Saturday, 3 December 2016

My plan …

is just that – plan – the more you accomplish sat with a pad and pen, the easier life will be.

If you've been following the blog recently you'll know that we've just completed a weeks meal planning – Christmas is no different – actually that's not true, what is different is the outside pressure of bigger, better, more expensive and a huge headache. I'm just saying that if you follow the same planning principles it'll be less of a panic.

If you are new to the blog then I can do no worse than to suggest you have a glance at the suggestions I made last year. I'm not being lazy – at least I don't think so!

I also mentioned at the same time that my family Christmas was a little, shall we say, unorthodox. We chose to eat “chips with everything” - the everything being gammon, turkey, fillet steak and a veggie option too – whatever took our fancy. I have asked my family what they'd like for Christmas Day lunch this year and their resounding response was - “the same as last year – it was great”. We have a treat on Christmas Eve, dinner out, which does make a difference. I have made one or two changes – instead of the chip-pan there'll be a tartiflette and/or a roast potato or three but the principle remains the same – a little bit of what you fancy!

If you are catering for your family and friends I might be inclined to ask whether they really want a traditional roast turkey with all the trimmings – if yes – that's fine and relatively straight forward.

If not, bounce some ideas around – ask your guests what they'd like, but not in such a way that it commits you to providing 12 different main courses and 12 different puddings – I know, I know, I'm exaggerating. I'm just suggesting that you might have been cooking a turkey for 10 years on the trot that no-one enjoys – particularly you!

Just a thought.

I do have a few bits and pieces up my sleeve that I hope will help.





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