MaryIsobel

We had brunch - copious amounts of food - but I lost my mind and forgot to take picturesn because I found out that I'm going to be a GRANDMA IN JUNE!!! Best gift ever🥰

It's just dough; frozen rolls, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and instant vanilla pudding.

I am getting ready to turn out the lights and bid all a good night. Just realized that I have been making these Best of Bridge overnight pull-apart cinnamon buns for 29 years now. They are a must have for Christmas br4eakfast/brunch. One year I made my own dough but decided there was no diffrence since it is all about the butter and sugar, so have just used the frozen rolls ever since as Christmas Eve is generally kind of busy.https://www.bestofbridge.com/land-of-nod-cinnamon-buns/

The flu that is going around is pretty severe. Apparently a new strain that the flu shot doesn't cover. My daughter who is an ER nurse says she has never seen so many people, and particularly children in the ER due to flu. I have heard good things about the White Spot Christmas meals - hope you are able to enjoy it. Why does our heating shut down in midwinter instead of in the fall? Our only 10 year old furnace packed it in two days before Christmas last year. Remarkably the company that we bought it from sent a technician at 9:00 am on the 24th and he fixed it!

Also love the Silver Palate cook book. I got turned off Martha when it became very obvious that she had a huge staff who did all the things that she claimed to do herself.

That looks delicious. Sorry about your cold - A friend and I went to a concert last night - Johnny Reid. It was a great get together but people coughing and sneezing were freaking me out!

I have never looked back since discovering oven roux - great results and pretty hands off.

This is a quick and easy "ladie's lunch." I usually serve it with an orange and arugula salad. Love the frozen puff pastry. I have made it from scractch a couple of times, but it's one of those things (like croissants) that just doesn't seem worth the trouble so I always keep a package in the fridge and a package in the freezer.https://vikalinka.com/ham-cheese-puffs-asparagus/

Good friends of ours who live aboout 15 minutes away called this morning and said "hey - I know it's late notice but we finally got our tree up and we're going to load up the fireplace with logs - want to come over for a cocktail or coffee tonight?" I said sure, what can I bring? She said "oh, just a it of your lovely baking would be grand." Prolem is, I don't have any "lovely" baking. I've been baking for bake sales and a quadruple batch of biscotti for my daughter's ER team. I do however, almost have a package of puff pastry at the ready this time of year so within about 20 minutes of receiving the invitation, I had two trays of palmiers in the oven. So, so simple but people are always impressed. I just made the standard sugar one, but can also whip up savoury ones in a tick with sun-dried tomatoes and olive tapenade. Life saver at this time of year! All were packaged up before I thought of taking a picture, but you know what they look like. I use Ina's recipe.

My husband would wrestle anyone for the "browned bits of cheese."

It will be turkey and the ususal suspects here. We had prime rib for Thanksgiving. My husband's mother taught my how to make tourtière, no recipe, just showed me how it was done. For the last few years, since we became empty nesters, I make tourtière tarts - muffin cup size and freeze them because one tourtière for two people is a lot!

I adore birria tacos or more specifically queso birria (these have melted and crispy cheese on the outside.) Sadly, the only place around here that did a good job of them has closed. Apparently the husband embezzled a lot of money from the business.

Not a drop

Agreed - the Hendrix looks lovely. Unfortunately, here in BC, Canada, our antiquated liquor laws prevent Costco from selling booze!

I made pistachio/cranberry biscotti for our local hospital's ER team. I've had the pistachios in the freezer for 6 months or so. Husband and I have sampled the biscotti with no ill effects.🤞

Your "little one" and his friends have very sophisticated palates - good on you for introducing them to such a variety of foods and not a chicken nugget in sight!

Had a blackberry gin jam in London - loved it.

That is one of my easy comfort meals, pretty or not!

That looks delicious - I make a potato & green been salad with pesto as part of the dressing - my family are not big mayo fans so this is popular. Next time I will add sund-dried tomatoes - thanks!

Not gourmet by any means but I made 18 - 6" sugar cookies and a dozen 4"x4" squares of rice krispie treats. These are for a bake sale at the high school tht my daughter teaches at. Proceeds going to the musical theatre department of which she is in charge. In researching best sellers at high school bake sales, it seems that the parameters are "big" and "sweet." I think I filled the bill. My daughter is going to label the RK squares "Grinch Treats" hence the intense green colour!

That sounds like a lovely, homey, warming meal - well done! Our Christmas dinner guest count has grown from 11-16 in the last few days. Since that number includes 5 twenty-something guys who eat like they haven't had a meal in days, I decided that the two smaller turkeys I bought wouldn't be enough. Bought a bigger bird and donated one of the smaller ones to our local meals on wheels. When I called to see if it would be accepted, the woman told me that they charge 9.95 per meal but with rising grocery prices, their cost to prepare and deliver a meal is almost 18.00 so they are delighted with donations.

Your breakfasts always look like a symphony of flavours and I iamgine a breakfast like that would keep one going for a good long while.

I would be happy with this too. Sadly my husbandis not a fan of any kind of curry, so i save recipes like this for when he is away on a fishing trip.

We're far from Kansas - Pacific Northwest in fact but our sunsets were very similar. Looks like a body of water but it's not, just clouds on the horizon just after sunset.

I have tried draining my home made salsa before adding to burritos but it still gives off a lot of liquid so we tend to add salsa or pico de gallo and sour cream at the table. I have read that adding a couple of tablespoons of "almost cooked" rice to burritos helps to absorb excess liquid. I haven't tried it but it makes sense.