Christmas 2015!, Anything Christmassy goes here! Options

[mALX]

Me and da Krew are gonna spend Christmas and possibly New Years in Tokyo.

We Osaka Boyz are gonna tear $#!7 up!!!!!

Don't get caned!

[mirocu]

Me and da Krew are gonna spend Christmas and possibly New Years in Tokyo.

We Osaka Boyz are gonna tear $#!7 up!!!!!

And thus Tokyo as we know it will end...

[mALX]

Me and da Krew are gonna spend Christmas and possibly New Years in Tokyo.

We Osaka Boyz are gonna tear $#!7 up!!!!!

And thus Tokyo as we know it will end...

I used to love real trees, and everyone gathered round decorating it. But I was looking in a flyer that came in the newspaper, and for 25 US dollars I can have a full sized tree with all the lights and ornaments already attached, just yank it out of the box and plug it up !!!! So...hmmmmm...it sure is tempting!

So far my plans are solely food related.

I plan to make coquito, which is a Puerto Rican Christmas drink with rum and coconut cream. I don't like rum much, but my sibling and dad love it so it'll be a treat for them.

I'm hoping to make nacatamals, which are Nicaraguan tamales. I bought a Nicaraguan cookbook and found two recipes that sound amazing. We usually make Puerto Rican tamales (called pasteles, which also means "cakes" so it gets confusing talking to people about them sometimes) but I hate them. They're not horrible, but not only do they look like giant slimy slugs, the masa is just... well, not that pleasant. The meat inside os good though.

Wait, when I lived in Miami my neighbor was from Nicaragua - and her food was delicious! It didn't look as good as it tasted, but - really,really delicious! From your description here, I was picturing Tara preparing it and Clarissa playing in it with a dismembered limb!

[mirocu]

Bugger! I just got Taylor Swift´s version of Last Christmas ruined by noticing there´s a guy singing along in the chorus!

[mALX]

Bugger! I just got Taylor Swift´s version of Last Christmas ruined by noticing there´s a guy singing along in the chorus!

Maybe that was you?

[mirocu]

Bugger! I just got Taylor Swift´s version of Last Christmas ruined by noticing there´s a guy singing along in the chorus!

Maybe that was you?

I wish!

[mALX]

Maybe that was you?

I wish!

[Jacki Dice]

So far my plans are solely food related.

I plan to make coquito, which is a Puerto Rican Christmas drink with rum and coconut cream. I don't like rum much, but my sibling and dad love it so it'll be a treat for them.

I'm hoping to make nacatamals, which are Nicaraguan tamales. I bought a Nicaraguan cookbook and found two recipes that sound amazing. We usually make Puerto Rican tamales (called pasteles, which also means "cakes" so it gets confusing talking to people about them sometimes) but I hate them. They're not horrible, but not only do they look like giant slimy slugs, the masa is just... well, not that pleasant. The meat inside os good though.

Wait, when I lived in Miami my neighbor was from Nicaragua - and her food was delicious! It didn't look as good as it tasted, but - really,really delicious! From your description here, I was picturing Tara preparing it and Clarissa playing in it with a dismembered limb!

This is pretty much how their Christmas would go at the moment

[mALX]

So far my plans are solely food related.

I plan to make coquito, which is a Puerto Rican Christmas drink with rum and coconut cream. I don't like rum much, but my sibling and dad love it so it'll be a treat for them.

I'm hoping to make nacatamals, which are Nicaraguan tamales. I bought a Nicaraguan cookbook and found two recipes that sound amazing. We usually make Puerto Rican tamales (called pasteles, which also means "cakes" so it gets confusing talking to people about them sometimes) but I hate them. They're not horrible, but not only do they look like giant slimy slugs, the masa is just... well, not that pleasant. The meat inside os good though.

Wait, when I lived in Miami my neighbor was from Nicaragua - and her food was delicious! It didn't look as good as it tasted, but - really,really delicious! From your description here, I was picturing Tara preparing it and Clarissa playing in it with a dismembered limb!

This is pretty much how their Christmas would go at the moment

[mirocu]

Christmas tree is down!

Tomorrow I´ll prepare it and possibly take it home!

[mirocu]

Christmas tree is in da house!! Possibly the best one I´ve had; the branches are perfect and it´s not too sparse



Anyone one else with a friggin tree inside their home?

[ghastley]

Does Bonsai count?

[mirocu]

Does Bonsai count?

No! A real friggin tree taller than you are!

[Grits]

We got our tree inside today, but we won’t decorate it until tomorrow or Friday. I forgot last week that we were having a crowd over for dinner and to watch a concert, so the tree had to wait. Also we had to burn all of the wood that had been brought in first. The Christmas tree goes uncomfortably close to the fireplace, so it’s candles only until January!

ghastley, my roommates and I used to tie bows and paper snowflakes on a Norfolk Island pine and drape tinsel over the palm tree at Christmas. Our ficus tree dropped its leaves if anyone even looked at it too hard, so after the first disastrous year of lights we left it alone. I’d say a potted tree definitely counts!

[Destri Melarg]

Nice Christmas song contribution, Destri Btw, I think you´ll get a lot more done in the kitchen if you don´t run around in circles...

Ah finally! The secret revealed!!

Oh no, hand in cast? I'm so sorry to hear that! But you cooking a whole Xmas dinner? Hope you can cook good then!

Good luck, Destri! I imagine there will indeed be a lot of , but it will look like to everyone else!

I'm no chef (wasn't TK one? Where is he when I need him? ), but I do know my way around a kitchen. TLMM[™] is something like 1/4 Italian, so that trumps every other ethnicity she has going on at X-Mas time. She likes to do the feast of the seven fishes on the 24th and it has quickly become something the whole family looks forward to. This years version starts with a clam chowder. We are then planning a crab salad for the second course. Lobster, shrimp, calamari & scallops all go into the pan for a bake… and are accompanied by salmon with vegetables on the grill. Shouldn't be too hard (famous last words ).

We spent all day yesterday hunting for the perfect tree before settling on the first one we liked at the first lot we visited . Should have gone with ghastley's idea! I'd love 5-6 coquitos right about now, Jacki (not sure what to make of the nacatamals tbh)!! Good luck with the tree decorating, Gritsy... and congrats on the tree separating, 'rocu!!

[mirocu]

We spent all day yesterday hunting for the perfect tree before settling on the first one we liked at the first lot we visited .

Ah, but you can´t ignore the true tree hunting tradition, can you? You simply must pick one out directly, then wander around for about an hour in search of a better one and then finally go back to that first one


I love the smell of Christmas tree when I enter my apartment!


Edit: We can´t forget about Mr. Mochi and his Christmas special!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Dec 17 2015, 10:31 PM

[Grits]

We also observed the tradition of looking at all of the trees before bringing home the first one we saw. However we confined our search to one lot so we got it home before dark. Our Christmas trees are grown on farms in the mountains about four hours away due to our climate. They all look good, are the right size, and are already cut.

Smells like Christmas here, too. I love opening the front door and smelling fir tree.

[mirocu]

Smells like Christmas here, too. I love opening the front door and smelling fir tree.

It´s the best!


Hey, any of you Muricans gonna go crazy overboard with Christmas decorations? I´ve seen TV shows of homes completely overrun by ornaments

[Grits]

Not us. We have to leave room for the people.

A drive in the country is always rewarding this time of year, though. Some folks have a whole freestanding garage to house their decorations during the off-season. Which they decorate, of course.

My favorite neighborhood decoration was a string of lights adorning a porta-potty that someone's contractor had installed in the center of their front garden for the duration of the holidays. It was pretty funny.

[mALX]

Hey, any of you Muricans gonna go crazy overboard with Christmas decorations? I´ve seen TV shows of homes completely overrun by ornaments

What are you talking about?