So...whats for dinner?
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Busy time at our house with one family of five visiting and another of seven coming tomorrow! Tonight was skillet chili (same ingredients as chili soup but thick, not soupy), baked potatoes and green salad. Too tired to make corn bread and didn't even think of corn chips.
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Leftover mac & cheese and oil-&-vinegar slaw with sliced almonds. (Linguine primavera with chicken breast for lunch). One of Bob's patients just gifted us 1/2 gallon of raw honey from his backyard hives! (Enough there to probably bequeath the remainder to Gordy). The psychiatric group to whom Bob refers patients just sent us our annual tray of 48 asst'd Middle Eastern pastries (variations on baklava). Already got 2 lbs. ea. of Swiss Colony baby Swiss and medium cheddar, and 1 lb. of extra-sharp from the neurology group.
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Yum on all the delicious food described, especially the brisket. I do love brisket and usually order it when we eat at a barbecue restaurant, which is seldom.
Funny scale story. I haven't weighed the last few days and decided to bite the bullet this morning. I cleaned the bathroom yesterday so the scale had been picked up and then replaced. My weight was alarming. So I repositioned the scale and weighed several times until the weight was less alarming. Behavior of a 75 year old woman! I'm off to the gym this morning and I always weigh on the scale there.
Tonight's dinner menu yet to be decided.
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Had a scare. Thurs., I put on my dark-wash skinny jeans (size 18) and noticed (happily) they were on the loose side. Fri. morning I put them on again and panicked: they were quite tight across my belly. I thought at first they'd been washed too soon, then wracked my brain trying to remember what I'd eaten that'd cause me to gain so much weight in 24 hrs. Then yesterday I saw a pair of dark-wash skinny jeans still hanging on the rod--the ones I'd worn Thurs. Sure enough, those were still loose. Took off the ones that freaked me out, and looked at their label: Target "Denim Leggings," size 16.
Leftover linguine last night--cut in some yellow tomato, cremini mushroom, asparagus & broccolini, then grated Parm-Reg. and drizzled truffle oil over the top. Trying a new restaurant, Onward, tonight--about 3/4 mi. n. of us over the "neighborhood line" in Rogers Park. We'll either drive (chancing street parking or paying $7 at w garage a block a way, which may be free tonight) or take a rideshare. It's one train stop away--but 3 blocks' walk to our station and 3 blocks from the next stop to the place. We'd take the bus, but it doesn't go all the way there--have to change at Devon Ave. for the Sheridan Rd. bus, both of which bus lines end there. The cuisine is supposed to be "New American," and it's gotten 30 great reviews on OpenTable just in the 3 wks. since it opened.
Tomorrow night we're going to a trad. Creole "reveillon dinner" (well, semi-trad, as "reveillon" is supposed to be after Midnight Mass to break the pre-Communion fast) at Big Jones tomorrow night. There'll be all manner of stuff like goose gumbo, duck breast tamales, shrimp & grits, salads and cakes. Will report back.
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"Not sure what we'll have for dinner tonight," I said to dh this morning. Without much of a pause, he suggested we cook some pasta and have it with the left over chili in the refrigerator. "Great idea!" I agreed. It will be our version of Cincinnati chili.
I made the shrimp mold for Christmas today. And the two pork butt roasts are thawing. I'll stuff them Cajun style and cook them tomorrow and make the pork gravy. Christmas morning I'll warm up the sliced pork and gravy in the oven. And make the creamed spinach dish that my younger sister likes so much. The family dinner will be at her house. She is cooking a turkey and making massive amounts of mashed potatoes. Other family members will be making dressing, salad and bringing dessert. I will make yeast rolls. Haven't decided which recipe yet.
My youngest brother and his wife, who are in town for Christmas, will pick up my mother at the nursing home. This frees up my Christmas morning.
This afternoon we'll be watching the Saints play the Steelers.
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I am so behind on this thread - I have read, but have not been posting because we have been doing things like eating sandwiches rather than actual dinner, which is boring!
carole - I too watched the Saints/Steelers, awesome game!
My son will not be home for Christmas, he started his new firefighter/paramedic job on an Army base and will be working. He is 48 on and 72 off, so there is not enough time for him to fly down for a visit before he needs to be back and work again, and because he is so new he has no vacation time built up. This is the first time in 31 years I will not have seen him for some part of Christmas/New Year's - it seems weird. Having been a military family we are used to not being able to see family for the holidays but our children were always with us, so I am feeling a bit subdued. I usually do a standing rib roast, but DD is not a beef fan, so we have decided that lasagna it is! Quite the departure, but it will be fun anyway! I will make sticky buns for Christmas morning like I always do. I had a cookie making evening with friends this weekend - we made almond crescents, Christmas Crack, pecan pie cookies, caramel corn, iced pumpkin cookies, fudge, dipped pretzels, decorated sugar cookies, and Mexican wedding cookies. Big surprise - we ate sandwiches too, lol! And, my kitchen floor needs a serious scrubbing - powdered sugar and caramel.... I will do that tomorrow in daylight and also finish wrapping gifts.
Happy holidays to all - love you guys!
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SpecialK, I have also been eating a lot of sandwiches and scrambled eggs, and have been living vicariously though everyone else’s descriptions.
ChiSandy, your pants panic story made me smile. I can always count on you for descriptions of wonderful food, whether it’s at home or in a restaurant.
Christmas Eve will be quiet- just the two of us. We’re making a roasted red pepper sauce and serving it over tortellini. Not fancy, but a favorite recipe. I have a little more wrapping to do, and I need to make dessert for tomorrow (peppermint chocolate ice box cake). Tomorrow we will be at my sister’s. Roast chicken, mac and cheese and green beans. My niece is 3, and is just starting to grasp the joy and excitement of Christmas. I don’t have kids, but I LOVE being an auntie!
My mother in law is giving me an Instant Pot for Christmas. I’m looking forward to trying it out.
My diagnosis and treatment have made this a year to remember for sure. Thanks to all of you for being so welcoming to a newbie. The people on these boards have a special place in my heart. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday, and a new year of happiness, good health and peace of mind.
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Busy day today with people coming and going to graze. Lots of carryout for us this week. Too tired to cook for ourselves! Tonight is rib roast with the usual sides. Tomorrow night we're invited to friends for a beef tenderloin. Lots of beef here but at least I get the night off lol.
Merry Christmas my foodie friends. Wish I could toast you and share a bite in person. Xoxo
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Tonight is our next-door neighbor's Christmas Eve open house. We always walk over there. There will be a couple of large pots of chicken sausage gumbo on the stove and a bowl of white rice on the island, plus a couple of fancy little Victorian dishes with gumbo file and chopped green onions. The house is a two-storied pink Victorian, which the neighbors built on three acres that we sold them almost 20 years ago. They are/have been great neighbors. Their four boys have been our summer grass mowers, one after the other. Now the youngest is in college.
There will be some finger food on one table and an assortment of dainty sweet treats on another table. A choice of beer, soft drinks, large bottle white and red wine out on a covered porch. Everything is "help yourself."
The Saints/Steelers game was not fun to watch. The Saints won but it was a squeaker and nothing to brag about. The Saints are not looking like Super Bowl material to dh and me.
Today will be a day of cooking.
I hope all my friends here have a good Christmas day tomorrow. I look forward to your posts in 2019.
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Hello all. Christnas Eve today will be small, but fun. My daughtet Becki, the pregnant one, LOL, her husband and 4 year old grand child will be her for dinner. Im making a stuffed pork loin roast with potatoes and cartots baked with, so one pot meal. Hopefylly it works out. Just put it in the oven, should be out by 4:30. Oh well, I have cream cheese with homemade jelly for crackers, and a liver spread (aka-"the brown stuff, according to my kids) in case it takes longer.
Happy Belated Birthday Eric. Specialk, sorry your son couldnt make it. With 3rd shifters, and hispotal workers, we have to try really hard to get together. Our big family gift exchange and ham dinner will be next saturday. And the 3rd shifter got his hours changed, so he cant make it. This is DGD1, and DD2(preggers) husband. DD1, and DGD2 will be here, but not her husband. Hes new You at the lab, and is on call. Still it will be fun.
After Christmas gift exchanges are actually great. You can get great deals, but, sometimes, theres nothing left. Its a crapshoot! LOL
My side abd boob, still hurt. I really pulled a muscle, i think. Its getting better, but if I over do, it hurts. On the other hand, my DD2 is feeling much better.
Merry Christmas to All.
Much love
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Last night was Festivus. No grievances to air at each other, too old for feats of strength, no pole (no pole-dancing either). So we went to dinner at Onward, a new restaurant that opened in the hotel across from the Loyola campus. (It's independent of the hotel, though). On-street parking was plentiful, as Loyola is off until after New Year's. Service was slow, and so was the kitchen (but great food takes time). Sparkiing water was free (nice touch). We were seated by the window--which featured an enclosed mini-fireplace. (Passerby kept touching it to see if it was warm). Food was great! Started with house-baked breads (pretzel, multigrain sourdough, olive) and cultured Norwegian-style butter from a local WI creamery. Next were crawfish arancini (Sicilian-style stuffed breaded & deep-fried risotto balls); then a silky chicken liver mousse with ghost-pepper jam. Salad was field greens with pears, walnuts, gorgonzola and a maple vinaigrette. For entrees, Bob had cioppino (clams, shrimp, mussels, fluke) and I had an exquisitely-pan-seared NZ Ora king salmon filet (melted in my mouth) over baby golden chioggia beets and romesco cauliflower in Israeli couscous, with a lemon-dill sauce. Dessert? No room!
Bob just left for Mass, so he'll be good & hungry for the "reveillon" dinner at Big Jones (we'll take a rideshare so we can avail ourselves of the beverage pairings) tonight. I just finished my leftover salmon from last night. Yum....
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Late lunch yesterday was with a couple & their grown children & their children's friends & one daughter's 17 year old son and the other daughter's partner's Mother - who spoke no English. Most of us had the Prime Rib French dip. Absolutely delicious. I'd done this before so I opted out of the appetizer soup, even though their clam chowder is good. The French Dip was almost 12" long and 5-6" tall. I ate half and all the lovely crispy fries and brought half home. One person at the table had seared Ahi Tuna steak w/Miso & Oyster sauce. Another had fried shrimp & oysters. Needless to say I didn't eat again.
Today I tried to reproduce the creamed curried eggs that a friend of my Mothers used to make if a big 10x12 casserole dish for New Years Brunch in the 1950s. I loved these but of course we were raised that you only took a small serving at any buffet and didn't go back for seconds. Even though I have two recipes from relatives that might be what my taste buds remembered, both of them called for making deviled eggs first instead of just hard boiled eggs cut in half. Then pouring the white sauce/cheese sauce over all so the eggs are swimming in sauce & baking 10-20 minutes. I don't remember tasting the stuffing the eggs first. It was hard to find something comparable on line to my childhood memory, so I tried it with just two HB eggs w/a salad for dinner. The dish was OK but not what my taste buds remembered. After all - that was more than 50 years ago so I'll try again.
My son sent me six (yup - 6) loaves of Boudin's San Francisco Sourdough Bread long loafs. I took a loaf to my next door neighbors & one to the couple I ate with earlier this week. The loaves are par-baked (half way baked). I'll be throwing away things in the freezer tomorrow to make room for the rest of the loaves.
Because of the fresh bread that is shipped 2nd day air, I will be making ham hock & beans for sure on Christmas Day.
Wishing all of you a happy holiday and a peaceful New Year.
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Tonight was dinner at Orleans Grapevine Bistro in celebration of our 18th wedding anniversary and it was absolutely delicious! It began with the Bacon Happy Hour, then appetizers of crab cakes, baked bris with garlic butter, strawberry vinaigrette and wild honey & pecan sauces, mussels and bbq shrimp. DH had the lamb chops and I had the gulf fish almandine, the fresh catch was sheepshead, similar to tuna, which I love. I left with two full boxes of leftovers to enjoy later or tomorrow.
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Today I used some of my sourdough starter discard to make a pizza dough....It was a simple sauce, onion, bell pepper, cheese, pepperoni affair that turned out pretty well.
Tomorrow the starter will be part of the "grand plan"...dinner rolls....
We'll also be doing a New York Strip roast, mashed potatoes, salad, cranberry, squash, stuffing,sourdough rolls, pumpkin pie, green beans, glazed carrots, onion gravy and https://veganhuggs.com/stuffed-acorn-squash/
Tomorrow morning I'll be carrying on the Cinnamon Kuchen (zimtkuchen) tradition.
The pumpkin pie is cooling, the onion gravy is done, the cranberry is done and I'll have the stuffed acorn squash dish ready to put together and heat tomorrow. So, it should be an easy cooking day tomorrow.
This time I decided to set a formal table using the crystal, sterling, bone china and table that came from my parents'. The table is all set and the chairs are all pushed in tight to the table. When the table isn't being used, it's covered by a felt covered piece of wood.cut to match the shape and size of the table. I normally leave a covered chair pulled out a bit so that Jessiecat can jump to the covered table via the chair and sun himself (he's almost 19 years old) while watching the world go by. HE IS ANNOYED about the chairs being pushed in to the table!!!!We had a TempurPedic mattress that we didn't need anymore, so I cut it up into pieces that would fit into the dog bed covers (we have three of them)...so the pets have 6 inch thick TempurPedic beds. He's laying on one of them, so he's not getting much sympathy from me. :-)
Here's to a good day tomorrow for everyone.
I just saw your posting, Illimae. Happy Anniversary!!!!!
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Happy anniversary, Ilona! That dinner looks wonderful, and I hope you are having a blast in NOLA and get to enjoy some great music too. (I assume you meant to type baked brie--baked "bris"* is a picture I don't want to envision since once I do I'll never be able to unsee it. Anyone on here who is a "member of my tribe" knows what I mean).
So here's my food porn from the Creole Reveillon at Big Jones tonight:
We started with a "Battery Punch" (brandy, rum, gin, white wine, house-made loquat cordial), which I drank before remembering to take a picture. First course was Gullah Oyster Rice (risotto made with Carolina Gold rice, Gulf oysters and Sea Island benne seeds):
Next up was a salad of hominy, bacon, pickled peppers & frisee (served with a flute of cava):
Bread service---"Turkey Red" whole wheat black walnut sourdough, sorghum butter, preserved spiced quince:
Entree--Heritage American Buff Goose gumbo with chaurice meatballs (served with a glass of Nebbiolo 2010, from the Piemonte region of Italy):
Dessert--rum/nutmeg bread pudding with caramelized toasted oat streusel and orange-cardamom ice cream:
After-dinner drink: Freetown punch (house-made Damson plum cordial, bourbon, cognac):
Discretion being the better part of valor, we took a Lyft both ways (could have taken the bus and then walked the 3 long blocks downhill to our house; but it was cold, we had leftovers to juggle and we were a bit too wasted). We opened presents (felt weird & sad w/o Gordy, though two years ago just the two of us went to NYC for Christmas, opening presents on New Year's Day). I got Bob a vaping starter kit as he requested, to wean him off cigarettes and let him "feed the demon" indoors on frigid inclement nights (plus a little bottle of CBD vape oil for him to try for relaxation); he got me an Instant Pot Duo Mini (3L), just the right size for the two of us.
Sat. night Gordy exchanged gifts with us before leaving for Austin & Houston: we got him an Apple gift card so he could choose and configure a new Mac laptop (the store clerk advised us to have him to do so in Texas where the sales tax is half that of ours, and then have it shipped to Chicago and bring it to an Apple Store to transfer the data from his current terminally-injured MacBookPro). He surprised us by finding and framing keepsakes & photos: baby pictures with Bob, grandparents and me; ticket stubs from important games he & Bob attended together (World Cup 1994, Bears vs. Packers 2007, Bulls playoffs 1997, the first year of the second "three-peat" NBA championship); and the biggest surprise of all: the stub from his very first rock concert, Springsteen & the E St. Band at Rosemont Horizon in June 1984. He wasn't born till Oct., so he was 4-1/2 months in utero at the time! I asked him how he found it, and he replied it was in Bob's dresser drawer. Say what? He explained that he needed an old stethoscope to use as a prop for one of his shows, which Bob told him where to find...and lying next to it was the ticket.
Headed to our BFFs tomorrow for dinner--they're BBQing a brisket and I'm bringing a Caesar salad with pecorino instead of Parm-Regg. (for a last-minute vegetarian dinner guest who can't have cow's milk cheese but can have sheep's or goat's milk), and asstd. baklavas. Gotta nuke the egg yolks so they're safe to put in the dressing, to which I am shamelessly adding anchovies--it's not a Caesar without 'em. Already made a bag of croutons, using olive oil instead of butter.
Merry Christmas! (I'd be asleep by now, but for waiting for the TUMS to kick in after all that food & alcohol).
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Christmas dinner was Ham, my maternal Grandmother's Cranberry Relish, steamed veggies, rolls, cheesy hash brown potato casserole, my step-grandmother's Jello Salad and olives. Now having a slice of apple pie for dessert.
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Tonight was going to be brisket, bacon and onion braised Brussels sprouts and smashed potatoes at Tujague's, however, they were completely booked. So, pizza it is. Heading home tomorrow and will cook the annual family dish adopted from my bff.
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We were 14 at table today for Christmas dinner: beef tenderloin ( a once a year splurge), smashed potatoes with sweet potatoes for those who preferred them, green beans almondine (no green bean casserole as my son abhors mushrooms), green salad with little tomatoes and a selection of dressings. Dessert choices included mincemeat, pumpkin and pumpkin walnut pies, white fruitcake, and a selection of homemade cookies 🍪.
Have a group of 25 or so coming tomorrow night for a choir Christmas party. I'll provide sliced ham, brisket, and turkey breast and beverages; everyone is to bring a side so it is always interesting.
Think the cook will be ready for a few days off, although we will have house guests for another couple of weeks--7 leave on the weekend, 3 leave Jan 2and the last 2 go back to college near mid January.
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My sister and I had decided in advance to simplify the Christmas dinner menu by having fewer side dishes but ample amounts. Then six extra people showed up. Two of my oldest brother's grown children with spouse and one daughter each. My sister and I had a moment of panic as we laid out the food buffet style. But there was food left over.
This tendency to self-invite dates back to the days when my mother cooked big dinners on Sundays and holidays.
One holiday meal to go. New Year's Eve when dh and I will have a couple here for dinner. He just called the supermarket where he will pick up the standing rib roast on Monday. In the meanwhile I will have to assume the cleaning woman identity. Also call the restaurant where I had made a dinner reservation for four.
Today I am off to the gym. Later I will make turkey soup with the carcass from yesterday's turkey.
I look forward to resuming every day life in 2019. I don't choose to be one of those people who mostly endure the holiday season but somehow I turned out to be one of those people. It's so nice to be able to admit that to my bc.org friends. I consider myself fortunate that I enjoy my hum-drum life.
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Carole, more and more I find myself sharing your feelings. I love my family and friends but would rather see them without the context of holidays. I really am glad when it's all over. Perhaps I would feel differently if I had grandchildren. My resolution for next year is to not do so much. Pray for me lol
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I agree with Carole & Nance. I love the music of the season & eating with friends - but I'm glad to get back to hum drum too . Nance - you are probably right about the grandchildren since they are so fun to watch. I don't have any, nor will I ever. Still I'd rather spend quiet time reading to my nephew's 3 year old or playing a game with my niece's 2&4 year old boys. They get soooo many gifts at Christmas it's just crazy and exhausting. In fact it's hard for me to get any of them a present that parents or one or the other set of grandparents hasn't already purchased.
Nance - it can work. I spread out December celebration over lots of different small lunches & dinners & concerts with friends where we can really visit & exchange gifts. So I get to open gifts all month too. With my SIL's recent death and no family in town, I spent a very quiet day yesterday reading a Joyce Carol Oates book. I had a couple of invitations, but it was nice not to be obligated to go out. I ended up eating leftover prime rib French Dip - A huge portion and just as good left over.
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I'm hoping that if we move, it will help me curtail my overzealous holiday involvement. Carole, if we end up your way perhaps we can get together for an "unholiday" cocktail lol!
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Nance, it's a date!
Minus, I like your version of celebrating Christmas with a number of get-togethers instead of one large gathering. I think we had 23 people yesterday.
The turkey soup is made except for the addition of pasta. It's amazing that the combination of water, tomatoes, onion, celery, carrot, and a turkey carcass can make such a tasty soup base. And most people just throw the carcass away. One Thanksgiving in Illinois three turkey carcasses went into the garbage. It broke my heart!
I watched a Cook's Country segment today on cooking a standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. I want dh to watch it. I had forgotten about the dry brining for 24 hours prior to cooking. I have never made Yorkshire pudding but it looked fairly easy.
My quiet day was restorative. DH just returned home from golf that turned out not to be a lot of fun because of slow play and wet course conditions.
If anyone communicates with Susan, I hope you'll let her know we think about her and hope she's doing well.
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I too have a turkey carcass in the freezer waiting to be made into soup probably this week. But for tonight it's a chef salad. For the first time I sous vided some eggs for the salad. Unless they are dramatically better, I'll stick to the pressure cooker for hard cooked eggs. In order for them to peel easily, it's recommended that the eggs be par boiled for three minutes before the sous vide bath. I don't need the extra step, especially when the pressure cooker eggs always peel easily.
Carole, my recommendation for Yorkshire puds is to disconnect your smoke alarm and make sure everything is ready to serve when you take them out of the oven. They are beautiful and delicious and I love them but they deflate quickly. Serious Eats has the best recipe I've ever tried. Yum!
I also miss Susan and wish her well. I think about her often.
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I have a fresh turkey to cook. The store where I got most of the stuff for Christmas dinner had some sort of special going on that involved buying more than $75 worth of stuff and getting a fresh organic turkey for $2. I couldn't resist and a 10-1/2 pound turkey came home with me.
When I told DD what we were doing (eating at a fancy table) she was, "I like the old table better. It's bigger". After the meal, she decided she likes the "fancy table".
DD took home as much left overs as she felt she could fit into her shared refrigerator.
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Well, the last-minute vegetarian-pescatarian-cow's-milk-avoiding dinner guest backed out at the last minute. So I'd busted my butt making Caesar dressing from scratch (with pecorino) for nothing--could've just used the Newman's Own in the fridge. But it was delicious, as was the brisket (which they made in the oven instead of BBQing in the smoker), mashed spuds, dressing, "green slime" salad (a family tradition based on ambrosia but with lime jello instead), tabbouleh with sheep feta, & homemade cranberry relish. We ate baklava for dessert, rather than digging into the tiramisu cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Another friend (who officiated my godson's wedding and made my BFF's mother-of-the-groom outfit) arrived toward the tail end of dinner and gladly ate the salad.
Bob worked till 7 and decided to eat down in Oak Lawn rather than heading up to Fireside for a late dinner. He brought home leftover prime rib, spuds & carrots, which I supplemented with asparagus and broccolini for dinner tonight.
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The manufacturer of the Power Quick Pot produces a lot of the tv shopping kitchen stuff, including square copper skillets and copper loaf pans. I got an e-mail offer I couldn't pass up. Five of their products, normally $20 plus each, for $8 each with free shipping. One of the products is an egg cooker. I haven't received any of them yet so I conjecture they were shipped from China by slow ship. Impulse shopping on the computer. I resisted all the "upgrades" and stuck to the $8 each. The packages will be like presents as time passes and memory fades. LOL. "Oh! I ordered THIS!"
The turkey noodle soup was very good last night with Premium wheat crackers. The latter are the cheapest crackers on a low shelf at the supermarket and they're my favorite. We sprinkle vinegar into the soup, an idea I got from a recipe book self-published by the author years ago.
Probably chicken legs tonight. Air fried sounds good.
My Christmas wish was for a house cleaning person to appear at my door wanting a job. So far it hasn't happened. I may have to look for her. Or him.
Eric, your Christmas dinner at the fancy table sounds very nice.
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It was a lot of fun and it wasn't a huge amount of work. The table setting skill was still there.
Chi, their backing out at the last minute is annoying, but I guess I rather have it be a "decided not to come" that having to not come for a "bad" reason like someone getting hurt and going to the hospital, getting sick, was in a car crash or something similar.
I was looking at the bread pudding "porn". I love bread pudding, but Sharon does not, so I don't make it very often.
I'm now somewhat immune to the kitchen stuff purchases (but I did recently get a very nice pizza stone from the 90% off final clearance table and a pizza peel). My problem is that I'm running out of room because I wasn't always "immune" to the purchase of kitchen stuff. :-)
Beav...14 and then 25...wow.....That is a LOT of people. :-) I wouldn't have the room here to do that unless I set up out in the driveway.
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I just read through several days worth of posts and it sounds like folks had some really nice holiday meals....both at home and “out”. When I am not falling asleep, I will share our meal experiences from over the Christmas holiday. But I wanted to let “threaders” who asked about Susan know that I have not recently been in touch with Susan but “see” her posts on Facebook. She is still going through treatments, and busy in her kitchen baking her wonderful breads....and for Christmas breakfast, her “best bagels yet”. I’ll let her know that you were asking for her!
Nance, Carole, and Minus.....maybe it is our similar age/life stage that leaves us feeling less than excited about December holidays. I also really experienced that this year...about Thanksgiving too. However, this week we got invited to really lovely celebrations with neighbors (Xmas Eve dinner) and other friends, (Xmas dinner) and I just needed to do partial prep for those, so it wasn’t as exhausting as I expected. My sister and her big wild dog drove down from VT, and my biggest effort was keeping everything out of reach of the beast! But we did have a nice visit with her. She left today, and I will be happy to be back to our dull normal life, too, once we rid our house of dog hair.
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My spirits were lifted by a rep play last night - "Who's Holiday". Cindy Lou Who (who was not more than two) is now 40 & living in a trailer on Mt. Crumpit. While she's preparing for a Christmas Eve party, she's telling the story of her life since she first saw the Grinch stealing their tree. Oh my - raucous & bawdy - but funny. And all done in Seuss rhymes. They did say no children and anyone who is easily offended should pass, so the audience was appropriate.
Ate the last of the curried creamed eggs last night. Today I'll finish random salad items that are becoming sad. Hopefully tomorrow the fridge will finally be empty enough for me to make meatloaf & potatoes.
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