Xmas
Normally we have about 6-8 people for Xmas, but due to plague this year we had four total, the same two friends who came over for Thanksgiving, who have been quarantining from home too.
Xmas dinner was paprika roast leg of lamb, green beans with bacon, garlic, shallots, carrot salad with a cumin-garlic-cayenne dressing, mint sauce, gravy, and popovers. Made two batches of popovers so we have some leftover for breakfast. (picture from https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1342584722782883841) And we also have a chocolate Buche de Noel.
Also for snacking we had fancy sausage, cheeses, garlic toasts, and a cocoa fig spread (from HEB) that was delicious. I'd never had it before. It was kind of like mole, not really sweet, the cocoa more part of the savory flavors. Really good stuff.
My present haul was very nice (photo from Twitter: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1342491918287196161) A flute, t-shirt, and Chenqing's tassel from The Untamed, a Doctor Who graphic novel A Tale of Two Time Lords, an SF/F anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton, ear pods, and handmade soap, plus some tea and candy.
We watched Wonder Woman 84 which we enjoyed, a couple of episodes of The Mandolorian (and reflected on how the all-woman strike team in the finale would have been such a revelation 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, and now it seems pretty normal), and a couple of the Xmas light shows from BritBox. "Manor Lights" where you're touring three estate houses and grounds which are turned into public Xmas parks with fancy light shows was awesome. One had a Greek mythology theme where the lights were like walking into an animated movie, one had turned the house into an Alice in Wonderland Christmas plus had elaborate light show walks through its woods, one had a Christmas train to Santa's workshop, etc. Five stars, would watch again. The other one was "Radiance by Rail" which was too much train engineers drinking tea, not enough Xmas lights. One star.
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Xmas dinner was paprika roast leg of lamb, green beans with bacon, garlic, shallots, carrot salad with a cumin-garlic-cayenne dressing, mint sauce, gravy, and popovers. Made two batches of popovers so we have some leftover for breakfast. (picture from https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1342584722782883841) And we also have a chocolate Buche de Noel.
Also for snacking we had fancy sausage, cheeses, garlic toasts, and a cocoa fig spread (from HEB) that was delicious. I'd never had it before. It was kind of like mole, not really sweet, the cocoa more part of the savory flavors. Really good stuff.
My present haul was very nice (photo from Twitter: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1342491918287196161) A flute, t-shirt, and Chenqing's tassel from The Untamed, a Doctor Who graphic novel A Tale of Two Time Lords, an SF/F anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton, ear pods, and handmade soap, plus some tea and candy.
We watched Wonder Woman 84 which we enjoyed, a couple of episodes of The Mandolorian (and reflected on how the all-woman strike team in the finale would have been such a revelation 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, and now it seems pretty normal), and a couple of the Xmas light shows from BritBox. "Manor Lights" where you're touring three estate houses and grounds which are turned into public Xmas parks with fancy light shows was awesome. One had a Greek mythology theme where the lights were like walking into an animated movie, one had turned the house into an Alice in Wonderland Christmas plus had elaborate light show walks through its woods, one had a Christmas train to Santa's workshop, etc. Five stars, would watch again. The other one was "Radiance by Rail" which was too much train engineers drinking tea, not enough Xmas lights. One star.
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