Christmas fare

Just two sleeps to go!
　
I was starting to prepare ‘the food’ for our family Christmas get together and I started to think of the food traditions that evolve for one reason or another.
　
　
Thinking of Christmas and big meals reminds me of traditional hot Christmas dinners (yes with roast turkey, pork and ham) prepared at home on sweltering hot days when the kids were a lot younger and unable to help and I was still married. My now ex-husband (who loved the hot dinners) thought he was helping by pointing a very inadequate pedestal fan into the kitchen to 'cool me down' while I slaved away over a hot stove to produce a feast fit for a king. The sweat was rolling off my brow and I could hear the kids and said husband playing with the presents of the day or swimming in the pool.  As you can imagine afterwards I was exhausted. Didn't help that I had usually got to bed at about 2.00am the night before (had to make sure the kids were asleep before Santa came) and then up at about 5.00am with the kids to see what Santa had brought. Oh the memories, but I wouldn't swap them.
　
　
One thing that always differs from tradition was desert. I love Christmas pudding with all the trimmings but I’m out on my own on that one. The only reason my ex-husband used to eat it was to get the money that used to be in the traditional Christmas pudding (with the change to decimal currency this tradition has slowly died out). I had to think of another way.
　
　
My ex loved Chocolate Ripple Log (if my family are reading this they are going weak at the knees at the thought of it). Chocolate ripple biscuits sandwiched together with sweetened whipped cream and then covered completely in the remainder of the whipped cream refrigerate over night then eat. It only took one taste and all of the family were hooked. Now our Christmas dinner always ends with a Chocolate Ripple Log. Yum!!! You would never guess what‘s on my to do list this Christmas.