xmas dinner, what did you learn?

purpleivy

Pollybear wrote: »

Don't do as many potatoes, people only want about half what they normally eat!

Not in this household, there wasn't enough mash and only just enough roast....I didn't mind, I had the parsnips!

kunekune

The bronze turkey (frozen) from Waitrose was worth every one of the thirty pounds. OH said it was the best he had ever eaten.

I only got the M&S roasties because I couldn't find any tatties last weekend. They were awful. Some went grey when being cooked. Daughter gagged trying to eat one, we threw them all away.

But the parsnips roasted with honey were fab.

wallbash

I don't reel very well now!

:D:D


Veggies are meant to be good for you!

My 4lb turkey crown was £51 ( luckily my mother pays for the turkey and the wine)

Bambywamby

My 5lb pork joint was £7 and was totally lush, so I learned Xmas really is okay without turkey.

Asda's smartprice sage & onion stuffing went down so well, I will be having it more often.

Crackers are a waste of money, they were pulled, bad jokes told and everything put in the bin from the cracker as soon as lunch was over.

Steamed sprouts are 1000 times more yummy than ones boiled in water.

rhiwfield

Now dont laugh when I tell you that some of us had rice pudding for afters. I used a weaker version of delia's rich rice pudding and it was gorgeous, 1 oz less rice and 300ml more milk but keep all the butter and eggs to give the egg custard topping. Sticky toffee pudding was also verywell received (catering for 11!)

We had beef this year, on offer at Sainsburys, pot-roasted for 3 hours and melting apart. Lovely!

hayley11

I learnt that I am not as useless as some people think

I cooked dinner for my OH, his brother, his mum and her husband and me of course and nothing was burnt, everything was perfect! And the only thing I cheated on was the yorkshire puds (Aunt Bessie, thank you!)

AND my MIL washed all the pots (I told her not to but I fell asleep on the settee and she did it all anyway!)

McKneff

put a sticky note on the microwave saying 'dont forget the peas'
i have forgotten them 3 years in a row and found them next day!!!!

purpleivy

anniehanlon wrote: »

put a sticky note on the microwave saying 'dont forget the peas'
i have forgotten them 3 years in a row and found them next day!!!!

LOL! Mum forgot the cranberry sauce, but wasn't really missed as only DB's MIL likes it! I found the roast parsnips when doing a last sweep of the kitchen before sitting down.

shazrobo

learned cold sliced chicken and salad, with jacket spuds was a stress free xmas lunch, and left more time to play with kids

gairlochgal

I learned I have no idea how to get the seeds out of pomegranates!