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Another Christmas dinner pondering: need to decide on a dessert. I've previously gone for something like a posset, or a fruit salad with my family, seeing as it's a heavy meal. But I'm not sure I feel like making another lemon posset (maybe for New Year this time), so I'm considering maybe a small sample of truffles.

But is that really "a dessert"?

Himself loves a creme brulee, but I've never tried one, so unless I do a trial run, it'll be a risk. And if I do a trial run and it works out, how could I then make the christmas CB special, and not "oh we just had this dessert a few weeks ago"? That is, without adding something insane like popcorn. Yes, I have seen that on a restaurant menu.

It'll have to be something I can mostly do one or two days beforehand in any case.

I think I'll go through one particular cookbook tonight.

Maybe creme brulee garnished with fine slices of pears poached in jasmine tea? Drizzled with tea syrup? Maybe...