Starting the year with a cooked brekkie. Square sausage sold in Morrison’s 🙂
Golden Coins
Wee bags of Free From coins, 75p from Tesco. Happy Christmas Eve 🙂
Recipes that might be of use today: chestnut roast and bread sauce
Tortilla Trees
Christmas tree shaped Tortillas (Tesco) with salsa today, and…
Bendicks mints with Morrison’s Gianduiotti.
Festive recipe: Cranberry Orange Ginger Sauce
Get them while they’re hot!
Morrison’s Veggies in Blankets and Vegetable Tartlets. Labels below. Blankets are the favourite though they’re both very good!
Today’s recipe: Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake
Solstice Pudding Truffles!
Chocolate Truffles (rawish): Blend or food process up two handfuls of mixed nuts and 2 handfuls of raisins with a heaped teaspoon of cocoa. Roll the mix into little balls. We then put them in the freezer for ten minutes while we melted the white and dark chocolate in bain Maries. This meant the chocolate set really quickly when spooned onto the cold puddings rather than running everywhere.
So: spoon the melted chocolate over the top and decorate with pumpkin seeds and chopped dried cranberry. Yum!
They are now nestled happily in the Christmas Dish 🙂
Recipe for today: mini pizza bites
Christmas Cake
Co-op Free From Christmas Cake Bites. Christmas is still a little frazzled… Here’s the enormous Christmas tree at the Old Auction Rooms in Strichen (vegan cake usually available there too):
Today’s recipe: really simple trifle
Christmas Frazzle
We’ve reached that pre-Christmas time when, regardless of how simple your planned festivities are, everything becomes really hectic. So: crisps on a plate. It is a festive plate though. And people are happily gobbling up their Tesco salt and vinegar twists as happily as they gobbled down the fancier snacks 🙂 Moral of the crisps on a plate? Don’t try too hard, don’t tire yourself out: enjoy Christmas.
Take a little walk on the beach. Breathe. Eat some crisps.
Today’s recipe: Gluten Free Mini Chocolate Yule Logs
The Squirrel and the Sweets
Jameson’s Raspberry and Peppermint Ruffles from Home Bargains, as is the squirrel nut bowl, as is the amazing bargain of a vegan selection box for 99p below.
Today we have two basic stuffing recipes for you from Frugal Living in the UK: Sage and Onion and Oatmeal or Skirlie
The Holly and the Ivy…
Yes, more of the garden comes inside every day! Today we have Christmas tree shaped pretzels from Aldi.
A festive recipe that’s easy to make and freeze in advance: Ice Cream Bombe
Fabulous Fudge!
From the Fabulous Freedom Factory: Fudge and Chocolate Covered Raisins. Incredibly delicious.
Festive recipe: Carrot, Coriander and Ginger Soup
Oh, and we’re on Instagram now!
