frozen roast potatoes are for emergencies not for Christmas day

[PrincessScrumpy]

I made a double chocolate baked cheese cake for Christmas with the in-laws - they didn't eat it and chose tesco value chocolate cake over my homemade dessert. I had to laugh - my dessert was yummy and dh and dd both ate mine. dh was horrified that his family were so rude and also by their taste buds.

I was alarmed when I went to the fridge on Christmas eve for dd's milk to see no sign of a Christmas dinner. My assumptions were correct - all from the freezer - even the veg including roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings to go with the Iceland roast pork and lamb.

Luckily, my aunt made a fab Christmas dinner on Monday so at least I've had real Christmas dinner.

Don't mean to sound snobby, but I come from a family that enjoys homemade food.

YANBU. I agree with other posters - Xmas is all about the company, which is precisely why enduring your in-laws PLUS shitty food is above and beyond the call of duty.

Shall we have a summary?

Refusing to try your cheesecake: RUDE (if that's what they did)

Choosing bought cake over your cake: NOT RUDE (personal taste)

Using frozen roast potatoes: POSSIBLY RUDE (depending on who is answering, degenerating into a WC/MC debate on 'are you using the time you would be peeling potatoes to play board ganes with yourchildren or to watch your giant flat-screen bought-with-benefits telly?')

Well summed, Trillian

OK, everyone round to the New Year's Eve thread for champers and cheesy-chilli chips (from frozen)

However, have to applaud toddlerwrangler calling the OP rude!!!! That takes balls after the post you had just made.

Why thank you JB, I pride myself on my balls. I have sat an eaten many a frozen roastie and not even gagged in the past.

Balls. Of. Steel.

Oh, and JB - shitty cyber right back t you :)

frozen roast potatoes have their uses. If you run out of jigsaws you can get the Aunt Bessies out and amuse yourself by trying to put back together the original potatoes.

toddler - ???

Right. usualsuspect get it out of your inverted snob head that a dinner party is anything more than having your friends round and feeding them. It's a small party with dinner thrown in, as opposed to a big party with a bowl of twiglets. There need not be anything 'formal' about it. I hate the way people sneer at the term, as if anyone who has them must be trying to prove some point about class and one-upmanship.

And Alouiseg I am coming to your next dinner party but I'm not snogging any of your mates, ok? Let me just get that straight now. My husband may dance in his boxers if he likes, that's up to him.

And can we all stop calling them 'roasties' and yorkies' please. Even Litchick is doing it, and it's traumatising me. They are roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. (I'll allow 'puds'). You'll all be saying ciggies,
chocs, and pinta next.

NormasHormones No, really, I think it probably was really quite bad.

Too many reallys in one small sentence.

I'm clearly the only one up. Or the only one who still cares about this.

Only read the OP and Fellatio's last post (howling with laughter at trauma caused by over use of word 'roasties'!), but can I just ask the OP: what the fuck sort of emergency would need to happen to justify using frozen roast potatoes?

There is no excuse. They are foul. Like those tinned new potatoes and that God-awful frozen cubed. School dinner-tastic.

frozen cubed veg.

I am so traumatised at the thought of it I can't bear to type the words...

FellatioNelson dinner partys are poncey

and I say fags not ciggies

I like a bit of poncey-ness. I actually like making an effort, I like cooking, I like my friends.

I just wish my house wasn't in a state of disrepair so I could have another one. Yes Fellatio, you are at the top of my list but I think we might be looking at March or April at this rate!

You'll have to come to me then! Anyway I don't mind saving myself for the grand opening of your poncetastic orangery.

Just a poncetastic hole in the effing ground at the moment.

The ceiling in the poncetastic breakfast room needs replastering from the poncetastic bathroom damage and we have zero furniture in the poncetastic dining room!

Christmas lunch was served on a fold up trestle table!!

It's doing my poncetastic head in tbh.

...and I'm off the booze for 3 whole weeks :(

Why three weeks?

Well it's supposed to be a whole month but MrG has a birthday coming up and it would be rude to stay sober for that.

He prefers me drunk, I've no idea why

Oh I see! I myself will be opting for the no booze Mon-Thurs method. I won't work. Still, I've got another 2 days before I need to start.

You sound a bit of a princess .

Yes you can beat home cooked food - when I am cooking it! We did Sainsbury's Taste the Difference potatoes last year because my roast potatoes are truly shocking, for some reason.

Oh and PS - I cook most other things from scratch. It's just roast potatoes that don't work

Chandon You are so Marie Antoinettish, with your " congregating in a big kitchen....blahblah, why doesn't everybody live like me?!"

Have seen pictures of LeQueen's kitchen, not that big (stairs coming off it).

Please let her play her little game of bigging herself up to feel better - don't be unkind.