christmas recap

This Christmas was packed with food...so much food, so little time to fit it all in. All week we have had a crackling fire glowing away in the background of all of our activities.

We opened an early gift of rum my parents picked up from Barbados (as they don't export this type & it was engraved as a gift)...

 

 ...before making some festive Christmas tree cookies...lots and lots of cookies...

 

...followed by a taste testing of champagne.

 

 

 

 

We settled in for a movie before Christmas eve dinner of steak au poivre and lots of Alaskan King crab legs (my favorite food in the wholeeee world).

 

 

 

 

Christmas morning we skipped down the stairs to our full tree, and opened our presents while the paparazzi followed Erin.

 

 

 

Christmas dinner fell in my hands as everyone watched sports on TV (no thanks). I made a Christmas turkey stuffed with butter and herbs to retain the moisture, ham, green beans with toasted pine nuts and shallots, cornbread stuffing & scalloped potatoes served with the necessary crescent rolls, olives, cranberry sauce & meim's gravy.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a huge Christmas dinner we took a break, watching a Christmas movie by the fire before....chocolate soufflés for dessert of course! I added a touch of salt and a pinch of cream of tartar to the recipe for some extra depth & topped them with Toscanini's french vanilla ice cream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The day after I'm still recovering from all of the food...but definitely looking forward to some leftover "Thanksgiving" sandwiches for dinner!!

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christmas brunch

For Christmas brunch we headed back to T.W. Food for a perfect jazz brunch. Brunch is offered Sundays from 10am-2pm with a 3-piece jazz band. My dad and I started with a casa casa orange mimosa with the matching house smoked salmon with a winter salad.

T and meim went with the bakery plate with the best chocolate-almond muffin in the world, cranberry scones, and jam.

For a main dish T went with the sherry french toast with bosc pear, mcintosh apple and maple syrup. T had a chance to taste everyones plate and reported his french toast was his favorite dish of all, the perfect combination with the sweet fruit apples and the sherry french toast.
 

My dish was my favorite and I could have eaten 1.5 servings of this: the pulled pork tartine with caramel porter pork, fried egg & sweet potato. Unbelievably delicious, not too salty, not too heavy, light & perfected.
 

Meim and my dad went with sausage & waffles with bratwurst, maple jus and apple. The bratwurst was apparently out-of-this-world, and T as well as my meim are now anxiously awaiting the opening of Bronwyn in Union Square (the owner's new eastern-European and pasta restaurant opening someday in the near future).
 

For dessert meim and T went with the apple tarte with almond frangipane & whipped cream that is made to look like vanilla bean ice cream.
 

My dad and I opted for our mimosas over dessert. Afterwards we headed out to Formaggio for some last-minute stocking shopping before heading home. Overall a perfect Christmas brunch!

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decorations

Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming...and so are the holiday decorations. With some leftover tree clippings and berry branches I found in our yard (much to T's upset), I decorated the mantle with an antique alabaster vase, ivory candles, and our stockings of course!

 

 

 

 

After putting out the holiday wreath pillow and putting on our antlers, we decorated the tree (and yes, that is a garlic ornament) while Moose slept nearby.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy holiday season! January, please don't hurry!

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