the gobble-gobble bird is in the oven.

And the same Greetings from the South of Yankee Land.

Merry Christmas Y'ALL
Bill

No turkey for us
 

Because it's not freezing cold here we tend to minimise the stodge.

When our families combine we all contribute items of food including these gems...

Home cured ocean trout

http://oldcmp.net/Christmas_food/Christmas_07_-15.jpg

Honey cured ham

http://oldcmp.net/Christmas_food/Christmas_07_-22.jpg

Various salads

http://oldcmp.net/Christmas_food/Christmas_07_-28.jpg

And my contribution this year was rare fillet of beef rolled in ground peppercorns served with a horseradish sauce.

http://oldcmp.net/Christmas_food/Christmas_07_-23.jpg

Re: Keefy
 

YOU BUGGER!!!

Next year I'm coming to YOUR house for Christmas dinner... :teach:

Re: Re: Keefy
 

Oakily Doakily. :salute:

Wonderful spread Keefy ... could people actually move after eating :eek:

I really enjoyed my little dinner as well ... :smoker: :coffee

Afterwards...
 

Well not much. But nobody really overdid it. We were reasonably sensible about things I think. At least none of the children vomited as used to happen when I was a child at my grandparents for Christmas dinner. :)

Was your roast tender or can we use it for retreads?;)

Re: Afterwards...
 

Tender enough to not have to chew repeatedly and hard, so get your own retread materails elsewhere! :fry: :p

Meal was tastey and more than edible and am well-pleased with my un-traditional and solitary Christmas dinner :cheers: Strange, my very first time EVER at soon-to-be age 54 of being completely and literally on my own at Christmas. Once I managed to get myself in good enough shape to manage my dinner its been great :)

(I like my meat cooked right through but tender. Generally order medium-well when ordering inn restaurants. If the meat is pink or god forbid red and dripping , I gag and run :eek: )

Blue steak still mooing
 

'Fraid you would have had to run gagging from this one.

Philip, my sister's partner is a chef and helped me to get it just right. He tells the story of working with another chef at an upmarket restaurant when a parton returned the steak as being too rare... he dropped it into the deep fry for a few minutes before sending it back to the patron. No complaints this time but it must have been disgusting.

To assess a roast or steak by prodding it with your finger there is a chef's trick which he taught me... gently touch your thumb and index finger and with a finger on your other hand tap the muscle just under your thumb. That's rare. Then move to the next finger and try again. The muscle will have tensed a little. That's medium. Then to the next finger for well done. It's important the thumb and fingers just touch, don't press them together. :teach:

Steak tartare, anyone?
 

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu...ak_tartare.jpg :p

How about beef sashimi


http://images.jupiterimages.com/comm...3/22888391.jpg :thup2:

I know most people love the red meats rare, to extremely rare ... not me. Don't know why I'm so put off. Maybe my memories of watching the slaughterings, guttings, and butcherings of farm and wild animals ... I still see chickens running with their heads off (by Mom) blood spuriting everywhere and they run and flap til they drop ... and pigs, still see my stepfather straddling the pigs, holding their necks up, stabbing/slicing them, and watching the hoselike flow of blodd (such FORCE!!!!!) gushing out while the pig slowly sunk to its knees and died. I was pre-school.

That didn't turn me off meat though ... but maybe RARE meat, yes :eek:

YOU Keefy, are SUCH a :devil:

:nono: :fry: :D

look what Declan got
 

this is what every little boy dreams of !!!!!

lucky boy
 

another

proud mum and dad

Re: lucky boy
 

You'd cry too if a C60L drove over your wrist!


http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/at...=&postid=89942

So did he get a set of spanners for Christmas? Max, did you give him one of the blitzes?

idea
 

Thats the way max get them interested early :thup2:
Which truck is going to be declans first project ?
Hope you all had a great christmas :cheers:

Declan
 

In the second photo it looks like he has just realised he's been given a Chev! He'll come to love it, I'm sure...
Merry Christmas!

What a great little chap, he should make a good assistant.

And think Max, without you and your lady, he would not be here.

Hope the new year is a good one for you all

Regards


Col

Gotta love the Wee Declan ... looks like he's exploring the vehicle to see how it works so he can go Blitz hunting in future ... a foreward looking young man :cheers: and imagine ... in Declan, we're looking at the PIONEER of a whole new generation of your Hedge's Clan, a pioneering pathbreaking new leader begins ... wow ... and he's already got a vehicle!!!!!!!!! :salute: :)

tears of joy then
 

tears of joy that would be then howard :thup2:

Hi all, i am bloodywell sick of the sight of food,well just till i get hungry again!we had an excellent xmass dinner,then an afternoon nap .
Hi there ma,i am like you when it comes to steak,its got to be cooked through for this kid.