On the horns of a dilemma!

Ok so this is the sort of thing i would normally ask my mum about, but...

so anyway we are having tea at my sisters place on xmas day and meeting there about 4. My job is to bring the pork. i have brought a huge one and it will take at least 6 hours to cook.

However my MIL has decided to have breakfast at her place on xmas morning at 8.30. (this partly came about cause i said i liked the xmas breakfasts we used to have when hubby and i were dating). we will have to leave here by 8 to get there by 8.30....

so i want to know what do i do about the pork?

oh and i havent set foot in my MIL's house for xmas day since i was pregnant with toby and managed to upset them all by not going and greeting them but instead putting down my small son and the bags of pressies and other stuff i had - then the MIL thought i insulted the pressie she had brought us!

can you be my mother sustitutes and give me some ideas of how to handle this!?

Thanks in advance!



Edited by Bizzy

Can you get the pork ready and take it to your sister's house the night before and she can put it in the oven?
I'm doing that with my chickens as we are providing them for dinner with my family but will be off at lunch with the IL's

yeah i like my pork hot too!

My mum always cooked the pork the night before, and reheated it the next day. Meant the oven was free for cooking vege etc. 

If you have a slow cooker, you could put it on to cook before you go to MILs and it would be ready for later. Great idea littlelittle

its a HUGE piece of pork and will need about 6 hours of cooking - and there is no way it would even fit in my crockpot! (and if it did - where would my crakling be? :(   LOL!)

i did wonder about leaving the house with the stove on, hubby said lots of people do it and i said but lots of people have house fires too!

and short of not going to the MIL's - which is my prefered choice! - i wondered if i could cook the pork for 2 hours, turn off the stove for 2 hours or so and then turn it back on when i come home...? will that ruin the pork?

i possibly could t rex but that means not getting to my sisters till about 5... we are aiming for an early dinner as my brother has to be home by 7 long story.

I'd leave the oven on too, done it tons of times

jazzy my goal for the future is to not go anywhere on xmas day and invite people here (but not here cause i so better be in a bigger house!)

and she has organised her daughter and brother and few others over as well so not just us...

she has also done a present draw and emailed me the other day - i was so annoyed at that too cause she has included the kids, so now i have to buy presents for people i dont really like on behalf of my kids who dont have money of their own! so everyone else gets one person to buy for and i get five! but thats another story!!!!

That's so dumb that she included the kids in the pressie draw - it's not like they have incomes! .

No idea with the pork, I'd probably just say leave the oven on, but that's not very sensible advice .