Well, it was a frosty, but no snow to speak of Christmas down here in Somerset. We had a lovely family Christmas, with a table full of people here for Christmas Day and a relatively stress free dinner on the table for 1.30pm – how civilised. Hubby excelled himself and made sloe gin mincemeat (homemade) mince pies (hand-made pastry) so I promptly declared him the pastry chef from now on!
We got our two boys (aged 5 and 7) a cookbook and aprons for Christmas and they proudly produced their first dish yesterday – a very colourful salad – and had us in stitches at the theatrical kitchen antics – priceless!!
Me – well I’ve been catching up on some outstanding work and reviewing Portfolio Directors’ new website – yay!! I’ve also been indulging in my love of cooking and in the past couple of days have made tomato soup; roast parsnip and blue cheese soup; leftover turkey, chorizo and veg soup (for lunch tomorrow) and some oatcakes from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Everyday Cookbook (one of our Xmas pressies) – they’re on page 87 and they were pronounced delicious by the family cooking critics!!
Anyway – it’s stupid o’clock and I couldn’t sleep, so signing off for now!
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