11th Craft of Craftmas - Christmas Dinner (of course)

Only a very quick post today as it is Christmas and there is family and friends around.

Todays crafty activity is of course Christmas Dinner! Very modest as usual for us but still just as tasty. We follow two simple rules with our Christmas dinner, 1) we never have turkey and 2) we have all the trimmings we want, so thats means stuffing, pigs in blankets and yorkshires are all in!

Here are some simple tricks we always do to make dinner extra tasty if you fancy a try:

• Gravy MUST have a good glug of red wine
• Par boiled potatoes need a good shake in the saucepan so they get nice and fluffy before going in the hot oil
• Home made yorkies are alway the best (recipe below)

Homemade yorkshires

Mix all of the ingredients in a pyrex jug

100ml milk

2 eggs

70g plain flour

Put some oil into either a 4 park yorkshire pudding dish or into a smaller muffin pans, put the pan in the oven so that the oil become really hot. Pour in the batter equally into each dish and put a sprinkling of pepper in the centre to help get the traditional yorkshire pudding rise. Put them into a hot oven for 20mins leaving undisturbed - easy!

Hope you have all had a wonderful day whatever you have been doing

!Merry Christmas to one an all!

Nice picture of some ducks swimming along a flooded River Thames at sunset just to finish the day