on holiday meals

[regala_electra]

My wrist is still teh suck. I've been wearing an ace bandage to make up for the fact that I really can't hold anything heavy.

It's not broken, I know that much, I've broken my wrist when I was young and I still remember what that felt like. Fortunately it's my right hand (I'm a lefty), but I didn't realize how often I'd use my right to carry heavy things while my left hand was free.

It's a very, very sucktastic sprain. So never stand around enraged parents and doors. A simle lesson.

Today we went shopping for Thanksgiving dinner and man, we have an insane amount of food ready to be made. I'm making Mushroom Bisque, Glazed Root Vegtables, and string beans (probably some sort of garlicky sauce, a light one to go along with it), whilst I assist with any other dishes (such as candied yams, biscuits, and mashed potatoes) and finally aid my mom with the Stuffing.

I say 'the Stuffing' because it must be capitalized. The Stuffing consists of well...everything. Name a food item you are allergic to. Our Stuffing will kill you instantly. Chestnuts, sausage, walnuts, cranberries, clams, mushrooms, cider and so, so much more. It is a meal upon itself and the turkey is just the pretty center piece.

And heh, we didn't even get a pie. This is partly because my assy sister just 'needed' to have pie last week and brought home TWO pies. The problem? We're not real big pie eaters in my family. So it's been clogging up the fridge until I finally had to go around harassing everyone to finish off the damn pies. Dayyymn. Too much pie.

It's so strange to think how much food simply has to made during the holidays. I mean, after Thanksgiving and before Christmas, my family has to make pasteles. Beyond the reason that we need to have some in the freezer, because hello best dinner ever.

For my uncles are coming in from California to visit the family (my family, my grandma, my aunts, and little cousins) during Christmas. So it looks like another mass production of pasteles, and considering last time we made about 120, oh, it's going to be an all day mission.

And then Christmas Eve with seafood (and chorizo) paella, a tradition. And Christmas dinner over my grandmother's, with 'spanish' pork, beans (red beans, and black beans), platanos, some of our pasteles, and oh, so much damn food is gearing up in these two months.

Decision: Eat a lot of damn salads to make up for these eatin' days.

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[ignited.livejournal.com]

And then Christmas Eve with seafood (and chorizo) paella, a tradition. And Christmas dinner over my grandmother's, with 'spanish' pork, beans (red beans, and black beans), platanos, some of our pasteles, and oh, so much damn food is gearing up in these two months.

...Damn -- this just reminds me of one of the reasons why I look forward to Christmas. Because the food! Aghaaah. Especially those. I'm making my mom do pernil this year -- or at least go to a restaurant and buy it. Because I adore it so.

Making your own pasteles? o_o Good luck with that! I remember watching my grandmother make tons of them when I visited her in Puerto Rico three years ago. Me, I just go for the frozen food ones. ...Which really, is my own fault if they taste evil. Hmm. ;)

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

Um yeah, we do pernil every Christmas. And pasteles. Because we want to someday watch one of us explode.

Yes, we make 'em from scratch. All 4 (5 including my nine year old sister) of us. My mom does the stovetop cooking, my dad cuts the pork, I do the chopping, and we all help in the masa (grating bananas = evil). Then we all sit down and put the pasteles together. That's our christmas gift to my grandmother, my aunt and her husband, my other aunt and her husband, and my two uncles, visiting us from Cali.

One very long day of cooking.

Me, I just go for the frozen food ones. ...Which really, is my own fault if they taste evil.

I'm so not fond of the storebought. Too much left to chance. My family has a kickass recipe and it's awesome.

(Siriusly, ya want me to sneak you a few or somethin'? We're going to do a mass production, 120 is the amount we have left over after 'sampling' at least 10 for ourselves -2 per person- so I could rustle up some for ya.)

[ignited.livejournal.com]

Hee. It's fine re: the pasteles. I'm going to try to eat less for Christmas this year (pfft, yes, like that will happen) and try to focus more on whining for presents than whining for food. Let's see if that works. ;) Really, it won't. Eeep!

[meriadoc-mi.livejournal.com]

that food sounds awesome. especially the Stuffing. Lucky!

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

The Stuffing is amazing.

And yeah, I have to make all the veg dishes, otherwise my mom's love of margarine will defeat the purpose of relatively healthy dishes mixed with the deadly Stuffing.

[meriadoc-mi.livejournal.com]

good plan. there's always got to be a little bit of health at these holiday functions.

but omg turkey and mashed potatoes and stuffing and pie yay!

[mshepnj.livejournal.com]

I say 'the Stuffing' because it must be capitalized. The Stuffing consists of well...everything. Name a food item you are allergic to. Our Stuffing will kill you instantly. Chestnuts, sausage, walnuts, cranberries, clams, mushrooms, cider and so, so much more. It is a meal upon itself and the turkey is just the pretty center piece.


Sigh. Mmmmm stuuuffing... [/Homer]

We have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' every year and it's lovely and tastey. But we never have a turkey at our house. and, alas, we never have yummy stuffing at home either. Your mom's stuffing sounds heavenly.

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

We prefer having Thanksgiving at home, I guess because we know what we likes and we make what we'll eat.

No turkey at home? Aww, tis a sad, sad thing. This year, we're getting a fresh turkey, as my sister works a sort of deli place called Zorn's, famous for their fresh poultry and ribs.