My Mum always cooks and the rest of the family is banned from the kitchen until she needs somebody to lay the table. She's got it down to a fine art and gets just the right size of turkey, so we all have plenty for lunch and there's a little left over for boxing day tea. The carcass and any leftover veg make a very fine soup, though it wasn't so great when she used the water the ham had desalted in for 2 days. In fact it was pretty inedible. My jobs are usuallyt making the trifle and buttering the bread for Christmas Day tea and laying the table for every meal. Dad does the wine and the washing up and I can't remember what my sister does except cause rows.
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link