jeudi 7 janvier 2010
A Laid-Back Christmas
We had a pretty quiet Christmas this year. My parents were originally planning on coming, but they just received their mission call to Germany and are leaving the end of January, so they didn't have enough time. We had a great time anyway, our little family. Being low on people made acting out the Christmas story a little difficult, but Jonas did great at being both Joseph and baby Jesus. I tried to pull off a French Christmas dinner, with fois gras, prawns, smoked salmon, a chapon, and the thirteen desserts, and maybe a French person wouldn't have completely approved, we thought it was delicious. We spent the evening with some of our good friends. The most important things was that the kids were overjoyed, so it was a success!
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Thirteen desserts ? Are you crazy ?
RépondreSupprimerdito that, thirteen is madness. I'm glad your Christmas was a success.
RépondreSupprimerPlus we add some of our traditional American ones. Hey, why not? It's Christmas!
RépondreSupprimerDid you make all the deserts? What were they?
RépondreSupprimerI guess I should have been more clear on the thirteen desserts. It is a Christmas tradition of Provence and each of the desserts represents something pertaining to the religious. Luckily most of them can be bought because no, I definitely would not make thirteen desserts. They vary somewhat throughout the region,but here they are generally: white nougat, black nougat, almond paste with dates and prunes, several kinds of fruits, several kinds of nuts,calissons d'aix, and pompe a l'huile (a olive oil based brioche that I did make). So to that we added a bouche de noel and some good old American Christmas cookies. There you go!
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