I got out of bed at 6.30am this morning, peered through the blinds and realised it was snowing! So I snuggled back down for another couple of hours and woke up to this.....
Yesterday, I realised that we were out of fresh milk. We do have a few cartons of longlife milk but, being heat treated, it tastes different and G is not so keen so I popped into the local supermarket. There was hardly a soul in there apart from the staff so I grabbed 4 pints of skimmed milk and a fresh loaf. I spotted these potatoes and snapped them up too. They were a bargain at 40p but 12p for a bag of 10 potatoes was too good to miss. I baked one for my lunch to have with various salad bits from the fridge and found 3 sprouting baking potatoes too. I rubbed off the sprouting eyes, peeled and cut them up and made them into mash, adding cheese to make a pie. It's sitting in the fridge to be reheated tomorrow.....
Today we will be having a roast type lunch with veg roast, roast potatoes, the last of the sprouts , carrots and gravy.
I hope you all had a really lovely Christmas. We did manage to go to eat lunch with the family, a proper turkey dinner (even I had one slice of turkey) I took along some homemade sage and onion stuffing in a dish which was reheated in the oven with the roast veg. We had roast potatoes, sprouts, roast parsnips, carrots and cauliflower cheese followed by Christmas pudding and brandy custard. We played charades and watched Strictly on TV. We didn't stay late and our daughter sent us home with a turkey bap for G to eat later. It was lovely to have a hug from everyone even if we were wearing masks at the time 😷
On boxing day DD texted to say turkey curry would be ready to collect just after noon if we wanted some. I collected a big portion of curry as well as 8 homemade veg samosas 🥰 There was enough curry to freeze some for another day. Our DD is so kind 😚
Just for Sue Hall 😉... this is what was in my parcels.....
How was your Christmas? Do you have snow?
Stay safe everyone wherever in the world you happen to be x
No snow here, beautiful sunshine and no wind. I can't stand LongLife semi skimmed milk due to the flavour. But the Skimmed is fine no flavour. We managed the one day with family and it was lovely.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you managed to see them Tania. Doesn't it give the spirits a lift...
DeleteSounds to me as if Christmas was lovely for you. It's nice to read such a warm and uplifting post amidst all the doom and gloom. It snowed here on Christmas Eve but didn't settle.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cherie
DeleteJust a skiff of snow here.
ReplyDeleteYou had a lovely Christmas, I see.
God bless.
Yes, indeed, thank you Jackie
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