Pre-Christmas cheer and memories
Are you in Christmas mood yet? I am, even though there's not a snowflake in sight. Our Christmas shopping done early this morning, we just managed to escape the (unsurprisingly unhappy) crowds arriving to do the same. Now we can relax. Off to see the in-laws near Loch Ness tomorrow for a couple of nights - and dinner / Christmas lunch, then back home in time for Christmas eve. This year marks the first Christmas I won't hear from my Gran. She quietly passed away on 17th March, aged 91. So to honour her memory, I decided to bake for Christmas - for us, my mum, and my in-laws. Now, this doesn't happen every year. I'm no domestic goddess. But preparing everything for the cookies and cake, over several hours, and watch them take shape, was fun. Apart from discovering that I'd made the wrong dough for the type of cookies I wanted to bake. Hey ho! ;-) So I made buttery biscuits, covered in chocolate or icing, sprinkled with Hundreds & Thousands instead of the ...