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spent 3 hours making a full christmas dinner spread only to eat about 1/3rd of the (small) plate I made myself.
Normally I'd lose a bit of my appetite from the bottle of cooking wine it normally takes to cook a roast, but today I'd had about 3 sips of a beer by the time I got to the table, sprouts were top notch, parsnips decent, didn't bother with celeriac and swede mash and couldn't be arsed with making my own gravy either. Still, plenty left for curry tomorrow and I sorted out a base gravy for that yesterday and a decent parsnip soup for lunch.
snottyotter
spent 3 hours making a full christmas dinner spread only to eat about 1/3rd of the (small) plate I made myself.
cooking for that long just makes me lose all appetite anyways, but then I got the aches in upper body and thought I might have the 'vid but LFT says no. I've been laid up on bed watching bullshit films all evening while the GF popped round our mates to jump in their massive hot tub. not quite the christmas day i had in mind but oh well.
edit: I also did our spuds in our fancy new samsung combi microwave as both ovens were in use at different temps already, using the appallingly named crusty plate accessory on the equally ridiculous "hot blast" (oven) mode . came out 10x better than expected. proper crispy outside and fluffy inside.