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Each year, a week or so before Christmas, friends of mine hold an annual Christmas tree trim party, an American tradition they’ve claimed as their own. Guests are invited to bring along a tree trinket “to add to its glamour, or liquid to keep it moist”. It’s a fabulous idea and the tree is one [...]
This splendid shimmering centrepiece which will impress guests is a good one to do for Christmas. Even better, it’s low-fat and not difficult to make. You can substitute sparkling apple juice for the champagne if just for kids. You can double the quantities if you have a larger mould to make an even more impressive [...]
The cards are rolling in. The kids are home from school for another year. It’s just a few days to Christmas and I haven’t finished writing out cards, let alone posted them. One card we recevied struck me by its beauty and simplicity. It’s a Christmas star cut out of paper, coloured with crayons and [...]
My Christmas gift – a little bundle of joy complete with rose-bud mouth – arrived early this year. Born last week at the Matilda Hospital in Hong Kong, her parents (my daughter, Natali, and her husband, Tony) named her Jasmyn. After all their agonising over names for both boy and girl (throughout the pregnancy they [...]
A new twist on eggnog (without eggs!), specially devised for Christmas 2010, by Uwe Habermehl, executive chef the Sydney Convention Centre – perfect for the hot humid weather at this time of the year Down Under. I bet Oprah Winfrey, who is currently visiting Sydney, would love it! Uwe is creating some marvellous, “unconventional” dishes [...]
Here’s a terrific recipe for gingerbread from my latest book Mini Chef – Cooking with Kids. Once you’ve made it, roll it out and cut into different shapes: christmas trees, bells, angels, stars,cockatoos, kangaroos, maps of Australia. You can also use it as the foundation for a Gingerbread House – cut out walls, roofs, chimneys [...]
