{"id":4867,"date":"2021-01-02T23:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2021-01-04T00:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T00:58:31","slug":"the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"The holidays…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or I rather write \u201cTHE holidays\u201d… as this year we didn\u2019t take any real holidays until this week, rather a few days here and there to make long weekends and get away from the city. But for the new year, both the university and A.\u2019s company are getting in a real slow mood, so it\u2019s easier to take a few more days. Usually we would spend this period in Europe or travel in Japan, but this year things were obviously<\/em> different. 10 days in a row in the countryside in winter was a first for us, and without any jet lag. Before the holidays start I was full of ideas of recipes, sewing projects, gardening tasks and other activities. Because the days are shorter, because it\u2019s cold, days have vanished one after the other with only half of the things I wanted to do done, and it\u2019s now the last few hours of the holidays and I realized I didn\u2019t post any new recipe since my birthday, and can\u2019t even remember what I cooked without browsing my picture gallery!!! Though I did cook, and bake every single day 3 or 4 meals (more often 4 ;)). But there was so much in my to do list that I feel like I did nothing. Literally nothing. Though the garden has never been neater than this year, in every corner, the trees are trimmed, the fallen leaves wiped away nicely, the house clean and sorted. But what did I cook???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First I did a bit of Christmas bread cooking. On Christmas day I decided I would try to do a world tour of Christmas bread: a Christmas bread a day. But after baking three on three days, I realize that since these breads are meant to be large, for just the two of us they are too much to eat. So after the pompe \u00e0 l\u2019huile, the panettone and the julekake it was time to move towards smaller sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n