The main character of the Christmas Day in my family is the food! Every year my mom cook something good for the lunch (a very very long lunch ^_^) and we eat all together: my mom and my dad, me, my hubby , my daughter
, my sister with her husband and her daughter!
All together around the table! Even if during the year we could have some "troubles" between us (especially between me and my sister, we're really different and so, to live in harmony, I always have to control my "tongue" when we talk together :P), the Christmas day is something special for the family and we stay together in peaceful, forgetting all troubles. ^_^
I have to say that good food is always a nice way to stay together in harmony and spend time with the family!
My parents was happy to see all the family all around them and they worked hard to decorate the table and the Christmas tree too.
When we arrived there, we saw something good already on the table: our dishes with a taste mix of things ("antipasto toscano"), from salame and tuscan ham to bread with different spreads.
As you can see, the table was decorated in a Christmas time ^_^
After the "antipasto toscano", there was the first plate: chard and ricotta crepes with the ragù and the béchamel sauce.
This is not a tipical recipe of tuscany, but we love to eat them so much ^_^
I have to say that after the crepes I felt myself like a turducken and I really needed to have a pause from food, so I went in the balcony of my mom to watch her beautiful flowers in the vases (she had really a green thumb, more than me ^_^).
When I came back to the table, it was time for the meat (a mix of different meat) and the veggies.
I thought "Ok, don't worry, I can do it!" and I started to eat again.
You can think it was enought, but for my mom it was not enough and she gave us 2 different kind of cakes. I didn't take pics of the cakes because I was too busy to eat them and so you can just image the tiramisù and another simple cake ^_^
After some hours from the last piece of cake that I eat, I'm still in troubles with my digestion, maybe I eat too much, but everything was so good and my parents were so happy to have us with them and we were happy to be there, so I can say that it was a really nice Christmas!!!
See ya soon
Silvia