You better believe we were so excited when we got out of school on Wednesday!
I got permission for us to take Thursday and Friday off! So, we went tearing out of there so excited for our little Christmas break!
These two turkeys came home and immediately turned into lazy goats!
Callie and I hit the kitchen. I've realized in my time here that special and traditional foods are one of the main ways that we celebrate. I always make Justin's Grandmother's Turkey Wild Rice Bisque soup. I didn't take a picture of it, but I sure should have. I managed to find some wild rice in a big market in the city last spring so I scooped it up knowing that I could use it for this soup. (YES, this is how you have to think when you live overseas!) The funny thing about this particular wild rice is that it turned my broth dark purple. So, when I added the cream the soup turned pink! It tasted great, but the color was a little off-putting! Ha!
While I was working on dinner, Callie was working on Christmas cookies. I made the dough earlier in the week (trying to spread out my duties since I was working up until the last minute!). So she rolled them out and baked them. She also did the frosting. I was completely hands off (I'm very proud of myself for that!) so we ended up with some interesting colors! In her defense, you have to use an absurd amount of food coloring to truly achieve the deep rich colors associated with Christmas!
After a lovely pink dinner we excitedly began decorating cookies.
We haven't really done much cookie decorating, so this was a new thing. Grandma sent some sprinkles that were so fun to decorate with!
Really, who cares what color the frosting is when it tastes this good?! Obviously, not Noah, who is licking it up!
Artists at work.
Here are some of our creations...
Callie with hers...
Noah with his...
And this picture of Lucy pretty much sums up where her cookies are! Ha!
We watched Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and The Polar Express while we worked. It was such a fun way to prepare for Christmas.
2 comments:
Lovely cookies. I wish I could have had one or two.
Callie is such a great cook and baker--looking forward to having her cooking for us this summer. The cookies look yummy.
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