A gift from a few years back which conveniently worked its way to the top of one of my lists this month. A lot of good short (mostly very short) Christmas-related stories and extracts from longer works (eg Pickwick Papers, Adrian Mole). Many are about children, some are spooky. There's a particularly vicious piece by Frank O'Connor which is unusually dark (both for him and for this book). Suitable for browsing, but in particular for reading aloud at this time of year if you have people who will stop and listen. Classifying this as non-genre, though as noted there are ...
Starter: Figs and Prosciutto 10 figs 20 small cubes of blue cheese prosciutto (thinly sliced, cut in half lengthwise) Cut the figs in half and place a piece of blue cheese on each fig half. Fasten a piece of prosciutto to each fig through the cheese with a cocktail stick. Put in a hot oven for long enough for the cheese to soften. Eat it all up. Comment: In an ideal world, where one has a functioning grill, one is supposed to grill the whole lot to make the prosciutto crispy and the cheese soft and then drizzle with salt, ...
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[IMG: christmas] Wherever you are, whether you have agreed with us or not, to friends old and new, we wish you peace, health and happiness on this Christmas Day.
