Christmas

Well, I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas!

We had a very busy week, and a lovely Christmas Day.  Guitar Hero featured prominently, and although I wasn't fantastic at it, I was better at that than Dance Dance Revolution at which I totally suck!

The day started not too early -  Edward didn't feel like he should disturb us too early to show us the contents of his stocking/pillow case - and we had breakfast and then opened our presents.  I had bought some lengths of Christmas fabric and wrapped mine Furoshiki-style as I said I would.  It was very successful I think and they looked just as festive as the other paper-wrapped parcels. The fabrics have been stashed away to use again next year.

We have friends from England staying with us - more about our week away with them in a while - so there were nine of us for Christmas Dinner.  They are vegetarians, so they weren't interested in the turkey but they made salmon-en-croute.  All went well with the cooking until about 5 minutes before the vegetables would have been done when there was a loud popping noise.  At first we thought it was something in the microwave spitting, but then we noticed nothing was boiling on the hob and the lights on it were out.  The hob had died!  Luckily we could finish off in the microwave and the pudding was successfully heated up in there too without drying out at all.  We have a convection oven with a temperature probe (hate the word "probe"!) which is great for roasting so I use it for the turkey.  Even taking into account the speed of the convection oven, following the advice of 8-11 mins/pound at 325 degs F and an internal temp of 180 degs F in the instruction booklet, the turkey should have taken 2 hours and 12 mins, but it was ready in about an hour and a half.  I was worried that I didn't have the probe in the right place but even the little button that came with the turkey had popped up so I had to believe it.  It was in fact done perfectly and was lovely and moist - even though it had to sit and rest for a long time.  At least the oven was freed up in good time for the potatoes, parsnips, pigs in blankets, stuffing and of course, the salmon-en-croute.

I will have pictures soon of the things I made for Christmas presents I hope!

I went back to work on Boxing Day which was quite a wrench.  I was quite glad I only had threee days before the weekend again!

Comments

[evildoer]

I like the furoshiki idea. Very nice!
Happy New Year! -- Eileen

[Heather Joins The Round]

What a funny combination of good luck/bad luck. Horrible bad luck: the stove top dies while you're cooking a major holiday meal. Good luck: it's at the end of the meal, when the food's all but done. It's like you're karma's staddling some kind of line!

Are you coming to knitting Jan 8th? It's our swap!