About 10 pm, before tonights anticipated snow.
This copy of the same photo has been tweaked a bit. Longer exposure.
I started a post holiday post but never finished it. I’ve had several good ideas to post about but haven’t had the follow through to write. So, this evening I succumb to posting some food photos. Enjoy!
I slept in this morning. It’s Christmas Eve and one should if they haven’t a turkey to roast. It’s not that I don’t have a turkey (as in can’t get one), but I’m not doing any turkey roasting this year. There was the pre-holiday Spanakopita meal, (photos to follow soon, even though they weren’t nearly as spectacular as I would have liked), and there will be the Christmas Day Lasagne meal at my sons in-laws, and the post holiday meal with my son and his long time girlfriend, of either waffles or that cranberry walnut bread French toast. Of course ham, orange juice and a fruit salad either way. Then there is the holiday feasts I have been invited to; my dear friends in WP, my sons father, and the cousins. Way too many holiday meals for this hermit.
I did my usual morning bathroom rituals sans showering because I want to do a bit of house cleaning before I get completely cleaned up. I vacuumed then decided to put a load of laundry on to hang out soon since it’s so bright. There’s no water! Crud! It’s not that cold right now but it was terribly frosty on the ground this morning so it must have been a pretty hard freeze. The temp is up to about 29 F and it should thaw out anytime. Soon. Hopefully. HELP Bro!
NOW that there isn’t any water I am wanting that shower real bad. Figures. So you all find me here this morning pounding out a quick blog post in my house cleaning pj’s.
Christmas Eve plan, clean the house, put up the still in the attic tree, wrap the last of the last gifts, make something delicious from the stunning French breakfast turnips I bought straight from the ground yesterday afternoon.
I had turnips the other night for the first time in many years and did not care for them. Nope. So I bought some from my local grower at Crossroads Garden who pulled handfulls of pure white beauties – large marble to golf ball size- and placed them in a sack for me. Along with the turnips I bought an equal amount of lovely bright red radishes and a huge bag of leaf lettuce. There’s nothing quite like eating food only just pulled from the earth moments or hours ago.
I’ll have more to say about this later. Happy Christmas Eve!
S.
The French toast made with cranberry walnut bread was pre-holiday meal #1. Tonight I will move right on to meal number 2 with Spanakopita, a Greek spinach pie. I’ve spoken of this before, even made it for Mom and Dad in October when I was in Utah. I didn’t take any photos then and hope to get some great pics tomorrow.
It will be a party like setting with friends and we’ll eat drink and make merry till we bust a gut. Or something like that.
I first had Spanakopita several years ago while in Greece with my sister. I haven’t been able to get enough of it since then. I did make the mistake of adding too many eggs once and it was too eggy instead of custard-like.
I imagine there will be some humus or pesto tomorrow night along with a little wine, but not Retsina as I doubt that is available here. Maybe a crock of roasted vegetables. Yea.
If you are looking for a holiday recipe try my Moms Mincemeat Bars. A tradition in her kitchen, way yummy, moist and chewy and they hold well.
Tis the season for yummy over the top food. Yesterday I picked up a couple loafs of Cranberry Walnut bread at Heroes Coffee in West Plains. It’s my second year to have this bread. On its own it is way good. Toasted and slathered with cream cheese it is too delicious. Made into French toast it is just plain old decadence at its best.
Imagine my delimma when I discovered there was no milk; only eggnog and half and half. Either would push the limits of decency. I haven’t had the energy to get the camera out for days, but you can bet next time I make this there will be photos.
The recipee
3 or 4 medium slices cranberry walnut bread
1 egg, well beaten
a splash of half and half OR eggnog
dash of nutmeg, very small dash!
olive oil, for frying the toast
butter, maple syrup and a squinch of salt
Slice the bread, beat the eggs with the 1/2 and 1/2 or eggnog, add the nutmeg. Heat the oil in a small skillet. When it is sizzling hot dredge the bread slices in the egg mixture coating well and carefully drop the pieces into the hot oil. Cook until crisp and brown. Remove to a plate, top with a dab of butter, sprinkle with salt and drizzle with the maple syrup. Enjoy!
A glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and a thin slice of ham will make a complete meal! In the spring I think I will add some lightly steamed asparagus.
I saw this post on WordPress today hey were lucky enough to be freshly pressed. I’ve always wanted to make Latkes but never have. Maybe this is the year!
Classic Potato Latkes (and you too can claim to make the world’s best latkes).
via Classic Potato Latkes (and you too can claim to make the world’s best latkes).
I’ve really been procrastinating this year. I have a lot of great ideas for the holidays and have done a little preparation but not nearly enough. Yesterday and today have found me finishing the sewing on an item for my sister, washing and drying it (slowly) without adding shrinkage to the equation, baking cookies (thankfully I thought ahead to make dough and freeze it), figuring out the correct spellings for my little tiny great-nieces (my sister’s grandchildren), and assembling and wrapping everything, picked up the photos from Walgreens and new adhesive (which made me nauseaus but worked great), assembling the greeting cards and getting them dry before they all stuck together. Boxes or soft pack! Both. Whew! I am so close to being ready to pack the prospective boxes up and go to the post office. Ugh.
Next year I’m going to pre-make bows and have my greeting cards ready ahead of time. Yea. Yea. Maybe. I sure hope so anyway. Because you see, as I was wrapping gifts I realized what a wonderful blog post/s it would be to help people with their own gifting organization. And I knew then and there the procrastination had bitten me in the hinney and the blog post/s will have to wait until next year, because you see it is only four days till Christmas! ACK! I don’t even have the tree down from the attic but it’s gonna happen You betcha!
On the great news front; I purchased naught from outside the USA. Yes that’s right everything I bought this year for the holidays was made in the USA. Much of it locally created or made by my own two hands.
Wish I had photos but not today. Gotta run to the post office before they close!
Merry Christmas and happy all other winter holidays to you!!
Sarah
Sissy, she is always a lady and somewhat regal.
Rover, she is the rowdy one.
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