When all the restaurants were festive and booked solid and even our regular brunch place was a hive of activity with green and red tablecloths, party hats, confetti, streamers and favors laid out (we were politely kicked out eventually so they could get ready for the party), here’s what we had for Christmas Eve dinner last night:
Rockstar wanted bow pasta and chicken satay (horning in on my mushroom tortellini), plus that orange crab roe they sell in the supermarkets for making sushi. (After I took the pic I realize he’d already swiped the crab roe and was eating it as a starter out in the living room.)
I of course had the mushroom and cheese-stuffed pasta, with more aperifrais cheese (pasteurized milk – hah!) but couldn’t find any pasteurized caviar from Great supermarket or I would’ve had that too with organic blue corn chips (also the proper crackers but Rockstar and I wanted something blue).
Kings wanted chicken curry and biryani rice with a side of minced pork.
So we all got to eat what we wanted to eat. It’s Christmas! What, we have to have turkey and pudding and all the sweets when we feel like having something else? We might eat the Christmas food to be polite and festive if we’re with others, but otherwise….. 😀 Love, love, love our own family tradition. AND we all agreed on the fruit “bowl”. See? Festive! (But seriously, what were we going to do with Christmas sweets, we are not big “sweets” people, especially right now I don’t have a thing for sweet things at all, we could buy it to be festive, but then who was going to eat it…)
And then we watched Freakonomics the Movie on DVD.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56k1xVAq290]
Ok, off to church!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Aileen! Lovely meal on Christmas Eve – nothing beats eating what one wants to eat at that time. Good to set your own family tradition. What a healthy fruit bowl. I spot strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, orange?, mango?
You are right! Though I didn’t find any mango… Maybe the other 2 ate it 😛