Christmas dinner

I know I normally review restaurants or places to visit but I thought why not talk about my Christmas dinner?!

This year myself and my husband offered to cook dinner in our house for my husbands family. There are 5 of them so we had to cook for 7 of us altogether.

My job was the veg and my husbands was the meat. I had ordered 5pd breast only turkey from my local butchers and then we got a nice unsmoked ham from Dunnes Stores.

This is how the meat looked.... Drool

He brimed the turkey over night so the meat was so moist. He then placed streaky bacon over the top. He made the ham the night before by boiling it and then after that scored the fat and put honey, brown sugar and cloves on top. 

For the stuffing I used a friend from work's recipe and OMG.... Amazing. I used 16 Denny Gold Medal Sausages skin removed. Popped them in the pan. Added onion, herbs and some mash potatoes. 20 Mins before we served food I popped it into the oven. This was by far the best stuffing I have ever had.

Now my veg. I parboiled the potatoes and then coated them in goose fat, I then left them over night covered. Roasted them the next day for 30 mins. I pealed the carrots and parsnips and again parboiled them. Put them on a tray and added honey to them. Roasted them for 20 mins. 

You can't have Christmas dinner without Brussel sprouts which are my favourite veg. I peeled them and cut them in half. Fried them in bacon and Dairygold butter.

I cut up a head of read cabbage. Fried off bacon and apples chunks for about 10 mins. Added the cabbage to the pan with a cup of balsamic and let that simmer away for about an hr. I got this recipe from Jamie Oliver http://www.jamieoliver.com/r

I also made some roast potatoes. We had an amazing meal and day.