Eve of Gluttony

(who knew that's how you spelled gluttony? Not me.)

Christmas Eve at our house brings yummy food and fun, as I'm sure it does for you as well. We usually have Chinese food; as we did this year. But this year we decided to add a little "flavor." We had foods from several different places around the world. Just for fun.


We ate pomegranate's from India.

Of course, Chinese food, from..uh, China? Do they have sweet and sour there? (oh the agony, I can still feel the huge amount of delicious fried food and goo stuck to my in-erds.)

A "real life" coconut, from, uh...anywhere sunny and warm. Okay, we'll go with Hawaii. (the kids have been begging to open and eat a real coconut. what better time than Christmas Eve?)

And the crown jewel, (and was it delicious!!!) - The Bouche de Noel. A.K.A. Yule Log. From France. This was a fun new addition that I think we will be having each year.

All over Europe for the last several hundred years, people have been having some sort of Yule Log or another. I had to do a little research behind the history. But apparently, around what we now celebrate as Christmas, families would bring in the biggest log they could find. They would salt it, pour wine on it and what not. Then they would throw it on the fire. It would sparkle and shine, and burn for days. The bigger the better; you see, there was to be no working until that log had totally burned. Did you know this? I didn't. But now I do. And so do you.

They started making ones you could eat when, in parts of Europe, houses didn't have big (if any) fire places any more. Thank you, whoever thought of this. I like the eating part. Shocker.

Mmmm.

"She said she wasn't hungry and this is what she ate."

Quoted from my mother.