Merry Cheesy Christmas! Part 1

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Merry Christmas to everyone! It's my second year celebrating Christmas in the United States. Last year I spent my Christmas with my best friends in New York City and it was a memorable experience especially we were almost trapped in New York after the city was buried under 19 inches of snow!!!

I guess Santa really gave us our wish for wanting to have a white Christmas by dumping that much of snow on us!

This year, however, is a sunny, no-snow Christmas as I'm spending my Christmas with a friend of mine at Burlingame near San Francisco. It's still chilly without the sno

w and I get to experience the process of putting up a Christmas tree, decorating it, go Christmas shopping, preparing Christmas dinner, baking Christmas Cookies and so on.

Home-made frosting after we color-dyed it

Home-made Christmas Cookies~

We made few different types of dipping too and one of them is Artichoke dipping~ If you are wondering what's an artichoke like I did, well it's some kind of scaly-looking green vegetable that look like this....

Making Artichoke dip ~ step 1

Making Artichoke dip ~step 2~add lots of mayonnaise! Well, actually just one cup.

Step 3~ put a cup of Parmesan cheese and Mozzarella Cheese each and mix them all together.

Step 4~ Sprinkle some Parsley over it and bon apetite~

Another thing we made is the taco dipping that is with taco mix, sour cream, cream cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, black olives and tons of Mexican cheese!

So it's no less fun than last year as I'm having my first American-at-home Christmas celebration.(as how it should be celebrated) The best part is I get to learn all these American recipes so I could share it with my family back home in Malaysia.

We are not even done with our Christmas dinner preparation yet~ More to come!