Christmas Dinner And Stocking

Slow and steady, that's the name of the game.

While cooking dinner, I surprised my girl with a month of ad free Netflix. The reason, so that we could watch the final season of Stranger Things, catch up on season 2 and 3 of squid games, three seasons of The Great British Baking Show, and for myself, the final season of Cobra Kai, and the new Karate Kid movie. All of this, while juggling season 2 of Fallout on Amazon Prime.

For dinner, I made a pork roast and served it with a bit of maple bacon aioli. My girl made her fabulous mac and cheese to accompany it, and the rest of the sides were handled by a jar of beets, a can of cranberry sauce, and some heat and serve rolls. Not bad, if you ask me.

Stuffed to the brim, I heated up my traditional annual Christmas pudding and served it with a finishing sauce.

The Christmas pudding came out of pre-made bowl, which just needed to steam for thirty minutes. The sauce, however, I made with one can of condensed milk, 1/4 cup of water, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, and 1/2 a stick of butter. Traditionally, the British would pour a brandy over the top, and light it on fire, but I'm not big on alcohol.

It's a dense and sweet desert, which will make you miserable in the stomach when you're already suffering from a massive pile of mac and cheese, but it's so good.

From there, we opened our stockings up.

My girl was quite heavy handed with the candy; she usually is.

But she also got me a pretty cool Spidey Pez dispenser, which immediately went into the collection.

She also got me a mystery Fallout 4 keychain. Right now it's on my Fallout counter, but I may open it at some point.

She also bought me another Spider-Man ornament, which we'll put on the tree next year.

Last up, and quite the surprise was this rare Thompson Twins double album. This is the only way you can get their first two studio releases on CD, and sadly, it was never released in the USA. It's been on my list for a long time, and I'm really glad to have it.

With Christmas day coming to a close, we still haven't touched the gifts under the tree, and I also have a few more to open from friends and family. But tomorrow's another day, and I'm off the rest of the year, so there's no reason to rush through it all. Christmas comes but once a year, but that doesn't mean it has to end in twenty-four hours.

We finished the evening off watching her son open his stocking gifts and stuff under the tree, while also giving the dog a couple more. Mainly because he wasn't having it watching people open stuff and having nothing for himself. Her son also gave us a gift, which for me was another ebay gift card - Score!!!

All and all, it was a great day!

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