Christmas was lovely.
I did a lamb for the roast dinner which was different and really nice. I'd wanted to do a roast beef in lieu of our family's traditional pork (we are not fans of turkey at all) but couldn't really find any suitable beef roast, so settled for the lamb. Very, very good. I made Yorkshire puddings using an Alison Holst recipe and although they did shrink, they tasted fine. The only green veg was peas, but I also roasted kumara, spud and pumpkin. Still got leftovers, yum!
For dessert we had pavlova and trifle. One of the boys made the pav and as we cut into it, gasps of happiness at the fantastic marshmallow inside and the crispy outer. I even managed to scrounge some raspberries off the bush to plonk on the top. The trifle was yum. I bought the sponge this year from the supermarket (I never seem to able to make a decent sponge myself). There were dollops of jam on the cut up sponge, drizzled with orange juice and the juice from the can of peaches, then the peaches, then covered with the custard which I'd made using egg yolks (left over from the pav, we used the rest in Hollandaise for an Eggs Benedict for tea the next day) and then topped off with the whipped cream.
We've still got the Christmas fruit cake and some macarons, and also a bit of panettone I made for Christmas Eve which was really really good, and so light.
Last night was Boxing Day and I watched the Gavin and Stacey special.
Yes, I had tears in my eyes towards the end. What a terrific ending to a wonderful series.
I can't wait to watch it again.
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