Christmas dinner with only one oven

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We've always had a double oven, and I've always used both; big oven for roasting turkey, potatoes, etc., smaller oven for cooking other veg, stuffing, keeping sauces warm and mulling over, and heating plates.

Only going to have one oven this year, and once the turkey's in, there's not going to be a lot of room for everything else.

I'm sure I can heat plates once the turkey's resting, but how do I juggle everything else?

What do others do?

Don't have the budget for a hostess trolley. Or the space!

We have one oven and no microwave or slow cooker.

Don't have turkey though, we have beef which am guessing doesn't take up so much space (DP cooks the dinner - am clueless).

I cook pigs in blankets and balls of stuffing in advance.

Turkey in oven.

Red cabbage on hob.

Carrots and swede to mash on hob.

Take turkey out to rest.

Potatoes go in to roast, as do parsnips and anything else you want to roast.

Stir-fry sprouts.

Stuffing balls and pigs in blankets go in to warm through.

Possum what is your creamy leeks recipe. They sound lush

gizmo, it's a Jamie Oliver recipe. I do it all in a saucepan rather than browning it in the oven, still works well.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cheese-recipes/cheesy-leeks-la-oliver/

i cook lamb leg in the slow cooker its really good and it saves room in the oven

I once did christmas dinner for 16 with both beef and turkey and yorkshires on a baby belling (1 tiny oven 2 rings) during building project. Organisation is they key.

Veg steamer did all the veg on 1 ring whilst the gravy was on the other. Yorkshires do etc day before a reheat.
Everything else- turkey, beef, potatoes sausages, parsnips in 1 deep baking tray

Big red I am in awe!

My rule of thumb is to rest the meat for half the time it roasted.

So my turkey comes out of the oven a good couple of hours before we eat.

When I cook beef I calculate the cooking time, halve it and turn the oven off at the halfway. Works awesomely.

We've BBQ'd the turkey a couple of times. Turned out beautifully. We have a traditional old Weber kettle BBQ with the lid, once it's hot it's just like an oven. Foil tray in the middle under the grill to catch the drippings, coals at the outsides. Kept it outside the back door and dh checked on it periodically. It's much more common to BBQ the turkey in Australia and the USA than here, but certainly worked for us.

If you google it, there are loads of websites with top tips and explaining how to do it well.