Boxing day meal.

[gavroche]

Why do the English, at least members of my wife's family, always overcook roast beef and don't put garlic in it? Every time they cook beef, I have to put up with it being cremated, completely tasteless and so chewy!
I think I will offer to cook it next time .

 

[Dayvo]

Can't go wrong with fried bubble and squeak with cold left-over chicken (I prefer it to turkey) bread sauce, stuffing and chutney.

And if you're fortunate enough to have any left-over pudding (I never am) then that cold, with the cream, brandy butter and custard.

If I was going to cook roast beef, I'd do it slowly in a slow cooker, making it a tender and tasty dinner. Don't think I'd add garlic to it: horse radish does the trick.

 

[Mrs M]

Same as yesterday, somehow tastes even better today

 

[TVC]

We have fish pie

Who in their right mind would put garlic with roast beef? OK it's a sin to cremate it, but mustard is the only acceptable addition to a lump of beef before it goes in the oven.

 

[vernon]

Who in their right mind would put garlic with roast beef?

Cheese eating surrender monkeys?

 

[vickster]

Cold turkey, ham, salad, Christmas pudding for us

Fish pie was on Xmas eve

 

[vickster]

Why do the English, at least members of my wife's family, always overcook roast beef and don't put garlic in it? Every time they cook beef, I have to put up with it being cremated, completely tasteless and so chewy!
I think I will offer to cook it next time .

Yes cook it yourself rather than moaning about other peoples' hospitality

 

[ianrauk]

There's not much more wrong then over cooked beef.

 

[vernon]

Sausage, bacon, black pudding, fried mushrooms, fried egg, homemade chips and bread and butter.

Mrs Vernon and the boys will have the above plus baked beans and brown sauce and tomato sauce.

 

[vernon]

There's not much more wrong then over cooked beef.

There is. People beefing about overcooked beef.

@vickster's response is spot on.

 

[gavroche]

Yes cook it yourself rather than moaning about other peoples' hospitality

The hospitality was mine as it is in my house. In any case, being retired now, I qualify to be a grumpy old man.

 

[vickster]

The hospitality was mine as it is in my house. In any case, being retired now, I qualify to be a grumpy old man.

Why weren't you cooking then if they don't do it to your exacting standards? Your use of the word always doesn't indicate this was a one off

My mum is English, does a mean roast beef and doesn't use garlic (which would be eww). I also like my beef cooked to some degree which the French don't seem to comprehend

 

[Saluki]

Cowboy pie here. Yum.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Bubble and squeek here in a short while..no beef..gammon with ours

garlic with roast beef? Ffs i really dont get that..horse radish not garlic

 

[Postmanhat]

Sausages in pitta bread tonight, with raw onion, tomatoes and lettuce. It's the only time I eat anything vaguely approximating a salad.