Kim Shook

Thank you, ma'am! Here's the "recipe" for them and this is the kind of pretzels I use - I think I get the Snyder's brand. I've also used the smaller twists when I couldn't find the waffles.

The crumpets were from Wegman's (I haven't attempted yet) but here's the curd recipe. It's very simple to make.

More of the same year to year from me. Folks who've been around for a long time will find my post vaguely familiar😁! Made lemon curd to take to some friends. He’s British and loves homemade curd. This is just a standard recipe, but it turns out creamy rather than gelatinous like the jarred ones tend to: The recipe made one large jar and one small one, so we got to keep the little one for ourselves. My peanut butter cookies: Lemon chess tarts: Cinnamon pecans: Peanut brittle: Sponge: Those silly Rolos, pretzel, and pecan things: And two kinds of fudge – Reeses Cup fudge and my Aunt San’s creamy chocolate: I tried adding some of that peanut powder to the peanut butter layer this year and found that it really improved the texture and maybe even the flavor. It was firmer – not squishy like it tends to be when it sits out of even a few minutes. Not all of our traditional things got made this year. I just got overwhelmed with things and some things just didn’t happen – @Darienne’s toffee, sugar cookies (though Jessica wants to do some of them anyway – even late), iced almonds, and mincemeat tarts will have to wait until next year.

Last Monday Jessica surprised us with tamales that she bought from a home kitchen in Southside Richmond: They were pork and delicious. The masa was tender and flavorful. They were not spicy at all, which I appreciated. Boxing day lunch: Classic – white bread, Dukes, turkey, lettuce and heavy S&P.

@blue_dolphin– I love Wolferman’s! My mom’s best friend used to give them to everyone for Xmas and then I found them at a local grocery store. When that store sold out to a national chain, they didn’t carry them. I haven’t had one since and need to place an order! Christmas Eve breakfast was a crumpet and some lemon curd that I made: Christmas day was our usual meal that everyone has seen over and over – my MIL’s “Candy Cane” sweet roll (which Jessica helped make this year – well, maybe personally observed would be a better description🙄😞 Bebo’s (my paternal grandmother) Fruit Salad: Mini quiche Lorraine and John T’s sausage rolls: ET bagels and smoked salmon cream cheese: Boxing day breakfast: Crumpets and some surprisingly good Kroger strawberry preserves that had WHOLE strawberries in it. This morning was Christmas morning leftovers:

I always buy the bagged 3 count romaine hearts. I wonder if these are included. I don't have a bag right now.

Welcome to eG, @michallen! Looking forward to hearing more from you! What kinds of foods do you enjoy cooking or are you interested in?

How could I forget the CSO (plus the spare in the attic), the Anova, and the IP?

Hello, @kchandler! Welcome to eG from my favorite part of the world! I grew up with English stepsisters and stepdad and they imbued me with a love for your country! I've only visited once (2011), but am dying to go back when we can! I'm so looking forward to your input!!

Quick drop in visit to respond: IP and CSO. May add more later, but it won't be a roasting pan😝.

Hi, @Barb Bowers! Welcome to eG! I'm looking forward to your contributions!

I love looking at all different pasta shapes and, in the past, I've purchased a lot, too. But I've discovered that since I really don't care for pasta that isn't tender all the way through (not an al dente person), many shapes are just not going to be good to me. I tend to stay with the smaller tube-shaped ones and with the stick ones - macaroni, all the spaghettis and the flat sticks, too. Anything that has a fold is a hard pass for me.

Yesterday: English muffin w/ sage sausage. It is 12:35 and I am apparently not eating breakfast today and time for lunch doesn't look promising either. 😁

@kayb – you are truly my heroine. I could no more entertain this week than I could fly to the moon. I’ve let folks know that with Jessica and her cats and her STUFF here, we weren’t really set up for guests, but that we’d love to meet them somewhere for dinner or lunch or brunch (after Christmas). I had friends who lived in NYC and did all their entertaining in restaurants! @mgaretz – those latkes look great and you just reminded me that I have some in the freezer, too! @liamsaunt – your stuffed chicken looks delicious! When you say herbed cheese, is it a soft one like Boursin? Dinner last night was spaghetti with a meat sauce made from fixed up Victoria marinara: Served with salad and leftover Sister Schubert rolls:

Last night was pork schnitzel with mustard-cream pan sauce, braised red cabbage, and broccoli: The schnitzel was an Aldi short cut - it comes frozen and breaded, but raw. It's a seasonal product for some reason, but we like it a lot. It takes longer to do the pan sauce than it does to cook the patties, so it's great for a busy night. The cabbage was also supposed to be a short cut. I sent Mr. Kim to the store with "red cabbage" on the list - intending him apparently to read my mind and get a jar of it. Instead, I got a whole head of red cabbage and ended up doing it from scratch, since I had all of the ingredients.

What looks like a huge and untimely recall of ham and other pork products in the US: https://news.yahoo.com/ham-more-pork-products-being-215000524.html

Today: A ham and Havarti sandwich with a bowl of college-style ramen. One of my (many) guilty pleasures. Eaten as is with no additions except that I use all of the "flavor" packet like the heathen I am.

What is that on the upper left? The one with the leggy things?

I belong to an Aldi FB group and, believe me, these folks can really be loonies.

I'm sitting here looking at a my annual box of them. My mother loved them and they were always her "Santa gift", so when I saw them this year, I had to buy them. I found mine at a candy store that sells everything from nostalgia candy to high end chocolates and stuff from all over the world. But I'm pretty sure I've seen them at other stores, too.

@blue_dolphin - To me, a perfectly poached egg atop a perfectly toasted piece of toast is just the classic and ideal breakfast. Yesterday: ET bagel and sage sausage.

It truly sounds dreadful and the "chef" full of himself, but expecting a "main course" in the middle of a tasting menu is completely unrealistic. That's not how it works. Even I know that.

It's this one. It is just stacked up cheese ravioli with a pretty good beef and pork Bolognese. I like the addition of the tomato sauce and some Parm. We originally bought it for my in laws when they were still in their house and they raved about it so much that we tried one. We like it a lot and it freezes very well.

Freezer dive yesterday produced half of a Costco ravioli lasagna: Topped with Victoria tomato sauce: which we like a lot. Served with a salad and a roasted garlic loaf:

Your French friend's daughter would have approved of my plate after finishing the croissant - the plate itself was almost completely hidden by shards of crust! I'm with you on sweet stuff with eggs - it just doesn't appeal. BTW - your French toast dish is amazing looking! This morning we had English muffins, butter, and Benton's bacon in the house. Ergo: