Can I come and stop with you New Shoot? All those lovely gourmet treats and I wouldn't need to set foot in my kitchen.
I seem to have been at it not stop.
I have done the white chocolate, raspberry and brandied cherry truffles, the hazelnut truffles, sundried tomato and cheese biscotti, baguettes, seeded rye bread cut into trees, stars and holly leaves to go with the home smoked salmon and tuna and the hot smoked duck for DIL who doesn't like fish. Oh and the almond Christmas stars to go in the hampers with the biscotti.
I have white chocolate snowball bombes for my nephew, have trialled and come up with an acceptable trifle substitute for the slimmer's world and diabetic bods, a slimmer's world chocolate log with banana ice cream and one with cherry ice cream.
We have raisin and rosemary bread, walnut bread and baguettes to turn in to crostini with the cheese, wholemeal cheese bread and the sour dough starters for Casalingua, and German rye bread.
I am just having a break before parcelling up my brown quince from the quince vodka, will add that to apple tarts and crumbles, bottling the quince vodka, finishing the Arancello and straining the crème de cacoa, spiced rum, cassis and coffee vodka.
Cheese is ordered as is the beef and the turkey and the gammon has been soaked and is in the smoker for an extra smoke before being shoved in the freezer. Have some olives and pickled garlic in the smoker too.
The to do list is getting smaller, just the stolen, Dutch apple ring, and Mr Bee's vanilla ice cream and the Christmas cake to decorate and then I think I can sit down for a bit.
And finish the tree decoration for Louisa's first Christmas.