Merry Christmas to all my friends in the Blogosphere!!!
Every celebration is foiled with tradition of some sort!!! We have them in our family too! Though not born into a christian household, we celebrate Christmas like any other Hindu festival!!! Maybe because of my mother, my upbringing with a Christian convent right next door while growing up, my grandmother's influence on my mother...I could go on! We hold this celebrations more so closer to our hearts because, it brings so much joy into our lives in many many ways...giving, sharing, acquiring, entertaining, and so on! This year, we did a coat drive among friends, and we made blankets as a family to distribute among the less fortunate. Wish we could do more, but slowly working on it!!! It is a tradition that we meet at my friend's place for Christmas eve, celebrate the season with my adapted family, here in the tundra! We exchange gifts and have a merry meal, play some merry games and come home in the wee hours of the morning!
This year, my 2 eight year old chipmunks, to my delight, stayed young (the clock somehow magically got reversed!!!)!!! They who scorned at Santa last year were gung ho about believing in him this year!!! My dear husband played a big part in it! Anyway...I am not complaining if I am able to hang on to their childishness for one more year!! Moms of the world...what say you??!
There is a tradition in our household, it all started when we moved into our home and celebrated Christmas with all the trimmings, I started baking cinnamon rolls, first thing in the morning, and open gifts, savoring each gooey bite with sips of hot coffee with it!
This year I did something different....made a cinnamon flavored syrup to go along with it.... heavenly!!! Fresh hot rolls, with a drizzle of the most luxurious syrup, whipped up in a matter of minutes....was pure indulgence.....go ahead and try it..... here is what you will need!!
Bring together the brown sugar and water in a saucepan to a boil. Stir well until the sugar dissolves completely. Simmer till the syrup thickens a bit.
Add the Condensed milk, stir till smooth, turn the flame off. Whisk in the ground cinnamon. I added pumpkin pie spice, as that happens to be my favorite and also, it contains a little of cinnamon, ginger, cloves et al ... making it more classy!
My cinnamon rolls happily doubling and thriving in the oven at 400F!! Can't wait to get to it! We had these lovely, soft rolls with both the traditional icing and the cinnamon syrup!
This is how our table looks as each of us is trying to help ourselves with the toppings!!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!
Merry Seasons Eatings!!!
