Going to miss me ma's Christmas dinner this year. She not a good cook by any stretch of the imagination, but she can whip up a great Christmas dinner.
Turkey crown and good quality pigs in blankets from the local butcher, crispy roast potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, Yorkshire puddings (not homemade but still good), stuffing, cranberry sauce, HP Sauce, lashings of thick gravy made with the turkey juices, rosemary, a few Oxos, gravy browning and Worcestershire sauce.
Love the general Christmas food — the cheese and crackers with pringles and nuts on Christmas Eve, the Celebrations and Quality Street, the turkey, brie and cranberry toasties on Boxing Day, the bubble and squeak, hot chocolate with Baileys throughout, my trademark large bottle of Leffe beer to accompany Christmas Dinner. Don't think she'd made a Christmas cake this year but she sometimes makes a fantastic one from a cookbook she got about 40 years ago.
Great time and I'll sorely miss it this year as I did last year as well. I guess at least my waistline will benefit from not shovelling down kilos of food down my throat in a short number of days though.