Any cooking problems at Christmas.

meritaten

I have learned from experience to cook the meat the day before! it ALWAYS takes longer on Christmas day than you think it will! don't worry about it being cold - you can warm it up in the micro or in the gravy! Which I also make now on Christmas eve - in fact, I precook everything except the fresh veg! I do have to cater for 14 but the principle is the same, whether its for 2 or 200. precook what you can and leave the fresh veg which only needs ten mins or more for the 'big day'. I dunno what it is - but cooking times go out the window on Christmas day!

meritaten

my only disaster was that I didn't have an iced Christmas cake! my shameful secret is that I buy my Christmas cake from aldi when they come in store, and 'feed' it with brandy. then I marzipan it (with Aldis marzipan) then on Christmas eve I roll out some Aldi royal or fondant icing and cover the cake, bung a red ribbon round it and put some little fake Christmas trees on. except this year when I went to get the icing out late on Christmas eve - OH had picked up another pack of marzipan instead of icing. I wasn't best pleased!

mum2one

Judi wrote: »

I haven't bought turkey for years, preferring to buy one large chicken instead but I bought a turkey this year and I regret it. Firstly it was a bit big (my fault). Secondly, despite covering it with bacon/butter and seasoning it, well it was tasteless compared to the chicken I usually buy.

I bought prawn cocktail to serve on a bed of shredded lettuce as a starter but no one wanted it. I know prawns don't keep well so I ate some of it for my breakfast this morning (one of my talents is that I eat what no one else wants - save throwing it out). Anyway, now ive got indigestion. If you never hear from me again. I will have killed myself with food poisoning (another of my talents is that I'm a drama queen).

Oh and I forgot the Yorkshire puds. Hubby and I lay in bed this morning 'you forgot the Yorkshire puds' he reminded me.

'Stick a broom up me backside and I'd have swept the floor' I responded.:rotfl:

This is going to sound daft but I could have said your words about the turkey being tasteless, we had a turkey crown, - it was lifeless for want of a better description...

We forget the parsnips, - they were cooking but its the first year we have had a double oven, - and swopping things around... half way through dinner remembered the parsnips.

Hope the indegestion gets better xxxx

meritaten

its just for fun! Didn't really have a 'disaster' as such this year - but followed time honoured tradition by forgetting to cook and serve something!
This year I served Beef and Pork (emphasis on the Beef) and forgot the Yorkshires! :rotfl:
No-one seemed to notice and I didn't realise myself, until I went in freezer and found the packs of Yorkshires I had bought (no way was I making them myself!).

So did you 'forget' part of the meal?
Fess up!

I usually forget the cheeseboard and then am left with various cheeses to distribute round the family - but I remembered it this year, and even decorated it with the grapes I had remembered to buy!

THIRZAH

I forgot to get the sausage rolls out of the freezer for tea so am now faced with eating them up for my lunches as DH doesn't like them.

pollypenny

I nearly dropped the Christmas pudding as I turned it out of the pot. Managed to block it's fall to the floor with stomach.

Instead of a lovely round shape with flames licking around, it was a pile of mess.

And the next day I was wondering why my pinny was so dirty!

Sezzagirl

My Mum cooked a ham for us. I collected it on Christmas Eve, put it in the fridge and forgot to get it out and serve it for dinner!!


I was mortified!


However, I blame my Dad as he was in the kitchen helping us carve the turkey and generally sort things out and he didn't mention it either!

kunekune22

It went fairly smoothly (we had things one at a time, so leftovers weren't a huge problem). But I do still have the 4 little christmas puddings in a cupboard because even half an hour steaming is too much in this heat (Oz), and there is an unconscionable amount of cheese and mascarpone in the fridge because of things I planned to cook and didn't.

Mulder00

First time I used goose fat for the potatoes and almost burnt them, but they were still edible...barely..(I soaked the burnt bits in the turkey juices before serving)

msgnomey

not this year but a couple of years ago I put salt in the custard instead of sugar luckily we realised BEFORE pouring it on the Christmas pudding I blame my mum, she hadn't labelled the containers in her cupboard!!!