My First Roast Dinner

Not the first one I have eaten, after all... I am English. That would have been a crime otherwise!

No, it was the first time I had EVER made a roast dinner. I have watched them being made my mum or step dad but never actually done it myself!

My mum and step dad had gone out during the afternoon and they got caught up with doing something while they were out so my step dad texted me asking if I could cook the dinner. Immediately I was like ah...crap! I have never cooked a roast before.. this could be fun!
So I texted back and then he rang with some instructions on what to do... yay! To make this even more challenging my sister, Zoe, was still sleeping and therefore I had to also look after the electronic baby (luckily it slept the while time) so I could wake Zoe up if it cried so she could care for it. (It stayed asleep the whole time though so Zoe got to sleep longer.)

Anyway, the outcome of the dinner was pretty damn awesome... if I do say so myself! It is actually making me feel hungry thinking about it! I was really pleased with my potatoes because I parboiled them until they were just a little soft, then beat them in the pan a little bit by shaking it so the outside goes all fluffy and then putting them in the pan with the hot oil and coating them in it! They tasted rather nice :) I was really pleased as I hadn't done this before!

I think I might ask to cook to roast again some time... we shall see! I enjoyed it anyway :) (apart from all the peeling - that's just tedious)

I really should have taken a picture but never mind... that probably would have been a bit sad of me!