1. Every year, Carol and Paul host Christmas Eve dinner and we eat the food of another country. Last year we had a Cuban meal. This year, we ate food from China. Carol gives everyone a cooking assignment. This year because we had friends and boyfriends and because Patrick is in town, we had 17 or 18 people at the table.
Right away this morning I made a triple batch of seafood egg drop soup, using the last of the crab stock I made after last February's Elks Crab Feed. It's a simple soup, calling for carrots, corn, white fish, shrimp, and squid balls. I subbed tilapia cakes for the squid balls. The soup also has beaten eggs in it and a corn starch and water mixture. It was a fun soup to make -- it would be an excellent soup without the squid balls/fish cakes -- and I thought it tasted pretty good. If you are interested, the recipe is here.
2. Our dinner together was lively. Young and old alike took part in lively conversation, wise cracks, laughter, good food, pictures, food, wine, and a variety of dishes, including potstickers, spicy pickeled cucumbers, soup, vegetable confetti salad, ginseng steamed chicken, fried custard with mushrooms, tofu with green onion sauce, silver and gold rice, plain white rice, and, for dessert, both fried cookies and candy coated almonds. After dinner, we moved into the living room for more stories and laughter and by about six o'clock or so, I was worn out and, when Patrick, the Deke, and I arrived home, I needed to take a short nap.
3. Around eight o'clock, the Deke, Patrick, and I went over to Christy and Everett's for a bourbon, cinnamon, cranberry, triple sec, and ginger ale cocktail. I think it was called Santa's Helper or maybe Santa's Little Helper. Well, whatever it was called, it was a delicious nightcap, but, again, I didn't last very long and returned home and turned in early, happy to have been with everyone, but wiped out all the same.
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