[Sca-cooks] Christmas Dinner

[Elaine Koogler]

And we just returned home after a wonderful Christmas with Phillip's
family.  The decision was made to do dinner as a kind of pot-luck with each
of us contributing a dish.  We did a crown roast pork with a green apple
stuffing...came out very well despite the fact that I stupidly left the
recipe at home.  We just added, tasted, added some more, tasted, etc.  The
rest of the meal consisted of a nice greens and mandarin orange salad, oven
roasted white and red potatoes, rolls and a chocolate pecan pie for
dessert.

I got cooking stuff from Phillip...a lovely, professional quality mandolin
with an additional pusher and a new beater (one that actually scrapes the
bowl for my Kitchen-aid mixer).  Both were things I really wanted.
Mother-in-law gave us a salad set in wood, and I got pj's, moisturizing
socks, massaging bedroom slippers...all in pink...along with enough pink
Tic-Tacs to sink the Queen Mary.  I wonder if she's trying to tell me
something!  All of the pink stuff was from Breast Cancer specials during the
October Breast Cancer month.

But it was lovely, and we had a great time!!  I do hope that each of you had
a wonderful Christmas/Winter Solstice/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah or whatever you
celebrate...and that your New Year is all that you hope it will be!

Kiri



On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Kingstaste <kingstaste at comcast.net> wrote:

> I just got back from a wonderful tradition, dinner with friends that cook
> :-)
>
> The standard fare was back this year, and it was splendid:  mixed green
> salad with oranges, red onion, and avocado with a fresh balsamic
> vinaigrette; stewed lamb shank with tomatoes, lentils and orange zest over
> mashed garlic Yukon gold potatoes and parsnips, and home made chocolate
> truffles with coffee and Frangelico for dessert.  Oh, my god.  I am so
> stuffed, and so happy!
>
> Hope everyone had a grand Christmas Feast!
>
> No cooking presents for me this year (at least not so far, although it is
> just now the 1st  day, oh wait, now 2nd day of Christmas, and that may
> change), but my blessings are many, including a puppy that is finally
> housebroken!! Can't put a ribbon on that!  LOL
>
>
>
> Happy Christmas to All!
>
> Christianna
>
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