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Please help me plan timings for Sunday roast tomorrow!

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BEAUTlFUL · 07/03/2009 15:12

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.

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SlightlyMadScotland · 07/03/2009 15:16

Sorry - I am crap at cooking roasts... I have no co-ordination...I go to the pub.

BEAUTlFUL · 07/03/2009 15:18

LOL! Thanks for cheering me up, but as i have already made outlandish and rather rash promises about the menu, plus spent £15 on lamb, i think i need to persevere. next time, though, i'll do it your way.

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BEAUTlFUL · 07/03/2009 16:48

Shameless bump... any cooking types around who could help me? Please!

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lizziemun · 07/03/2009 17:51

Take Lamb and cover with foil and keep warm/rest while potatoes are cooking.

I would do a fresh fruit salad and cream for pudding. But i'm not a pudding eater so prefer something light.

Perhaps do a cheese board (cheddar, brie and one other) with crackers and grapes.

BubbaAndBump · 07/03/2009 20:47

Stuff the lamb with whatever you're using (garlic and rosemary's a treat - start just after 10 (and turn oven on to 180 to heat)

Pop lamb in at half past ten....
Pop tatties in a bit earlier than you thought, at midday (due to lower temp)
Sod cooking leeks on the hob, add them to the roasting dish about 15 mins before 1pm
Also at this time put the sausages & tartlets in...

Take lamb out at 1 and let it sit while you keep tatties and leeks cooking if needs be. Crack the heat up to 200 at this point if things look underdone
Take tartlets out and eat, lamb & all else will be ready once you've eaten them....

Between tartlets, get DH to serve up roast & veggies while you zap the peas and use the roasting pan (incl. all bits that have fallen out of lamb and bits of tatties) plus pea water plus an oxo cube and cornflour to make the gravy on the hob.

Should be good

btw I have a cracking roast tatty recipe if you want to give it a go?

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