Some Highlights from our Christmas Weekend

Hi everyone, I hope you had a great time with your family! Here, after a rather long train journey, it was a very pleasant time all together for the occasion.

Yesterday, when I arrived at the end of the afternoon, everyone (or almost everyone) was in the kitchen and I joined the crew, just after I took the time to wash my hands ^^

There were a lot of different duos, those who went into the forest to fetch conifer branches to decorate the table, those who prepared the meal for the next day, a team for a coral lentil soup with coconut milk and tomato, an oyster opening team and finally, those who did a bit of everything and stewardship. It is in this team that I naturally found myself as I was taking the train on the move ...!

One of the recipes for the next day was a seven-hour leg of lamb, meaning we threw it in when we went to bed and it cooked all night !

In the recipe, there are many vegetables, carrots, fennel, parsnips, onions, potatoes, cognac and white wine and of course, the meat.

The interesting thing about this meat is that the lamb grew up in the area and grazed all summer in one of the property's meadows ! Apparently, together with its mother, it even escaped for a month in the mountain pastures and thus had a surplus of freedom. But not for too long...

After helping with this dish, I went to open a few dozen oysters. It wasn't a dish I loved when I was younger, but now I love it and it's also a pleasure to open them if you have the knack and the right technique :)

As for the atmosphere, it was very pleasant, not too elaborate, sober and finally quite " countryside " in the good sense of the word. A good fire was glowing in the fireplace and it was mainly my mother who took care of setting the table, as well as everything else ! She loves to do this and we each had a little present on our plate... Always attention to detail !

The next day (today), more meals and good times together, but if I'm not going to hide it, we always end up eating too much. I find this sometimes indecent, especially since this excess comes from a time when things were lacking in everyday life and this surplus was therefore a real feast. Today, on average, the West is overflowing with things, whether they are eaten or not, and it is always a bit strange to want to add more to the more !

Yet in many ways we were quite simple. The good example is this fir tree which is actually a pine tree that was cut down on the property :)

Let's finish this brief overview with this window decoration made by my mother the week before. A very nice stylized snowflake that works well day or night, no matter how much light there is !

I hope you enjoyed this little tour of the festivities and I renew my wish that they were enjoyable on your side too ! The connection is not very reliable where I am, so it has slowed me down a bit in my desire to share, but you got the gist :D

Take care and see you soon,

<3

@anttn