When I moved out of the East Village apartment, Ed said that I shouldn't let my nostalgia for old stuff get in the way of the present and the future. Or something like that. I know I've been blogging about old stuff, but I just have to get it out of my system, so I can start posting new stuff.
This last picture from 2006 is my family's Christmas meal. Every year we have pretty much the same meal, and I love it. In fact, I think I would request it to be my death row last meal.
Turkey and gravy, stuffing (my mom uses Pepperidge Farms and adds celery and onions and maybe chestnuts or something sweet like dried cranberries), mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, green beans, asparagus, cranberry sauce, and the jello mold. The jello mold is the hold out from the seventies. We have this green Tupperware jello mold that only gets used twice a year, on Thanksgiving and Christmas. One time, mom put vegetables in the jello mold, some stupid suggestion from the box or Ladie's Home Journal and we were horrified. Now she sticks to the can of fruit cocktail in the two layers of jello madness that is a jello mold. This year it was lemon and strawberry jello.
I know my readership is down from 5 to 2 because of my blogging coma, but I want to know what you, my dear sweet two, ate for the holidays.
1 comment:
am i one of the lucky 2?
my family has given up cooking for the holidays (i never started) so we ordered a premade holiday dinner from Fresh Market. it wasn't bad either. basic but good. turkey, mashed potatoes, and even green bean casserole. i made a pie this year thanks to Hungry Jaye who taught me how step by step.
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