3 days to go

Dingly dell had her remaining wisdom teeth out today, so she’s eating baby food for dinner this evening, watching me enjoy my roast beef 🙂 mwahahaha!

I had my own share of frustrations today though – I was making my cranberry sauce and poured the required amount of caster sugar into the pan. I couldn’t work out why it tasted utterly vile until Mum pointed out that the taste I couldn’t identify was in fact salt. Yes, someone (probably me) had filled the caster sugar jar with salt, not thinking that the two look remarkably similar.

So Dad was instructed to purchase some more cranberries and indeed some caster sugar on the way home, and cranberry sauce was made successfully.

Christmassy task list now stands as follows:
– christmas pudding – successful and cooked!
– 4 different flavoured butters – successful and chilled!
– spice for the butternut squash – milled and waiting!
– cranberry sauce – fraught but ultimately successful!
– flavoured butter for turkey – ready in its “piping bag” (aka sandwich bag)!
– chestnuts – roasted (yes I roasted my own) and awaiting stuffing!

My quest in the Christmas meal preparation has been eased by my (late) birthday present from my parents… the Kenwood FP698 Multi Pro Food Processor. To date it has made breadcrumbs, mixed butters, milled spices and made a smoothie for my babyfood eating sibling *snort*. Lurvely piece of kit.

I’m still not in a super Christmas mood and I’m not sure why – I have been totally overloaded with Christmas – it’s everywhere, so it’s not from not realising it’s happening… Ah well – on the 24th I need to prepare the rest of the food ready for cooking on the Big Day, so we’ll see if that helps.

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