What do you cook for Christmas dinner?

Turkey here, tried goose once and although it’s nice you don’t get much meat on it and can cause a bit of a mess in the oven. The only specifics are Albert Barlett Rooster potatoes, they’re just consistently excellent for roasting (although sometimes need to buy an extra bag as they have the occasional batch with a fair amount of bad bits in) and Gordon Rhodes’ Drop Dead Gorgeous bread sauce mix (pretentious name but it’s good and importantly also gluten free as required by one of the family…)

If it were me I’d not bother with Turkey (or ham either) I’d have beef or pork and I’d have fewer vegetables – but my other half and FinL are bigger foodies than me so I don’t argue 🙂

If I lived in Australia there would be absolutely no way I’d do a british style xmas dinner – the whole point of living on another continent is to get away from all the weird expectations and behaviours but hey that’s just me

And anyone planning on cooking turkey – get a self-basting bag. They cook much more quickly, evenly and with much less fuss as you can just bung it in and leave it.

Settled into a routine now at Christmas where its just me, Mrs DBW and the two mini DBWs. No extra family etc to deal with which is nice! I suspect we won’t deviate from the usual which is to skip starters and get straight into chicken, gravy, roasties, stuffing, cauliflower cheese, red cabbage (with stewed apple stirred through it), pigs in blankets, few carrots and peas. Washed down with a nice bottle or three of real old mans beer like Black Sheep… Don’t generally do pudding either at lunchtime as we’re stuffed from the main. Late tea usually consists of bread, cheese, cold meat, pickles, dips, pork pie, sausage rolls etc. Yummy…

Which reminds me of something I saw the other day:

During the Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force entry to your home and make them go home.

Does anyone know if this is a service thats still available and if you have to book?