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I've been Janed by an emo!
i have no idea where to get scones from... but i shall find out!
I heard there were meetings here. I tricycled over as fast as I could.
i think husker is in the wrong meeting group...
Thanks, now, can someone please keep an eye on the trike? I've seen some toddlers looking it over, so I fear, well, I fear that I may be hit soon by the infamous toddler gang.
Just look at all the swag the Toddler Gang has gotten!
Ah'm skeered.
pop this in and i think you can keep the rebelous gang at bay
>sigh<
it is 1030 on christmas eve.
Just finished wrapping presents, preparing what I can for dinner tomorrow...
I am having a beer and sitting quietly for the first time today...
and what do i do...
but troll A2K.
Happy christmas eve everyone.. and anyone who is on the website now.
well meryy christmas to you two shewolf... what are you cooking for christmas?
Merry christmas to you too! :-)
I am cooking, Salmon, tofu, string beans, potatoes, chicken, yams, spinach salad, and a few other small dishes.
I am not cooking in large amounts mind you!! haha
I am no super-cook-woman, I am just making small amounts of a few things so that it is a pick and choose christmas dinner instead of one basic entree..
You?
what are you and your seed family doing? ;-)
Any cooking? visitors?
>sits down<
Have a beer with me.
mmm beer...
there will be cooking at the parents
my sister and her husband will be coming over... along with a couple family friends...
i think its cornish (ssping?) hens, green bean cassorol mm i love that... and some more stuff i dnot even know about... all gonna be yummy though...
we will all be opening presents together tomorrow which will be great
Pulling up a beer. Well, no, it's southern comfort on ice with a shot of milk...
I'm not cooking tomorrow; I am the person who brings the cheese and crackers. Lessee, St. Andre, Cypress grove goat cheese (local to us here), Cambozola (a mild blue), a bit of Creamy Havarti, and ValBreso feta, with various packages of crackers. This is all not cheap.
Bringing up my motto, "never shop when you're hungry".
Mmmm... Can I come to your house Osso? ;-)
How many people are you two ( seed+oss) planning on having over? Or having around on christmas?
I miss being able to fill the house with my family.
My mother still lives in NM and she cant make it here to TX because of the snow storms. So it will be me , hubby, jillian, and MIL.
I do wish for a bigger crowd. Im wierd like that . I like it when it is so full you hear the buzzing of conversation and the laughing of people all day.
>sigh<
hmm probably around 7 or 8 nothing big... have had over 20 before.. my parents are scaling back in their old age..:-D
that may be a good thing. Less to cook for, less to clean up after.
true... less of a hassle all the way around
I'm going over to my business partner and her husband's house, which is just as well, as I haven't finished cleaning here. (My niece arrives Tuesday..)
Once my niece is here, we'll cook together, at least for a couple of dinners. I am sad, really, that in the way things go, some good patterns are lost. My niece is my exhusband's brother's daughter. They used to hang out at our house a lot when she was younger, hard years when the brother and her mother had a very strident difficult breakup.
I taught her to roll pizza dough at two...
when my ex and I were together, we were both enthusiastic cooks and she got to be quite good at it. I have a nice memory of her on one of her visits to my new home up north, critiqueing a spanish mussels in white wine dish at a local tapas place - she was right on about what was so good about it, at thirteen.
However, my ex and his new wife sort of turn her off, and in any case she isn't welcome in the kitchen; her dad is a new version of the old geezer who ate only grapenuts... he is big on dried fruit and nuts and keeps a spare refrigerator.
Dad's girlfriend, or the last one I'd heard about, was a caterer who happened to used giant amounts of fat in her cooking, yucko to my niece.
Her mother is a from a village in west Africa, does make, once in a while, some good stews, but again, she uses a lot of fat. Plus she is not always dealing with a full deck (not to be mean) and has various health problems, and her refrigerator is spare too.
So.... my niece only gets to fool around in the kitchen when she visits me.
I'm thinking we'll try that new way of cooking chicken (the one in the thread I started last week), and maybe do some ossobuco.... but I'll let her choose. Maybe she's a vegetarian by now, and we'll go in that direction.
