We have just watched the repeat of the 1984 Christmas Special of Yes Minister. If you were watching with your eyes closed and just listening to the script you would have thought it was made in the last year. always a treat to see these repeats.
Morning everyone. It’s lovely to hear all your news, good or bad. Just to keep in touch is the thing.
Hubby made his annual Christmas Ice Cream yesterday and it’s now in the freezer for the special Day. Our son, daughter and grandson are planning to come here for lunch. I’m still on tenterhooks waiting to hear if the Govt. decides to close the ACT border to our area.
We plan on going to town again today to collect our medications. We like to give our Pharmacist a day to get them ready since she is always rushed off her feet. Besides, one of Hubby’s scripts has to be sent down from somewhere else, so she always needs an extra day to get the capsules in. This is the latest cancer stuff his Oncologist is trying him on. It’s a pity they seem to be giving him leg pains, but he is happy with the Panadol Osteo I talked him into trying.
Time to get going, so hope you all have a good sleep.
Obelixx jogging is bad for your hips, I do the Fartlek, it's good for your heart, running,walking is good for your heart. We have several flights of steps down to the beach, which is where we normally walk the dogs in winter, because we have 2 long haired dogs an open plan bungalow, and the usual woods we go to are so muddy, especially with all this rain, (It's bucketing down now again) obviously we then have to go up all those steps, and the other day we did the 100 steps up the cliff side. As you get nearer the top, the steps get deeper, till they are almost up to my knees. When we can get together with my daughter, I will get her to post a picture on here.Love to Yviestevie at this difficult time.Hello Pat, what is the ice-cream made of?
Talking of picnics, funnily enough we took the dogs on the bech one day last week, it was 12c, sunny,no wind, there was a couple (probably my age) having a picnic on the beach. In a normal time, my grandkids come school holidays, and by March they are asking for picnics on the beach, at 13c, if it's sunny and no wind if you walk by the prom wall, you don't need a coat. Quite a few people the other day, wearing shorts. We all elected not to have a Christmas get together, so our daughter came up Monday, exchanged presents, we took the dogs out for an hour, and went and admired folks' Christmas lights, and she took pictures
If you want me to put the recipe for the ice cream cake up, I can do it Nanny Beach. Perhaps not just yet as he is nodding in front of the TV. 🙄😁. He has been working in the kitchen all afternoon. Made quiches and smoked trout pies as extras for Christmas Day. Worn himself out. It doesn’t take much to knock himself out since the chemo, but he loves doing those things.
This is the recipe. Sorry it’s all over the page, but I expect you can work it out.
Ice Cream Christmas Pudding
Ice Cream Mix
1/3 cup red & green glacé cherries
1/3 cup mixed chopped peel (not used)
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup sultanas
1/3 cup currants
1/3 cup slivered almonds toasted
1/3 cup hazelnuts toasted & roasted
1/3 cup pistachios skinned
¼ cup brandy
1 tspn mixed spice
½ tspn cinnamom
½ tspn nutmeg
2 tblspns cocoa
2 eggs, separated
½ cup icing sugar, sieved
900 ml thickened cream, beaten to soft peak stage
Chocolate Mix
50 g dark cooking chocolate
2 tblspns polyunsaturated vegetable oil
Ice Cream:
In a large bowl mix fruits & nuts and pour brandy over. Stir in spices and cocoa.
In a medium bowls beat eggs whites stiffly, add yolks and beat well. Beat in sugar and then fold cream into egg mixture. Pour mixture over fruits & nuts & fold all together thoroughly. Pour into an 8 cup (2 ltr) pudding basin which has been rinsed out with cold water and not dried. Cover with foil and freeze for 1 ½ hours.
Take from freezer and stir thoroughly. Cover and freeze until solid.
When ready to serve, dip basin into hot water, run warm knife around the top edge, invert over serving dish and shake out. Return to freezer.
Chocolate Mix:
Break chocolate & melt, add oil & heat mix.
Pour over pudding and refreeze.
Can be made up to three weeks before use.
Pudding can stand on lower fridge shelf for 30 minutes before serving.
My OH deserves a trophy too 🏆 ... I had a lie in this morning and after my shower I came down to find all my little routine morning jobs have been done as well as his own bin emptying etc, and he’s taken the bundle of yesterday’s undies out of my hand and is hand washing them while I have another coffee. 🥰.
When I’ve had my coffee I’ll get on with making sausage rolls, mince pies and bread baking.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, wet again here. I was planning to go to plots to get the Christmas veg but I'm not sure about digging parsnips in this! Trouble is I promised family we would give them some too, not sure when we are going to take presents etc. So I might just have to put my waterproofs on & do it anyway.
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Hubby made his annual Christmas Ice Cream yesterday and it’s now in the freezer for the special Day. Our son, daughter and grandson are planning to come here for lunch. I’m still on tenterhooks waiting to hear if the Govt. decides to close the ACT border to our area.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is the recipe. Sorry it’s all over the page, but I expect you can work it out.
Ice Cream Christmas Pudding
Ice Cream Mix
1/3 cup red & green glacé cherries
1/3 cup mixed chopped peel (not used)
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup sultanas
1/3 cup currants
1/3 cup slivered almonds toasted
1/3 cup hazelnuts toasted & roasted
1/3 cup pistachios skinned
¼ cup brandy
1 tspn mixed spice
½ tspn cinnamom
½ tspn nutmeg
2 tblspns cocoa
2 eggs, separated
½ cup icing sugar, sieved
900 ml thickened cream, beaten to soft peak stage
Chocolate Mix
50 g dark cooking chocolate
2 tblspns polyunsaturated vegetable oil
Ice Cream:
In a large bowl mix fruits & nuts and pour brandy over. Stir in spices and cocoa.
In a medium bowls beat eggs whites stiffly, add yolks and beat well. Beat in sugar and then fold cream into egg mixture. Pour mixture over fruits & nuts & fold all together thoroughly. Pour into an 8 cup (2 ltr) pudding basin which has been rinsed out with cold water and not dried. Cover with foil and freeze for 1 ½ hours.
Take from freezer and stir thoroughly. Cover and freeze until solid.
When ready to serve, dip basin into hot water, run warm knife around the top edge, invert over serving dish and shake out. Return to freezer.
Chocolate Mix:
Break chocolate & melt, add oil & heat mix.
Pour over pudding and refreeze.
Can be made up to three weeks before use.
Pudding can stand on lower fridge shelf for 30 minutes before serving.
My OH deserves a trophy too 🏆 ... I had a lie in this morning and after my shower I came down to find all my little routine morning jobs have been done as well as his own bin emptying etc, and he’s taken the bundle of yesterday’s undies out of my hand and is hand washing them while I have another coffee. 🥰.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I passed your good wishes on.