My best friend insists on coming to my house for dinner on Boxing Day every year when she knows she'll get bubble and squeak to eat.
But I don't make it with just mash and sprouts. I add in the mashed swede, peas, roasted parsnips, carrots, chopped roasties, chestnut stuffing and some turkey. Mix it all in a big bowl, put it into my huge lasagne dish, top it with lots of grated cheese and bung it in the oven (that's a technical term!) for an hour or so till it's all crispy on the top, and serve with the leftover turkey gravy made with giblet stock.
She swears it's the best dinner of the year, and hates swede and parsnips normally.
She came on Boxing Day two years ago, and there wasn't enough left to bother with bubble, so I did T-Bone steaks with all the trimmings. I've never been allowed to forget it, and am reminded at intervals through the year, with December being particularly fraught till I'm ready to murder her
Last edited by Lemonhunny : 27-02-2008 at 07:45