Christmas Eve roundup
Dec. 24th, 2013 02:54 pmFor me, the war Christmas retail season is over. (Not really, because there will be after-Christmas sales and people spending the gift cards they received for Christmas, but today I choose to believe that it is over.)
I'm at home, cooking bacon for a late post-work lunch. Later I will steam some tamales; tamales on Christmas Eve are a local tradition. They weren't part of my childhood, because I grew up in another part of the country, one that, unlike New Mexico, is not predominantly Latin@. But tamales are delicious and therefore I am happy to adopt the tradition!
In the end, I decided on a relaxed, low-cooking Christmas. Tomorrow I will bake a loaf of bread and eat it with some cheese (I bought an aged Manchego and some Taleggio, not my ideal choices but for some reason it's hard to get good cheeses here) and some paté. If I start to feel that I must have Real Food, I will cook a creamy potato soup with ham. I have fancy ginger beer to drink, as well as eggnog and the last of the good apple cider. And there's some leftover pumpkin spice cake with ginger and cream cheese frosting (I took most of it to work the other day), but I will probably end up making some chocolate-dipped peanut butter balls, because they are the most gloriously, childishly delicious thing ever.
In keeping with the food theme, today's December meme topic, from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
glinda, is tea. (I'll answer the meme questions I had to skip after Christmas).
( Tea )
I'm at home, cooking bacon for a late post-work lunch. Later I will steam some tamales; tamales on Christmas Eve are a local tradition. They weren't part of my childhood, because I grew up in another part of the country, one that, unlike New Mexico, is not predominantly Latin@. But tamales are delicious and therefore I am happy to adopt the tradition!
In the end, I decided on a relaxed, low-cooking Christmas. Tomorrow I will bake a loaf of bread and eat it with some cheese (I bought an aged Manchego and some Taleggio, not my ideal choices but for some reason it's hard to get good cheeses here) and some paté. If I start to feel that I must have Real Food, I will cook a creamy potato soup with ham. I have fancy ginger beer to drink, as well as eggnog and the last of the good apple cider. And there's some leftover pumpkin spice cake with ginger and cream cheese frosting (I took most of it to work the other day), but I will probably end up making some chocolate-dipped peanut butter balls, because they are the most gloriously, childishly delicious thing ever.
In keeping with the food theme, today's December meme topic, from
glinda, is tea. (I'll answer the meme questions I had to skip after Christmas).( Tea )
