Advent 2025 - Day 23
Dec. 23rd, 2025 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartOne more day till Christmas - which, in this country, predominantly means Christmas Eve. Shocking how fast these four weeks flew by. Now I'll have to think of subject lines again - very inconvenient! *g*
Anyway, I did some grocery shopping in the morning, which was traumatic at best. Lidl was like a battlefield, due to the usual reaction of people to the fact that the shops will be closed on December 25 and 26. I really should have gone yesterday, but I felt miserable due to this dratted cold. Well... I've paid the price, even though I just bought such everyday items as bread, diary products and fruit. *sigh*
As a result, we had a very late brunch. So late, in fact, that we skipped lunch entirely and had our afternoon café roughly an hour ago. With cookies. And that counted as supper already. Tomorrow, though, tomorrow we're going to have a really nice dinner. (Unless I burn it or whatnot...)
My friend Elise dropped by to fetch her last tin of cookies, but she did it on the run (five times grandmother with an ailing father), so there's only Evie's tin left on the balcony. And our own ones, of course. I intend to regroup the remaining cookies and free up and put away at least three or four tin boxes in the process tomorrow. Tomorrow promises to be a busy day. But at least the Christmas tree is decorated.
I've baked the sponge for the Russian Cream Torte, which I intend to make tomorrow. The funny thing is, it isn't actually a Russian dessert. It was invented by a Hungarian pastry chef, who worked at the Oroszi Kávéház (Russian Coffee House) in Budapest, so oroszkrém torta is a real Hungarian dessert.
I'm planning to make it with red currants, gold raisins and mandarines - if it turns out presentable, I'll post a photo. *fingers crossed*
Anyway, I did some grocery shopping in the morning, which was traumatic at best. Lidl was like a battlefield, due to the usual reaction of people to the fact that the shops will be closed on December 25 and 26. I really should have gone yesterday, but I felt miserable due to this dratted cold. Well... I've paid the price, even though I just bought such everyday items as bread, diary products and fruit. *sigh*
As a result, we had a very late brunch. So late, in fact, that we skipped lunch entirely and had our afternoon café roughly an hour ago. With cookies. And that counted as supper already. Tomorrow, though, tomorrow we're going to have a really nice dinner. (Unless I burn it or whatnot...)
My friend Elise dropped by to fetch her last tin of cookies, but she did it on the run (five times grandmother with an ailing father), so there's only Evie's tin left on the balcony. And our own ones, of course. I intend to regroup the remaining cookies and free up and put away at least three or four tin boxes in the process tomorrow. Tomorrow promises to be a busy day. But at least the Christmas tree is decorated.
I've baked the sponge for the Russian Cream Torte, which I intend to make tomorrow. The funny thing is, it isn't actually a Russian dessert. It was invented by a Hungarian pastry chef, who worked at the Oroszi Kávéház (Russian Coffee House) in Budapest, so oroszkrém torta is a real Hungarian dessert.
I'm planning to make it with red currants, gold raisins and mandarines - if it turns out presentable, I'll post a photo. *fingers crossed*
