Tomorrow will be............

Callistemon Bronze free range turkeys are very expensive, I know I buy one, but many people cannot afford them.

My main concern with turkey, is that, like chicken, the rearing methods do not respect the natural habits of the birds, they are given foods that promote growth not health.

On a smaller income I would look for a free range or barn reared turkey, never mind the breed and, if necessary buy a crown or smaller turkey then not waste a single fibre of the bird. When Christmas day is over, strip every shred of meat off the bird and freeze it in portions to be used in casseroles, stews, pies, biryanis and risottos, Then simmer the carcase long and low for several hours to get all the remaining goodness as stock for soup and stews.

I have a 7kg turkey on order for this Christmas because there will be seven of us to be catered for for nearly 10 days. I expect that turkey to be contributing to our menus in one form or another for at least 5 of those days: roast, pie, biryani, fricassee, lots of turkey sandwiches and soup.

I do this too phoenix and have done for a few years but only for a week or two before.

When my wife lost her mobility some years ago, that together with the design of our kitchen meant that she was not able to prepare meals any more - so I had to learn to cook PDQ!

Although I CAN do a full roast, it doesn't happen very often. As far as Sunday cooking is concerned, my absolute friend is the slow cooker. Today's offering is Mediterranean Chicken - two peppers (1 red, 1 yellow) chopped, a handful of frozen shallots, chicken breasts, passata and a packet of sauce mix. 8 hours on low. To be served with roast potatoes for me, roast butternut squash for my wife (she doesn't eat potatoes), and broccoli for us both. Simples!

So now it's a light lunch of home-made leek & potato soup (Asda soup mix when we can get it - Tesco when we can't), garden centre this afternoon, and dinner about 6pm.

We went out for a meal last night. I chose THE most delicious Carvery. The couple at the table next to us we’re enjoying fish, chips and peas. We had been having a bit of a chat.

When my dinner arrived I raised my glass to them and said ‘Merry Christmas’

It made them laugh!

Agree about the bronze free range turkey.

lemongrove Proper Turkey is a bronze free-range turkey, preferably from a local farm, not a frozen indoors reared turkey.

Oh I like to make Sunday dinner special (eat in the dining room instead of the kitchen, lay the table, light candles, put on some nice music) and eat something that we wouldn't eat in the week; don't always do a roast, but do try to cook something a bit special. And yes, I would still do this, even if I was on my own (have done it when husband was working away). I just like the theatre of it all!

Today (Sunday) we are having home made mince beef pie, mash, sprouts and carrots. I will do bubble n'squeak tomorrow and Mr R will have cold pie with his........he loves the pie cold. I will have a fried egg and we will both have baked beans.
We very rarely have a roast dinner, so Christmas dinner will be a very big treat for us

Venison meatballs tomorrow (same as last weekend). The deer is brought home, skinned, butchered and frozen by The Wonderful Man. Then he minces the bits I don't know what to do with and turns it into Magical Meatballs with the addition of herbs and goodness knows what else. He batch cooks it on Sunday so I have some left for my meal on Monday and he takes a portion away with him to work. And that's why he's The Wonderful Man!

We also do this and tomorrow it will be our last roast dinner before the big day. That's not say of course that there won't be lots of other tasty treats to be had on the run up to Christmas ??

We don't often do a roast dinner on a Sunday since there are just two of us.
Tomorrow I'm making a fish pie, probably from the Hairy Bikers cookbook.
Or I might even make it up as I go along.

Its Aldi minted lamb shanks for us to-morrow with 3 veg and roast and profiteroles for afters,I have always done a roast on Sundays and sometimes midweek its so easy and straight forward.

Callistemon how does proper turkey differ from turkey....
Just curious?
We had a roast last Sunday (lamb) and very nice it was too, but it only happens about every six weeks or so, as we tend to go out and do things with the family, which doesn’t leave much time.
I always do roast potatoes with a casserole.

Pheasant breasts for us tomorrow. I sometimes roast a chicken, never any other roast - just two of us, so a roast large enough to give a good result would last for ever. Not fond of cold lamb, love cold rare beef from a rib roast.

Well, I shall be having either lamb or pork chops with roast potatoes tomorrow, because I really like them and I am not going to give them up for Advent, like giving up stuff for Lent.

I only do a roast on Easter Sunday and Boxing Day when all the family are here. Other than that Sunday dinners are the same as every other meal of the week like Bluebell

I don't really enjoy them that much

It has to be a Proper Turkey though, to make Christmas dinner special.

I do that too sometimes phoenix!

It makes Christmas dinner seem more special somehow.

However, I haven't had any sprouts yet

BlueBelle I hope that is by choice.

Roast potatoes do not have to be eaten with a roast, I do them with all sorts of main courses.

Sometimes I roast the new potatos. #anythingyoucando....

Ooh I could just eat crackers and cheese now.

Sunday wouldn't be Sunday without a roast. We have new potatoes in the summer instead of roast potatoes though.

Sometimes I have crackers and cheese for Sunday dinner. Sometimes I have a roast.

That's just sad. Not sarcastic sad. Sad.

I haven’t had a roast dinner for literally years my Sunday dinners are no different to every other day