A quick romp through my festive cooking adventures to start! This year I resolutely stuck with my food budget for over the Christmas period. (yeah, I know, I was somewhat smug! lol) That meant I did alot more baking than in recent years which can only be good in my eyes! I didn't buy any mince pies at all although sadly I didn't get around to making my own mincemeat but hey ho. I spent Christmas Day at my parents so no Christmas lunch cooking for me, booooo! I did however entertain on Boxing Day and made a big puffy pastried chicken pie followed by Jamie Oliver's artic roll....
I really enjoyed making this, it was aaaaaaaages since I'd made a swiss roll and it was fun rolling it up with raspberry jam, chocolate and vanilla ice creams oozing out! I dispensed with the crushed Crunchie, of course, but I don't think that detracted from the flavour at all. :o)
On New Year's Eve we rolled out the Raclette as is now traditional!
I must search out some more specific Raclette recipes though.
I have now embarked on my annual New Year activity of using up what I have instead of shopping for more. :o) A blog post specifically about this challenge coming up....
It's good to be back!
