Homemade Christmas dinner?

Fruball

I used to make everything from scratch but not any more. I do my own roast potatoes (because I make the best ones in the world ) and I rolled the pigs in blankets myself but only because I am fussy about sausages, but everything else is bought ready prepared and this year I got 'ping' sprouts with bacon and butter reduced from C0op at 50p and they were really sweet and gorgeous All veg was microwaved, I don't like most veg boiled anymore.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to save yourself as much work as possible on Christmas Day esp if you cook from scratch almost every other day of the year!

If I could have had quality home made food delivered hot and in serving dishes, I would have happily done that!

prudent_princess

I made everything from scratch..but had a turkey crown (so much easier to carve!).
Never again though..i was in out and of the kitchen all day..felt shattered by the end of it. Also have a stinking cold, which doesnt help! :-(
Everyone else was relaxing and chilling out!

maddiemay

All HM here apart from the piggies in blankets, which I bought from the butchers when I collected the gammon joint.


Just OH and me and I am still recovering from a nasty virus, we had roast gammon, roast potatoes, carrots and parsnips and leeks in cheese sauce. OH shared the cooking with me (under instruction LOL). He just said that it was the best gammon that he had ever eaten so full marks to the butcher and farmer. HM raspberry trifle or cheeseboard for afters.

meritaten

I am sort of smug now! - my Christmas dinner for the family went down really well! and there were 14 of us!
we didn't have starters but went straight for main course! I served
Pork and Beef
Roast Potatoes and Honey Roast Parsnips
Runner Beans which I had frozen from last summers crop from Sons Garden.
Red cabbage with Apple
Sugar Snap Peas (the kids adore them) ,Garden peas and sweetcorn
Brussels Sprouts
Carrots
Mashed Potatoes
with Apple sauce, mint sauce (the kids insist on it) horseradish sauce (only me and SIL eat it - but, what the hell, its Christmas!)
Nut Roast and quorn sausages with onion gravy for the veggie
Pigs in Blankets

for dessert I made a Cherry Pie and bought an After Eight Ice Cream dessert . both went down well - in fact most people HAD both! with squirty cream!
so while I do make most things from scratch - I don't reject good desserts cos they are shop bought!

nearlyrich

maman wrote: »

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;)).

I once forgot to empty the top dishes of my hostess trolley which I only really use at Christmas till about March...the cabbage was a bit minging to say the least

meritaten

jeez - words fail me! I wouldn't have wanted to clean that out though!lol

Chris25

meritaten wrote: »

for dessert I made a Cherry Pie a

I made cherry pie too - didn't intend to but I had taken some pastry (amongst other things) out of freezer to make room for a reduced turkey that I got yesterday. I used a jar of LIDL cherries & just stirred cornflour in to thicken it, topped it with pastry, then gave it an eggwash- so blooming easy & had it with some creme fraiche.