Brunch today at Dear Daughter and SIL's house (after watching our four
year old grandson open his many gifts there, mostly wooden trains):
juice
fresh fruit salad
lattes
tamales (choice of hot or mild), salsa, sour cream, hot sauce
We bought them this year, but they were delicious.
folar (Portuguese white bread baked with chunks of ham and
meaty, garlicky linguica sausage throughout)
then back to our house for everyone to open gifts here.
Once the gifts were done we sat out on the patio (it was in the high
60's and gorgeous) to watch grandson and our son (beloved Uncle Jeremy)
play with grandson's new soccer ball and (real, small) golf clubs.
We drank pomegranate juice with Southern Comfort which we decided should
be called a Scarlet Sheila. We noshed on homemade white bean dip, brie,
rotola (mozzarella wrapped around prosciutto and basil), goat cheese
torta, and smoked salmon with pita chips and bagel chips.
Dinner at about 4 PM was a very nice rare beef rib roast, Yorkshire
pudding, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli casserole, fresh asparagus
with brown butter, and marinated artichoke hearts. The four year old
fussed at being required to come to the table, but when he had his first
taste of the beef, he settled down to some serious eating.
Wine was a choice of shiraz or merlot.
Dessert was assorted cookies, truffles, pecan or pumpkin pie. As I told
Dear Son's serious girlfriend, "In our family you are allowed to ask
for 'some of both'." Nay, encouraged! No one wanted the proffered
champagne or cordials; we were all stuffed and a tiny bit buzzed.
DH made some sludgy Turkish coffee which he brought back from a recent
trip, but most of us settled for our favorite regular coffee.
(Sigh) It's all over for another year. Serious weight loss must begin
within the next week. My 20 excess pounds have morphed into 25 and I
can't imagine how much DH needs to lose. But it sure was fun while it
lasted.
gloria p