My mother usually does the dinner but this year she moved to the other side of the country, and she decided to only stop by to spend the dinner with us. I volunteered to do the dinner instead as my Dad is only learning to cook, my brothers are a bit useless and I didnt want my mum to make a two hour trip just to cook for us. As I'm a veggie, she agreed to just do the meat.
It was going fine for the most part, but towards the end as I was trying to serve it up I got very harried. The mustard mash developed a skin, the cheese sauce on the cauliflower went crispy because the stupid fan on the stupid broken oven blew the feckingtin foil off, my mushroom gravy didnt thicken, the uneven heat of the oven made my cinnamon apple bake scorch on top so I had to cut the top off. Its a blue miracle my baked Alaska worked out.
I think everyone's just too nice to tell me the dinner was total crap.