We’re officially here– the day before Christmas! I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve heard people say ‘Christmas is just around the corner’ in the same way I kind of lost track of the countdown to Christmas, but when you wake up on the 24th, it’s pretty hard to deny that Christmas is officially HERE! Tonight’s the night the gift wrappers go flying in every direction by the tree. Tonight’s the night kids place a plateful of cookies with milk for Santa in hopes they’ll pass for good instead of bad. Tonight’s the night the Noche Buena table will be laid out in every Filipino household. But before all…
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A Bûche de Noël to wish you a very merry Christmas
There are several things I love about Christmas, and no they do not involve material presents. There’s the food, which is always a tad more abundant around this time of the year. I also love getting reunion invitations from friends I haven’t seen in years! But what I really honestly look forward to about Christmas is that especially magnified sense of contentment I always get. I’ve always felt like my year culminates during the Christmas holidays instead of the new year. I guess with all the excitement on New Year’s Eve I have difficulty finding that moment of solitude to really take in everything that I have around me, or…
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I’m glad I changed my mind about Chai and made this cake
Before I begin to heap praise upon praise for this recipe, I just have one quick question: Do you like Chai? At the beginning I didn’t like Chai. At all. It reminded me of this particular childhood stomachache medicine that my grandmother used to force into me whenever my tummy went bad. I asked her why it smelled odd and she told me it was a concoction of crushed Chinese herbs that will cure me instantly. I admit begrudgingly that my stomachaches do go away pretty quickly after having this medicine, but it certainly always left a bad taste in my mouth. It used to be that the moment I…
