It’s nearly a year since we posted a recipe for Christmas pudding spiced rum – and very popular it was too! It takes two weeks to make so there is still time to make some for the big day. Here is a link to the original post.
Enjoy!
holidays
It’s too early!
It is, isn’t it? It’s not us being Grinchy (you know we love Christmas) but it’s only October! Only the first week in October!
That means that there are 11 weeks until Christmas – that’s one fifth of the year still left to go! The trouble is if we start thinking about Christmas too early, we’ll be bored by the time it gets here. It’s like a kind of systematic desensitisation – it starts with a few baubles appearing in the shops in late September and then builds and builds so that by 25 December, we are so used to it all that the decorations have just become part of the background. The problem is, systematic desensitisation is used to help people overcome phobias and extreme fears – not to help them enjoy ‘the most marvellous time of the year’. (Although if you do suffer from christougenniatiko dentrophobia*, we hope that you are getting some help – but from a proper source, not the mall!)
So we’ll be throwing ourselves into the Christmas preparations, but not until December. There’s too much to enjoy now to be wishing it away:
And there’s only 78 sleeps to go!
*Fear of Christmas trees
We baked you a cake!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
We baked you a cake – a big, chocolatey one. So you will have a slice, won’t you?
In case you were wondering, the recipe is from ‘How To Eat’ by Nigella Lawson, and as you can see from its rather battered appearance, it’s one of our favourite cookery books (not just because the recipes are delicious but also because it is so well written):
If you don’t have a copy, you can get the recipe here. The cake in the book is covered in a delicious sounding chocolate ganache, but we used good ol’ Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Frosting.
Another slice? Go on. As someone we know used to say, ‘you might as well as wish you had!’
xox
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