christmastime eating

     

After being thoroughly inspired by the below post (nice work zoe), i decided to add in my own little christmas eating adventure.


At my fathers house, christmas is a BIG DEAL. and so naturally, holiday food is an even BIGGER DEAL. we had people over nonstop for the past few days and food was being made and devoured 24/7. we would eat breakfast, do some small activity for about an hour, have some christmas cookies and hot coco, then have some lunch...almost immediatley followed by dinner and this year for christmas dinner, we really went all out.

roast beef au jus, yorkshire pudding, steamed carrots with butter: the whole meal (unfortunatley i didnt get a shot of it with gravy, THAT was eaten up too fast)

THIS right here was the real masterpiece of the meal. It was crunchy and delicious on the outside and fluffy and doughy on the inside, such a cliche i have a hard time typing it, but oh so true :) The only flaw was that there was only one pan of this divine yorkshire pudding...

and then there was dessert, my personal favorite meal of the day. We had a buche de noel   (aka yule log) which, for those of you who are unfortunate enough not to have tried it, is basically a chocolate mousse in cake form with chocolate ganache frosting. could it be much better? probably not.

not only did we have a buche de noel, our friend Jonathan brought over MACAROONS. Now, he used to live in Paris so when he says that macaroons are good, you know they are PERFECT. and these lovely little cookies from paulette in hayes valley (http://www.paulettemacarons.com/) certainly made the cut. There were flavors like vannila, chocolate and lemon, but also earl grey tea,  passion fruit and violet.

  all and all, this was one amazing christmas meal, the perfect end to my personal favorite holiday, now all there is left to do is eat up some leftovers :)