Five Christmas Traditions

1) It's a warm day and I wear a t shirt and drink a beer:

2) Watch the Lakers lose (since Kobe joined the Lakers, they have a 63% overall winning percentage, yet only 36% [5-9] on Christmas Day):

3) Watch the greatest Christmas movie of them all, Die Hard:

4) Read A Child's Christmas In Wales, my second-favorite book. This is a first edition copy that Elizabeth gave me for Christmas four years ago, one of the best presents I've ever received:

5) Make spring rolls with my brother:

Let's go into this one a little more.

While I cooked some ground pork in a pan, my brother set about making the vegetable mix. Here is an action shot of him grating carrots, for you lovers of the action shot.

He did all the hard work.

I mixed up three sauces: hot mustard, a sweet & sour sauce made with Sir Kensington's Gourmet Scooping Ketchup, red wine vinegar and hot sauce, and a vinegar & sweet chili sauce with pickled ginger.

I fried up the rolls and plated them, with some slivered green onion and pickled ginger, for Christmas colors. They were good. They were very good.

My favorite of the sauces was the sweet chili/ginger sauce. I could have eaten a dozen of these.

Actually, I think I did.