For Christmas, Tim insisted on doing it the traditional way (except for Christmas Cake and Christmas pudding, which he conveniently passed over because he hates raisins and sultanas).
So, turkey, and roasted potatoes and veg, and a joint of pork it was! It was one hell of a stressful day, mainly because I've never roasted a chicken before, let alone a turkey, and there's a lot to do.
We started by going to Castle Market the week before Christmas to buy some taters and a economy turkey. Which meant said turkey had a risk of not having limbs intact. It was a gamble, and for £8 for a 3.8kg bird, a risk well taken. When we open the bloody (literally!) bag on Christmas day, the bird was lopsided and had its wings missing. We couldn't tell the head end from the back end at first sight. But hey-ho, all good, we managed to stuff butter under its skin and eschewing stuffing, whacked some herbs and sliced oranges (in substitute for clementines as called for by Jamie Oliver's roast turkey recipe).
I was pretty happy with the results, but had no idea how to carve a turkey, hence:
But the accompaniments were pretty good.
There's the roast potatoes, also by way of Jamie's recipe, we played it on 4oD over slow-mo so that we can do the step-to-step, and it was really worth it. It was tasty, crunchy, fluffy and just, well, good.
The roasted parsnips and sweet potato was a little...well...burnt because we left them in longer after realising in horror that we're supposed to parboil the babies. Still delicious. Oh well, next year I'll remember to par-boil!
The broccoli and Brussels sprouts were just there to counter the sinful spread, and thus nothing exciting about them.
Please don't tell me you don't want this.
I mean, he looked so happy, so it must be dead good, right!?
We made an amazing soup and a turkey and leek pie (also Jamie's recipe!) and after that storm of a cooking, I don't want to have anything to do with turkey for a long, long time!
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