IABU but need you to help me with dinner for Inlaws 2m

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Wrong forum I know but if you've got this far then you may aswell give a bit of advice while you're here......

My Inlaws are lovely and have recently been very good to me so I invited them to dinner tomorrow. In my wine fuelled wisdom I also invited bil sil and their dd.

I had a Jamie Oliver moment and bought a roast rib of beef to do a lovely trAditional Sunday roast. However although I can cook I've never done a roast before!
I'm known as a good cook within the family but I'm afraid they are going to realise I dont have a lot of diversion in my cooking once I step out of 'one pot wonders' land!

Help and tips much appreciated

Cook the meat first thing in the morning, give it plenty of time to rest so it is easier to slice.

Cook the veg in the morning too so that you can just nuke it when you are ready to serve it up.

Use meat juices that have drained off cooling meat, and some of the veg water to make gravy. Make that now too, and just gently reheat before serving.

Make mashed potato, and buy some frozen roast potatoes. Let the frozen roasties defrost for at least 2 hours then put them into a roasting dish in the oven with a bit of olive oil. Turn once or twice. Cook for about 45 mins. (feel free to have a glass or two of wine while doing this)

Get the Aunt Bessies yorkshire that are frozen batter ones. Bung in oven half an hour after putting the roast potatoes in... both will then be ready at same time.

Easy Peasy!

Roast - you cant cook a roast? a roast is the easiest meal of all - shove it in the oven and forget is exists.

google jamie oliver's roast beef. He has a good way of cooking the beef and it's always worked for me.

BTW - nuked veg is vile, utterly vile.

OFGS .... I cant believe people''are telling you to 'aunt bessie' roast spuds.

Get the Aunt Bessies yorkshire that are frozen batter ones. Bung in oven half an hour after putting the roast potatoes in... both will then be ready at same time.

Ummm they are 4 mins from in oven to out - 1/2 hour and they would be charcoal

trois, do try and keep up...

Potatoes, 45 minutes in total.

BATTER yorkshires (not the prebaked ones).. take 15 minutes, so if you put them in 15 minutes before the spuds are ready.. they will both be ready at the same time...

And reheated veg is ok if you dont cook it to a pulp beforehand. And a lot less stressful than getting in a flap when you have guest and are trying to do a roast dinner for them for the first time.

HTH

Thanks folks. Googled Jamie's roast and it's so easy!

I'm not worried about the veg or roasties, that's straight forward.

It's more the timings Im worried about so it doesn't end up like chewing leather!

I'm not really a 'traditional' dinner person and usually cook with pasta but FIL hates 'weird stuff' but will eat it to please me but I just wanted to do something they'd really enjoy.

Thanks and will let you know how it goes

Thats why I suggest doing it all early. That way if anything takes a bit longer, it wont throw everything out of balance.

I used to cook sunday lunches for my mates pub and preparation is the key.

Thanks squeaky - I think I just had a moment of panic!

I'm all prepped already. Veg and potatoes peeled. Dessert defrosting made. Wine tasting begun :o

Not doing Yorkshires cause we're in Ireland and not that common here so that's one less thing to do!

Dinner was a big success thanks folks

On 2nd bottle of vino now :)