To think Rosemary potatoes don’t go with Christmas dinner?

[mamaslave18]

DH is cooking and won’t allow anyone to help him beyond peeling potatoes etc ( the grunt work). He has insisted on smothering the roast potatoes with Rosemary. I asked him not to and he insisted. He is now stropping because I’ve asked him to make some more without any Rosemary in.

My family are very fussy eaters who like everything plain which DH knows already. I don’t particularly like Rosemary either and our small kids will freak out at the “yukky bits”. So AIBU to think he was being a plonker to do it in the first place?

You didn’t sound or come across as lighthearted!!
You sounded genuinely fucked off over a bit of rosemary on some potatoes.

But it is the internet. So no one can really get tone!!!

Enjoy your dinner. Hopefully it will all be ok in the end!

In our house whoever does the cooking gets to choose. However, a few years ago DH made a gorgeous roast beef lunch (his roasts are legendary with friends) and then decided at the very last minute to chuck some garam masala into the gravy, it was like madness all over my plate and since then we've always shouted "no bloody spices in the gravy, please". Aside from that we don't get a say.

Making food that no one likes is inconsiderate.

Rosemary is the most traditionally English seasoning there is. That would be mint, wouldn't it? Rosemary doesn't naturally grow in England, it's a Mediterranean plant.

Of course it does. I’ve even stuffed rosemary up the turkey’s bum and put it in the gravy I’m making. Adds fantastic flavour

You sounded like you are a bit pissed off that dh is insisting on doing everything and demanding the plain potatoes was your PA revenge.

YABVVVVVVVU

Rosemary is great on potatoes, and goes great with poultry. Perfect with turkey.

Sounds pretty good to me!

Rosemary potatoes aren't 'for' any particular meat or dish. They are just rosemary potatoes and can go with anything that potatoes go with! If dh knows full well that you dislike rosemary and has used it deliberately, YANBU. Otherwise YABU.

Rosemary on my potatoes too....plus rosemary and thyme on the parsnips and carrots with a bit of honey. Perfect 👍

There’s nothing wrong with having rosemary potatoes on a Christmas Day dinner if the people eating like rosemary potatoes.

If people hate rosemary potatoes and there’s no alternative, then that’s a problem and YANBU in that scenario.

I don't think it's a crazy thing to have for Christmas dinner but it was a silly thing to insist on if lots of people eating won't like it.

Another one here on team Rosemary - our potatoes had rosemary, thyme and garlic, and our parsnips and carrots had maple syrup. To the person up the thread who said that Christmas dinner is bland - if it’s bland, you’re not cooking it right!

My family are very fussy eaters

Then they should cook their own fussy dinner. Guests should, in broad terms, eat what is on the table and say thank you.

Actually I do think Rosemary is a fairly 'bullying' sort of herb.

I'd put it on potatoes to go with beef or lamb, but probably not poultry; I'd have lots of sage going in the stuffing & gravy, so probably use thyme with the spuds instead.

Plus it's definitely safest to do a plain alternative if he knows various family/guests would prefer that. Not exactly hard to do two trays - I would do two, with lots of room for the potatoes to crisp, then put the stuffing balls into the trays too for the last 20 minutes. Yum!

Having said all that, if it's done now, meh. Have a sherry & let it go!

It could be worse, it could be cauliflower cheese. Can anyone explain why they think this belongs on Christmas lunch. I can't imagine how cheese sauce and gravy go together - don't they curdle?

@SilverySurfer loooove cauliflower cheese, we had it! I only put gravy on the meat but it all melds well for me!

Love Rosemary potatoes wish I'd made them not plain ones X

I hate rosemary with potatoes.

Leave the potatoes alone!

"My family are very fussy eaters who like everything plain "

I like rosemary pots, but for Christmas lunch I find that there are so many other flavours that I prefer the pots plain tbh.

That said I would eat them if served.

If the majority don't like them then surely it's best not to do them?

It would be the hours and hours it is taking to cook the meal with all the fussing around that would get to me.

He should be considering that there are little DCs who can't stay up till all hours before getting their meal and the guests who are invited like plain food. As much as we would cater if a guest had health or religious reason for eating or not eating items I also think it would be good manners to cater to the tastes of the visitors.

Silvery my friends mum regularly did cauliflower cheese with roast dinners so probably xmas dinner too i too thought it was odd at first but it was surprisingly nice they also had bread and butter and would make roast dinner butties with it !

I would actually like cauliflower cheese 😀
We ate just before 4pm. I did the prep at 10.30 and the plan was to eat at 1.
People were starting to eat the furniture they were that hungry. We had breakfast early and I didn’t do a big breakfast as we were eating early 😫

My DH is a faffer but even I don’t know how he stretched it out to take 4.5 hours to cook. The upshot of it all is that I’ve enough leftover roast potatoes to last until NYE 😂

I am SO jealous of the rosemary roast potatoes. We were given Auntie Bessie's frozen roast potatoes (along with Bistro gravy granules) and it took all my strength not to kick off and say that I'll cook next year so we can have some proper food that doesn't come out of a packet.