It's been a few days of fantastic food here.
Firstly, we've been enjoying the contents of the food platter that my sister and her boyfriend gave us for Christmas. The chocolate truffles are particularly good (if you're reading please send me the recipe H!) and the chutney went perfectly with some ham for lunch on Sunday.
I then got my hands very messy helping Mr C to make the tandoori chicken part of a butter chicken recipe that was in a book I gave him for Christmas. I have to say that it was one of the most delicious curries I've ever eaten and tasted amazingly fresh, with a particular ginger zing to it. Mr C tells the whole story over on his blog, so I won't steal his thunder here, but I do hope he makes it again, soon!
Another batch on mince pies were also knocked out this weekend for Sunday's WWA working party. This time though we managed to remember that we had a Kenwood and hence saved a huge amount of physical labour in the process! How we manage to normally forget it I just don't know – especially since it takes up so much space in our small kitchen!
Mr C provided the magic of trying to get as many pies as possible out of the pastry and they certainly went down well with everyone after a morning's work in the cold.
Check out another of this year's wonderful christmas presents in the photo above. I'm now the very, very proud owner of an acrylic cook book stand
. I've wanted one of these for a while, and it's already changed my cooking life in the few days since Christmas. It holds all sizes of cook book, keeps them clean, keeps them open at the right page (such a pain with some hardback ones) and it takes up less space than having the book lying open on the counter. Fantastic! What more could I ask for in a Christmas pressie?
. I've wanted one of these for a while, and it's already changed my cooking life in the few days since Christmas. It holds all sizes of cook book, keeps them clean, keeps them open at the right page (such a pain with some hardback ones) and it takes up less space than having the book lying open on the counter. Fantastic! What more could I ask for in a Christmas pressie?
Happy New Year Mrs & Mr C. I love to read your blog, keep up the good work!