Christmas Menu

December '09

Three more weeks to go until Lance's Christmas vacation. One more snack day, Lance's Christmas concert, just a couple more gifts to go and we're all set for Christmas. I haven't decided yet on my Christmas menu. It won't be grand unless we decide to have visitors but it's something to look forward to, another reason for me to obsess in the kitchen again.

I'll probably cook baby back ribs or pork BBQ, roast a whole chicken or chili wings, pasta for the kids and maybe some pancit, a dish with tomato sauce (could be any of these: mechado, kaldereta or menudo), vegetable salad or any other vegetable dish, either embutido or meatloaf, seafood (baked mussels, garlic butter shrimp or our favorite Snow Crab), beef/pork nilaga, a cold salad (potato or macaroni), grilled milkfish or pompano and for dessert, I want to make fruit salad, puto, leche flan and refrigerated cake.

Thinking of what to cook makes me hungry and makes me want to rush Christmas but then, I'll have to think about my New Year's menu! And while I'm preoccupied with my Christmas menu, the kids are all about opening gifts.