Making Christmas (Part VI)... Pastelles, Ham, The Christmas Village and H1's Most Hated Snow

A Trini Christmas would be incomplete without a few things - sorrel, punch de creme and pastelles.

Well, our Christmas is incomplete because Momma HOchie forgot to buy the sorrel to make us drinks and Papa HOchie has yet to make some punch de creme.

The pastelles on the other hand went down on Christmas Eve. Every year we try this and we forget what to do.
There's always some kind of struggle for banana leaves, struggle with the corn meal and then there's the issue of tying it all together so as to not have it fall apart when cooked.

So, they taste good like the always do but they've not been wrapped in leaves, they're kind of sticking to the paper and water managed to get in to some.

Make a note to self that next year I should not be tasked with tying.





Bunji cooked the ham this year and fancied it up by making a blackberry apple type sauce. it was quite the yummies and perhaps we'll task him to do it again next year.

Oooo, Christmas breakfast -



Papa HOchie is all about putting up the little Christmas Village at the corner of Mulberry St.

Over the years, we've collected lots of shops and some have gifted us with houses and/or people in the past. It was sad but we couldn't find black girl playing basketball that Beetchie gave to him one year but we did discover that there seems to have been some sort of animal explosion in the town with more dogs than people inhabiting the town. Could it be some sort of scary Christmas nightmare tale in the making...? And will this story be made into a B movie?

Eerie, isn't it? That dog that's as big as the car?



And the ghost train at the foot of the hill with the disco church sitting on top overlooking all? Yeah, definitely B movie material.



This year we had a white Christmas. It didn't snow on the day itself but we had left over snow from the storm that blew through on the 19th. H1 was most displeased but we did get to throw Boohead out into the snow, which was fun for him.

Another B Movie in the making with the scary sky:



And scary Mechanical Reindeer:



Here's what it looked like the day after:





That's so not what H1 wanted to see or walk over.

Currently listening to: "The Dam at Otter Creek" by Live. Ah, a song for a scary movie.