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Christmas dinner
Overall strategy:
- Oven space is at a premium so we want to do as much on the hob as possible.
- The par-boiling can happen well ahead of time.
- The meat can also be roasted fairly early - it needs time to rest anyway.
Cover it with foil and it can sit there for an hour quite happily.
- IMO it doesn't matter too much if the yorkshire puds are cold.
- Recommendation for the final 30 mins: potatoes, carrots, and parsnips in
the oven; sprouts and gravy on the hob. Chicken resting, and yorkies
sitting in a bowl.
Night before
- Yorkshire pudding batter
- Make the stuffing
- Tidy up the chicken and rub salt/pepper into the skin
- Peel and chop the potatoes and veggies
- Caramelize some onions for the gravy
Oven schedule
- Yorkshires (15 mins)
- Chicken (1hr 15mins)
- Root veggies (10 mins, turn, 10 mins, remove parsnips, 10 mins)
- Potatoes (30 mins)
Components
Brussel sprouts and bacon bits
- Par-boil the sprouts
- Fry the bacon
- Remove the bacon, dump in the sprouts
- Fry the sprouts in the bacon grease while you chop up the bacon
- Bacon back in.
- Add some water and steam if the sprouts aren't tender enough
TODO: Chestnuts
- TODO: Roast onions
- TODO: Pigs in blankets
- TODO: Bread sauce