Xmas Menu

At Xmas time, I am the cook. I am the one who stands in the hot kitchen for 28383 hours making food that my family are always too drunk to remember eating. Alas, I love it and here is this year's menu in the making (pics to follow post-Xmas):

- Traditional prawn cocktails with homemade mayo

- Champagne sorbet

- Rosemary and paprika mixed nuts

- Coddled eggs with basil, roast tomato and bacon

- Baked plum and clove glazed ham

- White chocolate and nutmeg cheesecake

Can.not.wait.

Green tea and plum jam biscuits

Green tea is possibly my favourite thing in the world of food. I saw a recipe for jam drops and changed it by adding green tea and plum jam.

80g butter

1/3 cup caster sugar

1 tsp of vanilla essence/paste

1 cup self-raising flour

1/4 cup custard powder

2 tsp green tea powder

2 tbs milk

Beat butter/sugar together. Add milk and vanilla.

Sift in flour, green tea powder and custard powder, mix to soft dough.

Roll into balls, press in to make a small well - add 1/4 tsp of jam.

Bake 15 mins at 180.