The year I went crazy on my love for the British and European culinary traditions .
For the first time, I made steamed pudding in the pudding basin. With the roast duck dinner, it was almost a Dickensian Christmas. Almost, because there was no goose, just a duck.
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mince pies
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| steamed plum pudding |
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| American cinnamon roll ready for the oven |
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| Swedish julbullar |
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| French kouign amann |
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| Austrian Linzertorte |
For Christmas eve, a roast duck dinner with red cabbage and pear-cranberry relish and sambar and rice pulao/pilaf for mom
On Christmas day, a typical Nazrani dinner -- with fish, in coconut milk sauce and fried, Kerala style, roast chicken, braised and fried beef, beef croquettes, lamb stew and paalappam
