I only had one bad fall while skiing over Christmas, luckily some nice french man came to my rescue and picked up my sunglasses, and ski poles which had been thrown off and only after I insisted that I was ok did he leave me 🙂
I now have quite a painful bruise in a very delicate place
Can you guess where ??
We may not have had a traditional Christmas dinner but the Tartiflette was delicious.
One thing we did not miss out on was a Christmas Cake, Isla and I made it while Geoff was in New Zealand and we bought it over to Les Gets with us.
This years cake seemed to be extra nice, maybe because of our lovely snowy surroundings.
As well as skiing, quite a bit of knitting has been done this holiday too, I have been doing my socks and I taught Emily how to cast on and do the basic knitting stitch and her scarf is growing quickly, far more quickly than my socks 🙂
After fresh snow durring the night we had a great morning skiing and my confidence is growing again, with only one bad crash this time and a lovely bruise to show for it I am happy with my progress really its only my fear of speed that stops me 🙁
For the first time in my life I have been out of the UK for Christmas.
Skiing on Christmas Day has been fantastic 🙂
I cannot lie and say I wont miss my Christmas dinner,but while up on the mountain we did call into the Grand Ourse where I had a good smell of the Hog roast which should keep me going till I cook a christmas dinner.
I am looking forward to a few hours skiing tomorrow before we fly home late tomorrow night……
BUT I wil be back here in Les Gets for 10 days skiing from 12th Jan lucky lucky me !!!!
Now I am going to make a traditional french dish for our dinner…… Â A tartiflette
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !
I am always on the look out for new recipes especially at Christmas time.
This time I came across a few great recipes in the Christmas issue of the Tesco magazine, realfood.
Which has an ipad app but no iphone app which is a shame as I like to store my recipes on line now but thats where Evernote comes in handy.
So last week I found myself  baking a cranberry,orange and almond fruit loaf, I liked the sound of the recipe as it had marzipan in the ingredients.
I enjoyed making this christmassy cake, it was easy to make, looked special, and tasted lovely
Certainly a recipe to add to your list for this christmas…….
I have often admired the Icebreaker New Zealand Merino Wool clothes
So it was easy for Geoff to know what to bring me back from New Zealand as a gift 🙂
He choose well and I now have lovely socks, matching scarf and a t-shirt that will be great for summer walking and jogging.
Believe it or not but the cost was not much cheaper in New Zealand than it is in the uk, But what a Fabulous gift 🙂
A good place to buy Icebreaker is from a Natureshop .uk
Thanks to a recipe recommendation on twitter, by Martin Black I decided to try out a new dish this week.
Coconut Dhal.… it was cheap,quick and easy to make, I had mine with some naan bread and it was very filling.
It will be a great to cook for Geoff too as its a vegetarian dish and it will give me the protein I need, which I feel I miss out on when I eat a lot of vegetarian food.
Its a great comfort food for cold winter nights and I will be certainly be trying out some more dhal recipes !
With a little bit of help I baked our Christmas cake tonight, it took just over 4 hours to bake but it was Geoff’s electric I used 🙂
I used the Delia’s classic christmas cake recipe and at the moment the house is smelling devine.
Preparing the Cake tin is the first job and makes for an evenly baked cake…
Mixing in the fruit can be a tough job but I had some help with this…
This year I wont be icing the cake, as it has to travel to Les Gets with us, so instead we decorated it with Almonds
I shall leave it to cool in the tin over night then take it back to Kings Lynn with me as Isla is worried that granddad may eat it !!
I really wanted to be here  or here today, but diesel is expensive its getting closer to Christmas and I will have a fuel bill to pay soon,so I decided to be sensible and stay home 🙁
The forecast was for good weather today so I planned a walk from RAF Marham, it was a route that I used to cycle/run when I lived there, interestingly not all of it is marked on open street map.
Not much has changed over the years, although I see Pentney Priory is now being restored by The English Heritage so no nice views of the Priory today !
I found a lovely sunny spot by the river Nar where I enjoyed my coffee, I then decided not to walk back by Shouldham Warren but to enjoy the River walk back to Marham fen.
Once back at RAF Marham I could not resist having a look at what was our house, I wanted to see if the Honeysuckle,that my Dad had bought for me, was still there and although all the wire fences have been replaced by new wooden ones I could see the honeysuckle was still going strong 🙂
So almost a 10 mile walk in beautiful sunshine but I really did miss some company today.
Photos can be found here