Merry Christmas! We've been enjoying a week of basically hibernating over Christmas - the temperatures have really dropped and we've heartily embraced all the best British traditions of this time of year including staying inside for most of the day, eating chocolates and leftovers till we're stuffed, and children's movies online (especially enjoying all the Wallace and Gromit the BBC is putting online!).
But, thankfully, to ensure that we did actually change out of our pyjamas on Christmas Day itself, our friend Megan came over, bringing some very fancy Christmas crackers with her, and helping us to make a dent in our feast. For no other reason than why not, we had lobster mac'n'cheese, with roasted veges, garlic aioli, soy lime Brussels sprouts and garlic bread, then for dessert, flummery, pavlova and ice-cream. It was delicious! (And with the amount of cheese that went into the mac'n'cheese, so it should be...)
The flummery was something that I hadn't made before, but while flicking through the Edmonds cookbook to find the pavlova recipe I saw it and thought it would be fun to make. I remember Granny making it so it definitely brought back some memories! Mine had a jelly-like layer on the bottom (as opposed to the top bit which was all fluffy) - maybe next time I'll chill the evaporated milk for a bit longer... But still delicious all the same!
We polished off several bottles of bubbles, played some competitive games of cranium and blokus, and made some clementine candles - totally recommend you give the last thing a go, they were really good! Just make sure you make the top hole big enough as they burn quite easily.
Who knows where we'll be next Christmas, but Iran is looking like a possibility so we'll have to save some pennies for that... Here's to a productive 2015 in the interim!
But, thankfully, to ensure that we did actually change out of our pyjamas on Christmas Day itself, our friend Megan came over, bringing some very fancy Christmas crackers with her, and helping us to make a dent in our feast. For no other reason than why not, we had lobster mac'n'cheese, with roasted veges, garlic aioli, soy lime Brussels sprouts and garlic bread, then for dessert, flummery, pavlova and ice-cream. It was delicious! (And with the amount of cheese that went into the mac'n'cheese, so it should be...)
The flummery was something that I hadn't made before, but while flicking through the Edmonds cookbook to find the pavlova recipe I saw it and thought it would be fun to make. I remember Granny making it so it definitely brought back some memories! Mine had a jelly-like layer on the bottom (as opposed to the top bit which was all fluffy) - maybe next time I'll chill the evaporated milk for a bit longer... But still delicious all the same!
We polished off several bottles of bubbles, played some competitive games of cranium and blokus, and made some clementine candles - totally recommend you give the last thing a go, they were really good! Just make sure you make the top hole big enough as they burn quite easily.
Who knows where we'll be next Christmas, but Iran is looking like a possibility so we'll have to save some pennies for that... Here's to a productive 2015 in the interim!
