Susan in FL
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Megan, I'm so glad you made it back to blogland. I'm enjoying your return. Thanks!
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Your foodblog is awesome and inspirational. The order and organization in the kitchen is a culinary dream, and as always, your food looks sensational!
Thank you for sharing so much with us.
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Way cool, the meal planner and list thingie... Back in the day, when the boyz were in high school, I used to plan meals in advance like that. I had a calendar of menus on the fridge, and everybody would look to see what was planned, including my sons' friends. They all got a big kick out of it, and chose certain times to get themselves invited to dinner. Nice memory. Great blog!
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Sorry, my bad....
"Getting warmer!"
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Thanks for commenting, Abra. Could it be that at last, there is going to be an eG Foodblogger whose identity isn't guessed?!
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Here is the promised preview. The blog that starts 14 January 2007 will take us back to the continental U.S.
See if you can guess where...
It promises to show us beautiful, fresh and creative foods.
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Excuse my language if offensive, but holy shit, Ann your Eggs Benedict... That looks so good. One of my new year's resolutions is to make time to get back to the dinner and breakfast topics more regularly. Goodness, what I have missed!
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Due to the offline time that resulted in a most awesome reorganization of eGullet forums, we now have the continuation of Suzy's stunningly beautiful Christmas blog, and we have the start of a new year's blog that I'm sure will go down in eG foodblog history as a favorite going on at the same time! What better celebrations could we have for the holidays and the roll-out of the eGullet Society's changes?!
Please accept our apologies for the absence of teaser photos this time. I'm sure you'll agree that these blogs are both worth the wait to get back online.
After the current blog is completed, there will be a break in the action in order for yours truly to do some planning, and work on adapting to the changes. Be on the lookout for the preview of what is to come beginning on Sunday, 14 January. It's exciting!
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This is an incredibly beautiful blog, Suzy. We can't thank you enough!
Thanks, Ellen! You got me thinking about my own lack of holiday traditions growing up, and how it's so important to me to make my own. My parents were atheists, and we didn't celebrate any holidays except Thanksgiving. They also did very little entertaining. Consequently, the concepts of baking cookies to distribute to friends, having people over for big holiday dinners, etc. wasn't even on my radar screen until I was in high school and got invited to friends' homes.I remember one Christmas dinner at a Black friend's house. The living room was elegantly decorated with a tall, shimmering aluminum tree. Her parents served roast pork and homemade eggnog laced with brandy -- yes, to a group of teenage girls.
Another time, I was invited to a Polish friend's house where I don't recall what we ate for dinner, but the kitchen table was laden with all the baked goods her mom had made.
When I was single and living in NYC, I began hosting Thanksgiving dinners for "waifs and strays" -- friends who had no family in the city, my ESL students (English-as-a-Second-Language, which I tutored as a volunteer). I usually got invited to other people's Christmas celebrations.
My husband's experience was entirely the opposite. His parents were big on semi-formal Christmas dinners, standing rib roast and everyone gathered around the piano singing Christmas carols.
So over the years, we've been forging our own family traditions.
This is a wonderful description of how you're making family traditions and food traditions, and well, making memories. ...So well put, I love it.
Tonight we're invited to a party at a friend's house. This afternoon, I'll prepare an apple crisp, spiced with candied ginger and sweetened with Splenda, for dessert.Before the party, I wanted to tell you a little about the Hawaiian concept of family, called ohana. Ohana means "family" (as you may know if you saw the Disney movie Lilo & Stitch), but it's more than that. It means extended family, encompassing not only people who are actual relatives, but "calabash cousins" who are so close emotionally that they figuratively drank out of the same calabash (gourd bowl) as you did as children.
These friends we're seeing tonight -- along with Mike and Ginny's family, who will also be at tonight's party -- are our ohana, in the absence of any of us having other actual relatives living here. We three families get together for just about every major holiday celebration -- Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day -- for either a meal at one of our homes, or a beach or park picnic.
Another Hawaiian family concept is hanai, which means "adopted." In old Hawaii, there was a tradition of informal adoption, whereby children were given away to be loved and reared by someone other than their natural parents, often to their grandparents or a childless relative. In practice, hanai today is a verbal shortcut to define the warmth of any fostering relationship. For instance, one of Wendy's friends (who sadly has moved off-island) used to spend so much time at our house that she became our hanai daughter. (I'm an earth mother anyway!) Hanai can be used to refer to the foster parent, the child, or the process.
And ohana is my new favorite word.
To catch up and to finish up your blog Suzy, take all the time you need, as long as you are willing.
Many, many thanks!
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Aloha, welcome, good morning, Merry Christmas Eve! I'll be following as closely as I can -- probably doing a lot of the running-back-and-forth routine from my Christmas dinner prep and etc. to the computer to read the posts.
Unfortunately, I've got some computer problems and I've not been able to keep a stable internet connection. If I disappear for a while, that's it.
Have fun, Suzy. I know all of us viewers will.
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Awesome eG foodblog! I only wish that I could have exclaimed more as it went along. 'Tis the busy season (very happy, but way too rushed for me)... all that made this week one of my quiet weeks. Nevertheless, thank you so much Jeremy. You know how long I had been looking forward to this, and it was well worth the wait. Cheers!
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Kagami mochi is food!
The next two teasers do not include food (that I know of); they do include hints that we should not expect a white Christmas from this locale. The next eG foodblog begins Sunday, 24 December and will bring us celebration and joy through Saturday, 30 December.
The eG foodblog team and I wish happy holidays and celebrations of all kinds, to all.
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There are some celebrations coming up! The next eG foodblogger has been working up to this opportunity to celebrate for months now, and the blog starts tomorrow, Sunday, 17 December. It's my bad that a teaser photo isn't posted here yet; I am having trouble retrieving stuff out of spam folders. (GMail, I'll get you shortly. I plan to ditch the crap I'm using now.)
Clue: I think we can expect to see "some dim sum."
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Thank you for following up, making the icing on the cake, and thank you for a great week!
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gift ideas?
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...A classic "What to buy for the man who has everything" dilemna! My first thought was some beer that he can't get in the state/region where he lives -- maybe by mail order if he isn't inclined to do that for himself, or have some friends visiting from other areas bring something unique from where they live. Most brewers and all-around beer lovers I know welcome the opportunity to taste something different.
There's also the idea of beer merchandise ordered online... like t-shirts with witty sayings or whatever. ...Don't know what your friend already has along those lines. I love my t-shirt that says Fizzy Yellow Beer is for Wussies.
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The results of the Dulce De Leche tasting are unfortunately going to have to wait till I get back to NYC.
The winners were 14, 17, then 19 (in that order). Because we did this double blind I don't know what the brands were. They're all definitely of the 4 hour batch though.I hope you have a chance to tell us the brands that won while your blog is still open. Regardless, I wanna know.
I hoping that, too... And will delay the close a while longer in hopes.
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Awesome start! This is going to be delightful. Those greens look wonderful. I like lemon on fish, too.
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We have some overlap for a while this time, while the starting days of blogs is shifting. So, for the next day or so, please enjoy the end of Don's and the beginning of the latest eG foodblog.
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As life cirumstances sometimes force, this has been a time I've had to follow a blog more quietly; however, I've enjoyed it so much. Take-my-breath-away beautiful!
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Hold on..... We're about to travel almost to the other side of the earth!
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Baby it's cold outside, at least where this blog comes from,
so come on in...
A late tease, but better late than never I hope... The eG foodblogger that starts tomorrow will welcome us through his (yeah, I'll give you that) door and into a day week in the life. We will be welcomed to some good eating, drinking, and doing -- perhaps even a cocktail parry!
Cheers!
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eG foodblog fans, please accept my apologies for not teasing you this time. On top of having to do some last-minute shuffling on the foodblog calendar, the blogger and I had crazy busy weekends and didn't get it together..... But there IS a blogger who will be coming our way starting tomorrow morning. It is a returning eG blogger, someone whose blogging we enjoyed before.
Thanks All for your patience while these last-minute changes were being made, and thanks in advance to the next blogger for coming to us on short notice.
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I missed our family Thanksgiving this year due to a viral thingy..I feel like I just had Thanksgiving because of your blog..and it was one of the best ever! Thank you for your Southern hospitality!
I missed hosting a Thanksgiving feast or going to anybody's home this year, too. With my job change back to full time, I wasn't able to take The Day After off work and so I couldn't accept invitations from family who are all up north. Rachel, you filled the hole I felt and following your blog made me feel like I had a real Thanksgiving as well. You've inspired me for Christmas... They are all coming to me over the holidays, and I am cooking, for sure!
This has been such a beautiful blog--visually and spiritually.So well put.
What Beers Did You Drink Today? Or Yesterday? (Part 1)
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One of my new current favorites, Troegs HopBack Amber Ale... Good pleasant tasting hops that probably wouldn't offend even a non-hophead.