While I was cooking the Christmas dinner, I thought back to the first time I did the job about 30 years ago.
In the early hours of Christmas morning, my wife went down with gastro enteritis, I was all for cancelling Christmas but the two boys,who were still living at home, had invited their girl friends to dinner. So, between cooking,cleaning and caring for my beloved, it was pretty hectic.
Dinner was served. The turkey needed a chainsaw to carve it. The roast potatoes could be used as cannon balls. I poured the veg onto the plates and sliced the gravy.
The meal was eaten in total silence and afterwards everybody disappeared leaving me with a mountain of washing up.Afterwards, I went to see to my beloved, who had fallen asleep, so I sat and had a scotch(or two).
This year, everything came together at the right time, the turkey was succulent,the potatoes crisp on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside,the veg hot and firm and the gravy moved, and as I had been clearing up throughout the morning, there was not much washing up to do. Incidentally,my wife has her hand in a cast at the moment so I am head cook and bottle washer.
Hoping everyone had a good Christmas.
Frank.
In the early hours of Christmas morning, my wife went down with gastro enteritis, I was all for cancelling Christmas but the two boys,who were still living at home, had invited their girl friends to dinner. So, between cooking,cleaning and caring for my beloved, it was pretty hectic.
Dinner was served. The turkey needed a chainsaw to carve it. The roast potatoes could be used as cannon balls. I poured the veg onto the plates and sliced the gravy.
The meal was eaten in total silence and afterwards everybody disappeared leaving me with a mountain of washing up.Afterwards, I went to see to my beloved, who had fallen asleep, so I sat and had a scotch(or two).
This year, everything came together at the right time, the turkey was succulent,the potatoes crisp on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside,the veg hot and firm and the gravy moved, and as I had been clearing up throughout the morning, there was not much washing up to do. Incidentally,my wife has her hand in a cast at the moment so I am head cook and bottle washer.
Hoping everyone had a good Christmas.
Frank.
