An Eating Tour of Christmas

I'm guessing you won't be shocked when I say that I ate well during the Christmas season.  Too well probably, but I enjoyed every bit of it.  In particular, I so appreciate gifts of food.  Food shared with and by others is so wonderful. 

My mother got me in the Christmas spirit early with a colour-appropriate and delicious beet and tomato soup.  Like how she spelled out my name? 

 My sister-in-law presented a lovely winter pudding bombe, recipe from Jamie Oliver.  She says it was very easy to make. It looked and tasted very impressive.

I had a gorgeous selection of cookies given to me and a few fruitcakes since people know how I love to have them for skiing.  And my office's own Martha Stewart generously gave me an amazing chololate carmel apple to call my own.

And, a wonderful coffee cake given by a lovely work colleague.  We went for a hike one day and I brought along a few slices. When my husband bit into it, he said "Wow!" as did I when I tasted it.

Of course, I didn't just eat the season away.

But tonight, I ended all of this debauchery.  Thanks to the New Curtain Theatre, who kindly dropped off a gift in gratitude for playing a few gigs for them, I poured myself a glass of wine, had one of their Christmas puddings and toasted the season.

Tomorrow, I swear, I'm having a salad.  Or that mummer with the 42 inch bust and 42 inch arse?  Well, she won't be a mummer.