Waiting!

 Hello Friends,

I have spent the morning upstairs looking at some old “ Country Living”, it is becoming cold without any heating. 

The old boiler is outside and they have taken the new one inside which was very heavy!

As I was looking at the magazines I was wondering what kind of food you had for Christmas in your countries?

Here we have roast turkey with chestnuts stuffing,

But I do the Crabtree & Evelyn recipe of Fruit and nut stuffing. It has prunes , dried apricots, Sherry, walnuts,almonds,celery, apple, pear, kumquat,, parsley, orange zest, sage, thyme, cinnamon, mace , coriander… butter, whole meal bread, salt and pepper!

I prepare it in advance and put it to freeze!

I also like goose with this stuffing.

As a starter we have “ foie gras” duck or goose one.

Salmon with toasts.

And at the end “ une Bûche de Noël”

Xmas log , but now we prefer some other dessert

It depends on the nice recipe I find.

( source Crabtree & Evelyn” book “ Cookbook”)

I think I am going to continue my reading while they are very busy working!

New boiler ! It will be white and grey at the front.

They have worked well with music and singing but  very professional!

I prepared them coffee and biscuit as they don’t take time to eat.

I am baking a lemon cake for them tomorrow.

Tomorrow one of them is going on the roof to work on the chimney.

I am impatient to have heating and hot water!