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I’m just putting together a leftover dinner for our neighbour and for my mum. And then we’ll have the remains later. Sacrilegious it might be but I don’t like roast potatoes. I make good ones but they do nothing for me. Roast parsnips and sprouts are what it’s all about.

Same here for this evening's dinner, but with different cheese (haven't decided which yet).😋

I have just finished giving the kitchen a clean, now for a glass of wine. Day drinking allowed in Boxing day! Enjoy the rest of today, comrades!

I think Maris Piper come into their own a bit later in the winter and King Edwards are too starchy by the end of January. I'm generally back to cba by that point, mind!

Was that the goose fat Christmas ones @BIossomtoes ? I had one tray of those but luckily a second tray was subbed for some frozen waygu beef ones, as the former were horribly floury, refused to crisp up even in a hot oven and needed a slug of emergency olive oil to stop them resembling cotton wool.
That was the only dinner disaster, the rest of it was fantastic.
Bracing beach walk this morning, now packing to go away for New Year tomorrow.
Tonight will be soup, then more cheese, as could not do the cheese justice last night.

No, it was the Waygu (stupidly expensive) ones. Never again. The cheese never left the fridge yesterday, it absolutely will today!

I use Rooster potatoes. I think they are vastly superior to any other potato.

been on a journey from frozen roasties, mash and yorkies to the much simpler, easier, and better destination of doing it yourself.

It seems rather dim to spend more to get less - both in weight and taste.

I have been known to use my DMs trick of mincing all leftover meats (plus stuffing, if there is any) and then mixing that into a white sauce to be served in little vol-au-vents with a ladleful on the side and mash'n'veg. However you can always use tomato sauce (or a tin of fine chopped tomatoes) and add that to your pasta of choice.

Many years ago when I was at Stonehenge for the winter solstice (I did it so you never have too) I had a venison curry in Amesbury that was, to use a word, lush.

Yesterday and today have been very clear blue skies, which means the extra few minutes in the evening are already apparent 😎

I bought those last year (fresh) and they weren’t very nice.
I could make my own @SerendipityJane but I am too lazy, so moaning about prepared ones is the middle class, first world problem hill I choose

We had new potatoes from our garden. DH decided to plant some late to see if they would be ready for Christmas. Dug up yesterday morning so about as fresh as they can be.

I think I could beat all the posters here for laziness. (Although I had a boss in teh 90s who would dial into a machine in the next room, rather that sit at the desk and use it).

However when you take all factors into account, it's not that much more effort to make your own from scratch, and the return on that little investment is huge - quite aside from the cost savings, you get what you want the way your want it.

The whole world has gone through a mirror. Once you used to have to go out to avoid frozen microwaved or pre-cooked food. Now if you want proper food cooked from scratch you can only get it at home. ("I'm afraid that's a little difficult as chef's just opened the tin ...." 😆)

But - as always - each to their own.

If frozen potato products weren't significantly quicker and easier than making them from scratch, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. With 3 different restricted diets to cater for at every single meal, something has to give. I keep a few pouches of pre-cooked brown rice in, for the same reason. There's only me and DH who eat rice, out of the 4 of us and it's one less thing to have to think about eg when DH and I are having chicken or salmon with stir-fried veg (GF sauce and condiments, of course) DS2 is having his with oven chips and DS1 has his protein in a bread roll with salad and/or sweetcorn... Oh, and I need to make DS2 his special pudding with his medication mixed in and that makes 2 gluten plates to keep away from my food...

Being one of those foreign people who didn't grow up with roast potatoes, I have no problem with frozen ones. DH and DS make them fro scratch now and again but I am just as happy with chips.

We are having some boxing day curry crisps from Aldi, they are not very nice.

I’ll happily admit to being lazy but yesterday’s sub par potatoes weren’t my choice. I’ll remind Mr B next time that homemade are infinitely better and considerably cheaper!

Pickachew sounds hard work with all juggling hope you did have some time for feet up & some treats.
Blossoms really happy Dh had some good news & enjoy the beautiful watch, must admit a good watch is such a lovely thing to own.
Evenstar💕
had dd Sil & dgd’s since Christmas Eve (they only live up the road always stay for Christmas) we had a few drinks Christmas Eve some of the cheese, was slightly delicate Christmas Day dgd’s didn’t wake until 8am which was fab considering they were so excited, the Turkey was excellent as was the gammon another one who only just caught the spuds in time so a few were slightly squashy the Yorkshires were a bit of a disappointment M&S waygu beef dripping rest of the veg was lovely I cheated with “Cook” parsnips/peas/leek & cabbage
we had leftover over meats & salad for dinner, Ds will polish of the profiteroles fair bit cheese not used will keep me very happy for a couple of weeks.
early night for me am really tired now.
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Parsnips. another thing I don't do and DH never liked them growing up.

Lovely to hear all your stories.

Sorry that was a bit garbled also meant to add hope you all had a lovely time despite some of trials && tribulations MN very glitchy keeps reloading & freezing was trying to beat losing my monologue.

I’ve just had ham, pork pie, fried roasties, cold bread sauce and chutney for my dinner. It was delicious. 🤤

We've just had Christmas dinner mkII. Turkey reheated in gravy (so DS1's roll ended up being what they would call a turkey dip roll, up here, though without extra gravy as he is repulsed by it in its free state), a fresh batch of pigs in blankets, naked pigs and stuffing carrots, sprouts, bordering on too many home made roasties and parsnips just for me. I'm finishing off the last of the sancerre. I think I need some more for new year

And tomorrow will be freezer food 😂

We had Christmas at my dads and apart from the roasties (which my DB and SIL did so were nor unexpectedly excellent) he cooked it all by himself and did a good job.

My sister and I provided dessert.

then me, so, DB and SIL sorted out the edge and centre pieces of an 1000 piece Xmas puzzle and managed to put together the outside. Turns out my dad had given my mums puzzle may to her sister - cue lots of very careful transference to the box for DB and SIL to take home and finish!

Today has been very slow. I’ve slept a lot! Much more than I ever usually do.

about to watch call the midwife part 2!

Me right now. Dinner was delicious.

😂

Still haven’t managed to get to the STP!

Stuffed.

I typically cook enough food here for 2-3 days post christmas, so today's dinner was mash potatoes, cold meas, quiche, sausage rolls salad (vege, gluten free and dairy free options available), cheeses followed by cheesecake, mince pies, chocolate log and Christmas cake.

We've had a lovely afternoon/evening with extended family It's been a really lovely end to the day.

We did freezer food today. Back to proper cooking tomorrow.

I do roasties from scratch despite being foreign, I love them. Parsnips are the work of the devil though.