christmas & tarts

I had a pretty nice, low-key Christmas. I’m all about low-key holidays. Since we don’t have any family on this coast, it’s usually just me and my parents. We went back to our traditional celebration by opening some presents, going to see a movie, and eating a tasty dinner. Our movie of choice this year was Syriana, a political-esqe movie about government and the oil companies. It was much too confusing and drawn out and the story was really hanging by a thread. In the end, I couldn’t really tell you what happened except that the a) the government is bad b) oil companies are bad and c) people are bad. Don’t go see it.

For Christmas dessert, I made a pumpkin pie and some little pumpkin tarts. The tarts have a bit more sugar than the pie and it was all made with Splenda. It was pretty tasty. The only thing that was a little off was that the bottom of the crusts didn’t really get totally cooked through (but cooked through enough – I would have liked them to have been more brown on the bottom). I think it has to do with the fact that we use a little convection oven for baking because the regular sized oven is kaput. Oh well. Still tastiness to be had!