It’s that time of the year again. The time to crack open a bottle of champers and decorate the Christmas tree. This post is a little belated as this year I managed to decorate my tree on the 1st of December, rather than the night before Christmas. This year, as with previous years, while the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘seasonal’
Happy HipsterMAS
Posted in Randomness, The House, tagged Pretties, seasonal on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hard Sauce
Posted in Recipes, tagged dessert, seasonal on December 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was delegated the task of making Hard Sauce again this year. Rather than repeating last year’s effort (especially since I still had some of last year’s in my freezer as I overcatered), I decided to search anew for a recipe that more closely resembled Nana’s Hard Sauce, delight of family christmas parties in aeons [...]
Happy Stylemas
Posted in DIY, The House, tagged Pretties, seasonal on December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been a bit remiss posting this year’s xmas decorations @ casa moi. I actually only finalised them on Christmas Eve, when I whipped up a tree topper from Fantastic Plastic and a star template I found online. After last year’s Pretty-in-Pinkmas, I decided this year was either going to be mid-century-modernmas or subdued-stylemas. Due [...]
An Arabian Feast
Posted in Recipes, tagged seasonal on December 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The butterflied lamb leg roasts sitting in the display of my local butcher have been tempting me to try, so I purchased an unmarinated one to experiment upon. I have decided to call the results my “Arabian Feast” as there was a definite theme of middle-eastern exoticism running through each course: Although the Countess Von [...]
The Impromptu Harvest Dinner
Posted in Recipes, The House, tagged Accents, garden, seasonal, Supporting characters on October 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Imbued with the optimism and enthusiasm that only a combination of Spring and a sunny 3 day weekend can bring, I decided to organise and host an impromptu harvest dinner @ casa moi. This seemed a good way to celebrate the fruitfulness (and vegetableness) of the garden, paying tribute to the plants who made it [...]
Recipe: Brandy Butter (aka Hard Sauce)
Posted in Recipes, tagged random, seasonal on December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Step One: see recipe for Brandy Butter in delicious magazine, recalling fond nostalgia for Nana’s Hard Sauce (apparently pretty much same thing – see Variations of recipe here), optimistically volunteer to bring it to family Xmas Do. Nana’s Hard Sauce involved equal amounts of Brandy for Nana and Sauce, can’t be too hard right? Step [...]
Pretty in Pink
Posted in The House, tagged Interior, random, seasonal on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When you are single, you can come home any time that you want, wear any length of dress that you want, buy as many pairs of shoes as you want…and have your Christmas tree in any colour you want. What’s a single girl to do for her first Christmas in her new house? Have a [...]
