Yaaay Yuletide!

I couldn't wait for midnight to hit the West Coast, so non-Yuletide gift fic is on its way.

Also, since it's so much fun... guess who wrote what for Yuletide! Tell me why you think so-and-so wrote such-and-such, and authors, don't confirm or deny.

Christmas Eve!

OMG. My feet are so, so, so tired. Got up at 8 in the morning to come back from SF and forgot to pick up a pie on the way -- not that it really matters, as we are so not short on dessert. Then I took Ren to the vet to get his stitches removed. It was a mad house! Clearly everyone else thought it would be empty on Christmas Eve as well, or everyone's pets just got sick at the same time.

Ren has decided that he hates me forever and sulked in the corner of his cage on the drive home. Well, for rattie values of "sulk," that is, as he immediately trots over to lick my fingers if anything tasty is on them.

I also braved the wilds of Whole Foods around 11. Insanity! Utter insanity! I keep forgetting how crazy the holidays are around here. My dad called in the afternoon -- it's Christmas for them in Taiwan, everyone's at work and nothing's going on.

Then, cooking!

Today's menu consisted of: beef noodle soup Taiwan-style, made by my sister's friend. The beef chunks and tendon were simmered in broth for about five hours, then she briefly boiled some baby bok choy and noodles right before dinner. Me and my sister scrambled about making the tiramisu, by which I mean, my sister took over after I did a poor job of separating one egg and broke another in the bowl. Siiigh. So I went and made latkes instead. I heart my food processor grater thing so much. I am sure it is not as tasty, but it also mean bits of my fingers don't get included in the food, which I think is a good thing. We also had potstickers, salad (mixed greens, pomegranate seeds, oranges, jicama, completely random dressing thrown together by me), and La Brea rosemary olive oil bread.

I just made raspberry sauce for the souffle tomorrow and started on yogurt sauce; I think I will now collapse and indulge in tiramisu.

ETA: Hrm, the tiramisu tastes very odd! We sort of very deviated from the recipe and made it with a layer of butter pound cake and a layer of chocolate pound cake. I think if we had soaked more coffee into them, it would have tasted more "normal." Still, it is insanely good, and I am tempted to make it like this again.