What a beautiful, relaxing, engaging Christmas gathering with my family: husband, children, partners, nephew, niece, and grandchildren with stories to share, and plenty of food offerings like portugese tarts, chinese chicken salad, and top of the line excellent sotanghon, lucenachon, branzino, tofu mushrooms (a hit), calamansi pie, smoked chicken from Kuya Lord and Manila Inasal LA ‘s eggplant omelet, lumpiang gulay, and lumpiang shanghai as appetizers. My daughter and niece prepared the artsy charcuterie board, and daughter baked the portugese nata tarts.

Thank you to these top quality food vendors. I am very very grateful to LordMaynard Llera whose day off today was spent for this catering order. Kuya Lord, the vegetarians loved your grilled tofu mushrooms, they kept coming back.

Thank you also to @Manila Inasal LA whose delivery was on time and again great food offerings.

So so pleased that my children and niece and nephew loved the entrees. Conversations were about travels, more travels and quality of life. It is always good to be with one’s own family,. Two weeks of not seeing the grandchildren whom I have so missed made me so happy.

#thankyoufamily