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We Made It!
Apart from my dessert, which was an epic fail, Christmas dinner was lovely, with wonderful friends. I tried to make Budino, a fabulous butterscotch pudding from one of my favorite restaurants. I’m an experienced baker, so I was stunned that I couldn’t get this dessert to work. In fact, I tried twice and in between had to scramble to find an open market on Christmas morning to buy more ingredients. Today, I searched online to see if anyone else had trouble making the recipe, and learned that there’s actually a mistake in the cookbook. I’m relieved it’s December 26.
Tell us about your Christmas. What were the highs and lows?
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Christmas High: Everything I cooked was edible, and some of it was even delicious! 🙂
Christmas Low: After losing 50 lbs. this past year, Santa (in the form of my mother) decided that Christmas Day was the perfect time to give me about seven thousand pounds of chocolate. Grrrr….
The lowpoint was definately the power outage in my neigborhood on Christmas Eve. Went out at 3PM, didn’t come back till after 11PM, lost heat, electricity, everything. I was NOT a happy girl. Resorted to sipping soy nog and Bacardi in bed keeping warm under the covers, listening to my rabbits play and to classical Christmas music on the radio. Up until then, the day had been going great. Baked cookies, relaxed, read, for the first time able to get through a holiday without thinking of my ex. Losing power changed that. I cursed him for hours and started dwelling on things I probably would have been too busy to do had I had some power. I certainly developed a deeper gratitude for my utilities when everything–especially the heat!–came back on, as late as it was. Rest of the holiday was fine, quiet, uneventful. Had a good meal, had some lovely spiced wine. Nevertheless, so glad this holiday is behind me.
When I read about Hurricane Sandy, it really gave me gratitude for electricity, which is one of those things we take for granted, daily. Glad you, um, powered through the holiday.
High: Being in Florida with my sisters where it was in the 70s.
Low: Driving back in the rain from the Richmond airport on a crowded I-95.
70’s sounds good right now. It’s even chilly in L.A.
Highs–cooking together with my sister (my favorite person to cook with). We made a most delicious raspberry-almond-white chocolate trifle to feed the family horde on Christmas Eve (when I get together with my parents, sister, brother and sister-in-law and their kids). Sipped a cocktail while making this dessert. Anyway, loved spending time with sis!
Low–a very snowy (at least the first half) drive back to IN from PA. A 600-mile drive that normally takes about 10 hours took 12 this time. But thankfully, most people were driving slowly and in a civilized manner. And I found a nickle at a rest stop on the PA Turnpike!
Trifle sounds so good. And especially the cocktail!
Wendy, I want to add that yesterday I sat on the rowing machine watching a DVD of The French Chef. Julia Child’s Tarte Tatin was a failure and she handled it with such aplomb! And noted that if you want to be a good cook, you have to be willing to make mistakes!
I totally thought of Julia Child when I had my dessert disaster, and mentioned it to my guests at Christmas dinner.