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Quote: Originally posted by ficklejade on 22/12/2015

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I always believed it was sensible to teach one's kids the basics about cooking and to date, that principle has served well. Nor do I object to food for free and DS has been making jams etc. as a result of which we have come unstuck over cranberry sauce and cranberry jelly. He wants jelly in the sausage roll mix and I usually use cold fairly coarse sauce so you get a bit of the fruit with it. DS has scoffed the latter for years (and I do mean scoffed!) but wants the jelly. Rather than argue, I've said he can make some with jelly, but I'll make some the old way. He will have to go out and get some more sausagemeat (or sausages as the former's in very short supply this year over here) and I still have to make the plain ones and the apricot and lemon ones. We then got into a debate as to why I wanted non-French onions (stronger flavour) and a few other items like larding and so on. Worse, the sprouts argument came up - we'll close a curtain on that one - but he baulked at hauling out some leeks for Christmas dinner! I'm stressing out to get things ready! The only thing we're agreeing on at the moment is cooking the gammon!

Do I let him take over?

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