Tasty Holiday

I just finished watching the Grizwald(Christmas Vacation) family sit down to a wonderful meal only to find out that the aunt is crazy, and the turkey just exploded into a magnificent turkey of hot air. After laughing for a bit with the wife, I figured I would have to write how I felt about Holiday FSBW. For me holiday FSBW means, my family gathers together to eat way to much food and consume way too much SBW. To my recollection I believe that of all the families that I had the wonderful pleasure to visit on the holidays, my family would get head honors for shear amounts of food and booze.  Not to say that other families don't dabble in excess, but cases of wine and enough food to have family left over parties has not been a part of these other peoples holiday homes. Even if there was only 3 people at the dinner table there would be enough food for the town and booze to fill a busy bar for the evening at my family gatherings. All of this though, makes me really happy and nostalgic about holiday meals.
The stock holiday meal always involved a turkey(grilled), a glazed ham that my pops always makes super good, the typical sides like mashed potatoes, stuffing, veggies, and gravy.  Makes me hungry just thinking about!  I always enjoy the proteins and gravy a lot more than any other part of the meal.  Drinks would consist of for grandmother vodka and a very little splash of tonic, copious bottles of red and white wine and of course the always present bottle of Jack Daniel's.  Aunti Patty would always have a Sierra Nevada in hand and Uncle Joe Gabone would always have a Molson or two on staff too,  The verity always made me happy cause I could choose to be happy any way I wanted.  The best of the night though by far was when the best family friend Jeff Moore would show in tow a box of goodies.  The box was never the same and always concealed the fate of how the evening would end.  Most of the time though the tasty goodies would be a couple of bottles of imported Belgium beer like Duvel and Chimay, or a nice clean aged scotch.  Plus I almost forgot, cigars from all over the world made the lot of us very pleased and happy.  Dessert was my mothers secret weapon for the holidays and she would on point make some of the best pies I've every had in my short life so far.  I don't really eat dessert but if it is really good I will devour a slice after a huge meal.  I still look forward to the parties than I do any other part of the holidays.  I am a big fan of the turkey and ham combination as a holiday meal, any kind of gravy will do and the sides must be the potatoes and veggies. What I don't really enjoy is the dang fruit that gets allowed into the party.  Somehow though fruit salad and cranberry sauce have been hanging with turkey and ham since the dawn of time.  Don't get me wrong, I know that they go well together but my taste buddies don't like cranberry too much. The happy fruit salad jello thing might be either one of those genius things or some how it could be just like the crazy aunt from earlier that loves to forget that people don't eat cat food(please take no offense aunts of the world I was referencing the movie).  Now that "THAT" is off my chest I can continue.  However, back to Holiday FSBW!  For now I'm ready to make some sort of chipotle glazed ham this Christmas and maybe something to go along with it.  Our friends have invited us to have a wonderful dinner with them and I know they enjoy all of the FSBW that make this time of year so special for me.  AND PLEASE DO I PRAY FOR DESSERT.  I hope someone a.k.a. me makes a good old cheesecake too.  I can't help but wonder if this will be one of the tastiest holiday meals.  So as I dream of Tasty Holiday Treats and listen to my favorite Christmas music of yule tides(whatever that means) I bid you a wonderful holiday of glazed, stuffed, braised, roasted, buttered, and frosted holiday tasty treats.

I know that sometimes my writing is a bit all over the place and my spelling/grammar is elementary but it adds to flare and oddness of it all.  Not like I will ever be writing for Food and Wine or Saveur, but I am pleased to say that I might be way better at cooking and drinking than I am at writing.

Merry Christmas to the two readers and until we meat again. HAHAHA

Parting Holiday Notes:

• Do not drink too much before dinner or you will not be able to taste the lovely meal
• Do have as much fun as possible
• Make sure that what ever you bring to the party it goes well with what ever you are eating
• Lastly, record funny moments with you camera and bring them the next year to laugh some more