…until January!

Found some great food blogs while surfing the web. Simply Recipes is one I like to browse through occasionally, although I have now found another, Something in Season. With Christmas just around the corner, food and feasting are in mind.

No turkey this year. Not one of my favourite meats, it has to be said, but I like it well enough. What I like better are the trimmings that go with it – roast potatoes, stuffing, bread sauce…mmm! I think the trimmings will still be there but with something like lamb instead. Other favourite Christmas foods/drinks – mince pies and mulled wine.

I’ve never actually tried to roast an entire turkey. There are never enough people to eat it and I really don’t want to be eating turkey sandwiches for the next week or so. I’m quite sure Husband doesn’t either.

…Christmas is almost here.  Only 5 days (of madness?) to go.  The supermarket was busy enough yesterday, I can’t imagine how bad it will be this weekend.  I don’t feel very Christmassy yet – I don’t know why.  Up until the weekend I was still worrying about what to get people for Christmas.  Husband finished his shopping a couple of weeks ago and he is quite smug about that.  I had most of my shopping done, there were just the difficult people to buy for i.e. the ones that you have no idea what they would like.  Anyway, it’s almost finished now.  Just a couple of small things to get and I can breathe a sigh of relief.  I think we get far too stressed about this time of year.  I know I do but then I get far too stressed about a lot of things.  There we go, New Year’s Resolution #1: Try not to stress.  Failed to keep my one resolution this year: learn to drive.  So Resolution #2: learn to drive; Resolution #3: keep New Year’s resolutions. 

We’re spending Christmas in Perth this year but we’ll be back in Glasgow for Hogmanay.  I’m one of the lucky people who is off work for a week-and-a-half (one advantage to working in a college library).  I’m looking forward to spending time with family and friends, especially people we don’t see that often.