Linda extended Stream of Consciousness Saturday into Sunday this week, giving those of us celebrating Christmas a bit more time to post. She also gave us an easy prompt – yum – so, of course, I am going to write about all the yummy food we had yesterday.
I am in London UK to celebrate the holidays with daughter E and her family, so we ate differently than most Christmases. When E and T were growing up, they usually sang at our church Christmas morning, so we developed the tradition of having lasagna on Christmas Day because it was easy to prepare ahead and then bake after church. It was also a nod to my mother’s Italian heritage.
This year, we did have a bit of Italian heritage by having panettone for breakfast, but our main meal was an amalgam of British and Filipino dishes, as E’s parents-in-law are immigrants to the U.K. from the Philippines. We had pancit, mushroom stuffed puff pastry cups, bacon wrapped sausages over stuffing, a clove-studded baked ham, glazed carrots, and shaved Brussels sprout salad. Everything was yummy!
We had great desserts, too! December 25th is also E’s father-in-law’s birthday so there was a decorated applesauce cake with appropriate singing, of course, and two pies that we had made in our rental flat, one pumpkin and one apple. All of them were yummy. Of course, I had to sample all three!
I did have a very traditional evening snack. Spouse B had made shortbreads from his family’s recipe and gingerbreads from a recipe he made every year with E and T as they were growing up. It was a bit of a challenge adapting the recipes from US to U.K. ingredients and measurements but they are still familiar and yummy!
I hope that everyone, wherever you are and whether you are celebrating a holiday or not, is blessed with some yummy food in your life this weekend!
(Now comes the part of the post where I try to do a pingback to Linda’s blog. I’m uncharacteristically writing this from an app so we’ll see if I can manage it. I’m definitely not trying to copy in the SoCS logo this time around! /https://lindaghill.com/2021/12/24/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socss-dec-25-26-2021/ )
I hope you have a a wonderful time.
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Thanks, Sadje! It’s great to be here, despite jet lag and COVID precautions.
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I know! You finally got here.
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This all sounds delicious. I hope you have a wonderful visit!
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Thanks so much, Laura! I’ll try to squeeze in some more posts while we are here.
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I’m so glad you got to spend the holidays with your family across the ocean!
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Thank you, JoAnna! I hope you have been able to spend time with your family, too.
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Yes. I felt very grateful to have both of my adult children and their families over Christmas night.
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That is a menu to be proud of. And snacks to be proud of. And cookies. I’ve noticed our son chef has taken to having lasagna on Christmas Eve, with different bolognese each year. I think he, too, does it because of the ability to make it ahead of time. So I believe it’s a tradition now! Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, Ellen! I hope your grandchildren approved of your book choices!
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Thank you, yes he did! ❤
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