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Probably ham. I got really sick of turkey this thanksgiving. I've never had goose... but crispy roast potatoes make it tempting.

We must stick to our tradition, therefore it will be turkey, but we do everything differently from most.

We have a ' Full English Breakfast ' with all of the trimmings + crackers after the opening of presents about 10am.
Relax & then have Christmas dinner in the evening..... around 7pm then snacking later.


( this allows mum not get too stressed ).

We always have turkey.  It is never dry when I cook it.  I cover it from the beginning and then just uncover it during the last hour or 30 minutes so the skin would brown.  I make sure to baste it or buy a prebasted turkey (didn't seem to make a different).  The best and most moist turkey was made when I started using a roaster oven.  It is a large tub over similar to a crockpot.  My mum says she is going to have a ham too because so many people are coming for the dinner.  I have never had goose.  

My inlaws used to stew their turkey breast side down in half a pan of water.  When I saw them doing that I just thought it was wrong.

A nice, big, rare, juicy kangaroo steak - yum!

I will find out when I join my hostess for dinner.  We had turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, so presumably more of the same for Christmas dinner.

Springy!!

Very lean red meat, virtually no fat. No growth hormones either. And environmentally better than beef - kangaroos have totally different intestinal flora which produce acetic acid (iow vinegar) as a by-product instead of methane. This means that; no greenhouse gas emissions and acetic acid is digested by the roo, so it needs less food per kilo than cattle. Also, no hooves to destroy the fragile plant life.

That sounds great & really novel, I would love to try it.

I decided I've had about enough turkey, so I'm salting a little brisket (salt, allspice, juniper berries).  Technically, I think it's an Epiphany dish (it takes 12 days to prepare), but what the heck.

People have ostrich farms and maybe emu farms in Canada.  I don' think anyone raises kangaroos here.

Kangaroos are all wild/free-range. They travel huge distances and have no problem leaping over fences, or even kicking them down. Another reason why they are the most ethical meat, because they have a perfectly natural life.

My hubby says that the only way to raise kangaroos as farmed animals would be in barns, tube-fed and chained firmly to the floor.

That sounds great, it's horrible that some animals are cruelly treated to feed us.

There are Ostrich farms in the UK & I have heard of wild wallabies in the South ( escapees I believe ), but I don't think any have been eaten.

I once saw a wallaby corpse at the side of the M23 near Gatwick Airport.

My parents, on the outskirts of London, have a flock of ring-necked parakeets regularly visit their garden.

We had turkey on the 25th and venison on the 29th. Two Christmas dinners because my brother has just got engaged and chose to spend Christmas Day with his future in-laws.