Aren’t you nervous seeing that Christmas is around the corner? Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, getting ready for this festive season, putting up the tree and sing Christmas songs 24/7. However, I’m rushing to buy Christmas presents for my loved ones and getting the ingredient we need to prepare the traditional meals for these festive days.

This year, like every other year of my life, we are following my family traditional recipes and, because I am Catalan, Christmas for me means having a lot of enormous meals in a short period of time. In other words, so you can get a glimpse of what it is like: imagine either Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner and multiply that meal per 6 days, almost in a row, considering that my family and I celebrate 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st of December and the 1st and the 6th of January. Crazy, right?! Since Christmas is coming and I’m feeling inspired, I’ve decided to make a meal for the Three Kings Day (els Reis Mags in Catalan or los Reyes Magos in Spanish).
Right now I’m asking myself what the hell I am doing because it’s a massive amount of pressure on myself and also because I want to disappoint neither my parents nor my grandmother, especially not her.

Considering how terribly (or wonderfully) that can go and for having committed to this responsibility, I am doing my research. Due to not following any of my “save my bum please” family recipes (it would be too “easy”), my idea is to cook either beef or pork very slowly in the oven so it gets all these flavours from vegetables, that subtle liquor flavour and, that as soon as you put it in your mouth, you don’t even have to chew because it just melts.

I think someone is knocking on my door….might be the delivery guy. I’m going to check before he leaves.

On the next post, I’ll tell you what I’ve decided to cook. Hopefully, it’ll be the right choice…

See you then.