Actually this photo (apologies for the sickly lighting...) combines four of my favorite things: Christmas, acorns, pizza and oak wood.
It is tree decorating night at Casa de Siems. That means music, food and memories. No, our Christmas tree is not an oak. Although I lobbied for that. Again. And lost. Again.
By food, I mean pizza. And pizza at our house means homemade crust with 1 cup of the white flour replaced with acorn flour. We pre-bake the crust, then add the toppings (after much heated debate) and bake for another 6-7 minutes or so. The only downside of acorn flour pizza crust is that it's much more filling and satisfying than regular crust... which sounds all well and good until you consider the horrible consequences of that: It means eating less pizza!
My other favorite thing is the oak table upon which the pizza crust is resting. Sickly lighting aside this is our one truly prized possession - a quarter-sawn white oak table made in Lake City, Minnesota in 1900. We found it at an antique store in suburban Minneapolis about eight years ago. We went in looking for a couple of small wall decorations. We walked out with a 2-ton (estimated weight, based on having moved it several times) of gorgeous oak. It's a circular table about 52 inches in diameter with leaves that expand it to nearly 100 inches in length, and with five massive columnar legs.
Update: I didn't get this posted yesterday afternoon, so the trimming of the tree has come and gone. Summary: Tree... gorgeous. Snacks... plentiful. Music... excellent (avoiding the putrid Paul McCartney Christmas ditty "Wonderful Christmas Time" helped in that; honestly, what was Sir Paul thinking??). Pizza... delicious.
I'm still full.
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