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This evening my family and I dined at a local restaurant on the Island (yes, I did just say that), Waterzooi.  I will not lie, we have eaten here before (my family a couple of times and myself once).

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I love the holidays.  The baking, the gift-buying, the decorations, the general merriment.  It’s all contagious (in a good way of course).

It’s also a time for traditions, specifically those of the family kind.  Of course my family (as I’m sure many others do) pretty much spend the time eating and passing out on the couch.  Although one of our biggest traditions is our Christmas breakfast.  My mom’s side of the family all come over (usually 13, this year we have 12) to enjoy a feast.

We all crowd around the table (which is much harder now that we’re all grown up and take up more space mind you) and dive into arguably the best meal of the year (it’s a toss up with Thanksgiving).  On the table we have: eggs, bacon, bagels, lox, croissants, crumb cake (the absolute best in the world from Front Street Bakery), herring, scones, donuts, pastries, rolls and of course coffee, oj, tomato juice and eggnog.  I’m sure I’m missing something…I have no idea how my parents manage all of this each year.  Additionally, my mom makes it all look amazing.  She decorates to perfection for the holidays, with each little detail taken care of.

While I neglected to take pictures of the table w/ all of the food on it (dumb, I know), I did get a shot of the settings and due to a Christmas miracle, I also found a cord and was able to upload some pictures!

And then when finished, everyone goes home, passes out for a couple of hours then goes to my Aunt’s house for dinner where we eat again.

Happy Holidays to everyone and I hope you love your traditions as my family enjoys ours.

So the first oops being of course my lack of posts over the last month.  That whole grad school/finals thing kinda got in the way of, well, lots of things.  But seeing has how I’ve got some time off now, hopefully I’ll be able to cook and/or write about it.

Ok, so the second oops.  I forgot the cord to connect my camera to my computer during my travels (ok, didn’t really forget as much as I didn’t think I would need it.)  Which means I can either go buy a cord, hunt around my parent’s house for something that can work, or I can post things without pictures.  Since I’m feeling rather lazy about the whole missing cord dilemma right now, we’re going with option number three.

I guess there is also a third oops to this post.  Over the weekend I stayed with one of my best friends in NYC, who conincidently is enrolled in pastry school at The French Culinary Institute (yea, my friends are kinda awesome).  Although when I showed up at her apartment on Friday, I was surrounded by cookies.  We’re not talking a batch of your regular toll house either.  There were at least 10 dozen of several different kinds.  So pretty much my final “oops” to this post was the fact that 2/3 meals each day consisted of cookies.  I would pretty much wake up in the morning and eat cookies for breakfast.  I would come home, “not hungry” and yet somehow ended up eating a couple of macaroons.  Oops.

So this is where I would add a couple of pictures of the cookies, which include (but not limited to) macaroons (french kind, not coconut), Russian tea balls, biscotti, chocolate mint thumbprints, gingerbread, chocolate shortbread….yea, I’m pretty sure I’m missing a couple too.

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Then you drool a little bit.  Then I totally plug her mad cookie skills and say she’s decided to start selling her baked goods.  Drop me a line if you’re interested and I’ll get you in contact.