Cooking for The Holidays is a Family Affair
One of the traditions I enjoy every Christmas is cooking with my family. Usually on December 23rd we spend hours in the kitchen prepping for the next two days. We make all the desserts, and everything else that can be done in advance.
This year I baked a pumpkin pie and my daughters made red velvet whoopie pie. We’ll also have fresh berries with a selection of cheeses and nuts for dessert. For dinner my kids asked me to make lasagna from scratch, “Like grandma makes,” so I made the red sauce in advance. My little one loves roasted chicken, hence a big roaster already marinating in white wine, lemon juice and herbs in my refrigerator. The kitchen gets quite messy, but we clean everything up before going to bed.
Tomorrow we’ll also make rice, steam plenty of asparagus sprigs, and assemble a salad. It’ll be a feast, and the best of it all is the time we spend together. The idea is to enjoy the whole process from going out shopping for ingredients, all the way to the final result of a beautifully set table. I hope the red velvet batter the girls dripped all over the place don’t stain anything, or I might remember this one better than most for the wrong reasons.