Christmas Dinner

Christmas is a time of good food in our house. I spent most of christmas eve baking and getting as much preparation done as possible.



This is turkey cooked the Tom Kerridge way. It is simply a turkey breast stuffed and rolled and then wrapped up in lots of layers of clingfilm and foil. It was cooked for about two hours at 100 centigrade.



Meanwhile the other oven was full of vegetables and potatoes. With the turkey we had roast potatoes and a mixture of sweede, parsnip, sweet potato, butternut squash and beetroot. The brussells sprouts were not forgotten, they were shredded and stir fried with chestnuts. The whole lot was lubricated with gravy, cranberry sauce and bread sauce 


This is another inspiration from the television. Mary Berry made this chocolate torte last week and it looked like just the thing for after a big roast dinner. It was incredibly simple to make and needs to be kept in the freezer, so really handy to make it a day or so beforehand. The most difficult bit was getting it out of the mould. It was served with a raspberry coulis.