Hello to all the members of the beautiful community of #hivefood 🍽️ I extend a big virtual hug and I hope you had a nice Christmas Eve 🎄 next to your loved ones, sharing memories and anecdotes and tasting the typical dishes of these festivities as it corresponds. Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year, besides my birthday and I enjoy it to the fullest. This year I decorated my tree with the Grinch theme and it turned out very nice because it was made with a lot of love.

This year we decided not to give ourselves a hard time and make a different Christmas dinner because we are used to the typical Venezuelan Christmas dish that contains hallaca, chicken salad, ham bread and roasted pork leg. But with a small baby with separation anxiety crisis at the surface and as I'm the one who mostly cooks at home, because I'm afraid of my husband who gets excited about salt 😂 this year our dish for Christmas dinner was different but very tasty.

The protagonist dish of our Christmas dinner 🎄🍽️ was composed of chicken thighs baked in the oven; bathed and marinated in a mixture of paprika and liquefied onion, mustard, sweet paprika powder, pepper, honey, salt and Argentine bell pepper powder. For the salad we chose to make the typical salad that we usually make on a grill: cabbage and carrot salad but we added two types of green and purple cabbage. This salad is topped with my special dressing that I learned from my mother, I call it "dressing against all odds". Because it can be used both for the typical shredded vegetable salads and for a caesar salad. This dressing has mayonnaise, mustard, soy sauce, grated garlic, vinegar, sugar and salt. It looks spectacular 😍 We also made a delicious mashed potatoes and several ham breads with puff pastry dough that are to die for.

The truth is that I was very satisfied with all the delicious components of our Christmas dinner plate. I really wanted to eat hallacas, but alone and with my baby going through this crisis, I can't spend two or three hours making hallacas. And making them takes a lot of effort and work. Although I'm looking forward to making some soon, even if it's for my birthday to kill my craving. I could get them at any Venezuelan food store here in Tenerife 🇮🇨 but the truth is that this year with the economic crisis due to the war in Ukraine, the prices of inputs have risen a lot. The price of a hallaca is around 4.5 - 5 € and for two people who like to eat tasty and enough, at least two hallacas per person and would be almost 20 € that I could use in the purchase of inputs to recreate them at home.

And the truth is that I can't wait to recreate the stew my mother taught me to make. The recipe has been passed down from generation to generation and I dare say that I have never in my life eaten another hallaca like it. My mom's stew is loaded with the flavor of home and that makes me nostalgic. Since I married my husband, who is a native of La Victoria - Aragua State, they showed me the way and seasoning to make their hallacas and it is totally different from ours, from the eastern part of the country. While in my house they put potatoes, boiled eggs, red peppers and onions in julienne strips, a slice of bacon... My husband's family only adds red peppers and that's it. The truth is that each area of the country prepares its hallacas differently and I think it is part of the customs of each family.

In my house, the moment of making hallacas is the best way to cook and share as a family. Cooking brings us together and a family meal smoothes out all sorts of rough edges at Christmas ❤️🎄🍽️

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