yamaonna

Well, the Christmas lunch has come and gone without a hitch.  Here’s a low down of my day –

started preparing at 830 by butter-garlic-ing the chicken breasts and chicken drumsticks.  When they were prep’ed, the breasts were fried until skins were starting to brown, and then everything into the oven for about 40 minutes.  Turning over at about 20 minutes (oh, and a squeeze of lemon).  No room for the stuffing, so this was cooked on the stove top.

Next were the roast veggies – potato, sweet potato, carrot and pumpkin.  First boiled for 10 minutes (a bit too long actually) then basted and into the oven in two batches for an hour or so each, turned over about half way.

While this was happening, the pudding was once again put onto the boil until dessert time, house was given a final tidy up too, and the post man delivered a package from my mum and dad.

While the last batch of veggies were roasting, prep’ed the Yorkshire pudding mix and started on a gravy, which turned out too eggy (the pudding) and tooooooooo salty (the gravy).  At about 1pm my guests arrived just as I was finishing the gravy.  Ended up making a packet mix cheese sauce at this time because I was too embarrassed about the gravy.

and the final lunch –

recipes used – stuffing http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-classic-stuffing
roast veggies http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-roast-potatoes
Yorkshire pudding http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-yorkshire-pudding
gravy http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Make-Gravy-3919

And of course, the pudding

The lunch itself was a lot of fun.  Only 5 of us, but I don’t think my apartment could have held more.  We ate for a few hours, then played Wii Music (lots of fun with other ppl), Mario Kart, and finished the day with Nacho Libre (everyone should see this movie).  Good times.  I was really happy to celebrate christmas properly this year!