Happy Christmas to one and all. My wife and I have been working hard for a couple of weeks actually, and especially the last two days. We have 18 coming for Christmas dinner and Boxing day.
We have made the sausage rolls and mince pies and my wife has made lots of cookies. I spit roasted a turkey today outside, which we will have cold on Boxing day, and will spit roast another tomorrow morning. Both my wife and I have been hard at it in the kitchen all day. The prep cooking is done. I made all the stocks from scratch months ago.
My wife decorated and iced the Christmas cake yesterday, which was made a couple of months ago and has been maturing, and put on her grandmother's victorian ornaments. We made the Christmas pudding a month ago and that has been maturing. We cooked it in my grandmother steam cooker and will give it the final cooking tomorrow.
We have a nice selection of cheeses, mainly English. I could not resist sampling the cloth wrapped cheddar matured for months in the caves of Cheddar Gorge in the Mendip Hills of Somerset this evening. It was just devine.
I will take some pictures and post tomorrow.