callmemadam's christmas kitchen

[callmemadam]

Do you feel like throwing things at the screen when Nigella swans about telling you how easy and stress free everything is? Especially when you think of the time taken by the shopping alone. At the risk of sounding like her, I do make every year really easy hazelnut meringue. Takes very little time and freezes well. Hey presto, you have a lovely pudding ready for any time over Christmas. We don't like a lot of cream so it's probably served with a good quality ice cream and stem ginger or perhaps some frozen raspberries. Another thing I always make, although not until Christmas Eve, is a Christmas log. Again I eschew rich creamy fillings so it's basically a Swiss roll, which is fun to make, with real chocolate on top. Plus icing snow and a robin, of course. Some of my friends have been to sugarcraft classes. I am neither handy nor artistic so my Christmas cake is plain looking but I wanted to show off the snow babies.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the chocolate log.

I don't remember one of the snowbabies being a yeti perched on a lump of cheese. What that tableau needs is some huskies!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Tsk, cheese indeed! I believe polar bears are quite rare amongst these antique snow babies. You never have appreciated them and next year they might be in Scotland.

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

Do you feel like throwing things at the screen when Nigella swans about telling you how easy and stress free everything is?

Oh, yes. I shout things like "It's all right for you, you've got a herd of minions just off camera to chop all the bleedin' vegetables!" and the like, and then nice people come and sedate me.

Nigella's Recipe for Xmas Humbug

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

Just in case you haven't seen the Eye this week ...

1. Produce Xmas programme with self showing lots of cleavage, pouting, eating sausage suggestively, saying "I like it hot and steamy", etc, etc.

2. Give interviews complaining about being treated as a sex object.

3. That's it! Lovely traditional humbug!

Tomorrow: Nigella's recipe for cake. Having it and eating it.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

And the washing up. I hate all her friends, too. Seems I watch the prog just to annoy myself.

[minniemoll.livejournal.com]

I don't often watch cookery programmes, they make me feel inadequate. Even though I *know* that there are people all round doing all the menial jobs and washing up.

I'm going to my parents for Christmas, so I don't need to worry about that, but they and Kerri and Lucy are coming for New Year, so I'll have to think about that fairly soon, I suppose. But I think I'd better sort my Christmas cards out soon. Oh, and the presents. And the decorations.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

It's the 'my perfect life' aspect of Nigella's programmes which I find so annoying. She's selling a metropolitan lifestyle which grates on me.
I'd be well up on presents if b****y Amazon were not being so slow delivering. Over a week since they said the order had been despatched and some of the items have to be posted. Fume.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Me too! Argh! (And what is the difference between 'dispatching soon' and 'not yet dispatched', anyway?)