My brother Nathanael came to visit me in India for Christmas.

We decided to do our best to make a traditional Christmas Eve supper. We mad a list of various German/ Norwegian Christmas foods, and headed out to see what ingredients we could find. Much to our surprise we found all the ingredients we needed for all the food on our list. We weren’t able to get the yeast breads made because we didn’t have time, stollen and cardamom bread. However we did have:

Cranberry cake

Fruit Soup

Egg nog

Peanut Brittle

Ritz crakers with peanut butter and covered in chocolate

Honey Baked Ham

Various Types of Salami

Various chesses

Cadbury chocolates

Nuts

Maybe a few other things I’m not remembering, and the Stollen and Christmas bread we will make as soon as we have time.

The end result however was a delicious meal and a kitchen unlike anything that has existed in this apartment before. That I leave for another day. And my excuse, two words: Christmas Sermon. Sometimes it is a good thing to have a sermon due the next day. Scratch that always it is good to have a sermon due the next day. Especially the gift of the Father.

Wishing you all a very blessed Chrismas,

Pastor Matthew Ude