Your worst Holiday endulgnce

[OnlyByMoonlight]

Just curious

I'll start:

Last night for dinner I had a whole cheese ball. No crackers, just took a spoon and ate it. And it was good.

 

[vrosej10]

Just curious

I'll start:

Last night for dinner I had a whole cheese ball. No crackers, just took a spoon and ate it. And it was good.

Dude, you musta payed for that! I am not a binger myself, but a nibbler. My husband, not at christmas, once ate a 1kg block of cheese.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Until I prevailed upon her to stop, my mother used to give me an entire pound or two of almond roca each Christmas. I'd usually finish it off within forty-eight hours! Thank goodness she's quit doing that . . .

 

[Isid]

didn't need that a glass of wine!

 

[ole_grouch_1124]

An inordinate amount of scotch at a company Christmas party one year. I'm surprised I still remember it.

 

[VeritasMaximus]

I ate an entire tray of homemade chocolate fudge one year. Oh my God. I have never been so sick in my life.

 

[Wife of Bath]

I drink egg nog like water, and then wonder why my pants don't fit.

 

[OnlyByMoonlight]

Today I ate about 10 pieces of baklava for lunch and I'll probably have another 10 for dinner.

 

[Liar]

Every Christmas, I make a batch of my famous ginger and rum chocolate truffles and give as presents to family and friends.

This year, I made a double batch. There are about sixty of the little fuckers in my fridge, all for me. I already hate myself.

 

[Handley_Page]

A very large slice of home-made Christmas Cake.
There must have been a thousand calories per slice !

 

[fifty5]

Not me (I indulge all the time, so Christmas isn't special) but my mum and a friend...

My parents used to have a sweets-and-tobacco shop. Closing up at 8 pm on Christmas Eve, we used to go to a hotel in Settle for Christmas. One year, it wasn't just us three, but also another couple who were friends. Being from Yorkshire (a Yorkshire Tyke has been defined as a Scot with the generosity removed, but the truth is we just want value for our money), they didn't take a gift-box of chocolates, but a shopkeeper's 4 lb box of Chocolate Liquorice Allsorts. That got opened after Christmas dinner and got finished by the two ladies before Christmas tea...

 

[Guest]

Whiskey.

Every christmas for the last 10 years, I have indulged in quality whiskey. and I have indulged and indulged.

This year is no different

~Paul

 

[SlickTony]

Whiskey.

Every christmas for the last 10 years, I have indulged in quality whiskey. and I have indulged and indulged.

This year is no different

~Paul

What do you like in the way of whiskey? My husband likes single malt scotch. It's a shame it's so damn expensive.

This isn't to do with Christmas, but when I was in Jamaica at Couples Tower Island, I had a pre-lunch consisting of chunks of goat cheese and Kalamata olives.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Generally, Christmas Eve at my parent's house. We eat finger foods (sweets, snack foods, etc.), and I always eat way too much.

 

[SlickTony]

the entree for our Christmas dinner is going to be a standing rib roast. I decided that a turkey for Thanksgiving and then a turkey for Christmas was two turkeys back to back and too much.

 

[jacks4u]

Pies and cookies. Every year we bake. Last year it was pies, this year cookies. lots of cookies. Sugar cookies with frosting and lil sprinkles, Chocolate chip, 'smores bars', brownies, Fudge. We divide up the sweets and package them for our friends, then Christmas day, we drop by just long enough to say "Merry Christmas" and drop off about 50,000 calories of goodies, then run off to the next friend or relative. But while baking these fat pills, I snack on the 'baker's seconds' all day, all evening, however long it takes to 'finish' and get the goodies all packaged.

 

[Edward Teach]

I drink egg nog like water, and then wonder why my pants don't fit.

Egg Nog, yeah. It gives me the worst heartburn/reflux imaginable, but I continue to drink it, lots of it. I buy it by the gallon...and it is sooo good.

Hey MYW, want to have a party?

 

[oggbashan]

Eight pints of vintage cider in a country pub.

I didn't know that their champion cider drinker had passed out after five pints. I was just enjoying it. I walked out(and drove away - before drink driving laws).

It was embarrassing when I returned to that country pub some months later with my fiancée. I didn't know that I had become a local celebrity. I also didn't know that my fiancée was the class teacher for the landlords' daughter.

I'm still grateful that the daughter refrained from telling her classmates.

Og

 

[ole_grouch_1124]

the entree for our Christmas dinner is going to be a standing rib roast. I decided that a turkey for Thanksgiving and then a turkey for Christmas was two turkeys back to back and too much.

That's why we started making homemade lasagna for Christmas dinner every year until we got tired of that. Now it's a baked ham.

 

[penandpaper]

Every Christmas, I make a batch of my famous ginger and rum chocolate truffles and give as presents to family and friends.

This year, I made a double batch. There are about sixty of the little fuckers in my fridge, all for me. I already hate myself.

Those sound way too damn good. Recipe please!

PS - I'm certain your neighbors and friends wouldn't mind helping you polish off those things - a chocolate/wine party may be in order. Now what kind of wine to pair it with?

 

[Liar]

Those sound way too damn good. Recipe please!

I could tell you. But then I'd have to kill you.

Oh all right then.

For a batch of about 40:

200 g of good dark chocolate. I use Lindt's 70%.
50 g of milk chocoalte.
50 ml of cream
Some butter
Some brandy
Fresh ginger
Fresh lemon grass
Salt

Pour one glass of brandy.

Pour another glass of brandy. Put grated ginger flakes and crushed lemon grass in the brandy. About three times as much ginger as lemon grass. Stir. Leave alone for two hours.

Drink some brandy from the first glass.

Crush and melt the dark chocolate. Do NOT melt it above the boiling point. This is VERY important. You will not see if it's too hot, since it won't boil. So be careful there.

Stir in the cream. If the chocolate is too hot, you'll end up with cement and will have to start over. If not, stir until it's smooth.

Sift out the ginger and lemon grass from the brandy, and stir in the brandy until it tastes yummy, and also add a bit of butter. I don't know how much exactly, I just wing it. When everything else is in there, add one tiny pinch of salt.

Leave the truffle dough (?) melted in a hot water bath.

...while you drink some brandy...

...and crush and melt the light chocolate.

Pour the milk chocolate into small moulds. I use an ice cube tray. Pour back the chocolate while it's still runny.

You'll end up with mouds covered in melted chocolate. Put this in the fridge immediately.

Keep the excess chocolate warm in the same water bath as the melted truffle.

Have some more of that brandy now.

Take out the moukd after about 5 minutes. They will be hard by then. Pour a bit of truffle into each mould, leave a little bit on the top. Put the bugger back in the fridge.

Re-fill your brandy glass and chug it. Go have sex or something.

After an hour, come back and remove the moulds from the fridge. Top it up with one layer of what's left of the light chocolate. And shove it all back in the fridge again. in five minutes, you have a set of truffles in a light chocolate cover, ready to challege your health.