For the past 10 years or so hubby and I have hosted Christmas dinner for the family and have more or less cooked it from scratch. Not cheated with anything.

Do you cook everything or cheat?

How do you cook your tatties?

Sprouts?



lets have a Christmas dinner sticky and get tips on how to cook it. ie best way to cook turkey, sprouts, spuds etc

everything is organic from allotment even bred my own turkey fresh eggs grow all herbs only thing from supermarket is gravy mix

I love cooking Christmas dinner, although I do cheat a bit!
My sis makes the best stuffing from scratch so I get her to do mine I cook this seperate - I never stuff the turkey with stuffing!
I put peeled onions in my turkey, cover it with streaky bacon then foil and put it in the oven gas 2 at 10pm xmas eve, by 7-8 xmas morning it is perfect, my son says he couldn't imagine waking up on Christmas day wthout the smell of turkey. I then keep it heated in the top oven.
For roasties I am totally different to everyone I know! I peel them then just place them in the heated meat fat in the tin, no par boiling, no flour, no shaking, no salt! I have been told on many occasions that my roasties are the best! I cook them for about an hour (or less) on gas 6, they are crispy on the outside and lovely and squidgy on the inside.
Veg goes in the steamer - easy peasy!

Cook the lot from scratch
Tatties - roast in goose fat.
Boiled ones (don't do mash) buy the little new ones from waitrose that scape well and sit scraping them all the night before - my other half calls em pig potatoes . as some growers would ditch them because they were to small but I think the smaller the better.

sprouts - cut a cross is the bottom (coz my mum always did) and steram for about 8 minutes ( hate mushy sprouts)
well as you ask - I dso cheat a bit - always buy the ready made brandy sause.
regards
DT

Oh yeah, fresh turkey every year!

Fresh turkey,veg steamed,crispy roasts,meaty gravy.mmmmmmmmmmmmm,no cheating here.

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Dont cook my own christmas dinner...my grandma has cooked it every year for aslong as i can remember....i moved to north east now so i drive 2 hours christmas day for my dinner.

She makes turkey and lamb as some peeps want lamb...bless her. i say she...my grandad helps hes so good like that.

Then she makes mash n pigs in jackets, the best watery gravy ive ever had ( ilove thick gravy)....erm erm...(mouth watering now)...oh and the roast potatoes i think she makes with pork fat....is pork fat the one that forms a thick layer of black??.....cos they are just the best roasties ever,...better then me mams and thats saying somat lol

I cant believe its just a few weeks away my life is flying by now

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