Fancy a different Thanksgiving or Christmas main to the usual turkey or ham. CrownRoast of Lamb is as regal and classy as you can get when it comes to roasts for special occasions
The creamy sauce combined with the shredded roastturkey and sweet cranberry sauce makes for a light sweet flavour, combined with the savoury, salty pastry top it really is something special
Like most of the UK population, we will be eating turkey on Christmas Day, so this past weekend we decided to have a goose crown just for the two of us
Strudels tend to be more of the sweet variety but in a restaurant for lunch the other week I had a roasted vegetable and goats cheese one so I think I can happily borrow the name for this occasion
As you can see in the photo above, Goose meat is dark - like the brown meat on a Turkey. About this time every year we buy a couple of Goose crowns from Lidl
Picture the scene, a long table laden with food, the pride of place going to a glossy, bronzed roastturkey surrounded by discarded paper hats, golden roast potatoes, sprouts, honey roast parsnips and ruby-red spiced cabbage
Which is why it felt very strange to be roasting a turkey in November for this review. I slow-roasted our bird in the Aga overnight, which meant it was beautifully moist and made preparing the rest of the meal the next day nice and easy
The Christmas meal is really just a tarted up roast dinner, isn’t it. So why are we so caught up in the scrum, diving for the last turkeycrown, picking through piles of sprouts as if for a flawless diamond, spraffing a fortune on unnecessary this and thats no one has asked for, nor expect to get
