What are you prepping tomorrow?

[Michellexxx]

What is your plans for prepping tomorrow?

im planning on making a roulade, ham and prepping the veg (leave in cold water).

Pretending to be out to avoid the in-laws

Just a plum and apple crumble - for once we are not hosting so I can relax a bit but I did promise to bring pudding.

The veg pie for main and all the side veg (cold water for the sprouts etc and par roasting the potatoes/parsnips).

I plan to do as little as possible on Xmas day!

I've bought all pre prepared from M&S so I'm doing bugger all tomorrow

Making the cauli / broccoli cheese, bread sauce ( DP loves it 🙄), prepping all the veg and leaving in cold water, cooking a joint of pork for rolls tomorrow night and some other bits I can’t think of but have written on a list pinned to the fridge!

Wish I could do this. Not so much my MIL, but her husband..! Urgh.....

Filo baskets for starters.

Prawn and chorizo
Beef and horseradish
Hoi sun duck and cucumber

Then we are making the croque en bouche. I am on decorating again

Icing two Christmas cakes. Been in bed ill since Monday till today, so tomorrow it is. OH does Christmas day I darent interfere

Cooking a ham and chicken, preparing potatoes, cauliflower and sprouts. Starting the dough for doughnuts and dinner rolls. Starter is tomato soup which is cooked and frozen, rolls to go with it. Anything else I think of that can be prepped in advance. The meats are to cover both days - just us on Christmas, 17 here on Monday.

DH will be prepping the gingerbread stuffing. But that's it

Peeling and putting all veg in cold water

making a cheesecake

Just peeling veg and leaving in water.

I think everything else is under control

Veg into cold water and I'm going to cook the meats- ham and turkey to heat up on the day

Not much - peeling potatoes and carrots and parsnips. Will make the batter for Yorkshire puds

😂

Red cabbage in the slow cooker, peel veg, make stuffing balls and make the brocoli cheese

So. Everyone leaving their veg in cold water. Is this preferable to popping in bags in fridge? From experience I know I can’t do this with potatoes (they get a weird gray bloom on them but we still ate them) but I thought carrots and parsnips coped ok and was also the planning on doing this with Brussels.

I pre-prepared and froze stuffing, cauliflower cheese and roasties. First two coming out to defrost tomorrow morning. Roasties I’ll do from frozen. Frozen turkey crown came out and has been sat in fridge since this morning. Still feels rock hard 😳

Cutting carrot batons so that we can pretend to be healthy while gorging on Christmas Eve party food which mostly is a carb fest. Merry Christmas everyone!

Oh and I’ll be making the Platinum Jubilee lemon and amaretti trifle back by popular request by my family ❤️

pigs in blankets, stuffing, cranberry sauce and maybe veg prepping.

I don’t leave any veg in water, especially potatoes. I put it all in airtight containers.

Prepping veg and potatoes. Also sauce for cauliflower cheese. Pate is already made (by DM). Waitrose made the fish platter starter!

Cook the gammon, prep the veggies and potatoes, make the cheese sauce for cauliflower cheese, make the yorkies.
make the pigs in blankets.

par cooking and blanching Brussels go to gratin them Al La Jamie Oliver. Gratin sauce made and in fridge alreasy

peel and par cook potatoes. Remove half and put in a food bag. Continue other half, mash with butter and cream and seasoning and store for reheating next day. Potatoes also then ready to just drop in hot oil and roast.

make up Yorkshire pudding batter

make up basic stuffing for bird, and posh stuffing for cooking separately for veggies too

parsnips blanched and ready for roasting

bread crumbs, honey streaky bacon and chestnuts mixed up ready to go on turkey