A Peaceful Christmas!

greetings from a blog nine days old

The Pillsbury Doughboy figure in his baker's hat, lying on his stomach on top of a red Christmas bauble.

The day has just turned to Christmas Eve. One last push remains in the morning, and after that a good many of us will presumably quieten down to enjoy what Christmas has to offer.

Doughboy is only nine days old, and it has been truly encouraging to see that almost exactly two hundred readers visit these pages every day. Thank you for that.

I shall devote the next three days to rosolli, the beetroot salad of the Finnish Christmas table, to ham and to mustard, and try to spend more time with the family than with the blog. Merry Christmas!

The oven is already warm

bake another while you are at it