Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

This weekend Christmas officially crept its tinselly carol singing self into H block. I awoke on Sunday after the flooding fiasco which, by the way, has made the whole flat smell more disgusting than usual. I went upstairs to help do some peeling of vegetables and about 30 potatoes later (I kid you not) my finger was blistered and yucky and potato peelings were stuck to my pajamas. ewww.
Now the night before we (who were cooking and organising the meal) met to discuss timing of things and the guy who had bought the turkeys said that they were only going to take about an hour- so we thought he must be right as he bought them and they must be part cooked or something.
... SPOT THE DISASTER LOOMING...
so we had only allowed an hour for the turkeys to cook. About 12 we read the packaging of the turkeys and discovered that they would only take and hour... AFTER they had had their foil removed and had already had 2 hours in the oven- and this was from thawed which our icey turkeys definitely were not. the meal was meant to be served about 1.15- this was going to be a problem.
Notices were promptly placed on doors that the meal was going to be more like 2.30 due to "unforeseen turkey circumstances" but we still had to frantically cook these turkeys. SO... I decided to fill the sink with boiling water and dunk the turkeys in their packaging to speed up the defrosting process, this was fairly hilarious as these were large turkeys and they floated. Next we used a microwave to defrost some more and managed to splurt raw turkey juice most places so my next job was to go round disinfecting everything that it had come onto contact with.
We then shoved them in ovens but on a higher heat than the packaging said as we had a lot less time in which to cook them and generally hoped for the best. actually no thats not true- we had a prayer session about the turkeys- mainly that we wouldnt poison anyone and they would cook.
AND it worked!!!! they cooked!!!
Our meal was so lovely we had all the traditional christmas food and 24 H blockers were fed. We even had home made chocolate log for pudding and far too many chocolates (courtesy of the warden) which gave me such a bad chocolate headache for the rest of the day. ooo and we had crackers and hats and everything.
:)