I'm not speaking to Nigella

This is my first time of posting, so hope I don't do anything wrong!

morethan2, I do hope your turkey turned out OK and your family didn't go hungry!

This was our first Christmas for donkeys years that we were just the 2 of us, so we didn't bother with turkey, had a chicken but with all the trimmings - stuffing, bread sauce, chipolatas, home made redcurrant jelly (from home grown red currants), though we didn't bother with the stuff the breast with sausage meat like we do on a turkey. I am blessed with an OH who is a great cook, and it was all delicious. (Should perhaps point out that I'm disabled, so can't really cook these days.)

As to cooking turkey, the very first year I cooked one Woman's Own had an article on how to do most of the prep the day before. That turkey was fine (it was a bit scary doing a turkey for the first time!) so we just tucked the instructions in our Good Housekeeping Cookery Book and they come out every year. We've never had any complaints about the birds!

I too use Phil Vickery's recipe and have had a beautifully juicy turkey for the last three years. As you cook it on a bed of vegetables with wine and chicken stock, you end up with extra tasty veg. and amazing juice for the gravy.

We had an Aldi 3 bird roast - pheasant, grouse and guinea fowl. It was very moist and tasty, ready prepared and a nice change from turkey. I would recommend for 4 people.

I have just made a nut roast in pastry and for Sunday when the family come I will be making a Mushroom wellington.

Very nice it was too.

HildajenniJ

I hope you picked the parsnip up and put it back in the tin under the 3 second rule.

Morethan2 I find there are a lot of recipes you look at and think straight away "that will not work." One's own judgement is very useful here.

completely different meal for us today ,first time on our own for years so thought we will make it easy turkey crown cooked in remoska with pigs in blankets so no oven to clean and veg ( from garden ) all cooked in microwave bags with butter and herbs delish so easy and fab

I cooked a large turkey crown. According to Hugh F W, it should have taken 1 hr 12 mins . I'm so glad I didn't trust him. It cooked beautifully, nice and moist, in just under 3 hours!
I hope yours was a success morethan

Small turkey crown from Aldi for us and it was nice. Veg were lovely and stuffing good and nothing homemade just stuck in the oven no problem. I have been cooking Christmas dinner for 57 years now and fed up with it. The easier the better and it was delicious.

We had a nut loaf, with all the usual vegetables. It was delicious.
We don't like turkey - too much faffing about.

I hope your Nigella turkey was ok more than 2

I followed he tried and tested saint Delia tent foil and as always it worked well. I think I left it in slightly longer than needed but the foil/butter etc means it doesn't dry out.
Just sitting down with a restorative glass of wine - family all gone off to visit the other halves of their families, feeling very lucky despite all the ups and downs that life brings us.

I made a chestnut and mushroom roast with roasted red pepper and tomato sauce. The family liked it and I did a lot of the work yesterday. We went to midnight mass and then my hubby and I did a two hour walk this morning up a local small mountain.( Live in Lakes).

In all my years of cooking turkey, I have never had such a moist result as today, using www.vickery.tv/phil-vickerys-recipes/christmas/item/phil-s-perfect-roast-turkey It is cooked in a sealed 'tent' of foil, which effectively steams it, and quickly too!

I hope it went okay, and your Turkey turned out well.

I nearly had a disaster with the goose. I took it out of the oven to syphon off some of the fat. Whoops! I spilt it on the floor, turning the kitchen into a skating rink. I turned to the oven to shake up the parsnips and slid across the floor, sending parsnips up in the air. I don't know how I managed but I caught all but one which ended up in the soapy dishwater.
Anyhow, it all turned out well and Christmas lunch was a triumph.

more than please let us know if all was well!

She always makes it look so simple, but she can keep doing until it looks right on the TV. I would do just what you are doing and I hope it turns out OK.