Christmas dinner veg: The Law

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It is The Law to have peas, carrots, parsnips and of course brussels

Cauliflower is acceptable. Cauli cheese isnt.

Broccoli is an offence.

Green beans are just weird.

I used to think tt until I was given a recipe when I worked as a Mothers Help (old family recipe )

It's clovey, nutmeggy, bayleafy, creamy, buttery deliciousness (and I don't even like butter)

Much much better than shop stuff.

Turkey with different stuffing in each end.
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
Sausages in bacon
Bread sauce
Sprouts
Roasted beetroot and squash
Red cabbage
Carrot and swede mash
Roast potatoes
Either roast parsnips or parsnip croquettes

This year poss yorkshires for my non-potato and veg eating DCs. Slightly heretical and under debate.

Dsis brings cauliflower cheese as in spite of never having had this with her christmas lunch as a child, she apparently cannot contemplate Xmas lunch without it. Just wrong.

I really like bread sauce. I made it last year and loved it. Brilliant in post-Christmas sandwiches - good thick slice of turkey breast, ditto of stuffing, generous slather of both bread sauce and cranberry relish. I suspect like most things it's better home-made (if you can cook - obviously if you can't/won't cook, most things are better bought ready-made and the beauty of Christmas is that you can easily do that).

Sprouts with chestnuts
Red cabbage
Roasted carrots and parsnips.

(like the sound of baby leeks in lemon saffron sauce though)

You should have what you want. If I was served peas, carrots, parsnips and brussels I would be thankful that there were sprout as as the rest is devils food

for a regular roast my mum will do
sprouts
carrots
roast potatoes
roast parsnips
mashed turnip
broccoli
spring cabbage
mashed potatoes

I think she actually pares the veg back for xmas and omits the cabbage. when we were kids we had 3 types of potatoes, roast, mashed, and croquettes.

I most certainly will not be seeing a doctor about gravy :)

I will instead be admiring my lovely crispy puffy yorkshires, unsullied by gravy.

And the only thing to put on a roastie is salt. Anything else is sacrilege.

Roast spuds, parsnips, carrots
Sprouts with chestnuts and garlic
Red cabbage
Angela Hartnett's spinach stuffing and apricot and almond stuffing. In large quantities