Are you hosting Christmas dinner this year? What do you think about making this the year you simplify it?
We know perfectly well that every year there’s too much food on the table. We eat too much, we work too hard, and most years we get ourselves too tired to really enjoy everything.
What about making as much as possible ahead?
What about (gasp!) even cooking the turkey and making the gravy the day before?
There are lots of recipes on the internet for making the turkey ahead. You just have to put in “make-ahead turkey” and you can pick and choose the one that suits you.
A few years ago one of my sisters and I tried cooking our turkey the day before. It worked beautifully. The turkey tasted no different, although I admit we “cheated” a little because
we also cooked another turkey on Christmas Day. So the guests could smell turkey cooking when they walked in.
Just the same, I am going to cook my turkey ahead this year, and I won’t be cooking another one on Christmas Day.
I’m also going to make the mashed potatoes and gravy ahead. You can also find lots of recipes for make-ahead...