Christmas just seemed to pop out of nowhere this year. I wasn't sure what to make for Christmas Eve dinner and said as much to my mother. Her reply was "fish." Settled that question. I made a fish stew and had some bread and green salad to go with it. One of the nice things about Christmas in Arizona is that I was able to have Christmas Eve lunch outside. You can see it's "cold" based on the amount of steam you can see rising from the bowl of soup.
Here are a couple of pictures from the church I go to decorated for Christmas.
I didn't take a good look at the indoor nativity scene. There was a bit of a scandal a couple of years ago when a child snuck in a little red-nosed reindeer.
I did some Christmas baking again this year, making a batch of blueberry scones and a batch of ginger spice cookies.
The scones didn't turn out quite so well as have other batches I have baked. I am used to adding (dry) chocolate chips to the flour instead of frozen (wet) blueberries so the dough didn't hold together very well and was a bit harder to work with. Add to this all the candy and chocolate I was given and you can see why I was happy to have had a dental check-up the week before Christmas.
Being on my own I don't really have any Christmas traditions. Thinking about the last time I was home for Christmas and having dinner with relatives recalls the traditional (for us) Christmas Eve dishes of bacala cooked in tomato sauce served with boiled potatoes (helps cut the salt), angel hair pasta with anchovy sauce, sausage, salads, treats galore, and peperoni pizza. Yeah, pepperoni pizza. Turns out the twenty-something kids in the family aren't really into the other stuff. I realize that not everyone likes anchovies and salted cod like I do so I am not passing judgement and certainly life is too short to eat food you are not interested in. Oh well, their loss.
What are your Christmas traditions?
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