I'd just about figured out how to make a proper (well as near as you can get being gluten-free, vegan etc) Christmas dinner for self and son in my tiny new kitchen, but then neither of us had the energy to make it (bith recovering from a virus). Then i suddenly had an inspiration and made us a simple meal instead of beans, rice pasta and brocolli with vegan cheese melted over, it accompanied by baked sweet potatoes, topped with rosemary and freshly squeezed lime juice . Which proved delicious . We'll have the proper christmas stuff another day,
Another nice thing is that I've frecently found that I'm not allergic to chocolate after all. it's just that the accompanying fat makes me ill. So i was able to follow that up, a bit later, with two Booja Booja gluten-free chocolates truffles , which is pushing a little bit, but i'll probably be OK (* fingers crossed* ). And now I certainly feel as if I've had a Christmas Dinner
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oh! and my son loved the presents I bought him. Not just the usual assortment of books and cjhocoates, I'd also bought him a really good sweater, on behalf of Mum (who died earlier this year. see my thread in Elders) because she had always bought him a really good (and always very tasteful, believe it or not) sweater, which particular present wowed him every time. My sweater wowed him too
and he agreed it was exactly the sort of thing his Nan would have bought.
So that's a pretty damned satisfactory Christmas, in spite of illness, bereavements etc . Very quiet, but we like it that way
