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Old 28-12-2013, 21:18
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What went right and what went wrong food-wise.

For me...

Triumphs
Gordon Ramsey's stuffing was amazing and looked fantastic all wrapped in bacon.
Gordon came up trumps again with a cranberry and apple sauce made with a base of caramel. It was delicious.

Disasters
Tom kerridges star anise carrots. Tasted like mushy liquorice - my poor dad was not impressed.
My trifle made with Tesco custard collapsed into babyfood.
One I didn't make myself - an M&S choc opera dessert which was disgusting. It cost £15 too!!
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Old 28-12-2013, 21:27
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For me:

The stuffing balls and pigs in blankets we had with Xmas dinner were really nice, ditto roast potatoes.

The actual turkey was poor - very dry and bland Why is this? Chicken isnt as bad as that.
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Old 28-12-2013, 21:29
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We both agreed that everything we bought and prepared this year was a triumph and there has been zero waste.
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Old 28-12-2013, 21:52
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The ham and the beef, Roast baby turnips and the sprouts with cashews and bacon all went down well

The homemade turkey joint was a bit bland, the roast tatties were peely waly and the glazed carrots were a bit meh.

The real disaster of the day though was my mum cancelling in the morning
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Old 29-12-2013, 09:26
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The ham we had was good too
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Old 29-12-2013, 11:23
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We had a turkey roulade from M&S - a turkey breast stuffed with sausagemeat, spinach and parmesan, and topped with bacon, it was absolutely gorgeous, on the day, and cold in sandwiches
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Old 29-12-2013, 11:41
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The turkey and ham on Christmas day were beautiful. I had double cream that was in danger of going off so I made dauphinoise potatoes. I've never made them before and we've certainly never had them with Christmas dinner, but by gum, they were absolutely splendid.

The Christmas pudding I made was disgusting. Remind me not to bother next year.
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Old 29-12-2013, 12:14
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Surprisingly quorn cocktail sausages wrapped in quorn bacon made decent veggie pigs in blankets

I don't like roast parsnips though- I realised on the day
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Old 29-12-2013, 12:58
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My honey roast ham was beautiful. Turkey was a bit of a let down.
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Old 29-12-2013, 13:00
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Almost everything was fine, even my vegan yorkshires, the worst thing was a TESCO xmas pudding, disgusting.
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Old 29-12-2013, 22:58
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Christmas dinner was really good this year. Was interested in trying out the Tom Kerridge carrots but didn't in the end so sounds like that was a good decision fefster.
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Old 30-12-2013, 09:31
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Everything here turned out lovely apart from I was disappointed with my ham
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