After eating till your stuffed(lol)...next is Dessert. We know that we are FULL, turkey alone can do it! Dessert puts an end to the meal....the Christmas meal...it has to be important!! Every year...for as long as I can remember it has been a Christmas Pudding and Butterscotch Sauce. It was in my Great-Grandmothers recipe book. And when my Mom got married and had kids, it was her task. It appears that who ever has the kids, hosts the family dinner. AND when I was a twenty-something, and still at home...I started to make the pudding...the pudding that I NEVER ate..yuck...but I still made. It was gross, raisins, currants, shredded carrot/potato, breadcrumbs, corn syrup, butter, brown sugar...spices...and then mix it all with your hands...GROSS!! Then steam it for three hours. But I did it and continued to do it till this year!
This year, my family are not coming, I will see them on Boxing Day for Chinese(yumm yumm). It will be MY little family and brother and his son....so I decided on finding a NEW TRADITION...something WOW...something that you don't have everyday. I have ALL of Nigella Lawson's cookbooks...I love Nigella...I guess you could say she is my "girl crush"....her and Julia Roberts!! After going through various recipes and consulting my critics(the kids and Hubby)....I have decided on Nigella's Chocolate Cherry Trifle!!! I have made some notes on where to cheat....I will let you know how it goes!! I am sure it will be a HIT...who doesn't like CHOCOLATE and the odd CHERRY!? Seriously.......
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