Kitchen elves of Christmas
Before breakfast I decided to pick up the turkey from Choice Cuts around the corner. Hopelessly disorganised in there as usual, and this process took the best part of an hour. Was given coffee while waiting though, which was nice. Lugged the big turkey home with a loaf of bread and home to eat some bacon and eggs fashioned by my lovely wife. A cheery start to the day with Pat and Maureen.
Lorraine and Beth front loading the festive period cooking. Beth made her own chicken liver pate, gammon was boiled and then roasted in cloves and marmalade, a whole salmon baked, a goats cheese and spinach flan, to be eaten with salad, new potatoes and salads and so on.
Mum and Mas arrived in the afternoon after a long journey from Edgware. But soon we had installed them in the spare room and we were enjoying a large spread of ham and salmon and home made pate. In the evening a bit of a Wallace and Gromit festival which Mas opted out of for a while. Later he went out for a walk but was almost instantly rained on. Sat up chatting with him in the kitchen as everyone was going to bed, having rediscovered that rum and coke is a really nice drink.
Below betty pictured with some of the many things she and Lorraine cooked for a top spread. Beth was so pleased, having spent 70% of the day as a kitchen elf, that she posted the bottom picture on Facebook.
Lorraine and Beth front loading the festive period cooking. Beth made her own chicken liver pate, gammon was boiled and then roasted in cloves and marmalade, a whole salmon baked, a goats cheese and spinach flan, to be eaten with salad, new potatoes and salads and so on.
Mum and Mas arrived in the afternoon after a long journey from Edgware. But soon we had installed them in the spare room and we were enjoying a large spread of ham and salmon and home made pate. In the evening a bit of a Wallace and Gromit festival which Mas opted out of for a while. Later he went out for a walk but was almost instantly rained on. Sat up chatting with him in the kitchen as everyone was going to bed, having rediscovered that rum and coke is a really nice drink.
Below betty pictured with some of the many things she and Lorraine cooked for a top spread. Beth was so pleased, having spent 70% of the day as a kitchen elf, that she posted the bottom picture on Facebook.
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