The holy-days of midwinter festivals revolve around food. Always. We gather for the meal, gather round the table, basking in the warmth of fire, friends, family, and love-made-edible.
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| Gnocchi and Salad |
Gnocchi for Solstice this year. I remember having salmon for solstice in Maine, but since we have salmon all the time now, and the sister is vegetarian.... we decided to experiment. We're still learning gnocchi technique :)
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| Solstice Dinner |
This gallette was beautiful and delicious. The grad student made it her first day back in the arctic, cause there's nothing more like a "welcome home" than spending time in the kitchen.
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| Saged sweet potato and chevre gallette |
We started what I hope are new traditions this year... I don't quite feel they can be called traditions until they are done at least twice? Homemade Thai food on christmas eve: courtesy of my sister, who simmered lemongrass and galangal lime leaves and fresh ginger in the coconut milk she then went on to use to make the curry!
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| Hoppin' John : Food for good luck |
And as always and ever since I was a very little girl. I ate Hoppin' John on New Years' Day for good luck and abundance. This year I swapped out the collards from some kale from the freezer from this summer's CSA... Kale is the arctic Collard, right?
