A Christmas Recipe Meme - Holly table decorations
The lovely Ally has tagged me in a Christmas recipe meme. These are the rules (how do some people manage to indent stuff on blogs? - one of the things I am going to do one of these days is learn some more HTML):
Link to the person who ‘tagged’ you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Post your favourite Christmas recipe – something traditionally festive or something that has become a tradition in your house.
Tag four people at the end of your post.
Let each person know they have been tagged by commenting on their blog.
Let the tagger know the entry is posted on your blog.
Post your own Christmas recipe within a week of being tagged to keep this on the move.
I might break some of these rules. Because I always travel home for Christmas (oh to have a house in Sydney big enough for family visits!) I don't have so many traditional recipes. I am more prone to trying to make some exotic specialty each year, some of which work, some of which don't (the fig and hazelnut panforte seemed like a good idea at the time, but fiddling around with hot liquid glucose is not something I'm recommending!). So, way back here I showed you some table decorations I made for Christmas in July, and I thought I would give you more detailed instructions on those.
It's really quite simple. You need:
red and green cellophane (I bought this in Go-Lo)
pipe cleaners (I bought these tinsel ones also in Go-Lo, otherwise ordinary red and green ones are good)
jaffas
mint leaves (you can't always get these in supermarkets, but K-Mart is good)
First you cut the cellophane into squares that are big enough to wrap around the jaffas and leaves with an inch or so left for tying them together (don't be too skimpy on the green, because it needs to make it down the length of the leaves). Then you simply fold the cellophane from the middle over the jaffas and leaves, and twist the ends. I think they look better with the fat ends of the leaves facing out, which you need to think about when wrapping them.
For each decoration you need three jaffas, two leaves, and in this case I used half a pipe cleaner.
First get the three jaffas together and twist one end of the pipe cleaner firmly around them, then get the two leaves behind the jaffas and wind the rest of the pipe cleaner around them, any old how that makes it all stay together (I tried to take these photos in the other hand, because my other fingernail looked better, and couldn't, so thankfully my nails didn't really come out).
And voila! You have yourself edible decorations. As I mentioned in that last post, you can scatter them around for some Christmas cheer on the table (or supper tables at church or wherever), add them to place cards, hang them over a wine glass, add them to your tree, or whatever takes your fancy.
I don't think I'll tag anyone, because it looks like nearly everyone I know has been tagged already, and presumably a Christmas recipe meme is only good for so long, but if you want to share your favourite, please do!