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This sign has gone up in our Village Butchers window, and the debate now begins for many families, what are we going to have for Christmas? Turkey or goose, Chicken or duck, or how about a game bird, pheasant, partridge or mallard?
Then there are those with a totally different tradition and choose, Beef, lamb or Pork, Venison (try explaining "we're having Rudolph this year" to the kids!) or a nut roast. I have one friend whose family always have a vote and the options includes some fairlyuntraditional meals in recent years ranging from Kangaroo, Buffalo Hump, Ostrich, to Sea Bass and Lobster. So what will the average CU member be putting on their Christmas Order? A. 
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Unfortunately, village butchers are among the the endangered species here, our super markets employ meat cutters.
 But the turkeys do not have to be pre-ordered, the market shelves are stocked to almost the ceiling with that bird, and if one spends a certain amount of money during a 4 to 6 week period before Thanksgiving, some markets will actually give you a turkey as a bonus; as I do not like turkey, I give my free bird to my cleaning lady. I do love goose, however I usually wait until the first week of January, when the price drops from over 4 dollars to about 99 cent per pound. The bird doesn't know about holidays and tastes just as good in January as in December.  from Connecticut, LazarusLong |
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I wish I could be as reasonable as LazarusLong, in January all meat stuff will be less expensive ,beef, game, goose, duck.
But LL, you are not having bangers and mash for Christmas, are you  ?
This year we thought we will have some traditional Austrian dishes for Christmas, starting with beef soup, trout pie, main dish will be prime boiled beef (Tafelspitz) with horseradish sauce and mashed potatoes and as dessert "Kaiserschmarrn" which are cut pancakes with raisins and almonds sprinkled with icing sugar and served with apple sauce. Normally we have game or duck (goose is too much for 2 persons). best susa |
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Susa,
I have just being doing a check on you - you said you are doing trout pie and Kaiserschmarrn as part of your Christmas menu - but the recipes do not appear to be in the CU database! Shame on you for whetting our appetites and then not sharing them! A.
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ok ok Watson
I will enter them in a few days shame on me 
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As long as they are good, you may be forgiven!
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