Food... Food... Glorious Christmas Food...

I think it's generally acknowledged that we over-eat on Christmas day...
And the next day wish we hadn't... Sort of... Coz it was all so yummy.

This year was no exception... I made Christmas Fruit Mince
earlier in the year and it has been marinating away.
I spooned it into little pastry cases and topped them
with soft Buffalo cheese... Delicious.

 

I had bought fresh strawberries which I managed to keep
 in a cool place till Christmas Day. 
I made chocolate dipping sauce... To die for!

Here is the recipe...

DECADENT & FATTENING BUT YUMMY!!!

CHOCOLATE SAUCE

I have made this recipe for the last 30 years. You won’t buy one as good. Put all in a pan and boil for 2 minutes:

2 tab cocoa

½ cup dark brown or palm sugar

1 tsp vanilla

½ cup water

knob of butter

Use hot or keep in air tight container in fridge and use cold. Will go thicker when cold. Delicious over ice cream or berries

 

And Christmas cake which I have already given you the recipe for.
We nibbled and indulged all day.
In the evening we had 'dinner'.
Beautiful cold ham off the bone... New potatoes, it's the only time of the  year I eat potatoes...
They were little and waxy and delicious...
 Fresh peas with mint... And a salad.
I cooked extra potatoes and peas for a cold potato salad the next day...
But there weren't any left!

We finished out dinner with this fruit salad...
Fresh nectarines and kiwi fruit with diced goat feta cheese.
It was a lovely combination.

Chocolates... Of course...

 

And a beautiful 'Saints' 2003 Gisborne 'noble semillon'.
I didn't get on the scales for a few days after all that!

It's Illegal... It's Immoral... Or It Makes You Fat...

I make them regularly...

It really doesn't matter what you're aiming at...
If it's something you enjoy you can be certain that...
It's illegal, it's immoral or it makes you fat.
Remember this song sung by the Beverley Sisters?
Well these delicious morsels might fall into that category...
But!

 

HERE'S THE RECIPE

They're great for life on the road in my house bus... No cooking...

250g cream cheese
2 tab honey
1 teasp lemon juice
3/4 cup muesli
3/4 cup each sultanas, chopped dates
1/2 cup each sunflower seeds, chopped glace cherries
Mix all tog, roll  into balls, coat with coconut or toasted chopped pumpkin kernels.
Keep in the fridge.
I change the fruit & nuts to whatever I feel like.

I'm going shopping today and going to buy dried apricots and ginger...
And some Brazil nuts...
Maybe some chocolate...
I kid myself they are healthy coz they've got muesli in - Haha!

ENJOY.