So I've been on vacation for some time now but have barely felt like it! Christmas Eve was fabulous. I went to a house party in the afternoon and ate homemade tourtiere and quiche and all kinds of fabulous foods and drinks. I left the party around 5 or 6pm with my coworker and her bf and went home to grab the dessert ingredients I prepared for dinner and headed to their apartment. We had an excellent diinner of crabs' legs and roasted vegetables and bread and wine and champagne. I brought Bailey's/vanilla mousse and chocolate mousse that I layered in martini glasses with these Asian custard pies from the convenience store (basically Twinkies in place of pound cake or something like that) with some chocolate condensed milk and a Ferrero Rocher and Oreo stick on top. It was DELICIOUS!
Xmas morning I woke up at about 7am and frantically cleaned and prepped my DISGUSTINGLY DIRTY apartment for company.
My friends from Korea arrived around 2pm and Tia and I started to cook
while Tyler fixed my DVD player and watched Christmas movies. 
We made a broccoli cheese bake,
some roasted carrots, garlic mashed potatoes, 
rosemary/parmesan cornbread madeleines, 
corn with honey, peas, sweet broccoli salad, cranberry sauce, and packaged gravy. We drank and relaxed and watched movies while we waited for the tukery to arrive. That's right, the turkey came to my apartment in a cooler, wrapped in foil, warm and full of chestnut stuffing. The bird was juicy and tender and fantastic. I only have one dull santoku knife which I didn't realize would be such an issue so our bird got butchered in a most cro magnum manner but, hell, we got to eat the thing. 
It was really challenging getting everything warm, keeping it warm, and fitting it all on the table. 
Not an overall perfect meal, but very satisfying as I had great friends to share it with and more than enough Christmas spirit to go around.
We finished off the meal with coffee made in my Vietnamese single-perc with Bailey's and pumpkin pie with whipped cream that we scored from the house party the day before. I hope you all had a great Christmas, too. Christmas in Beijing was beautiful with blue skies and great Xmas displays. Maybe next year you can come and see it for yourselves!
On boxing day I tackled the carcass of the bird and was victorious in creating delicious soup--perhaps the best turkey soup I've ever had. It was a little disturbing dealing with the turkey head and neck and all that but after one swift blow to the neck that grossness was removed and disposed of! I also made myself a turkey pot pie (twice :P) with the leftovers and topped it off with parmesan cheese at the end. It was totally delicious and I'll be making another one as I still have a bit of meat and potatoes left!
For a 6kg bird I really didn't end up with that much food leftover once I split it with my friends so overall I am totally pleased and couldn't ask for anything more!
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