Xmas dinner - without a cooker

[Slatkater]

Can I cook a Christmas dinner without a cooker? I have a microwave, so I can steam all the veg, a slow cooker and barbecue! Don’t need to do meat (I’m veggie and the oh can survive one day), but roast potatoes, roast parsnips and Yorkshire puddings very important. I’m not a very good cook so any help much appreciated, thanks.

Google slow cooker roast potatoes - its poss (same with your root veg)
Frozen yorkshires may be reheated in a microwave

Does the BBQ have a lid which would effectively give you an oven?

I cook full roast dinner over an open fire when I go camping.
Depending on the size and shape of your barbecue, use it as a fire pit, or stand the grill bit on bricks over a fire on the ground.
Put the meat in a disposable foil roasting tin, oil, seasoning, cover it with a tin foil "tent" and stick it over the coals. Leave it alone til it's done. You can do toasties and parsnips round the meat, or in a separate tray (add oil and garlic etc). Just stick pans on with the other veg, you can even do ready made Yorkshire puds, just wrap them in a foil bundle and heat up while you dish everything else out.
It takes time, a joint or bird that would take an hour in the oven will take 3-4 over a fire, but you can just leave it to cook, just add a few briquettes every so often to keep the coals going, or get some wood too and sit round the fire with a drink.
To start the fire, cardboard flat on the ground, charcoal on top, preferably a bag of instant light charcoal in the middle, then logs round the four sides to keep it in place.
Have fun!

Roasties, not toasties

@FruityWidow yes it does have a lid and is a good size.

Thank you @Pombear

I'd make stew as an alternative for this year. If you almost fully cook your veg you could shallow fry them in a tray to toast them up on the BBQ?

Why don't you have a cooker out of interest op?

If your not very good cook, this is very ambitious! 😂

Buy frozen Yorkshire puds and do those last.

You can microwave Aunt Bessie’s frozen roast spuds and parsnips, although they won’t be brown. I guess you could then bbq them! Or fry them?

Or just go to the pub!

@Smashtastick all our appliances and oh car have colluded to break down at once!

Will buy a new one in the sales.