Christmas Eve Dinner!

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!  Tonight, my parents let me and my sister cook Christmas Eve dinner, which was actually really exciting since we love to cook!  We made a four-course dinner, which we decided to serve all at once since we didn't get the timing done quite correctly to serve them sequentially and have the dishes all come out warm.  Enjoy the break from my normal type of posts, and enjoy the pictures!

Corn, avocado, mozzarella, and tomato salad.  Startin' off the meal with a Wong-tradition vinaigrette that's different every time we happen to try and recreate last time's.

Mushroom risotto.  Katherine's arms were tired after continually stirring this bad boy as we poured chicken stock into the pan.  45 minutes or so of an intense Wong-family workout.  Props.

Crispy salmon, roasted tomatoes, and potatoes with scallions, cilantro, and crab meat.  This is perhaps the only fancy-looking thing I can make reliably.  Working on it.  Props to dad for descaling the fish so I didn't cover our kitchen in scales like last time.

Chocolate bread pudding.  We never eat dessert, but we wanted 4 courses instead of 3.  It turned out pretty good, so maybe we will start eating dessert again.

Here's the whole shebang together!  Accompanied with a nice glass of water because us Asians can't hold our liquor.  Who took the picture of dad's plate because he had the biggest piece of fish.

Happy holidays to everyone!  Now, allow me to excuse myself for a night of board games with the family.  And present wrapping.  Gotta get around to that.