12:00 p.m. We're still talking about when to start cooking. So we make Christmas punch, adding some orange juice to round it out (about a cup, to half the recipe).
12:30 p.m. Cooking underway--prepping ingredients for gumbo and a quiche. Ma and Gong are doing Nutcracker paper dolls with Sis and Bud. I'm getting some of my treadmill time in. Mama teases me when I inquire about the roux, reminding her of the best gravy ever for Thanksgiving. She said she had it under control "because the Roux Queen is on the treadmill."
1:30 p.m. As lunch is almost ready, we're prepping the Panettone Bread Pudding to bake while we eat. Mmm, fiori di sicilia, a creamsicle extract. Sis and Bud have moved onto Playmobil--the pool and penguin zoo enclosure respectively.
2:00 p.m. Lunch is served: gumbo, shrimp remoulade, mushroom and onion quiche (a la Bittman's How to Cook Everything), leftover muffalettas, leftover Chinese (start a new Chinese tradition here), sparkling cider, and punch with sherbet.
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