La Noche Buena

Today we are preparing food for a big family dinner ( which won't start until 9:00 pm) to celebrate Christmas Eve, or Noche Buena in Mexico.  The photo is of Irma's mother cooking Baccalau in a traditional clay pot over a charcoal fire in the patio.  Baccalau is a very traditional Spanish dish for such occasions - it has salt cod, potatos, olives, peppers, onions and lots of other spices etc.  My contribution to the dinner will be a more American tradition: stuffing for the turkey Irma is cooking and the gravy.