A New Year's Eve feast.

Normally, New Year's Day but this year we've decided to do the main meal a day early. So this is it, prepped and ready to cook (doubt I'll be taken photos of it after cooking - too busy eating.)

 

Firstly, these holidays we got silly... including buying half a suckling pig! Having said that, we were expecting there to be more than just the two of us here!

It fits the cooker, so that's OK. To be fair, I always buy large pork joints and cut up leftovers for sandwiches and/or stews. They cook a lot better than small joints. So the pig isn't really much of a leap in the dark.

Most of the veg prepped and ready for roasting. The idea is to do as little as possible later (it's now just past midnight, the prep was done a couple of hours ago). Apple sauce out to defrost - lots made and frozen last month. Pig's in blankets will be roasted together with the potatoes - these days I find the one pot roasting solution for veg is a lot easier and tastes just as good (better!!) than boiling the things separately.

For afters, can't beat Melon au Porto. Chop a melon in half (this is a Gallia), remove seeds, ball the pulp, add a schooner of port, leave in the fridge to stew over night.)

Quite looking forward to it.