Monday, December 22, 2008

All I Want for Christmas Is Food...

My favourite Christmas song in the whole wide world is Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You." I have been playing it every morning to get the office in the festive spirit. Not sure it is working, as I have already had complaints.
Ahh Christmas... Every year we say "I can't believe it is Christmas already" - well believe it.
But is it sad that the thing I am most looking forward to this Christmas is food? Honestly, I have now been dreaming about it for 2 days.

I remember one Christmas Eve my brother woke up and saw "Santa" visiting our place delivering our new bikes. I believed that story for years and years. That was the highlight of my childhood and the story that was told over and over again every year. Then something happened... I realised opening presents and taking about Santa were just time wasting tactics designed to distract your stomach from the wondrous, amazing taste sensation that was about to hit your lips.

I'm half Italian, half Greek and from my experience, a wog's worst nightmare is people being hungry. You've just eaten dinner but still "Are you hungry, want me to make you something else, come on I'll put on a sauce etc etc etc etc"
So needless to say, Christmas Day for my family revolves around eating. If we aren't eating, we are cooking, if we are not cooking we are talking about what we are going to eat. And I love it.

We often get too caught up in the commercialisation of Christmas, but for me sitting around with a plate full of food, a good glass of wine, family and friends - it just doesn't get better.

You know what is even better than Christmas food... knowing you will be eating leftovers for the next four days. Yessssssssssssssssssss

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