Sunday, December 27, 2009

Food and Family

Christmas for us this year was a flurry of activity. Renee Michelle and Andrew arrived on Friday, December 18, just ahead of the largest blizzard in 70 years, that pretty much parallelized the East Coast. My new kitchen range was installed just in time for her flurry of cooking. Highlights of the cooking from my perspective were: 1) chocolate mousse and two pies made by Andrew (peach and cherry) 2) home made noodles from Renee Michelle's pasta maker, peanut noodles and carrots with herbs, 3) turkey cooked in oil by Gerry (this needs some fine tuning, mainly not being cooked for as long), 4) great homemade eggnog and veggie pizza by Stacey. If any of you are asking what I did, the answer is WASHED A LOT OF DISHES. Actually my new dish washer was up and running so that really helped.

Another tradition we have is to have custom made pizzas at Shawn and Stacey's on Christmas eve. I bring the home made pizza dough and she provides the toppings.


4 comments:

de-I said...

Sounds like a great time.

stef said...

We make pizza on christmas day in my family. sadly not this year.i have to imagine yours instead...;)

Anonymous said...

I commend your dish-washing ability, Mom.

alexis said...

aww, that sounds like a delicious xmas!