I finished work yesterday, we finished Christmas shopping and our visitors all arrived. So far we've watched the Muppet Christmas Carol and the Snowman. We'll have Christmas eve dinner this afternoon then nobody has to spend all Christmas cooking.
Kate Harris
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Vegan, pagan witch, knitter, crocheter. Love herbs, stone circles, tarot, rats, churches and chocolate.
Four hours, three grocery stores and almost £300 and we're almost finished shopping for Christmas food. Two more stores tomorrow for the remaining things on the list and any extra bits and pieces. I don't think I've ever had this much food in the house. We've only got four people coming over...
#Christmas #ChristmasFood #ChristmasShopping #DefinitelyOverDidIt
We had a visit from @ric parents this afternoon. They made me a Yule log covered in mushrooms to go with my mushroom covered Christmas tree. It's really cute and also delicious.
Ric bought some poppadoms. There's meant to be 8 in a pack, but sometimes you get 9. This one has 11! #BonusPoppadoms
RicIts #chocolate tempering and moulding day!
It's taken about 7 hours so far, mostly because it takes about 20 minutes per tray to wash and thoroughly dry the moulds, and also because the accidental setting into a metal bowl last week meant that I had a big thick chocolate disk to painstakingly melt down before I could begin the actual tempering. Also temper attempt 1 wasn't good enough, so I had to go through a second run.
But the first 6 bars have now set, and just look at that shine! 😁
The chocolate is in the moulds. Fingers crossed it sets right and doesn't bloom 🤞🏻
@ric first attempt didn't make it to the moulds as the temper wasn't right. We're trying again. It's still melted so it won't take as long, but it's frustrating 😭
We'll temper the chocolate after lunch, we said. We're just melting it now at almost half past five... There was a lot to prep first! Hopefully it'll go well now that we've started, otherwise we'll have to do it all again. Chocolate is finicky.
I haven't done much except work so far this week. I'm counting down the days until I can log out for the year. 3.5 to go...
RE: https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/@ric/115725946151578388
I helped with this. Mostly by keeping out of the way and having relevant information to hand, but that's still helping. #ChocolateMaking #BeanToBar