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[MM_QFC!]

oh, okay. maybe by the time you do the weather will have warmed up a tetch

brrrrrrr, I hope so...freezing and very slick out there this morning...be careful folks!

happy winter solstice to all too...love to have the days grow longer now...every lil bit helps!

maybe next weekend for a short ride to end 2007 and greet 2008?

[salsabike]

Let's move the ride talk to the NW section...although I'm inclined to do it sometime in January rather than next weekend.

I WANT "GU" to be a Scrabble word!

[snapdragen]

I think I have my Christmas Eve menu figured out

Pomegranate Champagne Punch

Roast Turkey Breast
Ham
Honeyed Sweet Potatoes
Green Beans with Caramelized Onions
Mushroom & Artichoke Dressing
Waldorf Salad with Walnut Oil Vinaigrette
Cranberry Gelatin Salad

Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie

I just need to figure out which recipe I want to use for the turkey breast.

[salsabike]

Who are you having for Christmas Eve dinner, Snap?

[Trek420]

Who are you having for Christmas Eve dinner, Snap?

Where are you having Christmas Dinner, Snap?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I think I have my Christmas Eve menu figured out

Pomegranate Champagne Punch

Roast Turkey Breast
Ham
Honeyed Sweet Potatoes
Green Beans with Caramelized Onions
Mushroom & Artichoke Dressing
Waldorf Salad with Walnut Oil Vinaigrette
Cranberry Gelatin Salad

Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie

Holy cow, that's major gourmet! How many people are you cooking for? They are very lucky!

Over here, us 7 folks will be having a small Christmas Day menu of:
broiled salmon
steamed asparagus with hollandaise sauce
baked sweet potatoes with brown sugar/butter
apple pie with vanilla ice cream

Nothing nicer than cooking and eating some good food with a few loved ones.

[salsabike]

We are having steamed Penn Cove (local) clams, fresh Dungeness crab, a green salad, bread, and a couple of Marie Callendar pies. And some Dutch cookies from my grandma's recipe, and probably some caraway scones. This is the first time I've wanted to bake in quite a while.

[snapdragen]

I think there will be 10 of us - Mom, Dad, Brother & Sis-in-law, Sister, Niece, Niece's fiancé, Nephew, Nephew's girl friend, and me.

They'll all come to the house, I'm the "chef" of the family. I always accuse my mother of kidnapping me from my true father Jacques Pepin.

[salsabike]

That sounds nice. I do not cook much, although I can. The second stint through graduate school, for inexplicable reasons, made me stop cooking. I think it was the "abandon all unnecessary activity" approach to graduate student life. And somehow I never restarted, even though I've been done with grad school cycle number two since, uh...1995.

[snapdragen]

I stopped for awhile too, but then realized my parents were living on frozen dinners. So, I've started fixing dinner 4-5 times a week. eatingwell.com and cookinglight.com have become regular sites for me.

[mimitabby]

being particular keeps me cooking. I can control exactly what we eat, including portion size. It's just part of what i do.
(and Raleighdon does too, which helps) Unfortunately, we're tending to eat out more which means more $$, more waste, and less really good food, even though we don't eat at fast food joints EVER

[KnottedYet]

I cook good meals when SKnot and/or Trek are here, but just do beans and rice type stuff when I'm alone.

Guess I'm one of those "Eat to Live" type folks, rather than one of the "Live to Eat" kind.

Going to my mom's for Christmas eve and Christmas day.

Happy Solstice To All!

[Bruno28]

Well, it's a balmy 2c here, which is just as well as I set fire to the last of my furniture yesterday in a vain attempt to stay warm. Still no heating engineer. He's due 'between 12 and 6' this afternoon. If you see him, tell him to get a move on. To add to my troubles I discovered when I lept joyfully into the shower this morning that I have no hot water either. Imagine my delight!

On top of all this I have managed to incubate a nice cold so have a sore throat and endlessly running nose to add to my list of gratitudes.

Grump, grump, grump.

Thanks goodness for porridge - my ancestors knew what they were doing when they designed the Scottish diet. I'll be having a Scotch pie for lunch.

Okay - I'll go away and stop moaning and complaining now. Thank you for your attention.

[mimitabby]

wow, what's a Scotch pie?

Bruno, I really feel for you. I was without heat for 36 hours (no heaters either) and discovered that if i didn't stay on my feet I could NOT stay warm. You have every right to complain. I'm surprised you aren't staying in a hotel or something!
(at least your computer works)

[Zen]

I was recently without heat for 52 hours.
I had four layers top and bottom.
I entertained myself at night with crosswords by kerosene lamp and battery powered NPR.
I slept between two dogs, all of us under the covers.
Them dogs is warm.
At one point I thought the heat had come back on.