Is anyone taking their OS hat off on xmas day?

HariboJunkie

I hate spending all day in the kitchen on Christmas Day but can't quite bring myself to buy ready made food as the grocery bill that week is stratospherical anyway. :eek:
So I do nearly all of it of Christmas Eve. I not only peel the veg, I parboil the sprouts then just stir fry them with bacon and chestnuts on the day. I peel and parboil the roast potatoes, cook the gammon, cook the carrot and parsnip mash and just reheat on Christmas day. I make the yorkshire pud batter, prep the beef and do the stuffing and pigs in blankets on Christmas Eve too. I usually do all this while Oh heads out to START his shopping.:rotfl: So all that gets done on the day itself is cooking the beef, roasties and yorkshires and gravy. Everything else just gets reheated. The starter is easy smoked salmon on wheaten bread I make before hand and we have pud in the evening which is OH's department.
Boxing day is bliss cos it's just a complete reheated Christmas dinner and no cooking at all.
All this means that I'm safe to have a few cocktails and not worry about cooking all those extras and I have time to wade my way through all the pink plastic crap that my children get given from Father Christmas.

zippychick

Haribo, do you parboil then coat in hot oil and the refridgerate?

Lmao at the pink plastic crap!:rotfl:

mi_jardin

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Most of all remember its just a sunday dinner with hats lol.

ali x

Exactly! Don't get stressed out! Personally I'd cook the diiner you all want, and they can have it or lump it! With maybe an alternative for the veggies of course.
I usually cook two meats, this year I am doing a leg of lamb for the main meal and a chicken or duck to go cold for boxing day. Then it'll be frozen yorkshires, roast pots cooked in the fat from the lamb, all in the same tin, carrot and swede mash and sprouts. Oh, and pigs in blankets and stuffing.

HariboJunkie

zippychick wrote: »

Haribo, do you parboil then coat in hot oil and the refridgerate?

Lmao at the pink plastic crap!:rotfl:

Oi Zippy. Your hat is on back to front.

zippychick

I'm making a statement. I thought this was how the kids wear em these days?:cool::rotfl: