Xmas Trimmings

 Xmas preparation is well underway. I've made 4 Christmas cakes. I call them Xmas cakes but they're really just fruit cakes, the ones where you boil the fruit. Easy and delicious. I add lots of dried fruit, figs  soaked in raki, preserved cherries, dates, whatever I can lay my hands on. Then I douse them all liberally in some sort the f alcohol.

Paté has been made and given away, except for a small pot for us.

Chicken livers . 

Cutting these up is not my favourite job.  They come attached to hearts and kidneys. I fry those up and use them in an omelette.

Then I wash my hands really well! Can't stand the smell.

The finished product was tasty this year. I don't always like it. There was plenty of bacon and whisky in it.

Whisky has been poured liberally into quite a few Xmas recipes

The supermarket is full of exotic goodies. One of them were these blackberries. I have never ever seen blackberries on sale here and I certainly won't be buying these for over 7 euros for  few hundred grams.

I made four Xmas cakes. Three of them are for giving away.

Almost half a bottle of Grants Whisky was poured over these.   I haven't tried any of the Xmas sweets, English or Greek because I've cut sugar out of my life.

So far so good.