Christmas dinner preparation

Hello hello, beautiful people of read.cash, how have you been? I know you have missed me, I have missed all of you, I hope you have enjoyed the holidays.

Friday, December 24th

Preparing for Christmas dinner. Every family is different and in every place they make hallacas differently, if you don't believe me read how my father prepares hallacas and how my sponsor @rebeysa85 prepares hallacas.

I told you that in my in-laws' house there are 3 people who prepare the hallacas. Rosa stretches the dough on the banana leaf, Luisa adds the stew, raisins, egg, olives and all the hallaca ingredients, and my mother-in-law closes the hallacas. The people who are around are the ones who tie the hallacas, this year I only tied one hallaca.

We didn't buy ham bread because it cost more than 8 dollars, and we didn't prepare it ourselves because we wouldn't have time to prepare it, so we didn't eat ham bread with Luis' family. But we bought another type of bread, which was also very tasty.

We didn't eat pork leg, because it was also expensive, but my father-in-law made baked chicken, which was very tasty. My sisters-in-law bought 3 chickens and 2 chickens were prepared and put in the oven. The leftover chicken was used for the salad.

Luis and I changed the cake recipe, instead of making Christmas cake, we made carrot cake, which was still very tasty. The Christmas cake is quite expensive to make or buy, it has a lot of ingredients, so we preferred to make the carrot cake, which has less ingredients and is tasty. The cake was super fluffy and delicious.

The chicken salad was made by my sisters-in-law, this year they didn't let me help with almost anything hahaha. The chicken salad has potatoes and carrots. We didn't buy mayonnaise, my sister-in-law Luisa makes a delicious mayonnaise, so she made the mayonnaise for the salad. It's a homemade mayonnaise, but that doesn't mean it's not delicious.

All the food was really delicious. We all got a hallaca, some bread, a portion of salad and plenty of chicken. If anyone wanted another hallaca or more salad they could grab more.

My brother-in-law was in charge of making the drinks, the adults had cuba libre, which is a mix of cola with rum and lemon. Each person identified their glass so we could distinguish them and not get confused. This way we could avoid some kind of contagion.

As always, we thanked God for the food. Daron and Isabella are in charge of thanking God. It is so much fun to see how they give thanks and say words of love and affection before eating. After praying we toasted to a Merry Christmas, gave thanks for all that we have experienced, and toasted to good health.

After dinner we had a family parrandon, this is quite common in Luis' family as they are all musicians. It is a lot of fun this party, since the little kids also start playing with us from a very young age, they usually start playing the drums.

At the family parrandon Luis was playing the cuatro and singing, his dad was playing the electric bass and his brother was playing the drum. All the rest of us were singing, we sang and sang and sang until Santa Claus arrived with the presents, but that will be another story.

Oh, before we went to Luis' parents' house we were arranging our gifts and put them in our little tree. I also made a lot of letters to hand out to everyone, the children were very happy because "Santa Claus" had written them several letters full of love. At the end of each letter I wrote "Hohoho Merry Christmas".

Note: That's my beautiful little Christmas tree, it's not big, it doesn't have many ornaments or beautiful lights and it doesn't have a star on the top, but I love it, it's my golden tree and I'm very happy with it.

So long my beloved people at read.cash thanks for reading my articles and waiting for them, sorry for the delay, I have had no light, no signal, no internet, no water. It has been a little difficult the situation where I live, I hope everything gets better soon.

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The drawing was painted by me in Photoshop.

Greetings from Venezuela😊❤️