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Boy got me an iPod!! So I've pretty much been doing nothing but organizing all my songs and importing tons and tons of CDs and having a great deal of fun ^_^.

I have an iPod!!!

I also got expensive jewelry from the boy's parents, which I feel incredibly guilty about.. told the boy to tell them not to get me anything expensive. Also got an Express gift card, Trivial Pursuit (whee! I think I'm one of the few people excited by getting board games... next, another game made by the Cranium people!), Joy of Cooking + nice cooking utensils (whee!) and tons of candy. And I think I'm going to explode because I ate so much.

Had a fairly traditional Christmas dinner, with Yorkshire pudding, so I have now experienced Yorkshire pudding. It is quite interesting, but I don't quite get why it's pudding. Huh. Roast beef this time instead of turkey, and lots of passing of things and whatnot. I still am not very used to eating American-style where people pass things around and are polite and whatnot. We always eat with all the dishes in the center, and everyone has their own bowl of rice, and basically, everything's up for grabs. I think I also had waaaay too much cheese and cheesy stuff. I really want my veggies and fruits now.

And now we are off to watch Peter Pan, yay!

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Okay, I have to ask, what is Yorkshire pudding? I keep hearing about this mysterious, artery-clogging concoction but I'm not entirely sure what it is!

I'm not sure! It's kind of like very eggy bread, or at least the stuff I had.

Talked to one of the guys at work, and he said they used to make it for more meaty flavor... they'd pour in drippings from the pan after deglazing, and then they'd sop it in whatever meat juices were left on the plate.

It's quite interesting -- fluffy and almost heavy at the same time... maybe it's because the type I had was in a pop-up pan? No idea.

Yep, Yorkshire pudding (also called popovers, although in some regions "popover" means something very different) is traditionally a very eggy bread-like mixture -- note how it's not solid enough to be bread before you cook it --, poured into muffin tins, dotted with the drippings from a roast beast, and baked in the still-warm oven from which the beast has been removed.

I think it's called "pudding" in the English sense -- they call practically anything that isn't a main course a pudding, by which I think they mean dessert. I suspect it originally evolved as a version of dinner rolls, and that a dinner roll with egg in it was more rich/nutritious than a regular dinner roll, so it was sort of a delicacy or a special occasion food.

Ahhh I see. Ergo the strange non-puddingness of plum pudding? That's my food goal for next Christmas ;).