to think christmas dinner is just a roast....

[AmberSocks]

which are pretty rank anyway.

I'm not keen on English food,most of it is really bland,a Christmas dinner is basically just boiled veg and some chicken,gravy isn't particularly interesting.

I don't get the big deal?

Ok. Thanks for that. It's good to share isn't it?

Clearly you've never tasted my mother's stuffing.

Ahem.

Totally agree. Turkey is incredibly bland and the thought of bread sauce makes me gip. We have beef Wellington, made by the man of the house. Tis lovely!

To be fair, the last 3 years we've had 2x Beef Wellingtons and 1x roast forerib of beef.

Turkey is pretty tasteless.

But the stuffing and cranberry sauce and ham with a honey mustard coating are divine.

I am missing my mums dinner this year as have to go to the ILs. Its a travesty!

I do turkey crown with apricot and pork herb stuffing. If I do say myself, it is fucking amazing.

And homemade gravy. None of that Bisto that I use the rest of the year

With all the trimmings!

Pigs in blankets, bread sauce (mine just happens to be phenomenal) cranberry sauce, chestnut stuffing, and I ^steam6 my veg.

Next you'll be telling us you don't like Christmas pudding and brandy butter.

We were thinking of going out on christmas day for a curry (we are big curry lovers and theres an amazing place half hour away near where we used to live) but part of me wants to do a christmas dinner,but i know i will be dissapointed like the rest of the time,we never ever have roasts so its the only time of the year we eat that kind of food.

I dont like christmas pudding!never tried brandy butter.

pigs in blankets
roasties
proper gravy
cranberry sauce
slices of lean gammon alongside the turkey
crooglie [swede and potato mash]
sprouts tossed in butter with chopped chestnuts
honey glazed carrots and parsnips
Christmas pudding carried in to a candle lit room with blue flames dancing over it
Good wine,crackers,hats,love and fun.....yep just a roast??

So many taste combinations on one plate...certainly not bland.

Yours might be like that!

Gravy is yummy when made properly. You just aren't doing it right.

I love a curry, and it's a bit of a tradition now that we have one on Christmas eve.

I hardly ever do a roast during the year, but at Christmas I love to and pull out all the stops. I wouldn't go out to a restaurant for Christmas lunch, as I don't think anywhere could do it as well as me.

Each to his own, though.

Yes, it's just a roast -definitely not rank or bland though!

I dont cook them but i have had them by other people and i dont see the attraction,i think its those kind of flavours just arent big enough for me.

well as far as I know it's not legally binding to eat it - so don't

I love a good roast dinner - obviously you have yet to have one

If a turkey is dry, then it's not cooked properly mine is never dry.

I inject a marinade into the muscles of the meat :)

ive never made gravy,that's what im saying,i dont eat anything you would have gravy on,i have had it in restaurants though,still bland imo.

I'd sort out your cooking if i were you. A good roast is never bland. Clearly you've never had a good roast.

Gosh, I feel sorry for you. I love Christmas dinner but then I don't cook it!

I think if you want it to taste good, you have to make it yourself. With a really good recipe.

Going out for dinner, you are going to get bland turkey roast. The chefs been cooking it since Nov, and is thoroughly sick of the sight of it.

Amber
You are being invited to the wrong dinner parties

You mustn't be able to cook a good roast then simple flavours but still tasty done correctly.