With temperatures sinking below zero Fahrenheit, I was happy to stay inside, enjoy friends, and eat too much.
Category: Holidays
Family Picture
Family pictures were taken.
Cooking for Family
Spent much of the day converting these ingredients into scalloped potatoes and braised celery to take to a family gathering. The biggest task was de-stringing four bunches of celery.
A Very Japanese Christmas
Posted A Very Japanese Christmas.
Ax-Man
Started my Christmas shopping at Ax-Man Surplus.
Hardly Leftovers
Prepared dinner with carefully curated ingredients: everything left over from Thanksgiving, except pumpkin pie, stuffing and cranberry. Tomorrow: farce galettes au compote de canneberges (stuffing patties with stewed cranberry for dipping).
Flowering Christmas Cactus
Our flowering Christmas cactus reminded me it was cold outside. Mittens were a necessity today.
Minimal Christmas Tree
Stored our minimalistic Christmas tree in a mailing tube. It’s made from naturally fallen Minnesota timber: see post.
Escape to La La Land
Walked to Uptown to escape to a guilty pleasure, “La La Land”.
Final Sunset of 2016
Stood on our porch, watching the 2016 sun go down for the last time.