For the sceptics out there…..
I had missed Jamie Oliver’s programmes prior to Christmas but watched them on Youtube just a day or two before Christmas…. and he suggested that free-range turkeys need less cooking! I asked various ‘cheffy’ experts and they all couldn’t understand why this would be so. In the end we decided to risk cooking according to Jamie’s instructions (Dad had brought his meat thermometer, just in case!). So on to the Big Green Egg bbq with the 12 lb turkey and off it came 90 minutes later, wrapped it up in tinfoil and big bath towel – all still according to Jamie – and sat down to a really lovely roast turkey dinner and hour or so later.
My photograph of dinner didn’t come out the best so I won’t share it with you – but Farmer Alfie and I were particularly proud to sit down to Christmas dinner and it was all our own produce!
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