Today she went for Christmas lunch with Pat and couple of friends taking the pudding with her. She made it yesterday. I can hear those of you who know about making Christmas pud saying 'how did she make a Christmas pud in one day?' Well, it wasn't a flour based Christmas pudding.. so read on.
This is how. You take a mix of dried fruits and soak them, for at least a week, in something really delicious, in this case it was our home homemade Apricot Rum. She always keeps a bottle of fruits and a jar or two, several in fact, of things like mixed fruits and hazelnuts soaking in various alcohols.
They add a big punch to plain things and make them very special. Remember, this is the woman who makes her own pure Vanilla Essence out of Vodka and Vanilla pods ONLY! They take two years.
So out of the store cupboard came this jar of heavenly yumyum and out of Frosty White larder came the best Vanilla Icecream that she could find. Having let the icecream soften a little bit, she plopped in several tablespoons of the soaked fruits, gently stirred them into the icecream and placed it back to freeze.
This morning we ate our eggs, she got dressed in suitable clothes and after picking up Pat's present and the pud, and kissing Beaky, she left for Fulham.
And came home quite late, well, it was dark but as the sky hadn't been bright at any point today, I had no idea what time it was. Oh, roll on December 21st, the date of Winter Soltice, the shortest day of the year and our days will start to get longer and brighter! Yippee.. for it cannot come too soon!
Tomorrow she goes to Romford and will pick up a couple of things that she bought last week but was unable to carry home.. nooo, I can't tell you what they are, they're for a couple of people who we know to be Dear Readers, they can't read what their presents are, can they?
We are spending Christmas here, she is very busy in the week leading up to Christmas and so refused an invitation for us to go to the country. It will be a quiet and peace filled couple of days. Seeing a few friends, sleeping in our own beds and she will go to our local church to celebrate the Christ-Mas.
So that's the Christmas Pud with no flour, next up she's making a flour and fat free cake, made out of boiled oranges! She's given you this recipe before, it's simple and tastes simply fabulous! This time, when it's baked and allowed to cool, she's going to pierce it and add a few drops of Orange Liqueur and top it off with some reallyreally good marmalade! How pretty it will be and how very tasty!
Meanwhile.. back to the bathroom! 'That' hole in the ground was covered with blue rubber-paint, the same stuff that is the base of the modern 'Wet-Rooms', then they put in concrete which was allowed to surface dry and finally in went the top layer, the screed. This is still very wet.. ugh. Luckily the vinyl fitter is not coming for another two weeks, so we are praying that the floor has dried by then.
Our home is still in unmitigated chaos, she's lost, correction mislaid, two very important documents but until she can unpick the dreadful mess in our sitting room by sorting through everything and put it back into its' proper home, she ain't going to get herself in a tizzy.
All will be well. We hope that it is with you too Dear Readers wherever you are?
GeeGee Parrot.
December 6th, 2016.
This is how. You take a mix of dried fruits and soak them, for at least a week, in something really delicious, in this case it was our home homemade Apricot Rum. She always keeps a bottle of fruits and a jar or two, several in fact, of things like mixed fruits and hazelnuts soaking in various alcohols.
They add a big punch to plain things and make them very special. Remember, this is the woman who makes her own pure Vanilla Essence out of Vodka and Vanilla pods ONLY! They take two years.
So out of the store cupboard came this jar of heavenly yumyum and out of Frosty White larder came the best Vanilla Icecream that she could find. Having let the icecream soften a little bit, she plopped in several tablespoons of the soaked fruits, gently stirred them into the icecream and placed it back to freeze.
This morning we ate our eggs, she got dressed in suitable clothes and after picking up Pat's present and the pud, and kissing Beaky, she left for Fulham.
And came home quite late, well, it was dark but as the sky hadn't been bright at any point today, I had no idea what time it was. Oh, roll on December 21st, the date of Winter Soltice, the shortest day of the year and our days will start to get longer and brighter! Yippee.. for it cannot come too soon!
Tomorrow she goes to Romford and will pick up a couple of things that she bought last week but was unable to carry home.. nooo, I can't tell you what they are, they're for a couple of people who we know to be Dear Readers, they can't read what their presents are, can they?
We are spending Christmas here, she is very busy in the week leading up to Christmas and so refused an invitation for us to go to the country. It will be a quiet and peace filled couple of days. Seeing a few friends, sleeping in our own beds and she will go to our local church to celebrate the Christ-Mas.
So that's the Christmas Pud with no flour, next up she's making a flour and fat free cake, made out of boiled oranges! She's given you this recipe before, it's simple and tastes simply fabulous! This time, when it's baked and allowed to cool, she's going to pierce it and add a few drops of Orange Liqueur and top it off with some reallyreally good marmalade! How pretty it will be and how very tasty!
Meanwhile.. back to the bathroom! 'That' hole in the ground was covered with blue rubber-paint, the same stuff that is the base of the modern 'Wet-Rooms', then they put in concrete which was allowed to surface dry and finally in went the top layer, the screed. This is still very wet.. ugh. Luckily the vinyl fitter is not coming for another two weeks, so we are praying that the floor has dried by then.
Our home is still in unmitigated chaos, she's lost, correction mislaid, two very important documents but until she can unpick the dreadful mess in our sitting room by sorting through everything and put it back into its' proper home, she ain't going to get herself in a tizzy.
All will be well. We hope that it is with you too Dear Readers wherever you are?
GeeGee Parrot.
December 6th, 2016.
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