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Christmas 2024

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23 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

I have a stove top smoker.  If I were to try smoking them, would I cook them first, slice then smoke?  I have some I'm planning to have with our turkey this year and wouldn't mind trying this,

 

I smoked first, but for  no good reason.  Both ought to work.

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30 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Cheesy Potatoes

 

 

 

Super easy.  I omitted the onions due to grandkids not liking them (I think lol). If they weren't coming I'd def. do the onions.   My slow cooker takes longer than what the recipe says (it also gets hotter on the left side than the right but sigh it still works so I'll not buy another one yet).  The day before I cooked it on low for 3 hours, stirred and then did 2 more hours and put it in the fridge.  At 6 in the morning I started it on low again for 2 hours.  Stirred.  Added more cheese to the top.  Let it go another hour then turned it on warm.  Worked like a charm.

 

 

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Potatoes are sliced in a liquid to cook?

Senior Sea Kayaker

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I'll be attending a traditional, in our family, turkey dinner. My contribution will be the desert and cheese course.

My neighbors, who are my BIL's sister and BIL, hosted their annual open house yesterday evening. This is their 40th year doing so and there is a huge pot of seafood chowder with some traditional breads and deserts (also lasagna as an alternative to the chowder). This was my third time attending and it was a good time.

Happy holidays to all.

 

 

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'A drink to the livin', a toast to the dead' Gordon Lightfoot

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Here's our slightly updated Seven Fishes menu from last night. Even after taking two hours for the first five courses, we were so full we decided to postpone the cheese course finale to tonight. In fact, given what we'll be eating for brunch, it might be the only thing we'll eat for dinner -- which is fine by me.

 

Dashi-mushroom broth

 

Wild char roe, avocado-oil potato chips, crème fraîche

 

Caesar salad (no egg), boquerones

 

“Gefilte” fish pâté, lime horseradish, crackers

 

Most definitely not kosher seafood chowder

Gulf shrimp, bay scallops, lump crabmeat

potatoes, bacon, Penzey’s Sunny Paris seasoning

 

Verterra Brut 2019 (Michigan)

 

 

Époisses, Fuji apple, Idaho snowberry honey, baguette

 

La Fleur d’Or Sauternes 2009

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

gfweb

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Xmas Lunch was smoked turkey salad with candied pecans and grapes. Turkey was SV and perfect.  Pickled onions could be plated better 😉

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Dinner was bits of this and that.  Smoked trout spread...deviled eggs with candied bacon...artichoke dip...and a big pot of meatballs (not shown).

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lemniscate

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Very small Christmas dinner, some nice filets sauteed in butter on the patio ( in the A4box), with a splash of homemade Worcestershire-like sauce (we call it sizzle sauce).   Some frozen fries in the outside AF with a smoky bbq dipping sauce.

Cherry tomatoes and sharp cheddar cubes were the sides.

 

I made hot toddies with chocolate tea with orange liqueur.    

 

Nitecaps were creme Amarula in a low-ball with an ice cube around the firepit.

 

Really pleased with the peacefulness.

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Katie Meadow

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Perfect xmas dinner for the two of us: To start, homemade cheese straws left over from xmas eve party and a glass of gifted Rittenhouse rye. For dinner, gifted Domingo Rojo beans from my Napa SIL (she's got my number) made into a New Mexico style beans over rice. Pickled veg, also leftover from the party. And for dessert an apple calvados cake made after opening presents. That's not quite correct. It was intended for dessert, but, unable to resist, we ate it warm from the oven a couple of hours BEFORE dinner.  Gift of note from my husband: a 12 inch carbon steel skillet. Gorgeous.

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