Holiday Complete

We cooked, ate, laughed and cried our way through the holidays this year.  Instead of treating each event separately, I’m taking the lazy approach with a pictorial retrospective.  If you see a picture you like, just click on it for a close-up and hit “escape” on the upper right hand side to get back to the page.

Here is a chronological list of our feasting feats, even if the pictures are in random order: Thanksgiving, pie party, a Bakery Noveaux visit for Daisy’s first croissant, cookie making, Christmas bunt with the Roulstons, Christmas Eve dinner with the in-laws featuring the most elaborate and delicious dessert i’ve ever made (the Paris-Brest, something like a circular éclair with hazelunt toffee pastry cream), and of course the eating of Christmas cookies.

Burnt out from all the goodness, Meghan and I only ate a bowl of cereal and a salad the day after Christmas.  But we’re getting back into the swing of eating, so posts on good food are on the way.

Daisy hearts croissant

Cookie consumption

Cookie Plate A, 2011

Daisy getting mise en place

He did it!

He’s doing it

Should he?

Last piece of Paris-Brest

First piece of Paris-Brest

In-laws, raclette

Raclette huddle

Paris-Brest before the top

Covering Paris-Brest’s inner tube

Paris-Brest under construction

I’ll find that lid!

Christmas bunt

Patty’s cookie coordinating genius

Haystacks

Battle scarred “Cooky Book”

Aprons, Cookies, ACTION!

Spritz cookies

Peanut-butter filled chocolate cookies

Rum-glazed molasses

Almond stars

Coffee stars

Chocolate caramel turtles

Nochebuena-chocolate/cayenne cookies w/dulce de leche filling

Egg nog snickerdoodles

Nutmeg logs

Chocolate chewies

Lemon stars

Cookie layout

Snacking angry

Enraged by Christmas ships

Miraculous apparition of Our Lady of Tasty Swine

Piemageddon

Playing, napping

Still, blur

Stay late, drink Scotch

Daisy and Reid’s all-star jug band

Pie-happy

Pie lineup 2011 up close

Pie lineup 2011

Grapefruit brulee

Sibling-lotion bliss

Surveying Thanksgiving table

Thanksgiving crew and spread, 2011

What brown can do for you