Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! We are getting ready to host a Christmas feast complete with a cutthroat white elephant gift exchange tomorrow. We purchased some $2.80 Christmas CDs in Target’s Middle Eastern Cousin, so this past week has been fuelled with cheesy Christmas beats and various tasty meals. It turns out that this blog is really about all the food that I eat. This week I was very passionate about food, with good reason.
Tuesday we celebrated Qatar National Day. It is similar to America’s Fourth of July. There was a parade in the morning and a huge fireworks show at night. It was the best fireworks show I have ever seen. It looked like a finale for 10 straight minutes. The Qatari employees hosted lunch at work on Monday (we got Tuesday off of work) and there was so much yummy food. The women and men ate in separate rooms which is customary. The main dish was lamb and rice.
Monday night we had a co-worker from the Houston office in town and discovered a nice hibachi grill.
Tuesday we celebrated Qatar National Day. It is similar to America’s Fourth of July. There was a parade in the morning and a huge fireworks show at night. It was the best fireworks show I have ever seen. It looked like a finale for 10 straight minutes. The Qatari employees hosted lunch at work on Monday (we got Tuesday off of work) and there was so much yummy food. The women and men ate in separate rooms which is customary. The main dish was lamb and rice.
For lunch on Wednesday a couple co-workers took me to The Chicken Place aka TCP. My mouth is watering again looking at this picture.
We got a rental car and are now cruisin’ the roads (read as Jonathon drives and I ride in the passenger seat so happy that my husband is such a great driver and I'm not the one behind the wheel). So Thursday was the last day with Nasar, our driver. We went to dinner with him and some friends at an amazing restaurant serving food from Kerala, India. We got to eat with our hands which was surprising fun.
Our Christmas festivities include going to see the Hobbit tonight and having company over tomorrow. The menu includes the Thompson’s famous stuffing and an apple crumble close to Thompson apple pie. Apparently I have a phobia of running out of food, because I bought enough food to serve 20 people and there will only be 10 of us. This week we also got our license to the Qatar Distribution Center, which means we can purchase adult beverages and products from Babe/Wilbur. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas filled with love and cheer.
Glad Christmas was so interesting, delicious and fun for you two and your guests! Speaking of delicious, how about posting the recipe for that apple crumble?
ReplyDeleteHi Cynthia. I hope you had a good holiday season. All my cookbooks were in our shipment which hadn't arrived yet, so I used the recipe from the following link.
Deletehttp://allrecipes.com/recipe/apple-crisp-ii/
It was tasty served with ice cream.