Any cooking problems at Christmas.

Lilyplonk

I cooked four Chicken Kievs on Boxing Day for a Buffet Meal - put them below the grill (above the oven) to keep hot while doing Garlic Bread.


Found the Kievs on Saturday ! We DID enjoy the Garlic Bread though .

sonastin

I was actually stunned at how well things went this year given how disorganised and unplanned I was. Perhaps "winging it" is the recipe for a successful dinner!

I am having a bit of a mincemeat / pastry mismatch disaster though. Ran out of mincemeat for the mince pies so put pastry in fridge. Bought more mincemeat but haven't been motivated to do anything since and now pastry is too old to use. So now i'm going to have to make another batch of pastry to use up the mincemeat before OH complains that its not christmas any more (he'll only eat it at xmas) and then I'm bound to be left with pastry again! I have got some cooking apples now though so if I get my backside into gear and plan ahead I could perhaps do an apple pie too...

Artytarty

I made mushroom soup on boxing day with the ham stock and it was violently salty!

meritaten

you don't need to use pastry - make 'festive' ice cream! lol just mix the icecream with the mincemeat, freeze again - voila! festive ice cream!

silverfoxlynx

Not so much of a mess up as over catering!
Now I am serving turkey and ham through New Year!

heavenleigh

Me, Whilst trying to find worktop space (and i have a large kitchen) i placed a empty tupperware pot that had contained prawns in on a still hot halogen hob! Burnt a hole in it! My mother managed to flip her plate of prawn cocktail from the table all over her hair, clothes and plate ended in lap. Whilst taking the champagne glasses to the table the cat managed to get under my feet, i dropped the lot and we ended up drinking out of mismatched mugs! Oh and we put the roof on my daughters dolls house on the wrong way round!

Best Christmas ever, nobody got stressed we just laughed at it all. In my 36 years it's the first time i've realized it doesn't have to be perfect....My daughter and i will be laughing until next Christmas about my mother covered head to toe in prawn cocktail. I couldn't even fetch her extra napkins straight away because i was bent double trying not to pee myself!

tesuhoha

Well I only just remembered at the last minute to put goose fat for the roast potatoes on the Tesco order. At Christmas dinner everyone was commenting how perfect and wonderful the roast potatoes were. I started to say - 'Its the goose fat' - and then realised it was still sitting in the fridge. I had used my usual Crisp and Dry oil and they were the best roast potatoes I had cooked all year. It doesn't do to cook Christmas dinner with a second g&t on the go but I always do it.

My worst ever culinary disaster was the year when I got the turkey out of the oven to baste and I had one of those disposable foil containers which collapsed causing the turkey to fall onto my bamboo wood kitchen floor.. I was screaming, my kids were falling about laughing and my husband was very helpfully snapping photos of the whole event.

I picked it up, washed it off and put it back in the oven. Of course for years after and to this day I am accused of being drunk in charge of the turkey.

nearlyrich

I bought goose fat to do the spuds and forgot I had it until I sorted the fridge yesterday..plus my beef disaster which meant we didn't serve it for lunch on Christmas day. It all turned out OK in the end the beef made good butties and a great curry and I am sure the goose fat will get used for roasties soon.

Kaz2904

10 years ago, when DS was a few days old, I was sitting at the table rather than helping serve. I watched my Aunty whip all the bacon off the top of the turkey and chuck it in the bin. My sister was watching and we both (at the same time as my Uncle) cried "what you doing?!"


We made her dig the baconout of the bin to put on the dinner plates (it was a fresh bin bag in a very clean bin though)! We still comment on that every year when we serve up dinner. I think she'd rather I had a baby every other year until she dies so that I am tied up at serving time!

lostinrates

Not quite a disaster but a bit of a disappointment.

Plum and star anise marshmallows are not delightfully pale mauve or pink or even puce when whipped, but strangely beige (food colouring employed) and smell not of eastern promise but of cough mixture.

Well......suppose its seasonal........

Out to set anyway.