To ask if there are other WOMEN who can't produce a Xmas dinner

[JudyShakes]

Every year on MN there are threads started by women saying that are fed up of doing Christmas dinner, or they don't feel well enough this year etc. And posters will pipe up "get DH/DP to do it!"

DH does the Christmas and most other cooking here. Am I the only FEMALE who would really struggle to produce a Xmas meal that was special enough to deserve the name?

My best friend doesn't cook at all. Her DH does all of their cooking. Including Christmas Dinner.

She's not remotely concerned by this fact - because she tends to do other things in the house. It does help that her DH is a really good cook and he bakes too. So you definitely aren't alone

People say Christmas dinners are easy because there are no tricky techniques. Roasts in general are straightforward. Roast potatoes are easy. Veg are easy. The timing is hard though because you are generally cooking way more than can normally be produced in one oven.
It can be complicated but it's not hard as such. It just takes a bit of practice to get to know timings.

@TheRuleofStix

I have never done it. Dh does the vast major of the cooking in our house. I’ve never enjoyed it and am just not interested.

This.

DH was a (very good) chef for many years. We have been together for a loooooong time and I never learnt to cook, and then never needed to!

I find them very annoying for timing things, especially if you have a smallish oven. But not difficult in terms of the actual cooking.

I say every year I'll make something totally different, but never do.

I can cook a roast but the timings.. the fucking timings!!! Oh cooks Christmas dinner, I wash up his roast potatoes are the best I've ever tried.

I could do if it if I HAD to but DH loves doing it and always has since we were first married.

Why have a dog and bark yourself? is my motto.

I can cook it fine! It's just 4 hours late, at different temperatures and I'm pissed by the time it's served.

This would be me!
DH always does Christmas dinner because he loves cooking and is very good at it. I hate cooking and unless it's a one pot dish I tend to mess up the timings.

Agreee with GoJo, I do get fed up with people who continually say 'it's just a Sunday roast' ... a good Christmas meal will have a lot more components, different stuffings, sauces etc, wider choice of veg etc.

I've cooked many Christmas meals, (I am over 60 ), I can do it and I enjoy it but it does need careful planning to get the timings right. I do as much as I can in advance and as I am currently on furlough I am planning to make & freeze the bread sauce, stuffings and brandy butter. Of course my DH can cook too, but I prefer my cooking, he prefers to do the clearing up to avoid too much time with elderly relatives .

I have never cooked a Christmas dinner. I am over 60. Thankfully I married a man who can cook and enjoys it, and my two sons are also great cooks.

I would find it really hard. I find cooking lots of things at once really stressful. It's always a mad rush at the end.

Luckily DP loves cooking, otherwise we'd be in a pickle!

I recently was diagnosed with ADHD and being bad at the organisational skills and juggling loads of things at once is part of ADHD, I now realised.

Those of you who find cooking stressful and are generally a bit "scatty" / disorganised / always running late / easily distracted from what you're meant to be doing, might want to do some research into ADHD in adults . It's been a revelation! (I'm not hyperactive, you don't need to be, it's a badly named condition!).

I can't cook a nice roast dinner so a Christmas dinner delivered by me wouldn't be worth eating.

Christmas day food is my husband's realm entirely. He tells me what to buy, I get everything. He prepares and cooks everything while I slob about with the children and I clean up afterwards. We feel like that's a fair division of labour...and more importantly we always enjoy it!

Although we're probably one of the few Christmas dinner tables that has pasta included as a dish for the queen of the fussy eaters aka my daughter

Nope - I would have no idea! Dh does all the cooking I don't know even how to scramble eggs!

Me cooking or baking

I can but I don't want to. I don't enjoy cooking.

I buy everything pre-prepared and throw it in the oven. Like every other day of the year.

Cooking to me is about as enjoyable as cleaning toilets. Christmas to me is just a marathon of drudgery to be endured.

I've never really tried. I have no interest in cooking a huge meal, being stuck in the kitchen for hours on end creating a ton of mess and washing up isn't the way I want to spend Christmas. We've been sold a dud with this particular 'tradition'.

It's just a roast! Don't know why people seem to big up to difficulty - takes about 4 hours and is delicious but quite easy.

I do admit I was overwhelmed the first time I cooked it, but I was 11, my mother became ill overnight and rather than tell the rest of the the family not to come, for some sadistic reason I offered to cook it (dad still doesn't cook). Not being tall enough to safely use the upper oven was particularly silly (never use a chair and a hot oven tray!)

I struggle to fry an egg so the thought of attempting a Christmas dinner fills me with dread. DH does the Christmas Dinner because we want it to be enjoyable

DH does most of the cooking, when he's out and I have to cook then it's got to be something I can shove in the oven and set a timer, usually pizza or something from the freezer with chips.

I hate cooking.
I am awful at it.

I usually do the prep, get things started, lose interest when the wine starts to flow and I enjoy dancing to christmas songs and then someone else 'finishes' off. I just can't stand all that wasted time sweating in a kitchen when I can be having fun elsewhere.

So no never really cooked a xmas lunch from start to finish, it is a team effort with dh and always will be. Life is too short, and there are too few christmases to waste slaving away solo :)

As with PPs I have never tried. Not bothered at all although I do like Christmas. DH however finds Christmas annoying but likes the big dinner so he cooks, I decorate and buy presents... And I still think he has the worst deal

I mean, I could if I wanted to. I think most people could really, there's plenty of info on the internet if you really wanted to do it. But that's DHs job here. I have absolutely no desire to cook Christmas dinner

It's just a roast!

Not if you do it properly.

Well I can do it, but DH is better at cooking and he enjoys it... I let him crack on!

I think I would rather clean toilets with my bare hands than cook!

The idea that just because we are female we like cooking is for the birds. My mother hated cooking more than I do, and hasn't cooked in twenty years - not as much as a slice of toast. She would rather starve than cook!

I don't cook anything. My husband was a chef when we met and cooks all meals for us. When he's out I do freezer food or pasta.

My Dh does all the cooking here