Christmas in Ecuador is celebrated with a large family and friends circle. Sonia and Paco invite us to their country house, an 80 years old adobe house on a big property where they regularly spend their weekends. Their nearly grown-up kids, Lissy and Marco, their children, Ray, and Jo are in on it. Later other friends come. Lissy as enthusiastic Austrian cook serves delicious rissoles rolled in bacon with creamy mushroom-red wine sauce. With this there are bread dumplings that also dont maintain the mandatory ball form. We will still study the dumpling-altitude-physics.