We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.

[ganimede]

Today is Twelfth Night so that's the festive season all over and done with for another year. The tree and decorations came down yesterday. It took me all morning to take them down, manage to fit them all back in the boxes and lug them back up in the attic. As usual, we have loads of food left over, mainly biscuits and chocolates. Mr Next-door

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[meathiel]

We've got lots of biscuits left as well ... I usually don't like them anymore after Christmas.

[ganimede]

Are they ones you've made or ones that you've bought? I have a mixed box of chocolate covered ones which I only have at Christmas and I also got a little tin of Danish butter cookies. Those are only small biscuits, barely a mouthful each so they shouldn't take too long to finish off!

[meathiel]

Ones we made ... but they're gone now since the weekend. Seems my parents dug in ... haha ...

[ganimede]

Oh, that was nice of them ;)

Let them eat cake!

[geneticload]

Feel free to mail some cake across the pond to me!

Re: Let them eat cake!

[ganimede]

I thought Americans didn't like Christmas cake?

[chaquir]

hahaha Christmas Pudding ice cream! That sounds great.

i'm glad it's all over now. i will take the tree down tomorrow also

[ganimede]

A couple of years ago you could actually get Christmas pudding ice cream in the supermarkets. Sainsburys did a mince pie ice cream this year! I had a look online for suggestions to use up Christmas pudding and making ice cream seemed to be quite a common one. Probably because it's so easy to do!

Do you not have the tradition of it being bad luck to leave the tree up after Twelfth Night?

[chaquir]

bad luck?? No, not that i know off.

[ganimede]

I don't think it's as common here as it used to be.

[just_jenn]

OMg, this sounds so good. I've never had Christmas pudding, but I feel as though I'd like it.

[ganimede]

It's very definitely a British tradition; it used to be called plum pudding or even figgy pudding so you may have heard of it with those names. It's mainly dried fruit, spices, suet, treacle and LOTS of alcohol. They get made quite a few weeks in advance but keeps for ages. It's steamed for a couple of hours and served with brandy sauce. It's incredibly rich and you don't need very much, particularly after a huge roast turkey dinner!

[sullen_hearts]

We didn't have Christmas pudding this year, my grandma was up in arms. We had lemon cheesecake instead.

[ganimede]

I'm not surprised your grandma was up in arms! Don't get me wrong, I loooove cheesecake but no Christmas pudding?! Sacrilege!