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Festive Recipes
This month on our Lifestyle pages we have a festive food and drink extravaganza. This is due to a lot of hard work carried out by our dear friend Dominique who has put together an absolutely fantastic selection of Christmas Recipes for us - which she sent all the way from Belgium, too! On this page you’ll find some delicious Christmas cookie recipes, and on the next page some great suggestions for some warming winter drinks. Dominique writes:
Every time December is coming I feel like making cakes and cookies. The whole month feels Christmassy and I always hope for a white Christmas. When you’re living in Belgium there is always a chance of a white Christmas but when you are living in Crete forget it. But the smell of oven fresh cookies gives you the Christmas feeling even on a sunny – 25° - day!
Christmas Cookies
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Chocolate Toffees Ingredients 70 gr real butter (Lidl)
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Preparation Put the baking paper in an oven dish (8 by 26 cm is a good size).
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Muesli Cups with White Chocolate
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Preparation Preheat the oven to 150°C. Melt the butter and honey in a casserole, stir in the muesli gently, so that the muesli is covered with the butter/honey mix, heat for a few minutes. Let it cool down. In the meantime chop the chocolate into small pieces and then stir them into the muesli mix. Fill each cup with a teaspoon of the mix, put the cups on an oven plate and bake them for about 10 minutes. Let them cool down before serving. You can keep them in a tin box for about 10 days. But they won’t actually last 10 days…. And, even better, they are actually a healthy eating option! PS. If you can’t find the paper cups you just put a teaspoon of the mix on a oven plate covered with baking paper. |
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Coconut Cookies
Ingredients for about 30 cookies
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Preparation Preheat the oven to 180°C. Beat the egg whites with the sugar until you can turn over the bowl and nothing falls out (if you don’t want to clean your kitchen floor don’t try this after beating the egg whites for only 20 seconds!). Add the coconut, the flour and the grated lemon peel. Cover an oven plate with baking paper and put teaspoons of the mix on it. Leave some space between because they become bigger.The cookies don’t really become brown, so don’t panic. |
Ingredients for about 30 cups
White of 2 eggs
Crossword Competition: The Winners!
We know that there is still the December crossword to complete, but as it is coming up to the end of the year, we thought we would announce who our prize winners are now, though we will give you a final tally in our January issue. Judy Hall is in the lead on 45 points and Trevor and Linda Sanders are in second place on 41 points - meals will be on us in the New Year and we will also try to come up with some suitable trophies and a prize giving ceremony and some point! Thanks to all of you who have been keeping the faith with our eccentric crossword and for pointing out our errors along the way. We know we haven’t always made things easy for you, but we hope you have enjoyed participating in the competition. We will try to do better next year. And once again, many thanks also go to Jan Rouschop for persevering with our logic problems!
