So...whats for dinner?

Chabba, prayers coming. Hugs

Chabba, sending lots of positive thoughts to you and your dh and hoping he continues to improve.  And Joyce, I'm so sorry to hear about your favorite aunt. I'm glad you'll get to go visit her.

Gina, hugs to you and much sympathy.  It's awful that you have to go through another bout of bc.

Laura, count me among your fan club.  Wish I could accomplish in a week what you manage in a day!  It seems to me that you and your sons are ill quite frequently. 

Chabba, prayers for your dh.  And prayers for Joyce's aunt. 

Love Susan's reaction to Moon's miracle cake recipe!  Susan, I would imagine that you build a fire in the back yard to brew your coffee in a tin coffee pot?  LOL.

I haven't heard about any problems with the Keurig one-cuppers.  My sil in Atlanta has had one for a couple of years.  That's where I first used one.  And my sil and bil in IL have a big one in their house and a small one in their rv.  I pooh-poohed the whole business as too expensive and here I am buying boxes of the little coffee portions from PJ's Coffeehouse.  It's nice to make one cup of coffee any time you feel like a cup of coffee.  In the mornings dh and I drink a whole pot of Community dark roast decaf.  He can drink only decaf because of an irregular heartbeat.  With the Keurig I can make myself a cup of coffee with caffeine. 

Today I made the shrimp mold for Christmas day.  I peeled and deveined the shrimp and was chopping them into pieces when suddenly I remembered, "The shrimp have to be cooked!"  Normally I boil them in the shells and then peel them but I had forgotten.  So I sautéed the chopped raw shrimp in some butter. The recipe is the popular one with plain gelatin, tomato soup, cream cheese, mayo, green onions, and hot sauce.  My family love it. 

Tonight's dinner is flank steak, which is in a marinade in the refrigerator.  I'll cook it on a cast iron grill pan.  Sides will be roasted asparagus and green salad.

Winter came back and our highs this week will be in the low 50's.  Today it felt colder than that with a wind blowing.  Tonight and tomorrow night a hard freeze.

ROFL!!!! Carole, you are funny, but not that far from the truth. I have actually felt that I should be roasting our own coffee to save money. I have beaten myself up over this. But, I did the math. Given a roaster that we could afford, and how much coffee we drink, I would be roasting coffee almost every day. Who has time for that? Plus, we found a roaster in NJ who sends us the five roasts that we use for our house blend as a subscriber. Their prices are so reasonable, that is no longer a place to save money.

And, of course, I live in the city. No open flames allowed!

[I am just laughing here. So funny that you found one of my buttons!]

*susan*

Chabba, I just saw your post.   Prayers to you and your husband..

Eric

Have no idea when DH and DD will get home tomorrow. I have chicken boiling for tetrazzini. Turkey breast is in fridge. Now have dishes to wash and sheets to put back on DD's bed. I haven't done near what you Nancy or Laurie have posted but I need a nap b4 DH gets home. I hear the couch calling if only briefly. Hockey game comes on at 9:30 - don't think I will see the end of it. Watching bits/pieces of "Meet Me in St. Louis".

Chabba,

You and DH are definitely in my prayers!

Nancy,

I think he's sold!  DD has 2 friends here, so including us and DS, six people. Very little left of a fairly big bird and a huge thumbs up from all!

beautiful Aunienance!

I'm sorry about that Susan. These are beautifully plump and some of the sweetest raspberries I've ever had, even for Driscoll's.  I'm assuming you're using them for your fruit tarts?

Nancy, beautiful creation!  A work of art as well as food.

Bedo, your life sounds like such fun.  And fresh halibut is delicious!  Lucky you.  When we were in Alaska a few years ago, halibut was outlandishly expensive, even there.  $20 plus a lb.

Laurie, a shrimp mold is a molded appetizer dish.  I use a ring mold.  You unmold it onto a plate and have a basket of crackers for people to help themselves.  I also have a recipe for a delicious crab mold but lump crab meat is $27 a lb in our good seafood market.  I suppose you could slice the shrimp mold and serve it as an individual appetizer on a lettuce leaf.

Today I will make Mrs. Inez Perilloux's yeast rolls.  Cook some fresh cranberries.  Make a creamed spinach dish with artichoke hearts and water chestnuts.  And stuff two Boston butt pork roasts with green onions and garlic so that I can get them into the oven in the morning.  Tomorrow while the roasts cook, I'll make German potato salad.  I'll warm up the creamed spinach dish in the microwave.  About 11 am, dh and I will load up the food and drive to my younger sister's house, about 15 min.

She roasts a freebie turkey and makes mashed potatoes with cream cheese for those who don't eat the German potato salad.  My mother wanted to do something so she's supposed to roast sweet potatoes.  A SIL who doesn't like to cook is bringing the infamous green bean casserole but my brother told me he has bought steam bags of green beans instead of the canned beans.  So maybe the casserole will be more edible.  Another SIL is bringing cornbread dressing at our request. 

Do we have enough carbs? 

Oh, and the hostess sister will cook some cauliflower and I will bring some cheese sauce I will make tomorrow morning.

Nobody stays long enough to want dessert but we'll have dh's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to go with coffee and a Priester pecan pie.  Every year a neighbor gives us the Priester pie, which I suspect is a re-gifter but the pies are very good.  It's in the freezer.  Last year when the dinner was at my house, I ordered pies from a bakery and had to send them home with people since I didn't want all those calories sitting ar0und to tempt me. 

Happy cooking and merry Christmas!

Managed to get turkey breast in. Now need to make room for French toast but it will empty an 18 count egg carton to make it (only about 4 left in that carton) so a little more room.

Nancy - what a hoot, frozen apple pie still frozen. What does her family exist on? My DD does not cook but I think she could follow instructions to make something.

I guess my ambrosia counts as non-carb. What about sugar snap peas? None of us like green bean casserole and we didn't have it at DB's for Thanksgiving - SIL made garlic sauteed beans.

Thinking of all the families who have lost loved ones this year. May you have only sweet memories and hoping that 2014 is kinder, gentler to all of us.

LOL.  My sister has a go to snickers apple salad. The only thing she makes for family gatherings. 

Here are my Wreaths. There never is any left to bring home. The small one is on the red finner size plate. The larger one is on a serving platter. The Ribbons are Fruit by the foot. It's always hard to find just the red ones. LOL

Very festive Monica!