Greatest needs to everybody celebrating Christmas. We’re celebrating our 4 youngsters, prolonged Turley clan, and, in fact, Luna. Thus far, Christmas has averted the collection of unlucky occasions that made final 12 months so … effectively … memorable.
Yesterday, we went to the Christmas market within the loop and received potato pancakes and different delights. In contrast to the arctic climate of final Christmas, it was completely balmy this 12 months within the 40s and 50s.
My mother is 96 and going sturdy.
Final evening, I made our conventional Cioppino soup — a practice began by my late father, Jack Turley. It’s a spicy mixture of mussels, shrimp, sea bass, clams, crab meat, and different components. I’ve beforehand written how I grew up hating the soup however the custom fell to me when my father turned ailing. I’m now as hooked on the soup as my father was. After I make the soup annually, it continues an indelible connection to my Dad and greatest buddy.
We spent this morning attempting to maintain Luna out of the stockings given her suicidal fetish for chocolate.
We can have roughly 30 tonight at my Mother’s home off the lakeshore. I can be making the meat, gravy, Yorkshire pudding, and contemporary grounded horseradish sauce. We even have an ideal Bûche de Noël (or yuletide log cake) and different delights for dessert.
The Turley household needs everybody a contented and protected vacation. I can be toasting our weblog household tonight and giving thanks for the great neighborhood we now have created at this web site.
Greatest needs,
Jonathan Turley
