{"id":4822,"date":"2020-12-26T04:31:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T04:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2020-12-26T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T13:25:15","slug":"christmas-crazy-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/26\/christmas-crazy-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas crazy, no more…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The frenzy of Christmas leaves me more and more perplexed and this year, having the opportunity (if one can says so) to spend it at home, just like a normal day off was actually more than welcome. Since we\u2019ve been in Japan, rare are the years we haven\u2019t spent Christmas with our families in Europe. While a family reunion is nice, Christmas is a time I dislike being in Paris, it\u2019s dark, gloomy and cold. We are always suffering from jetlag, waking up at 5:00am when it\u2019s pitch black outside and it will stay so for another 3 hours… better yet when we spend Christmas in the south of France, or even better in Italy. I love so much better the Italian spirit… But jetlag and dark mornings are not the only reason why I dislike so much this period, what I fear the most about Christmas are the long dinner and lunch that go with it, the sudden abundance in food like it were the only day we can eat and we have to eat them all from the appetizers to the mignardises… in magazines, instagram and wherever else… giant turkeys, creamy cakes, chocolate overdosed buches…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is millions miles away from my conception of good food and good eating. Why shall you wait for Christmas or new year eve for champagne, caviar, foie gras and truffle and presents??? For fine chocolates and treats??? Why on earth would you get them all on one day??? For me, everyday is a cooking feast and every day is worth a present, I love the concept of unbirthday<\/em> we should have an unchristmas<\/em> too! I can\u2019t wait 365 days and then just have to take it all in a snap! This is too ridiculous. Maybe also because my birthday is so closed from Christmas. Also, for me, a festive good meal doesn\u2019t need to have fancy ingredients (actually I dislike most of them…), it just needs love in the kitchen and at the table and a few basic products. So the very best part of a European Christmas is undeniably the breakfast, really early, in the kitchen overlooking the garden still in the darkness: pieces of pompe a l\u2019huile or slices of panettone dipped in a cup of hot black tea and tangerines peeled carefully and eaten slowly\ud83c\udf4a is what makes me the happiest. When all is still quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pompe a l\u2019huile and tangerines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year, no travel, no jetlag, no dark morning , no family reunion, and no Christmas party with friends, it was just the two of us in our country house. Perfect. I prepared rustic potatoes and smoked ham ravioli for Christmas eve, and pompe a l\u2019huile for the morning breakfast, which wasn\u2019t dark as in Japan the sun sets early, and early enough to catch up with family still on Christmas eve. Luckily Isumi is well stocked in tangerines groves, so it\u2019s really easy to find some good ones… ours from our tree are long eaten! And that was a perfect Christmas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish you all a happy holiday season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas ravioli, just the usual ravioli filled with smoked ham and potatoes, dressed with onion and shiitake <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The frenzy of Christmas leaves me more and more perplexed and this year, having the opportunity (if one can says so) to spend it at home, just like a normal day off was actually more than welcome. Since we\u2019ve been in Japan, rare are the years we haven\u2019t spent Christmas with our families in Europe…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[359,367,360,364],"tags":[34,22,21,430,403,318,88],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}