Tag: Christmas

Christmas Pasta for Food ‘n Fix and The Holiday
Happy Holidays! I’m hosting the December edition of Food ‘n Flix with The Holiday (2006), a film directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black and Jude Law. Of course, Diaz, Winslet, and Law are gorgeous. Black just adds enough scruffy “everyman” to help the tale be believable. Please do…

Love Actually Round Up for December’s Food ‘n Flix
Check out these recipes inspired by Love Actually, the December Food ‘n Flix feature film. We have some proper English recipes along with some delicious appetizers, desserts, and a main dish.

Christmas Chile-Spiced Pecans
This month marked a hodge-podge of holidayish themes here at Eliot’s Eats. I definitely went down two different roads. On the one hand, I highlighted some great culinary-themed books that you might want to gift to the foodie in your life. Then, I pulled out some New Mexico-inspired holiday recipes just because…. I ended the…

Jam of the Month Club
It is not unexpected to get jam, jellies, and other preserves from us as Christmas gifts. Here’s an idea for a homemade gift (that keeps on giving) and a comprehensive jam, jelly and preserve round-up.

Gift Ideas
No Christmas posting theme here this year. Things are just too hectic, but the Ghost of Christmas Pasts is visiting today. Here are my gifting-themed posts from 2010 to present.

Always take the scenic route….
Did you catch all the clues I posted recently? Did you wonder why I was decorating with farolitos and baking bischochitos? I know you friends and how astute you are so I am sure some of you guessed. Yes, we went to Santa Fe for Christmas again. It had been three years since we spent…

More Christmas Gifts
OK. Forgive me. I have not been in the kitchen all week. I am hoping that my name wasn’t up on the board to bring holiday treats tomorrow. It ain’t happenin’. I have just not felt like cooking much lately. Work has been über stressful. Enough said. I am waiting for Christmas break and I…


