guacamole + holiday recap
Another year, another family-filled holiday in L.A., another bowl of guacamole. Every Christmas (or Christmas Eve), my entire extended family packs into my parents’ house. We have a potluck that usually requires a large appetite and three trips to the buffet if you want to try everything. I usually bake something bite-sized (this year: oatmeal cookies) and make a quick and easy bowl of guacamole: avocados, jalapenos (the hotter the better), minced white (must be white) onion, cilantro, lots of lime, and lots of salt. It’s tasty, but it usually gets overshadowed (rightfully so) by things like roast turkey with my aunt’s famous hot chili sauce, tea-leaf eggs, homemade potstickers, fried egg rolls, banh cuon, two kinds of chicken curry, and my mom’s famous spareribs.
In the days following the Christmas feast, we ate leftovers, hung out at museums, ate at L.A. favorites Umami Burger and Jitlada, had a magical night of all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue, briefly caught up with old friends, and enjoyed the hell out of the sunshine.
As for tonight, John and I are going to walk down the street to our friends’ apartment and drink a ton of whiskey and beer and champagne with them. It’ll be a low-key but fitting end to what has easily been the most exciting, emotional, heartwarming, and all around best year of my life so far (I really hope I don’t start drunk-crying). Goodbye 2010, hello 2011! Happy New Year everyone!
