Our Christmas memories
Bengaluru: Dec 12, 2015, DHNS:
We start decorating the whole house for Christmas in the first week of December. Stars and coloured lights are hung in all three balconies of our house. We trim our four feet long tree with ornaments that we bought from the US three years ago.
Some of the ornaments were handmade by my daughter in her pre-school back in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Every year, I craft a few new ornaments like snow man, stockings and Christmas tree with my daughter for gifting and decorating the house.
As far as the food for the festival is concerned, I bake a traditional Christmas fruit cake apart from sugar cookies, Florentines (Italian lace cookies) and Nutella cookies. These are all prepared a week ahead of Christmas. Since I am a vegetarian, I do not cook meat. My husband makes chicken ‘biryani’ while my mom-in-law prepares ‘fish curry’ and ‘appam’ for breakfast .
I cook vegetarian stew to go with ‘appam’ and order vegetarian food for lunch from a restaurant. We attend midnight mass every Christmas and my husband sings in the church choir. After that we have guests over for breakfast, lunch and dinner. All our friends love coming to our house to enjoy the home-cooked food while the kids get gifts that are placed under the tree.
My sister-in-law and her family join us too for a potluck dinner party that evening.
Rekha Rao
Some of the ornaments were handmade by my daughter in her pre-school back in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Every year, I craft a few new ornaments like snow man, stockings and Christmas tree with my daughter for gifting and decorating the house.
As far as the food for the festival is concerned, I bake a traditional Christmas fruit cake apart from sugar cookies, Florentines (Italian lace cookies) and Nutella cookies. These are all prepared a week ahead of Christmas. Since I am a vegetarian, I do not cook meat. My husband makes chicken ‘biryani’ while my mom-in-law prepares ‘fish curry’ and ‘appam’ for breakfast .
I cook vegetarian stew to go with ‘appam’ and order vegetarian food for lunch from a restaurant. We attend midnight mass every Christmas and my husband sings in the church choir. After that we have guests over for breakfast, lunch and dinner. All our friends love coming to our house to enjoy the home-cooked food while the kids get gifts that are placed under the tree.
My sister-in-law and her family join us too for a potluck dinner party that evening.
Rekha Rao
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