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Rate My Plate|Christmas '24

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  • It is our daughter and son-in-laws first attempt at cooking Christmas dinne, so go easy 😉
    Mash on a Christmas dinner. Straight to jail.
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    Did you sweep the Turkey off the floor?
  • wwaddick
    wwaddick Posts: 121
    Courtesy of @LouisMend

    Solid performance very pleasing result.




  • Lovely bit of squirrel. 
    Roast potatoes look a bit over done mate. ;)
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,446
    wwaddick said:
    Courtesy of @LouisMend

    Solid performance very pleasing result.


    10/10

  • Incredible effort to somehow make everything simultaneously look both over-cooked and under-cooked at the same time. Doubt this has seen even a pinch of seasoning. 
  • LouisMend said:
    wwaddick said:
    Courtesy of @LouisMend

    Solid performance very pleasing result.


    10/10
    Fuck me the number of anaemic potato's on this thread is actually worrying. 
  • I know energy prices have been soaring in the UK, but are they really so bad that you’ve all had to resort to cooking your roasties with a hair dryer?
  • It is our daughter and son-in-laws first attempt at cooking Christmas dinne, so go easy 😉
    Not on board with the mash, but the rest looks a solid effort, especially for a first attempt. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,926
    edited December 2024
    I know energy prices have been soaring in the UK, but are they really so bad that you’ve all had to resort to cooking your roasties with a hair dryer?
    I'm glad the "roast dinner in an air fryer" trend has ended but seriously most if these look like they've only been parboiled. At this point they're only good for mash and I think mash on a roast dinner is a crime equal to murder.
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  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    Absolutely smashed it this year (after last year’s disaster forgetting to switch the oven on). Decided to skip pigs in blankets and stuffing this year as respect for those vegetarians and vegans missing out (yes I know I’m a caring kind of guy). Merry Christmas y’all. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    My mum's been following Delia's method for decades and it hasn't failed. Would say this year's was particularly great. Have largely hidden the roasties but I hope what's visible conveys their not-anaemic status



  • cafc4life
    cafc4life Posts: 4,632
    ISolidgone said:
    Absolutely smashed it this year (after last year’s disaster forgetting to switch the oven on). Decided to skip pigs in blankets and stuffing this year as respect for those vegetarians and vegans missing out (yes I know I’m a caring kind of guy). Merry Christmas y’all. 



    Assuming you had the cooked outcome of this???


  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    LouisMend said:
    wwaddick said:
    Courtesy of @LouisMend

    Solid performance very pleasing result.


    10/10
    Our dog was sick on the plate last year too. It’s horrible isn’t. You have my sympathies. 

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
    edited December 2024

  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    With my girlfriend's extended family in France. Posted in the wrong order but we have:

    Main - jambon en croute with dauphinoise potato and creamed spinach (plus the ubiquitous little piece of bread), served with peppercorn sauce

    Starter - haddock, cream cheese/marscapone and lemon juice blini

    Dessert - chocolate cake with raspberry jam, OR chocolate cake with white chocolate and some sort of vanilla stuff that is to die for.

    Not pictured - everyone's second and third helpings, the chicken Wellington (for the Muslim family members), the 90-piece Lindt selection, and the wines. Mon dieu, the wines...

    This is the best Christmas dinner I've ever had and it's not close.








  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,756
    Leuth said:
    My mum's been following Delia's method for decades and it hasn't failed. Would say this year's was particularly great. Have largely hidden the roasties but I hope what's visible conveys their not-anaemic status


    What is that at 6 o clock between the sprouts and bacon and underneath the cod fillet?

  • Potato's could do with another year or 2!
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  • It is our daughter and son-in-laws first attempt at cooking Christmas dinne, so go easy 😉
    Not on board with the mash, but the rest looks a solid effort, especially for a first attempt. 
    Feedback passed on, they promise to make amends next year 😉
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,996
    edited December 2024
    Vegetarian nut roast with the trimmings  with vegan pigs in blankets 

  • Potato's could do with another year or 2!
    I didn’t cook, Mrs GA did, I try to tell her. 🤯
  • Forgot to take a snap until I'd started eating so presentations a bit all over the place.

    Cheesed leeks with a breadcrumb gratin top. Mashed swede, carrots  brocoli, sprouts. Shit tonne of parsnips and roasties. Turkey with cranberry, lamb with mint sauce, stuffing and pigs in blankets.
    Gravy was the best I've ever made.

     2nd snap has the Yorkshire added!




    Fair play. If I’m honest, a bit too much gravy.

    negative points for the hideous purple plate. Last time I saw something like that it had paint on in primary school and I was wearing my dads old shirt back to front.
  • follett
    follett Posts: 1,034

    Pre gravy pour
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    RC_CAFC said:
    Leuth said:
    My mum's been following Delia's method for decades and it hasn't failed. Would say this year's was particularly great. Have largely hidden the roasties but I hope what's visible conveys their not-anaemic status


    What is that at 6 o clock between the sprouts and bacon and underneath the cod fillet?
    Garlic mushrooms. Tie it all together, honest 

  • You need a spirit level on that table pal.
  • UEAAddick said:


    Pretty much what I'd expect from someone living in Dubai.
  • Forgot to take a snap until I'd started eating so presentations a bit all over the place.

    Cheesed leeks with a breadcrumb gratin top. Mashed swede, carrots  brocoli, sprouts. Shit tonne of parsnips and roasties. Turkey with cranberry, lamb with mint sauce, stuffing and pigs in blankets.
    Gravy was the best I've ever made.

     2nd snap has the Yorkshire added!




    Fair play. If I’m honest, a bit too much gravy.

    negative points for the hideous purple plate. Last time I saw something like that it had paint on in primary school and I was wearing my dads old shirt back to front.
    A bit? I thought it was some sort of fancy, festive take on a ramen.

    😉

  • Meat to veg ratio all wrong.