Christmas Eve
The gingerbread house creations are all ready (along with a good start made on Tara’s birthday jigsaw puzzle). The kids made up their own house designs and patterns, channeling their inner-architects! A few tears, a few pieces we could not work out what part of which house they belong to (since I threw away the patterns after rolling out the dough)…at least one, and possibly two houses didn’t get built! This year I managed to make the royal icing perfectly and the pieces just stuck together almost immediately with no need for pins, toothpicks or other supports. Perhaps the inner-engineer in me has finally come to the fore?!
The salted butter caramels are all wrapped and ready to take for a post Christmas lunch treat tomorrow. The honey truffles are waiting to be rolled in cocoa. A last minute Christmas cake is cooling on the rack. A batch of sourdough stollen (very experimental) is slowly rising, waiting for its turn in the oven.
The 5kg organic turkey is in the oven for our Christmas eve dinner. I followed the Gordon Ramsay recipe that was on ABC TV last week (much as I dislike the man, I decided to give his method a try this year).
Look how busy the Sydney Fish Markets were this morning! I made an unplanned visit there since I found myself in the city for some other purpose. I found parking on the street (could not face the long queue to get into the car park), put 45 minutes on the meter and was back in 30! Didn’t think I would ever get served but it ended up being relatively painless. I am sure that if I had planned to go there I would have been stressed by the experience, but since I was there by chance I happily went with the flow and pushed my way through the crowds, coped with being pushed and made my purchases. I bought some Sydney Rock Oysters and prawns to have for our entree tonight; and a giant salmon to take to the family lunch tomorrow. Trying to come up with something creative to make with it.
Merry Christmas, SG! All the best to you and your lovely family!
All your children did very well. I love the icing effect. Merry Christmas xx
Just perfect indeed! And don’t worry, gingerbread houses have been known to reduce me to tears before now too
Your seafood sounds delicious, and good luck with your salmon. How about stuffing it with herbs and lemon, and baking it in a salt and egg white crust with herbs chopped into it as well. Just pop in the oven and forget for an hour. Nice and painless- and delicious!
Merry Christmas!
wow that crowd wouldve driven me insane! hope you have a very merry christmas!