limey wrote:
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> Dave Smith" <"adavid,smith wrote:
> >
> > I have cooked Christmas dinner for two of the last three years, and
> > when my mother used to have everyone for Christmas I used to be in
> > the kitchen helping her. This year we are going to my brother's for
> > dinner and his son is looking after everything. I offered to bring
> > something but the only thing he needs is a container of chicken
> > broth. I feel like I am getting off pretty easy.
>
> I had it easy, too. I fixed and cooked the ribeye roast. Son and wife
> brought parboiled potatoes to put around the roast, plus the salad of
> mesclun, black grapes, crumbled gorgonzola, also spinach which son
> cooked, plus they brought a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate/mocha
> icing. They cleaned up. Whoopee! The easiest Christmas dinner I've
> ever cooked <G>!!!


My nephew did an incredible job. The turkey was delicious, perfectly
cooked, nice and juicy, and easily carved (my assigned chore). He made a
sausage stuffing. He also cooked mashed potatoes, cauliflower au gratin,
roasted carrots, broccoli salad and incredible gravy. My sister in law's
mother brought a Christmas pudding that was even better than my mother used
to make, and a nice caramel sauce. My sister in law made chocolate
eclairs. It was one of the best Christmas dinners I ever had, and all I
had to do was carve the turkey.