Monday, August 08, 2005
we dream of snow while the sun still shines
I am planning way ahead of time this year. I learned my lesson last year with the great banana pudding extinction incident. I'm getting half a dozen boxes of banana pudding at the grocery store today for the obligatory Thanksgiving hostess-gift banana bread.
We'll have the usual Thanksgiving spread, turkey, mashers, cranberry dressing, veggies, biscuits. And I might try out a few new things, like this Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Bisque. Or I might even try some stuffing -- I generally hate stuffing, but Sausage and Herb Bread Stuffing sounds pretty good. And of course pumpkin pie.
Maybe some peanut pie instead of pecan? Apparently it's a Virginia tradition. Ooh, the Cranberry Lemon Cake sounds tasty, too.
Then we can have all the leftovers I've been dreaming about having since last year. If we go to FL for Thanksgiving this year, I think I'll have my family over for dinner a couple of weeks beforehand. I really missed it last year. I loved the trip, and of course I love Ben's family and I'm glad he got to spend the holiday with them, but I'm a creature of habit and traditions are my cocaine.
I've been working on setting up a traditional Christmas Eve dinner since last year's fishy disaster. The mushroom bisque we had was effing delicious though, so I'll make that again. I'm thinking crab cakes, but last year I couldn't find any crab. Maybe if I start looking earlier in the week this year, I can find some. You can't freeze crab, can you? I don't think you can, anyway. The two recipes I'm eyeing are the MD Senator's recipe and a copycat Rainforest Cafe recipe. I figure anyone from MD has to know their crab cake stuff, right? And we loved the Rainforest Cafe crab cakes. The recipes look almost identical, so I'm not too worried about it.
Christmas morning, of course, is monkey bread time. When I lived with my parents, we had a brand new box of the holiday Cap'n Crunch every Christmas morning, so I put that under the tree because, like I said, traditions=crack, but I prep the monkey bread Christmas Eve and cook it while we open presents. The Cap'n Crunch gets snacked on later in the day. We usually have ham sandwiches on rolls and miscellaneous finger foods during the day, sometimes at my parents' house. I think I might roast a chicken for Christmas dinner, like Thanksgiving dinner lite.
I think we're going to try a lot of different holiday traditions over the next few years to see what sticks. But that's a whole 'nother long-ass picture-free entry. I think it'll be fun, though.
This will be our first complete holiday season at the new house; I can hardly wait -- can you tell?
We'll have the usual Thanksgiving spread, turkey, mashers, cranberry dressing, veggies, biscuits. And I might try out a few new things, like this Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Bisque. Or I might even try some stuffing -- I generally hate stuffing, but Sausage and Herb Bread Stuffing sounds pretty good. And of course pumpkin pie.
Maybe some peanut pie instead of pecan? Apparently it's a Virginia tradition. Ooh, the Cranberry Lemon Cake sounds tasty, too.
Then we can have all the leftovers I've been dreaming about having since last year. If we go to FL for Thanksgiving this year, I think I'll have my family over for dinner a couple of weeks beforehand. I really missed it last year. I loved the trip, and of course I love Ben's family and I'm glad he got to spend the holiday with them, but I'm a creature of habit and traditions are my cocaine.
I've been working on setting up a traditional Christmas Eve dinner since last year's fishy disaster. The mushroom bisque we had was effing delicious though, so I'll make that again. I'm thinking crab cakes, but last year I couldn't find any crab. Maybe if I start looking earlier in the week this year, I can find some. You can't freeze crab, can you? I don't think you can, anyway. The two recipes I'm eyeing are the MD Senator's recipe and a copycat Rainforest Cafe recipe. I figure anyone from MD has to know their crab cake stuff, right? And we loved the Rainforest Cafe crab cakes. The recipes look almost identical, so I'm not too worried about it.
Christmas morning, of course, is monkey bread time. When I lived with my parents, we had a brand new box of the holiday Cap'n Crunch every Christmas morning, so I put that under the tree because, like I said, traditions=crack, but I prep the monkey bread Christmas Eve and cook it while we open presents. The Cap'n Crunch gets snacked on later in the day. We usually have ham sandwiches on rolls and miscellaneous finger foods during the day, sometimes at my parents' house. I think I might roast a chicken for Christmas dinner, like Thanksgiving dinner lite.
I think we're going to try a lot of different holiday traditions over the next few years to see what sticks. But that's a whole 'nother long-ass picture-free entry. I think it'll be fun, though.
This will be our first complete holiday season at the new house; I can hardly wait -- can you tell?
