WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO COOK FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER ?

12/1/2010

Merry Christmas...


What are you planning to cook for Christmas Dinner ?
Me, I haven't decided yet, I don't want to see turkey for a long,
long time ! I remember one year in New York when I was living
there a neighbor and friend ( She's 97 now and still friends,)
decided I should cook a Christmas Goose, was that expensive !
I didn't like it , it was too greasy ! Maybe I'll make Filet Mignon
or Lamb ? Oh yes, my famous Cherry Torte desert...


Cheers...Joe....

We will be with the friends who were at our house for Thanksgiving.I will make sweet potatoes and struffing with fry chick. Easy!

I'll be spending Christmas on the outer banks of North Carolina, where Dave's father-in-law has a vacation home. Dave is in charge of dinner, has said it will be traditional, and that he will let me help. Traditional Christmas for us usually means turkey with cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes, and whatever green vegetable looks freshest while we are shopping, usually green beans, broccoli, or Brussels sprouts. Sometimes we make the cranberry sauce ourselves, with fresh cranberries and orange marmalade; sometimes we just go with the jellied stuff in a can. I'm not sure which I like best. Dessert will be pies - pumpkin, buttermilk, cherry, and apple are all possibilities. We will likely pop the champagne a bit before we eat, and for that we will usually have crudites and hummus or herbed yogurt.

Ann

Because I'm out of worky
I can't afford a turkey.
It is'nt very pudgy
but we'll have to eat the Budgie.

David,

Thanks for the smile. Your surgery is soon, isn' t it?

22nd December Alice I shall be admitted in hospital at 7am GMT I'll be in for the day and home in the evening if all goes well.

David,

I hope all goes well. How is your first knee doing? Don't you have rehab?

12/4/2010

David..

We're all praying for you ! Chin up !


Cheers..Joe

which chin?

12/5/2010


David..

I love your humor, I also love British sayings, I
have a friend who lived in England for many years
she taught me many words...Your surgery will go fine.

Cheers..Joe

joefrank wrote:

12/5/2010

she taught me many words...Your surgery will go fine.

Cheers..Joe

That's not many words Joe but hey she must have been some classey Brit.

We'll probably have Christmas sushi. I'm sick of turkey and don't really want to cook, anyhow.

Christmas sushi? YO! ho ho!

WAKE UP LITTLE SUSHI WAKE UP.

Sounds fishy to me.
Love,
Betty

12/6/2010


Christmas Dinner Menu


Boneless Leg Lamb

Fluffy Mash Potatoes

Asparagus

Rolls

Merlot Wine

Cherry Cream Torte Dessert ( Awesome !)

Coffee

Christmas Music ( Nat King Cole of course )

Here's the recipe for " Cherry Cream Torte"


http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Cherry-Cheese-Torte
Cheers....Joe

Joe,

You scared me . It is still the 5th here.

Your food sounds marvelous.

How did you learn to cook?

12/6/2010


Alice..

By watching my step-father, cooking shows, reading recipe
magazines. Click on the above post it has the dessert recipe.
I also learned several years ago by watching the CIA cooking
show on PBS ( Culinary Institute Of America) if you take medium
size red potatoes and use an apple corer go half way up the
potatoe with the corer and then while it's inside the potatoe
you take a paring knife and go around the middle of it, gently
twist the bottom of the potatoe and it should come off and you
have a mushroom potatoe to serve your guests...


Cheers..Joe

We will have a smorgAasboard of crackers, cheeses, little do dads from here to there that do not take any cooking and not much cleaning up after. For us it is not a hog fest like Thanksgiving. It is all about the children, the presents, the football, the old movies, and naps in the late afternoon.

Love,
Betty

I don't have anything planned for Christmas.

I'll be on the road. Probably have dinner at a truck stop.