El Segundo Navidad
Posted: December 27, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Mexican Pile On 16 Comments »I had another Christmas today…another beautiful thing about being married is getting to share in another family’s traditions as well as your own! Win, win.
My family’s food tradition for Christmas something we have dubbed Mexican-Pile-On.
Fairly self-explanatory.
We set out large bowls of everything Tex-Mex (chips, beans, meat, salsa, cheese, guac, rice) and everyone piles their plate full of whatever they want. It might be my favorite meal of all time. Works well for our family of 18, too.
Then we had a small gift exchange (we all just buy a present for one person) and then a hilarious hour of white elephant gifts. I got robbed of a pair of pleather leggings and a can of spam, but ended up walking away with a door mat (actually cute), some chip clips, and a sweet workout DVD called Jiggle Free Buns – all in all, I think I did pretty well.
I also got some fantastic foodie birthday gifts.
Foodie refrigerator poetry
A cake pan shaped like Texas (where my family is from…)
a stove-top espresso maker, The Foodie Handbook – and many gift cards to restaurants. I’m such a happy camper.
After eating, we took a walk and saw the most bizarre thing ever. (Beware: It’s a little morbid)
That is a dead, frozen bird (hanging by its beak) to a power line! How WEIRD IS THAT!?
My cousins and my niece freaking out about it…
I mean…really bizarre. I just had to share. I told my mom about it when we got back from the walk, and she was so sad, she refused to look at the picture – so I apologize if I offended anyone, I just thought it was too crazy to withhold.
Okay, with that, I am off to get a little snackie and veg on the couch…ahhhh, Christmas is over.
- Do you have multiple holiday celebrations? Or does it end on the actual day?
- Have you EVER seen anything so weird as that bird? Please share! Also, any guesses as to how in the heck that happened??
We do have multiple celebrations, but they are all relatively similar and local. So cool that your traditions are different.
ooh that bird deal is very weird….I think it slipped, electrocuted and well mother nature and the weather. I could get more graphic b/c I love science…the blood froze from its beak causing a sticky substance that the ‘froze’ the beak to the wire(beak melted a bit) and it hung there! But it is quite the oddity….not offensive to me.
We do not have multiple holidays….I refuse until the kids aer older and no longer believe to travel from our home and our traditions. My kids with their many moves enjoy our traditions. So they tell me….I am thinking one day, one day….a cruise for our Christmas gift!! My xmas is all put away….crawl space is cleaned out and we are off to GKhan tomorrow….enjoy your time. Oh try The Market in downtown Denver…I have some cool pics on my facebook page but have no idea how to send them to you on email…big biscotti and steamed milk with sugar free brown sugar cinnamon…oh my gosh its so, so good. Grace loved it too.
i love that yall have a mexican tradition!! we dont have anything cool like that..
lol whoa totally freaky about the bird!
Yeah – that bird is one of those freakish things that you just don’t expect to see – kind of surreal! We have a turkey deep fryer, and the last time we used it we must have left a little peanut oil residue on it. We store it in a little storage shed in the back yard. Well this winter I went out there looking for something and I happened to glance down at that deep fryer and there was a little mouse hanging from the edge by his TONGUE! He was obviously trying to lick up a little oil and froze there! SO gross – but also something I had to drag everyone in my family out to see!
That is bizarre! Hope you had a great time in Mexico and a wonderful relaxing Christmas. We still have one week left..yipeee!!!
ummm the frozen bird is bizarro. never seen anything like that!
i LOVE your family’s xmas dinner – that looks way better than chipotle or qdoba any day!
merry belated christmas – i hope you are using that stovetop espresso maker to its fullest
lotsa love!
that bird pic is crazy! i wonder how something like that happens! oh my gosh!
Holy moly– that bird pic is crazy!!!
Love that Mexican Christmas dinner– looks delicious!
Where in Texas are you from? I’m from Shreveport, LA, only about 30 minutes from Texas.
Where in Texas is your family from?? I am in Austin!
My husband’s family is in Dallas so we have struck a deal: Thanksgiving in Dallas and Christmas in Austin. It works and I love not having to travel to a bunch of places during the holidays!
That bird is freaky
OK a) that bird is way crazy. (sob story ahead) a couple of years ago my cousin horse got out of their stable during winter and it actually FROZE into one of their ponds on the back of their property. I guess it got hypothermia or something and couldn’t get out. And because it was stuck there, frozen in the pond, they had to have a big truck come and dump a mound of dirt over it. So now basically their horse is buried under a big hill on the back of their property.
Ummmm anyways, b) yess definitely multiple christmases! we stretch out the holidays (birthdays, easter, etc) as looong as possible!
That bird is weird. Do you think it got electrocuted and somehow froze? Ugh, I hope it doesn’t fall on someone.
The tex-mex meal looks yummy.
Oh gosh, that poor bird!! That is so strange!
I’ve got to ask how you liked the book Edgar Sawtelle? I’m looking for a new one to add to my list after finishing The Road, but I’m not sure which one to pick up.
Your Tex-Mex bowl looks amazing, by the way! Yum!
Ah! That bird picture freaked me out, too! But why can’t I stop looking at it!?
Your Mexican pile on sounds like the perfect meal for a big group; I may have to suggest it for my family’s next big get together!
yeah~that is crazy about the bird! i love the pile-on meal
Wasn’t that beak frozen b/t the wires? Hmm… flying accident? no clue. Yes, the pile-up is amazing! I’m glad you like the foodie magnets!!
It was great to see you guys!