2007 Christmas Eve Dinner in our home (2007年的聖誕節在我家)

Time is flying. Another Christmas is here. As usual, Christmas means family, great food, a lots of gifs, full of joy and supprise. Also, Christmas means getting spoiled, specially me.......
時間過得好快，轉眼間聖誕節來臨。聖誕節意味著家庭和睦，共享美食，充滿喜悅和驚喜。這是今年的聖誕樹。禮物太多。聖誕樹下都藏不下了。我知道我被寵壞了。。。


Our families like most of American have big dinner at Christmas Eve. Dinner is getting ready......
我們家和大多數美國人家一樣，全家人在 Christmas Eve 聚餐.餐桌就要擺好了。






       

Dinner table setting is almost done.......
餐桌擺得差不多了。。。。


First course: New England Clam Chowder
Razor clams with home grown Yukon potatoes, milk and cream
第一道，新英格蘭 clam 濃湯

Second course: Garden Salad with homemade creamy Basque garlic dressing (two of hard boiled eggs,olive oil, vinegar, minsed garlic, maynais, salt and pepper)
第二道是 Salad 和自己家做的 色拉醬




Side dish: 1 Garbonzo beans with Salt pork
配餐：鹹肉煮的 garbonzo beans


Side dish 2: Homemade Craberry Sauce
另外一個配餐是自己家做的 Craberry Sauce


Main course: Herbs rubbed roasted leg of lamb
Grass fed leg of lamb rubbed with fresh rosemary, coarse salt and fresh grounded pepper. Poked holes thoughout lamb and inserted slivers of garlic. Roasted in a preheated oven at 425F for about 3 hours.
主餐是烤羊腿。將 新鮮的 rosemary，鹽，黑胡椒混和，抹在羊腿上。用刀在羊腿上紮很多眼兒，把大蒜切成小條條，塞進刀紮的洞裏。在４２５度的烤箱中烤大約３小時。
烤好擺盤:





My huasband was carving the lamb. 我先生在切羊肉


Lamb turned out perfect. Nice crusty outside and juicy inside.
羊肉烤得正好，外焦裏嫩。



Bread: Homemade buttery dinner rolls

配餐麵包：自己做的奶油麵包




Our Desset Land: my husband favorate bread pudding, homemade pumpkin pie, oatmeal raison cookies and peanut butter kisses cookies.

我們家的甜點。我先生最喜歡的麵包布丁，自己家做的南瓜 pie，葡萄幹麥片餅幹，花生醬 kisses 餅幹


Homemade pumpkin pie 自己家做的南瓜pie


 

My husband's favorite bread pudding with raisins and figs, 我先生最喜歡的麵包布丁,裏麵有無花果幹和葡萄幹.


Homemade oatmeal raison cookies and peanut butter kisses cookies. 自己家做的葡萄幹麥片餅幹，花生醬 kisses 餅幹



Christmas day breakfast:聖誕節早餐。
This is most exciting morning of the year. Wake up early, no need anyone wake me up. Full of joy, coffee, cookies and supprise. Then look at the messy we left, I am glad you can't see clear..........It was like war zone, oops........

聖誕節的早上是最讓人興奮的早上。不用任合人叫我起床，我自己會早早起來。整個早上充滿了咖啡，餅幹，歡樂和驚喜。看看這裏用包裝紙和包裝盒子堆起來的山，真不好讓大家看到這個樣子。




While someone is cleaning up the war zone, I made simple Christmas breakfast. Homemade scones, homemade sauge patties, fried eggs, homemade crabapple juice and coffee.
有人在打掃戰場，我來做聖誕節早餐。自己家做的SCONES，香腸餅，煎雞蛋，配上自己家做的沙果汁和咖啡。早餐簡單又美味。



Homemade scones: I learned from my mother-in-law. This recipe has been in our families for several generations. It is fry bread. The dough is sweet yeast dough. They are delicious.
自己家做的SCONES 是我從我的 mother-in-law 學來的。這個RECIPE已經在我們家傳了幾代。和炸麵包很相似。麵團是甜的發麵團。非常好吃。


Homemade sausage patties: ground pork with Italian herbs, hot pepper flakes, fennel seeds, salt and pepper.
自己家做的香腸餅，好多人都會做，不過加了 fennel seeds 味道很特別非常好



Picture of my plate.我的盤子裏的東東。。。


The biggest supprise from Santa Clouse is a new stove Cornufe from La Cornue France. Santa Claus ordered it three month ago without any trace at home. It was delivered and hidden in the garage without my knowledge until Christmas morning. What a Christmas! I love it!!!
今年聖誕節最大的驚喜是聖誕老人送給我一個全新的法國 La Cornue 爐台, Cornufe。法國 La Cornue 公司的爐台是全手工做的，聖誕老人提前三個月定購的.從定貨，送貨我全然不知。直到聖誕早上聖誕老人打開庫房。多可愛的聖誕節啊，我希望人人都和我一樣快樂！