Christmas Theme 2010

Today is the Christmas day. I woke up late this morning. Alice went out early this morning to Beaulaville for Christmas feast at Elaine's house. Personally My baby and I really do not have Christmas spirit like everybody else. Many people decorate their house after the Thanksgiving day. Maybe it was because it is just like normal holiday and nothing so special.


Definitely I changed my mind and got motivation about holiday when I went to the garage and see all the decorations stuff on the pool table. I was thinking to put up all the decorations around the house into the "Christmas Theme" today.


But the tree, I have been putting up the tree 3 days ago before christmas. Anyway this year we have a fake tree. I still miss the smell of fir tree when I put it up last year.

Christmas tree in the night time

The pictures below showed the decoration I put around the house. First thing was decoration on the door

Then I replaced the old clock to christmas theme clock

I also set the table with Poinsettia flower and green and red table cloth. The red color of the flower was really outstanding.

Even my dog, Babe..I put a stuff on his head to represent a reindeer. I took much time to make him stay with that thing because he did not like that stuff on his head and he tried to take it off.

We decided to have roast beef instead of turkey. So I made roasted beef, potato salad, sweet potato pie and blueberry jelly. You can see how juicy the beef was..actually it was a whole 3 lb beef but it was cut by Robert.

My plate contained a slice of roast beef, potato salad and some mixes of lettuce.

The color of jelly was  crystal blue and it was really strange when I saw it on my plate. But the taste was yummy.

Lastly best wishes from us to all friends and family here,

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Let's enjoy the cold weather

Cold, freezing, icy, frost and dead looking, all those words are so popular in the cold season. I am totally hate very very cold temperature. The autumn had gone and the winter just started two days ago on 21st December according to calendar.

This cold season sometimes turned me into a lazy person and do nothing except eating hot food, drinking warm hot chocolate (French Vanilla Hot Chocolate is my favourite) and sitting in front of my laptop for hours or avoiding myself to go outside.

What a good about the cold weather? There is no mosquito or any bugs flying around or bite me while being outside and I can feel the fresh of air surrounding me.

What are not good about it ? I need to wear thermal undershirt, sweater and socks all the time to keep my body warm even the heater is on in the house. The picture below is the heater box says 85 degree fahrenheit. It's warming the house but my feet still catching the cold.

It is nice when it just cold and no wind but when the cold wind is blowing around me its making my nose start running, my fingers start  freezing, my hair catching cold and I started getting light headed. 

Actually I enjoyed being outside in the cold weather when I put on proper clothing. Walking the dog is part of my daily activity so it is the right time to wear the winter gear - hat or tobaggon, gloves, scarf and thick jacket. I think I should be thankful and embrace an opportunity of the cold weather..

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My Sweet Potato pie

Sweet potato pie is really simple and quick to make. It become our dessert after dinner, after lunch or tea time when I made this recipe. Both of us absolutely love it. This pie is so popular in Thanksgiving or holidays treat.

It tastes like a pumpkin pie but it just have different solid texture, creamy and sweet. You can find a lot of recipes on the internet but mine just like that below

Ingredients:

2 cups mashed of cooked sweet potatoes

2 eggs

1/4  cup sugar

1/4 cup evaporated milk (optional:  just add milk if you do not have evaporated milk)

1/2 tsp  ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 

1/2 tsp ground ginger

A little bit of salt.

1 unbaked pie crust (9 inch)

Directions

1) Preheat oven to 350 degree F

2) Combine all the ingredient in the mixing bowl. Mix together well

3) Pour into pie shell and bake it for 25-30 minutes or until it firm

Then you can cut it a slice when it is cool and put the cool whip on top..Tadaaa...!!Enjoy!

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Orangey chocolate

I was wondering when Robert told me the other day about chocolate ball shape like orange. WHAT?!! Shaped like orange? I was never thought that chocolate has kind of special version. Christmas is just around the corner and we guess that chocolate is part of the holidays product. We have been looking over the internet since then and we found Terry chocolate brand website. Certainly we don't want to order it online. 

Feeling of excitement just surrounding me when I went to the Walgreen store to look for it. A lot of chocolates and candy with different form on the rack at the christmas product segment. It took a while for me to find because I can't imagine how it looked like and finally I found it. Yeayy!! but it wasn't Terry but different brand. That was the only one brand they sell so I bought two kinds; milk chocolate and dark chocolate. Here they are

The chocolate itself is wrapped in orange and yellow metallic foil wrapper. It really does resemble an orange.

It is solid chocolate when I hold it and I have to tap it on the hard surface to separate that chocolate into slices.

The smell of orange really hitting me when I opened the wrapper. It was very pleasant smell. Natural not artificial. Pretty round orange form.

The taste was a wonderful mixture of orange and chocolate. I nibble it one and want another

It has unique taste and rich orange flavour.. We love it so much!!!

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