Boxing Day food

[wintersdawn]

Help settle an argument please. Would you cook a full roast beef dinner on Boxing Day?

My DH family does this and in the past I've accepted it as the years it's been with them I've cooked Christmas Day and we've gone to the inlaws on Boxing Day and she's done a roast beef then. However this year we are hosting both days and I've just commented whilst planning the food needed for the two days how nice it'll be not to have two roasts in a row as we can do cold meat and chips on Boxing Day this year.

Needless to say DH has just thrown an almighty strop at the suggestion and can not understand why I would possibly not want to continue what his mum does!

I can't be the only one who finds this odd?.

I boil it with some aromatics - a halved onion, a bay leaf, cinnamon, ginger - I use either cider or ginger ale (if I use ginger ale, I don't put extra ginger in) - boiling time depends on the size if the joint.

When it is cooked, I let it cool a bit and cut off the skin, leaving a thin layer of the fat underneath, score it in a diamond pattern, and coat it with a mix of brown sugar, ginger preserve (you could use Marmelade) and mustard powder, then bug in a hot oven until it is nicely browned. Cooled then chilled overnight, it is delicious.

Tell him to make it himself if he wants it. Make it very clear you will not be supervising. In fact go out. For a walk or shopping or something's til it's done.

Otherwise it can be done your way. Cheeky sod.

Great idea - if a Roast is what he wants Boxing Day then suggests he cooks it - maybe next year he won't suggest the same?

I could never eat a roast dinner the day after the Christmas dinner, I'm still stuffed and will have cold meat and a few chips.

Yes, suggest he cooks it. We often don't have another roast till Easter, let alone Boxing Day.

Fuck that - you're doing Christmas day. Not only is it unnecessary to do 2 roasts in 2 days but it's also bloody hard work.

If he wants roast beef then he can sodding well do it.

OP, I'm not bothered about what anyone is having for Christmas dinner or boxing day dinner.

What I am bothered about is that your husband a) assumes you will be doing all the cooking and pretends (judging from your second post) to be useless and b) that he thinks it's acceptable for a grown man to go off in a huff because you are not doing as his mummy does.

I'd be fuming.

left overs! Always left overs! I look forward to cold meats and bubble and squeak sooooooooo much!!

The rule in our house is that you cook the biggest turkey you possibly can in the oven and then spend the next week eating turkey curries, turkey pies, risottos, such that you can't face eating turkey for another year.

Am just about to go out and buy the curry paste and coconut milk for the Boxing Day curry at my parents.

The rule in our house is that no one has to eat leftovers if they don't want to, no one does. I generally try and avoid food waste but will make an exception for Christmas and bin veg and potatoes (we try to only cook what will get eaten on the day), turkey goes in the freezer or gets given to my mum to take home.

Thankyou SDTG that sounds great, I'll give it a go this year :)

usually on boxing day i prefer to eat lighter food (and chocolate). not sure i could eat a full roast, never mind face cooking it.

its good of you to host both days but just because their family has a tradition, you don't have to follow it. start your own.

I usually do beef Wellington for Christmas Day so I see Boxing Day as a way to get the fun bits of Christmas dinner.

Ours is usually a gammon, cheese broad, pickles, stuffing, pigs in blankets, bread, chutneys, salad.

This year DH wants us to go to FILs for a full on Xmas dinner on Boxing Day but I really don't want it. We're having a family gathering on the 24th though where it will be a buffet so I suppose I should just suck it up.

We eat the same food as usual really . Roast for dinner with a few extra bits and a small amount of choc . We have allergies and this cuts out a few things,plus darling family are competitive sports nuts and wouldn't risk over eating.
I'm amazed by the amount of meat people order at Xmas .

I always do a Roast Beef dinner on Boxing day but it's because I want to. My parents spend Christmas and Boxing day with us, my mum is disabled, my dad her carer, they don't have a lot of money and my dad LOVES his roast beef dinner. If they didn't come we would have left overs.

Be very different if anyone demanded it though, then they could go whistle!

This thread is making me really really hungry
But I am also going to agree with the posters saying that your DH needs to cook the roast himself if he's insisting on it so much, so what if it's his/ his mother's tradition, this year YOU are hosting both days!

Boxing day is normally the best part of Xmas for me, as a vegetarian I go mad with cheese and pickles with crackers/biscuits...I also love snaffling cold roast potatoes out of the fridge when foraging! My ILs also make lovely mac and cheese as part of their xmas dinner so if any of that's going spare then that's an added bonus!
Therefore, by cooking ANOTHER roast, the joy of foraging would be removed for me :p

We always have a roast on boxing day - there is enough for two days and its a reheat rather than another palaver. I always do this when I make roast dinner- it does Sunday and Monday.

If you want triflewiches, that's up to you.

I don't know how anyone manages to eat two big roast dinners two days running!

When I was living at home my Mum would do another roast on Boxing Day as my Grandad came to us (we were not important enough for him to spend Christmas Day with us, he went to Dads DB on Christmas Day). The 27th was always leftovers and chips and a guest free day. Then the guests freeloaders would start again on the 28th until New Year.

I refuse to cook on Boxing Day, its everyone for themsleves