I'm having both sets of in-laws for lunch tomorrow... gulp. I need help planning the timings for the lunch so everything is ready at the same time. I don't know why I can't do this! I'm usually good at cooking, but I think I've worked myself into a state of stressed bewilderment.
I have ONE oven. I've written the different timings everything takes below -- can you draw me up a timetable of what to cook when so we eat the starters at 1pm and the roast afterwards? Please? I know this is basic but my brain has frozen!
To start we're having onion tartlets that take 15-20 minutes in oven, at 180.
We're having roast lamb (2.5 hours in oven at 180?), roast potatoes (45 mins in oven? Hotter than lamb though, 200 degrees...), leeks (10 mins on hob), peas (5 mins microwave), onion sauce (5 mins on hob), gravy (help!). DH is having veggie sausages (15 mins in oven at 200ish) instead of lamb.
The pudding I can do before so i'm not as TOTALLY STRESSED about that.
A lovely list of timings would be fab, especially bearing in mind the time it'll take to do stuff, and how to do potatoes & lamb in one oven when they take different temps.
Thank you.