Let the cooking adventure commence!

I'm sitting at my Dad's desk. It's in my study now, because the things he left for me arrived in Trinidad this week. It's the strangest feeling - sitting here to write: the place he sat at to write for some 30 years. But it feels correct.

So I'm starting to get excited about the cooking for Christmas. I know what I'm going to make; I bought all the ingredients this afternoon (please let me not have to go back to Hi-Lo before Christmas!) and I'm going to begin the process today with the grape dessert, the sorrel and cranberry coulis and the creme brulee.

So wish me luck, as this is all stuff that's either just been invented, or that I am trying for the first time!