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.

There's a whole world of difference between peas which are picked and frozen and roast potatoes which are processed to varying degrees. The description of the aunt bessies potatoes lists batter! Roast potatoes DO NOT have batter!

I was a bit at the idea of batter on potatoes.

Maybe that's because I don't eat wheat or dairy, and in the absence of cheese (oh cheese, how I miss you) good roasties/oven chips in duck or goose fat is a lovely, greasy, crunchy, tasty treat. So the idea of sullying them with batter and thus rendering them forbidden to me is very

yeah, unless they had,time/health/money issues going on, frozen food on xmas was just plain lazy, and should only be for emergencies,

Actually any room which had gold car paint in it is very aptly described as a lounge. Now that it's probably filled with all your highbrow books it is most definitely a drawing room I would say.

LOL at removing the stairs

Bloody hell!

I bet your previous owners cooked frozen roast potatoes on Christmas Day.

I do wonder how people can attain that level of affluence whilst having such dubious taste.

This for example is probably a footballer's house and is understandable but some of the houses I see when I am property-porning make me want to cry.

And now I sound like a crashing snob which I'm not. I live in a three-bed semi with a plain old sitting room and no stairs off any of the rooms

Anyway. Roast potatoes.

I like the snarling leopard by the bath

Mists.. that is.. just...ummmmmmm horrendous.

It looks like someone won a lot of bingo games in the amusement arcade in Blackpool and traded the tokens in for the crappiest looking ornaments they could find.

I like the teenager underneath the glass table in the conservatory. It's the sort of stuff Michael Jackson used to buy in Vegas. The swags and leopards not the teenager. Then again...

My whole xmas dinner was frozen. Really what is the point of making a huge roast for 2 people and a baby when one is only there to eat and run anyway. Im wasnt spending a day alone cooking for someone who was out all day and just coming in for 30 mins to eat. What a crappy kind of day that would be!
I hate roasts and never cook them...why risk xmas being a bad meal when i can put goose fat frozen potatoes into the oven and they turn out fine?

OMG to that house

er and where is their garden?

the garden is the over crowded outdoors bit that looks like the leftovers from the poundshop sale are scattered randomly around..

the phrase "less is more" is clearly lost on them...

oh dear

It looks like old people live there

There is a chandelier in the kitchen that I hadn't noticed before along with the stuffed dead pets on the top of the units.

Also hung toys in what looks like the less-favoured grandchild's bedroom

I am going to buy this one day and invite you all round. It's almost as good as the house I found which had a fireman's pole going from the master bedroom into the wine cellar

I think its pretty poor to use frozen spuds when entertaining, you can peel and put in water the night before so it doesn't have to be all about cooking on christmas day.I am not a great cook, but if I am having people round I do make more of an effort, it's not snobbery at all. They were rude to not try your pud, I hope you took the leftovers home!

That's what happens when peasants win the lottery. That's why we need to keep poor people poor. It's for their own good.

I'm talking about swags and tails and life-sized china leopards now, not potatoes.

I be they are not that old you know. I suspect that might have gypsy blood - just a hunch.

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