Homemade Christmas dinner?

sweetilemon

Is everyone making everything from scratch? If not is it lack or skill or for an easy life. I could do everything from scratch but have bought bread sauce mix, cranberry sauce & yorkshires. Will make my own mash & roasties. I bought ready made stuffed mushrooms and pate for starter and mousses for dessert. All things I could make myself but dont want to be too busy on christmas day.

Hard_Up_Hester

I've bought cranberry sauce & yorkies, everything else I'm making from scratch, though I did make the stuffing balls yesterday.
Hester

bluebag

I buy quite a lot ready made now, I really don't want to spend the whole day in the kitchen.

In years past I have indeed made everything from scratch, lovely but very time consuming. Appreciate the ease of some ready made things now.

Tiglath

Stuffing balls and cranberry and mint sauces are bought; the rest is homemade. Somehow I have to find room in my tiny kitchen to do a turkey crown, huge leg of lamb, roast potatoes, roast carrots, mashed swede, steamed leeks, steamed peas, stuffing, gravy and sauces. Not doing Yorkshires or pigs-in-blankets this year. Just made the dessert (Barbados Surprise) - equal amounts of double cream and natural yoghurt, thick layer of dark brown sugar on top, put in fridge so it all goes syrupy and seeps through to the bottom.

sweetilemon

Im doing honey carrots & parsnips, preped them & the potatoes today to save effort tomorrow. Cooked off turkey today so just to reheat in gravy (kept juices).

jfdi

I've got bought Christmas Pud, but everything else is from scratch - cake, mince pies (even hm mincemeat!), trifle, sausage meat balls, stuffing, bacon rolls, turkey crown, gammon in coke plus loadsa veg - half the veg were home grown too on the lottie. Took today as A/L to prep it all!

kerri_gt

Only thing I'm doing from scratch is the roast spuds, unless you could the sprouts (ready washed and trimmed to cook?) I have done it all from scratch in the past, spent all morning in the kitchen, turned into a red sweaty heap with just enough time to change into something not covered in cooking splashes between getting everything to the table....whilst everyone else sits about having a nice relaxing chat and a drink before lunch. Deff less stressful for me (and more enjoyable) to let 'someone else' do some of the prep on my behalf, even if it does cost a little more.

nearlyrich

Doing all the cooking but Cranberry Sauce in a jar because the one time I made it from scratch it wasn't as nice as the bought stuff. Got my plan just need to get up early and get the ovens on.

maman

I bought a jar of cranberry sauce and a pudding but everything else HM. In the past I have used Aunt Bessie's roasties but since starting Slimming World I now parboil and spray with oil so dead simple. So turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and parsnips, new potatoes, carrots, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, red cabbage and gravy. I needed to list them so nothing gets forgotten (wouldn't be the first time;)).

tori.k

I've gone the easy option this year everything has been brought pre-prepped even the spuds are ready peeled, carrot and swede are ready diced and sprouts are washed and trimmed so all I have to do is assemble and cook. TBH I would have opted for a take-out Indian if I had my way this year. Life has been hectic of late and I really can't be bothered with Christmas this year.

meritaten

I bought the apple sauce in jars - its nicer than mine. and the horseradish sauce - I simply cannot get fresh horseradish here.
everything else is made from scratch.
oh and did you guess I am serving Pork and Beef? and a Nut Roast for a vegetarian. I haven't made nut roast before and I really am nervous about that! I hope its ok!
I cooked the red cabbage with apple today as Delia states its ok to do that and warm up tomorrow (with a good glug of red wine to 'refresh' it).

My family love their food and would know instantly which were my recipes and which were 'bought in'.