Reflective Essay On The Difference Between Thanksgiving And Turkey

During Thanksgiving, mom makes food with turkey in it or just turkey. If we don't have any turkey we eat any other kind of food with meats in it and rice. We always have to include spicy food because it not only gives the food a better taste but my family and I usually like eating any kind of spicy food. My mom sometimes makes ponche de fruta for Thanksgiving, but she usually doesn't and just serves us soda. If my mom doesn't cook anything with a lot of meat, she makes pozole which has some meat or pork in it but it also had corn in it too.
During Christmas, my mom makes either pozole or tamales. This year she made pozole. It was really good and it had a good taste because my mom added a lot of red chiles. She either buys soda or makes ponche served hot, because of the weather we have during this time. We stay up until midnight and then we open our presents. Sometimes before its midnight, like around 8 or 9, we go to my aunts house for an hour or two and they give my family and I some presents which they want us to open early so we do. I sometimes make or buy cookies and give some to my cousins and my aunt. Then we go home around 10 or 11 and we stay up until midnight where we open out
My mom once again decides to cook. My brothers and I help her with the ponche as she makes chicken salad and pasta and rice and other food. She sometimes makes quesadillas, the way she was taught in El Salvador and she makes a lot of them that they don't fit in the oven anymore and we have to bake multiple breads separately for a long time. In the end, they end up tasting really good. We help keep an eye out for the food or we help her clean the house because she wants us to start off the New Year by living in a clean house. We stay up until midnight. We watch the countdown from New York on our TV and sometimes stay up until 2 am or we go to