The biggest decision I need to make now is when do I take the Christmas tree and cards down. My instinct is to put them all away on New Years day, before I go back to work. Somehow, I can't imagine coming home from work on Wednesday and being reminded it's still technically Christmas.
On reflection, this Christmas has been quite calm. I did a lot of my gift buying online, and all my items arrived in time for Christmas, even though I was quite late ordering some. Royal Mail did a good job for me and saved any last minute panic buying.
Every year I tell myself I will start preparing earlier, and every year I don't.
There is a tradition starting to take hold in our Christmas's - each year something happens with an item of food. One year we lost the Christmas pudding, only to find it lurking on the top shelf of the 'beer' fridge several days later.
This year, it was the turn of the Christmas cake that never was. We always buy our cake, and this year was no different. We were in the cake section at out local supermarket, we picked up the right size box in a Christmas style. The cake inside was iced with a sprig of holly indicating Christmas. It was in the trolley and through the checkout with the rest of the shopping to tide us over Christmas week. I have written before how I love a chunk of cheese with my Christmas cake and so I was treating myself to a block of Red Leicester cheese, something that was off my list of foods since my cholesterol issue.
And so, Christmas dinner over, washing up done (and yes, it does still get done by hand even though I have a dishwasher in the kitchen, a personal preference) we settled down to a coffee and a piece of Christmas cake and a nice sized chunk of cheese.
The first cut into the cake was fine,
the second led to such disappointment. There was no rich fruit cake hidden under the pure, flat, white icing. Not even a sponge cake with a few raisins in. Underneath that Christmas holly was a Madeira cake. What??? Yes, of course it said it on the box, but we hadn't read the words, simply looked at the box and the cake inside and made an assumption that we had a Christmas cake.
And no, cheese and Madeira cake does not work!
However, if that's the worse that went wrong this Christmas, we can consider to have done OK.
2 comments:
These things happen when we're rushed. BUT there's a large photo of what does look very suspiciously like MADEIRA CAKE on the side of the box. Bet you thought "that's a cheap rich fruit cake" when you saw its price? Obviously not. Haven't started ours yet but once it's cut into I know it'll be a thick chunk with every coffee till it's gone.
Christmas here was eventful, I broke my bridge eating a sausage & bacon roll with lunch, ended up trying to see a dentist on 27th but have to wait till Jan 9th to have it - hopefully - re-attached.
Unfortunate;y my focus was more on the nutritional chart so I can see the sat fat content, so I was looking at the other side of the box when we bought it. And as we don't generally buy cake these days I wouldn't know what was a good price or a bad price for a fruit cake. Ooops!
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