I might have lost the will to blog but I am able to bake which is lucky because this rainy weather demands it. Plus my parents are here and these choc chip biscuits are what you want when people arrive and are hungry for afternoon tea
Mix in your red kitchen aid (or it won't work. Kidding! any colour kitchen aid will do the trick)1/3 cup caster sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 125 g butter, 1 egg, 1 cup SR flour, vanilla essence, 3/4 cup choc chips and 1/2 cup of rolled oats that you pulverise in the food processor 1st (this is my secret ingredient-let it be my gift to You). Bake at 180 Celsius for 10 to 15 minutes.
I keep my super precious glass ornaments in this box in my linen press. I miss them when they are away and like to see them when they make their debut again.
A lot of people wait til December to action their Holiday Tree (no one in Australia says "Holiday Tree" except me and Mark. It amuses us no end. Don't ask why. It just does).I am not one of them.
I follow a Retail Christmas. Which means when the Christmas decorations and food hit the shoppes I action my tree. One of the main reasons for this is that it takes me an hour to assemble the tree and about another hour to string up my 600 fairy lights and about a further 3 hours to decorate it. So I'm not going to that level of effort for a paltry month People.
I am so sick of people asking me why I don't have a "real tree". If I lived in Europe where they were readily available maybe I would but around these here parts they are thin on the ground in October, plus it'd be dead by the end of December, plus ( and this is a big one) it would shed its leaves everywhere. I have enough of that type of thing to deal with in the FF garden without inviting it indoors.
This was how far I'd got at about 7pm Friday night. There was a time in the not so distance past when the thought of a night in on Friday night would have depressed me no end. I spent 20 years getting Dolled up to the Nines and actioning cocktails with my friends and dancing like there was no tomorrow on Friday nights...those were the days.In happy happy news my lovely Irish friend L had a baby girl. Hooray!!!
Cheerio People. x
Oh God, thank you for coming back. That damn 0 comments as the bottom of your last post, for a couple of days, was torture.
ReplyDeleteMissed you, had a serious fit of the miseries, and somehow you and Blighty just put those miseries to bed for me.
Louise
And also, Arnie, Siggi, Bronson and Bianca.
xxx
Your choc chip biscuits look amazing and thanks for another special FF recipe too...I think it is always nice to welcome guests and family with afternoon tea and something homemade - very English! Do you really, really put your tree up now in October?? You are so funny! Love it. Gorgeous ornaments - all mine mean something special to me and I buy another each year.. (only one a year though mind you!) Very happy for your friend L. How lovely. x
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of following the retail Christmas, FF.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean gift shopping starts now?
SSG xxx
Decorations look fabulous! I keep the glass ones from my childhood and we put them up at my parents' house. I have started a new set of precious ones for my daughter though.
ReplyDeleteActioning is the antidote espec when biscuits adn baubles!!
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that you put your "holiday tree" up in October. My family would think I'm crazy. However, I'm already listening to Christmas music on my ipod and getting all warm inside with the start of the retail Christmas season I'm starting to see in the stores.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see your tree when it's all complete.
In an example of complete harmonic convergence, I too made chocolate chip cookies. That's what we call them here in the US. I had mine for dinner with red wine. Then I brought the rest to my brother's 50th birthday part. I believe you have a Dior Christmas ornament? That is really cute.
ReplyDeleteThat is one exciting looking box of goodies, though I'm happy to wait (anticipation being half the fun etc).
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little we used to sometimes do an 'Australian' Christmas tree, using a gum tree branch. It was great - instead of the pine smell you get eucalyptus, and my mum craftily spray painted gum nuts in gold to hang up. I would do it again if I could, but here in London they sell real trees down on our corner!
I love a good choc chip cookie! They look delish!
ReplyDeleteI currently have no oven till we do our renovations... I have never had such a desire to bake as I do right now!!!
Oh we too follow a retail Christmas. We need as long as possible to enjoy the season. Unfortunately we have no room for our tree this year... no lying under it, gazing at the lights, FF style. It'll stay in the shed. Off looking for a mini, minimalist, apartment sized number for the top of our piano today. A-M xx
ReplyDeleteChocolate chip cookies look fabulous. I am saving my baking mojo for after we finish travelling, otherwise the baking gets wasted. Maybe next week?
ReplyDeleteI fear I am becoming quite the Sad Sack. I don't think I want Christmas to last for months and months. I think I had better get stuck into some serious mood enhancement activities, - I might start gently with some shortbread and some chocolate covered almonds, then introduce a few mince pies.
ReplyDeleteI have to say you are just one of my favorite people ever because you seem to just do what is fun and makes you happy. None of this snobbishness about real trees and coordinated Christmas ornaments, not to mention putting up your tree in October! That's genius. I really do hope you never quit blogging.
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