best and worst parts of your dinner

iammumtoone

Now its all over for another year how did everyone's Christmas dinner go?

What was your best and worst part?

My best was the roast potatoes I tried putting a bit of flour on before putting into the oven, it worked well and something I will be doing from now on. Worst was the sprouts most of the bag were manky good job I didn't need many as a fair few ended up in the bin.

worried_jim

It was brilliant. I am on the throne now typing this as I park it and send it to France.

thriftwizard

Best edible part, for me, was my home-made chestnut stuffing, which came out really well considering I couldn't find any sausagemeat, so had to buy a pack of sausages and dismantle them, and the worst was the sprouts; I'd bought them YS in our local supermarket, prepped & frozen them a couple of weeks ago, but they just weren't nice sprouts to start with. Will stick to buying proper sprout stalks from the market in future.

dumpling

The best bit for me was the roast potatoes as they were beautiful and crispy and the worst thing was definitely the sprouts. I normally love them but these were just bitter and horrible.

ivyleaf

Roast potatoes were the best part for me too.

Worst part was cutting my finger while slicing carrots it was all going really well up until that point

Lleucu

Disaster time despite careful planning due to elderly mother deciding to come 2 hours early. :mad: It was all carefully arranged husband would collect her at 1.30 for lunch at 2. Then electricity supply went low the carefully frozen roast potatoes and parsnips failed to brown.* (saved by cooking on the hob) Next year - local pub or cook everything on Christmas Eve. Today : M and S ready prepared meal for neighbours - what can go wrong?
* husband blamed the dreadful display of weeping Santas etc on nearby estate draining the power in our remote town.

I_have_spoken

It was fab, except for some Tesco garlic and herb mini-roasties which smelt rancid. Luckily I had time to do basic roast potatoes.

DigForVictory

It was delicious! I definitely liked the pink champagne.

Just I shared the food with three teenagers, so there was almost no gravy left for me & Definitely no leftovers. Roast Soup plans on hold til next year, along with bubble & squeak & other delicious ideas I read of here.

Fortunately there's a haggis or two on the horizon for New Year (as well as Burns Night, I *love* haggis) so I may get extra veggies sorted. Clearly the usual volume wasn't enough....

kippers

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I've seen a few comments this year about the sprouts not being good....mine too were not the best and usually my sprouts are lovely. Mine were sprouts from aldi super six sprouts.... I wonder if they were cheap as they were a different variety this year so the shops could sell them cheap ( as a veg gardener i know variety makes a big difference when cooking)

VJsmum

Our sprouts were lish. We cooked them in the gammon coca cola from Christmas Eve. Then used some of the coke, gammon, sprouty water to make the gravy. Sticky toffee pud for pud was lovely too, if I do say so myself.

The worst was the stuffing balls with cranberry.

Caterina

Best part: the boiled rice.

Worst part: the boiled rice.