Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> Oh pshaw, on Wed 26 Dec 2007 08:25:22a, limey meant to say...
>
>> 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>!!!
>>
>>
>
> That salad sounds delicious!
>
> This was an easy Christmas dinner for us, too. At Thanksgiving I
> roasted a large bone-in turkey breast and immediately wrapped and
> sealed half of it for the freezer. After that dinner I also froze
> the remaining gravy. David had the turkey and gravy, along with
> mashed potatoes and creamed peas. I had baked ham that I bought
> ready to eat from a local butcher (just to heat up), along with a
> baked sweet potato and brussels sprouts. Everything was easy. I
> baked pies on Christmas Eve day. Chrustmas Day was very relaxing.

Well it was for me too even though I cooked dinner for eight. I suppose
that at last, I have stopped worrying or getting frantic about it) Oh yes
and I didn't have any clean up to do