My Mother made our Christmas dinner this year and everything was home made from scratch, even the stuffing, well, the gravy she does is like flour, oxo/bovril, milk and the water from the veg, so thats only half cheating?
My Mother is a very erm, old fashioned mother style cook and shes very good at it too, but she has two faults, her chicken is usually a bit too dry and she cremates steak, but the turkey (which i always find to be more dry than chicken) melted in my mouth today and against all the experts opinions, the beef joint was cooked well done and was also melt in the mouth... so credit to my mother today!
although i seem to have somehow managed to arrange to do next years Christmas dinner at my house, not sure how i managed that... Ribeye and chips it is then.