The less work the better (Tips On How To Cook The Perfect Christmas Dinner)

Member Name: moronboy

Product:	Tips On How To Cook The Perfect Christmas Dinner
Date:	21/11/00 (41 review reads)
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Advantages: You are supposed to have a good time

Disadvantages: You have to fight tooth and nail to get it

1) Do the sprouts in the microwave: they will taste like an entirely different critter altogther, less a mushy ball of slime, more a crisp, sweet little vegetable.

2) Tradition is for people with no imagination - if the prospect of juggling all numerous so-called essential accompliments unnerves you, don't cook everything.

3) How many people do you actually have to spend this so-called happy occasion with, exactly? I mean, what have the people for whom you are cooking done to deserve your efforts? The only angst-free Christmas dinner I have ever witnessed was the one me and my girlfriend had last year - just me and her.

4) If you are afraid of buying ready-made or pre-prepared products from places like M&S or Sainsburys, you are obviously cooking for the wrong people. If you don't have the skills, the time, the confidence or the enthusiasm to construct a vast meal and want to supplement with some ready meals, go ahead. And invite anyone who looks down their nose into the kitchen to cook the meal instead.

5) You can never have too much alcohol around.

6) Or too few children.

7) Or in-laws

8) Or parents

9) Anyone who complains about the quality of the food can be emotionally blackmailed into quiet submission by insisting that unpleasantness is not allowed - 'but it's Christmas!' is a verbal weapon that cannot be underused.

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