The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

I've done the "boring bits". Lined up/checked all the food.... written down the order of cooking so I don't get to the end and realise I forgot something.

Got out the serving dishes and worked out what's going in each (it's size-based driven) .... yes, on Xmas Day I serve all the food into bowls/plates and then serve myself from that - like a "proper person eating" ... I won't just scrape an assortment of items from the cooking dishes onto my plate.

I cooked the nutroast I made 2 days ago and left it sitting in the oven for now .... that'll just need a quick nuke at the last minute if it's gone cold. First time I made it and didn't give too much thought to the dish and getting one "the right size" before I started, so it ended up in a dish too large to get other items alongside it.... so it was best done alone.

Still to cook: roast spuds and roast parsnips and the two stuffings.... they'll get done about 1.15.

I expect to scoff 1.30-1.45 or so. The turkey determines the actual time. After 1pm it's a case of me peering at the turkey and thinking "does that look about done?" and when I decide the answer is yes the SC gets turned off .... and the rest of the dinner cooked.

vivatifosi

That sounds lovely Pastures. I'm having nut roast for my Christmas Dinner too. Yours sounds yummy though... hmmmm.... salivating at the thought.

Enjoy it!

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I suppose they start off very small indeed. I was once chased by a full-size turkey, and it was about waist height. Not all that scary, but I thought discretion was better than valour. You can hardly brag that you fought a turkey and won.

I don't know, a full- size turkey still has demon talons and a demon beak. :eek:

And a maniacal look in its beady, dinosaural eyes! :eek:

I was once mugged by a couple of geese, and I scarpered, and their beaks are blunt-ended and they have webbed feet, not talons.
Even with blunt beaks and webbed feet they were scary! :rotfl:

LydiaJ

Happy Christmas to all NP who celebrate it. :xmastree:

PasturesNew wrote: »

These are bits that don't enter my house. I'm "funny" about anything that's not pure breast meat/lean meat.... no scraggy bits here.

Gross.



I'm a food wimp. I didn't even touch the turkey breast. I peeled back the plastic seal wrapper and used a frying spatula to lift it from the pack into the SC. No touching! Gross.

I saw the most ridiculous advert for KFC the other day. It said "the chicken, the whole chicken and nothing but the chicken".

"The chicken" is not very informative, but true.
"Nothing but the chicken" is not just untrue but silly - what about the coating they put on it (the Colonel's secret recipe or whatever it is they go on about), not to mention the chips and side orders and so on.
"The whole chicken" is just gross, as well as (I hope) untrue. Whoever thought it would be effective advertising to suggest to people that what they're to eat has got the bones, the giblets, the feathers etc in it!

PasturesNew

I served it all up ..... plated it up..... then scoffed it in just 10 minutes.

Weeks of thinking/writing lists/shopping for this/that and the other .... all that faffing about ...loads of washing up to do.... for a 10 minute scoff. Although, to be fair, I've done most washing up as I went along.



Nut roast was nice; I'd halved the quantity, substituted in 30% of the ingredients and left the core layer out (chestnut puree) .... it was nice though. Left the "best bit" out as it's hard to find puree and I'd only be using 1/3rd of the quantity ... and it costs about £1 for one ingredient, so I decided to go without.

Turkey was perfect. Roast spuds were crispy on the outside, super fluffy on the inside, parsnips were parsnippy and lovely, veg was tasty and lovely, stuffings were lovely, mash was lovely, gravy was lovely, mini sausages were lovely, Yorkshire was lovely. I think I might explode now though.

Now got to dash through and box it all up and get it all in the fridge ASAP!

EDIT: All washing up done, all leftover foods boxed up and in the fridge. Kitchen looks like nothing ever happened!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I served it all up ..... plated it up..... then scoffed it in just 10 minutes.

Weeks of thinking/writing lists/shopping for this/that and the other .... all that faffing about ...loads of washing up to do.... for a 10 minute scoff. Although, to be fair, I've done most washing up as I went along.



Nut roast was nice; I'd halved the quantity, substituted in 30% of the ingredients and left the core layer out (chestnut puree) .... it was nice though. Left the "best bit" out as it's hard to find puree and I'd only be using 1/3rd of the quantity ... and it costs about £1 for one ingredient, so I decided to go without.

Turkey was perfect. Roast spuds were crispy on the outside, super fluffy on the inside, parsnips were parsnippy and lovely, veg was tasty and lovely, stuffings were lovely, mash was lovely, gravy was lovely, mini sausages were lovely, Yorkshire was lovely. I think I might explode now though.

Now got to dash through and box it all up and get it all in the fridge ASAP!

Glad you had a nice lunch! :T

My Christmas meal was an unmitigated disaster! On several levels.
(I shan't explain, as it's a bit embarrassing!)

Suffice to say that I really am only a hair's breadth away from being a total vegetarian now.

Never mind. I have already noted in my December 2018 calendar, warning not to repeat what I did this year. (Memories fading like they do!)
And I am deffo deffo going abroad next Christmas!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Glad you had a nice lunch! :T

It turned out to be "all perfect and how it should be" ...

Pyxis wrote: »

(I shan't explain, as it's a bit embarrassing!)

New compulsory rule: You mention it... you HAVE to tell. Telling is therapeutic.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

It turned out to be "all perfect and how it should be" ...


New compulsory rule: You mention it... you HAVE to tell. Telling is therapeutic.

Nah!


I've already therapeuticised myself, and I ain't tellin'! :p
:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Took a couple of snaps, but I was in a hurry to eat and the lighting was poor as it was getting quite dark outside.

Dinner before gravy was added: https://s10.postimg.org/3unjqpl49/Xmas_Dinner2017-_Before_Gravy.jpg

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Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Took a couple of snaps, but I was in a hurry to eat and the lighting was poor as it was getting quite dark outside.

Dinner before gravy was added: https://s10.postimg.org/3unjqpl49/Xmas_Dinner2017-_Before_Gravy.jpg

kv6fzdy5m

Definitely yummy! :T