73. How to cook an entire Christmas roast turkey dinner - on a narrowboat
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It's Christmas time and there's nothing finer than a slap up roast for lunch. Unfortunately I can't cook but pal Expert Gary from Yelvertoft marina is a dab hand in the kitchen. He, his wife Carol, plus boating friends Myra and Adrian came over to my boat and cooked up the full works in a cramped galley. This is how they did it.
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I know I am 4 years too late, but just going through your blog, and I have to say, I really enjoyed this episode. Merry Christmas mate.
Me too. Trying to catch up on years of video. Enjoy them all so much
Love re-watching this periodically for it simply makes one feel good.
I agree.
This is the most British thing I have ever seen in my life. Two blokes cooking traditional english Christmas meal on a narrow boat. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 :).
I'm watching this in August in Houston Texas.... B damned but if it didnt feel like christmas for a short time. Thank you, thank you....
Same here...but Pittsburg, TX. (Even though that was not a turkey...only the breast. LOL)
One of the happiest cooking video ever seen!
Glad you think so!
I watched this 4 years after you published it but I can feel the vibe, these kinds of experiences are gold well done for capturing it without it being contrived . Well done brilliant.
Gary should have his own channel. Heis very entertaining imo :)
I will be 61 this year and cannot believe that I've been crushing OXO the wrong way. Expert Gary is a LEGEND. 😎
Expert Gary - Jack of all trades, master of all of them.
You have to admire the confidence of his parents when they named Expert Gary.
@@VanderlyndenJengold 😂
no salt apparently that's not normal. You weren't kidding about not cooking lol .
Watching this in the scorching heat of London might be a bit unseasonal but the cheer and warmth certainly come through in this! Lovely video, thanks.
David, that was a wonderful vlog. As time permits, I am navigating my way through your collection. One problem is that I watch some of them many times over. The food looked delicious. Your friend from North Texas.
I'm an American but I must say "absolutely smashing." Merry Christmas.
Haha, excellent. Merry Christmas to you!
I must agree with Lesley, I am homesick for a place I have never been. Since discovering David’s channel, I have been trying to binge watch them in order. As of now, I am just a little more than a third through them. They keep getting better and better! -Phil K from Indianapolis USA.
I'm sitting in downtown indy cruising through them as well :)
David, I can think of no other comment to make about this heart warming video other than, Charming, simply Charming. Happy Christmas to you and to your guests.
Thank you, Antony! Merry Christmas to you too.
Wonderful Christmas Meal! we shall be having rack of lamb, which is actually quite rare in Texas (hardly any lamb at the butcher). Best of luck with the chair repairs, and I hope you have a wonderful new year! Thanks for putting together such lovely videos....you're one of the few on youtube with some talent AND an interesting subject to talk about. Keep the entertainment coming :)
That's very lovely of you to say and I'm glad you like the videos. Enjoy your lamb!
Indeed.. #Ditto feelings here mate..
Can't beat a good roast!!! (Especially mums of course...!) Well done all and sundry! Great video 😊
:-)
No salt on the boat? The quartermaster (aka David) must walk the plank! (we all know you've got one, it's on the top of the boat beside the pole) Jokes aside...that does look like a lovely Christmas dinner! Tip of the hat to the chef's and of course the videographer....nicely done.
What a lovely meal for such a little kitchen, with so many guests!
Part of the fun and enjoyment is working with what you have.
Wishing you a very happy Christmas and 2017 and many thanks for all the trouble you have gone to, giving us the enjoyment and information you have provided to us all.
Thanks, both! Happy new year!
This was lovely! I know you don't cook, but I'm so glad you did a heavy-duty cooking video, if only to show off how your boat can hold five people very comfortably. As much as I love watching videos on the minutiae of fitting out a narrowboat, this is what it's all for: living in and entertaining (occasionally. We don't have to go mad with it). I hope Father Christmas brought you a new chair. :(
This is without a doubt the very best vlog of all narrowboaters. I amazed at the amount of food prepared in such a small space and everyone's great humour. Just so very English.....I am homesick. Cheers from Canada.
The way Gary says: "It will be alright, we'll do it! It will be great, don't worry!" is so reassuring and trustworthy; he could and should become PM with that slogan! ;)
I was a chef for 10 years, loads of good advice from Gary here, he knows his stuff and very impressed with getting all that done with such little space. Looks lovely.
That gent can cook! What a beautiful meal and monument to the friends you've made since moving aboard your boat. Well done!
Thank you David. That was lovely. Though I had to laugh when I saw the size of the turkey. We typically spend Thanksgiving with my wife's large family in the Midwest states and prepare a 22 pound bird for the horde to devour. Here they're often soaked for 24 hours in brine, jammed full of breaded stuffing, bagged in some kind of melt-proof plastic and baked for 4-6 hours. We put them in and out of the oven with a fork-lift. I imagine a bird that big would have made your boat list. On to the next video now. Bye bye!
Gary is a very competent cook!
He is. More than competent, I'd say!
You all look like you had great fun together. With both laughter and joy. Life is made up of many many millions of moments. May each of your moments be joyful. Expert Gary and Myra made me laugh a few times also his wife Carol was laughing in the background as well. In the mean time, I have no doubt that Adrian has had Ninja training in his younger days, after taking a glimpse of him working that rather large knife.
9:45 Contrary to popular belief, that does not actually sharpen the knife blade. That process is called knife honing, and it basically just straightens the edge of the blade that naturally curls over with use. It's an excellent form of maintenance that helps extend the life of the knife and extend the time between proper sharpening.
I also strongly believe that one of the most dangerous tools in any kitchen is a dull knife.A sharp knife makes it effortless to use, which means you can more easily use it with precision. A dull knife on the other hand, requires more brute force to get the same results, and with more force comes the higher chance of loss of control of the blade.
Well said. A blunt knife that you have to force into something makes it much more dangerous because it's likely to slip into your hand
Zzzzzzzz.
19:32 David doesn't have salt & pepper on the boat, but he does have dog biscuits for the dog he doesn't own (top right of screen)
Correct :-)
Very well cooked meal under cramped circumstances! Best part though, you didn't have to lift a finger😊
Yes it was!
Well done Gary a star is born, eat your heart out Delia Smith. Happy New Year to all.Great vid as usual.
Don't call him a star, it'll go to his head ;-) Happy new year.
I've been watching Cruising The Cut from the beginning an very much enjoying this. But this and the previous Christmas celebration on the Village Butty are quite lovely and special. What a jolly Yule time with your new friends!
Well done Gary! and, well done team! season's greetings from me!
Cheers! Yes, he did a great job. Happy Christmas.
Expert Gary reminds me of Sean Lock. Excellent video, definitely one of the best you've done. Such lovely neighbours.
He's very much like Sean Lock!!
Jamie Oliver, eat your heart out, bring on expert Gary!! wishing you all a very merry xmass, thank you for all of the vlogs you have done over the past year or so, enjoyed everyone of them, watching this while wearing my 'Cruising the Cut' xmass jumper, looking forward to the new year, and more of you great vlogs, we will get our NB boat soon,
Thank you Steve, very much appreciated. All the best.
David, has this made you want to cook.... the weld on the chair was a bit light on. Did it get re welded... This one was just brilliant 👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
As usual all the hard work done by the cook, everyone else benefits. He did so well , organising the cooking in such a small galley. Well done.
Love this,a repeat viewing since it is all about good times with mates!
Wonderful to see your boat hosting guests and alive with conversation because in my opinion nothing else warms a space like the presence of friends.
Oh my what a jolly crew! Thank you for sharing your lovely friends.
Merry Christmas To you David and to all of your narrow boat friends. Thank you for sharing your feast.
Thank you for watching. Cheers!
First thing I thought, I hope David has full propane tanks!
This was so fun to watch! the meal looked delicious!!
It really was!
I am reckoned around these parts to be a dab hand in the kitchen having grown up with a mother who worked summers at camp as a cook for up to 100 ppl per meal, with me helping out. I learned a lot from her. But… "Expert Gary" and company had me watering at the mouth and rightly jealous of their skill in the kitchen. I would have been more than happy to have sat at your table for that amazing meal. Merry Christmas to everyone!
My mouth is watering. That was a lot of food, and a lot of fun. Merry Christmas.
It was! Merry Christmas
What an amazing video to watch even in June! Looks like a great time was had by all! You are indeed fortunate to have such nice friends!
What a feast! Good Christmas fun.🎄🥂
It was!
That Christmas dinner looked lush. That's definitely making me hungry. I know where to come next Christmas. Good video 🙂
That was wonderful!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!
Cheers Doug. It taught me a thing or two...
This has to be one of my favorite vlogs. Great job!
Excellent Job, looks fantastic. thanks for sharing and please thank everyone who participated, it was great. Cheers
Will do! Cheers
That was lovely good food and friends on a narrowboat for Christmas dinner.
What a wonderful video for Christmas. Thank you for sharing. I'm happy that your friends were able to take pity on the non-cook who has only learned recently how to boil water without burning it, and make sure you had a Christmas feast.
Haha, bit too close to the truth!! Cheers
feastivus for the rest of us. Looks good!
@MrBadabimBadabum WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN!?
If Gary's welding skills are as good as his cooking, your chair may turn out better than new!
Season Greetings from New Zealand.
Haha, I think it just might. Maybe he can do the other one as a precaution too!
Parboiling facilitates a nice, crisp, crunchy exterior on roast spuds and a pleasantly soft, mealy interior.
I am watching all your videos again, since I have nearly finished Vandemonium, and I am really enjoying both your channels. They are so wonderfully relaxing to watch. I switch between your videos and Andrew Ditton, both of you keeping me sane. Thank you
This was the most enjoyable 24 minutes and 31 seconds I have spent since I was dating my wife of 43 years. Thanks for letting us share your Christmas of 2016.
Hahaha, better not tell her that :-)
After finding your channel, I started watching your videos from the beginning. This video is from 2016 but can we get him to do an updated Christmas dinner this year? He is making me hungry!!!
That Christmas dinner looked amazing. I'm now hungry.
I've watched this video 3 times already but it never gets old, lol.... keep up the great content David.
Several years late here.. but that dinner looks delicious! Excellent cooking skills.
Lovely roast. ....such a feast. ....yummie. ......well done chef!
Chef is very skilled. You wouldn't think it to look at him... ;-)
What a nice video, and what a nice time for all of you. thanks.
Merry Christmas, David :) Awesome video as always!
Cheers Mads! What's the Danish Christmas Day like?
Nice and relaxing ;) .... dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78717/IMG_20161226_122408.jpg
***** Haha, I've only just been able to see this (don't ask). Love it.
What a nice meal. Loved Gary. Fun time together.
I loved this video, nothing like a cheerful Christmas video! It was both heartwarming and very amusing! Time to nitpick... "knife sharpening"? 👀 The tool he used to 'sharpen' that knife is called a 'steel' (in The States, anyway). A steel is used only for honing AFTER it has been properly sharpened. (many moon's ago, I was a butcher). Also, as long as I'm picking nits, the male Masterchef used a fork to do his stirring with lol.
OMG! Absolutely awesome!!!! Looks like you all had such a wonderful day, wish I was there. Made me quite hungry :-)
The pigs in a blanket surprised me! We usually wrap ours with bread dough of some sort! However anything wrapped in bacon works well in my family! Looks like a great meal! ❤️
It was!
Ah, David. That brought a tear to me eyes. Friends are the best and it looks as if you have some to cherish. :)
Merry Christmas!
And to you too!
Absolutely loved this video! I’m a sucker for Christmas anyhow, and with good friends and good food, it’s wonderful. I’m really hungry for a complete Christmas dinner now and it’s only 8a at the time of posting this. 😃
Thank you David. That was great. mmmmmmmmmm turkey.
Mmmmmmm indeed!
A very belated Merry Christmas, it looks like you all had a lovely day and a lovely meal. It was a very good demonstration of what is possible in a narrow boat kitchen. Gary has hidden talents and I will remember my welder next Christmas.🎅🎅🎅
I have missed a few of your videos, but so glad you had a happy Christmas. I'm looking forward to watching your New Year's worth of videos. Cheers from Sunny Florida
It was good yes. Happy new year :-)
Luv this episode. Gary has inspired me to try honey parsnips. I’m a bit of an avid cook, but never tried them. I think they’re like a carrot?? I am going to make them exactly as he did. Tell Gary he needs a cooking vlog! Enjoying your videos, very much, from Boston in the US. Your a perfect narrator & your friends are great
While it was a while back I'm sure you still remember how delicious that must have been by the looks of it!
I did not get in the mood for last Christmas, but in all honesty the next one is already sending its tendrils of hope and feel-good towards me! Patience, a bit more hunkering down and this will all be over by summer with a bit of luck, otherwise by fall. 🎄
Watching this in the summer of 2019 and am dreaming of christmas already!!
Wonderful video, I wish I could have been there. To cook such a feast in that tiny kitchen is a true matter of skill, so kudos to the chef!
I've watched this video several times - love it!
Another beautiful video. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I think the coziness of living aboard adds to the experience. I lived aboard a boat in Key West Florida for a time and I miss it very much. This made me a bit "homesick" for boat life. Well done.
I'm pleased to have made you sick (!!! - in the nicest way). Cheers
Watching this in the height of summer 😬and this is for the 7th time or something like that. Expert Gary always makes me laugh though
So excellent again. A totally fun Christmas dinner "How To". Really great, all of you!
Many thumbs up!
Cheers!
Wrapped that bacon around some jalapeños and cream cheese little ranch dressing with it. Yum.
I’m from south Louisiana, the hotter, the better 🦐🦀🦞🌶️🌶️🌶️
I hate eating Poppers that others make. I actually add the seeds into the cream cheese. I mean, it's a jalapeño after all. It's supposed to be hot.
Well, that was a lot of fun. Thanks for letting us watch! My Christmas started with picking at my Chinese left overs for breakfast, having a slice of meaty deliciousness from my homemade tourtière for lunch and dinner tonight will be with a friend who is making a Yorkshire pudding thing (which is weird since everyone there will be 2nd and 3rd generation Danish and I had to wiki what a Yorkshire pudding was). I'm brining Italian pastries and cakes for dessert.
That's what you get when you live in multicultural Vancouver... . Happy New Year to everyone on the water and in the comments!
I hope you enjoy your Yorkshires! Delicious with a bit of gravy... Merry Christmas.
What a superb film. 100% brilliant. Merry Christmas. Enjoy your meal
Lovely edition of the vlog, full of Christmas cheer, good food and banter of friends. Gary did a great job demonstrating how to cook a roast turkey, ably assisted by Myra. He has a great future, if he cares, as a chef in a TV show of his own. The Chef on a Narrowboat, perhaps. Has a nice ring to it. But no salt on your narrowboat? Unbelievable!
4 yrs too late but that sure was a beautiful dinner! 😍
I had no idea you had this canal system.How fun to be floating down the canals.Your friend is a good chef! Albeit he uses a lot of oi! and cooks the turkey a lot different than we do in the USA. Christmas on a narrow boat how fun! I love being on a boat and have been on many different ones.Many times on the San Francisco Bay and other water ways.
He did a splendid job! Thanks for watching :-)
Now I'm hungry! 😋
Many thanks, mate -- appetite whetted as we prepare for Christmas lunch in Ottawa, Canada! Your narrowcasting has broadened my horizons.
I hope you have a delicious lunch! Best wishes.
Thank you so much! Ive only recently found your channel, and Im bingewatching. Im an ex-sailor and exarmy. So getting by with limited means in confined spaces is a thing of mine. I absolutely love the content.
Glad you enjoy it!
Well that was jolly impressive - and it just shows what can be achieved, even when space is a tad limited. Hope you and your friends are now enjoying a relaxing Christmas afternoon. All the best. :)
There is much digesting going on... Cheers!
This was Awesome and incredible !! Thank you !!
Expert Gary is one of a kind. Now I understand why you rever his advice!
For thickening gravy mix the flour with some cold water in a cup and make a thin watery paste. Then mix into the hot gravy stock. This will save the flour congealing into lumps
Agreed, and I suggest using corn flour for best results too :)
Beautiful episode that I missed!
The master Gary from the first marina really can do anything! I hope you are still in contact.
Further what was really impressive is the amount of people that could be crammed in that tiny place!
We are indeed still in touch and I might be seeing him for some other filming soon.
That was a smallish bird but I suppose it would have to be in order to fit a smallish oven. I was out doing some grocery shopping today and I saw a turkey (at least they said it was...) that would have put out my back had I tried to lift it. Honestly it must have had a lot of Ostrich in its recent ancestry. Great series and keep it up.
SUPERB living the dream no hassle no conditioning must do this ..must do that.. i envy these good folk.