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🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

LukasB — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:37:50 GMT

Hey guys,

how are we doing? It is almost Christmas and nothing says Christmas more than all those heavenly scents coming from the kitchen.

While I am no wiz in the kitchen I do know how to make something perfectly suitable for this season.

So please find below my recipe for MULLED WINE

(It is technically cooking so don’t judge)

What you need:

1-5 bottles of Red wine (cheap)
50ml of Rum (or to taste)
4 Oranges (2 sliced, 2 squeezed for juice)
7 cloves
2 Cinnamon sticks
Star Anise
50g of Sugar (or to taste but the sweeter the more headaches)

Instructions:

Put the red wine, the spices, the orange slices and the freshly squeezed orange juice in a saucepan and heat on a low level, but do not boil! Then add the rum and sugar and heat again briefly. Strain the spices and orange slices and serve the mulled wine hot immediately! Have loads of it!

Please share your holiday favourites - I want to learn. But please keep them easy 😹

Let me know what you are making for Christmas? What recipes are a success at your home? And what will you bring to the table on x-mas this year? I can’t wait to try all of the stuff you make.

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:42:58 GMT

I saw the thread & expected alcohol.. I expect I’ll see a lot more!

(To taste - LOL)

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

LukasB — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:44:03 GMT

hahaha @Anonymous do what you do best

I am sure @MI5 is going to appreciate this haha

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

MI5 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:56:48 GMT

On it already 🤣

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

LukasB — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:31:58 GMT

HAHAHA are you making mulled wine @MI5 ?

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Marjo — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:58:06 GMT

I have some mulled wine waiting for me @LukasB although it's ready-made in a bottle.

The cookies I posted about earlier might be an easy one for you too:

1) Get a big egg (or two small ones like I did)

2) Get a cup of flour with some crushed almonds mixed in

3) Get a cup of Nutella

4) Mix them all together until smooth and super thick, something you can roll into small balls in your hands

5) Place the balls on a baking tray and flatten a bit

6) Cook in the oven (Gas mark 4 - what's that in celcius) I cooked my first batch for 35 minutes because I failed, but the instructions were actually 10 min. Second batch ended up perfect!

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

LukasB — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:11:35 GMT

@Marjo that actually sounds like something I can manage in the kitchen

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:15:12 GMT

35 minutes instead of 10 lol @Marjo

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

MI5 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:25:57 GMT

@LukasB wrote:
HAHAHA are you making mulled wine @MI5 ?

Yes it's a Christmas Eve tradition here.

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Cleoriff — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:05:09 GMT

Here's mine and I hope it goes down well.

All to be taken in with the Christmas spirit intended...I hope

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

LukasB — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:06:12 GMT

ohhh @Cleoriff that sounds

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

gmarkj — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:07:08 GMT

Very funny but not one I will be trying today or tomorrow (will be putting the gammon in the oven and the turkey in the slow cooker later...)

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:08:20 GMT

Deffo Ab Fab @Cleoriff x x

Got me a chuckling

One to go into my personal Dropbox to savour year after year.

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Cleoriff — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:24:22 GMT

I got it off FB years ago @Anonymous . I couldn't stop laughing about it at the time. It would be just like me, trying the vodka over and over again and being so rat assed I would be wiping the counters with the cat....

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

gmarkj — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:34:17 GMT

My step mum did something similar many years ago.
Was cooking Christmas dinner while drinking wine...
At one point she walked into the kitchen, then turned around and asked what she was in the kitchen for!

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Cleoriff — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:33:44 GMT

The most stupid thing I did, when drunk, was put the turkey in the oven upside down. Mum and Dad were here ready to be waited on....Got the turkey out, then went into floods of tears as I tried to carve it, still drunk and found nothing to carve. 'Muuuuum', I called helplessly. She came into the kitchen, laughed when she saw what I'd done, flipped the turkey the right way up and carved it

Funnily enough it was the best turkey ever, not dried out at all as it was upside down!

I have remained sober nowadays, until everything is dished up...

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Marjo — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:52:40 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:

The most stupid thing I did, when drunk, was put the turkey in the oven upside down. Mum and Dad were here ready to be waited on....Got the turkey out, then went into floods of tears as I tried to carve it, still drunk and found nothing to carve. 'Muuuuum', I called helplessly. She came into the kitchen, laughed when she saw what I'd done, flipped the turkey the right way up and carved it

Funnily enough it was the best turkey ever, not dried out at all as it was upside down!

I have remained sober nowadays, until everything is dished up...

Maybe that's a great tip for others @Cleoriff - upside down in the oven and it turns out even better!

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Cleoriff — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:05:18 GMT

@Marjo

A friend of mine, who is a chef, said it was because all the turkey juices drained into the turkey instead of into the roasting pan.

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

gmarkj — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 19:29:43 GMT

My dad has cooked his turkey upside down for years and is always excellent...

Re: 🍷🎄My Favourite X-mas Recipe 🎄🍷

Cleoriff — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 19:57:47 GMT

So a mistake I made when drunk, turns out to be a good thing after all.