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I must apologize for the lack of blogging but there is a lot
happening here.
Apart from staring in horrified fascination at the antics of the Trumpinator
I also spend an extraordinary amount of time retrieving articles of apparel from
the dog’s mouth.
There was something of a
minor triumph when I cooked dinner for our local relatives on Saturday night
and everything turned out just right. We had roast lamb, honey mustard chicken,
honey baked ham, baked vegetables with Australian native spices, Brussels sprouts
with crispy bacon and parmesan green beans.
Last time these people came to our house I cremated the chicken -
and the top fell off the spice jar - and the vegetables were buried in it.
Ghastly meal.
We are going to their house for Christmas dinner and I am taking
the vegetables. But I will not be cooking them so there is not much that can go
wrong at my end.
We are having our Christmas dinner on Christmas eve. I am also
apparently doing the vegetables for this. I like to try to stay out of the kitchen
at Christmas because it can get a bit ugly until everybody has had a glass or
two of fine wine and is feeling a nice warm glow for their fellow humans.
Gwenyth is going to make a Pavlova and may do some lamingtons.
Cate gave me her shopping list
and I think I have everything. I narrowly averted a minor catastrophe
when I asked what she was going to with 3 ½ pounds of peas – but they turned
put to be pears.
I wonder what 1.75 lbs each of peas and pears would taste like. Merry Hannukuh and a Very Early April Fools Day.
ReplyDeleteGlad for the cooking triumph, sometimes it seems they are not so easy in our house. I am going to try for the famous meatloaf dinner when we get home. Finally saw some snow here in Vermont. First of the season.
ReplyDeletescored a few kilos of home grown onions from the ex so plan on making onion marmalade for eating with cold meat or steak. Should be interesting. All the best in 2016 to you and yours.
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