Christmas Pizza and Bad Santa

Mari

When most people talk about pairings, they are referencing the wine they are going to serve with cheeses or meats, or whatever. When I hear pairings, I think of pizza and a movie! With the great recipes that are posted here, who can blame me? I love Bad Santa and I love chorizo and I love pizza. Because of an annoying inability to tolerate dairy, my pizzas that I make for me don’t turn out quite the same. The ones I make for the family do. I did find a Vegan cheese that melts beautifully and tastes delicious, and that is a major accomplishment. Don’t get me started on their cream cheese and Breton crackers, I beg you. Anyway, Christmas Eve at my house is always pizza and a movie, so this wonderful blog makes it Christmas 52 times a year. Fifty three when Christmas Eve isn’t a Friday. I absolutely love Billy Bob’s expressions in this movie. He has a wonderfully elastic face, and he does a lot with his face. Well it may be Christmas Eve, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a pizza challenge. Actually it does mean there won’t be a pizza challenge. Since it’s Christmas Eve, it’s the Santa cookies and whatever challenge. He could have a pizza, but he has a ferocious sweet tooth after centuries of milk and cookies, and you don’t want him tearing the chimney apart because he didn’t get something sugary . He probably will need a drink to wash the sweets and sandwiches and canapés, and whatever down with. Santa says he isn’t down with milk, so he needs something wet, but not necessarily milk. He will never turn down chocolate milk, so he’s a tricky guy.

Stump The Chef’s Christmas edition begins with one of my favorite movies, “Love, Actually.” Emma Thompson’s impassioned speech to her cheating husband, Alan Rickman, always reduces me to tears. Since it’s an English movie, mincemeat tarts could be one of Santa’s treats. So could a few pints of beer, or maybe not, since he would be drinking and driving. We can’t have that. Next we have the ultimate vintage Christmas movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life”, with the incomparable Jimmy Stewart. I love this movie, and I watch it every time I see it in the TV listings. It was not a success when it was released, but as time passed, it became the huge hit it always should have been. “Miracle On 34th Street” is another classic. It featured Natalie Wood before she became Natalie Wood, and it is fabulous. Edmund Gwenn as Santa, is perfect casting. Almost any of the old versions of “A Christmas Carol”, are worth watching, and the casting is always perfect. I even enjoyed the version with George C. Scott.

Merry Christmas, love and hugs to Kelly, Alex, Dante, Penny, Sophie, and the blog sisters. May you be surrounded with love, friends, and joy. And may you ladies find designer shoes and handbags under the tree but nothing that says Fruit Of The Loom. It was a given that with five kids in my family, Santa was going to leave us underwear during the lean years.

Suzanne Smith

That looks delicious. And every single year, it’s a requirement invite house ( by next) that we must watch bad Santa. . I love Billy Bob Thornton abd Thurman Merman. We may watch that tonight. Always makes me laugh and puts me in a sentimental good mood. Merry Christmas!!