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Christmas Dinner - On Boxing Day

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Posted by: Eddie2sox Thursday 27th December 2007, 8:31am
Last edited 27/12/2007 8:31am by Eddie2sox

Wow, was my Christmas dinner delicious! Forget Delia's Christmas cookbook, bow down and worship at the altar of Eddie 2-Sox!

You don’t need a huge bible-sized book, costing £14.99 at all good bookshops, to be able to knock out a superb Christmas dinner. It’s easy. Here’s how, and it’s free, just for you:

Simply make a list of the various bits and bobs you want in your Christmas dinner. Don’t cook foods that you don’t like just because Jamie Oliver told you to. My list was:

Big turkey

Roast potatoes

Mashed potatoes

Roast parsnips

Brussels sprouts

Pigs in blankets

“Proper” gravy

Work out how long each part will take to cook, make yourself a little time chart, and counting back from the time you want to sit down and scoff, write down when you need to start cooking/stop cooking/rest each bit. And as you do complete things, wash up the dirty pots and pans immediately. There you go. It’s what the so-called experts would tell you to do, but over 240 pages.

My own dinner was abso-bloody-lutely huge and totally delicious. All produced with no stress whatsoever (mister Kronenbourg helped me slightly with that aspect). The pigs in blankets were made the day before. The parsnips were roasted in goose fat at the same time that the turkey went into the oven, then put to one side for an hour or two. The roast potatoes went into the same goose fat. The gravy was produced on the hob as the rest of the dinner waited on the plate. And it turned out perfectly.

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