Greetings dear friends, happy and blessed day to all of you, already in the countdown to Christmas Eve, the truth is this is a day that I miss all year, because on this day we gather all the family at my parents' house first for the preparation of the hallaca and ham bread and then at night to sit at the table to share our Christmas dinner.
I love to see that long table with each year more seats, and the thought of this day fills me with joy and excitement.
Well a few days ago we had already taken the opportunity to buy fresh pork, because here in the house we managed to set aside a 7 kilos pork leg and kept it to go ahead in terms of materials, but this last week my mother and I have gone out to make some other purchases because the concern of the hallaca mainly stew takes its special ingredients that must be selected.
For example my mom is used to prepare and season the meat a day before, for the stew with a wine, capers, olives, raisins, dad, carrots, paprika, chili, garlic, onion, parsley, and much more as they have their special touch.
So this day you take the opportunity to buy and advance the purchase of olives, raisins, capers and some vegetables that we can refrigerate and keep for this day, however we did not want to buy dressings because they were not very fresh and also was to use in several days.
Other years I have not done it but this year I hope to be aware of the preparation of the stew to be learning as this is a family tradition, although I think the flavor that my mom gives it I will not be able to reach it.
Well on the other hand I also took advantage of this outing to buy some supplies for the home.
Being able to go shopping with my mother to buy the ingredients for the hallaca and preparations for Christmas dinner is something that fills me with great enthusiasm to be my mother's companion in all these preparations.
And you my dear friends, have you already bought the ingredients for the hallacas?
The content in this publication is completely original and all the photos are my own and were taken with my Redmi 9 cell phone.