In the last few years, I’ve used Jamie’s Xmas recipes, but this year, because the BBC showed her new Xmas programme recently, I’ve gone all Delia mad. I’m not as organised as her, of course. I only made the cake and pudding on Sunday, along with a tonne of mincemeat (despite having half a jar [...]
categories: Food and Drink
tags: Domestic Goddessery, events
series: Xmas 2009
I made the Christmas cake about a week before Christmas. I gather you’re supposed to make it much sooner than this because it has to mature or some such. I never got round to icing it though, so it has sat, untouched, on the kitchen table, for want of anywhere better to put it. Last [...]
categories: Food and Drink
tags: Domestic Goddessery
series: Xmas 2009
last modified: 18th Feb 2013
As promised, we have tasted the Christmas cake this evening, despite being rather full after a Chinese takeaway. The result: it tastes like Christmas cake, but without one ingredient, due to complete incompetency on my part. The absence, which I forgot about when I wrote the previous entry, was noticed immediately when I cut open [...]
categories: Food and Drink
tags: Colin, Domestic Goddessery
series: Xmas 2009
