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karen1225
IP: 72.224.51.37
12/01/2005
17:20:11 |
 Subject: Holiday Goodies
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Thank you lark and all of you for the compliments, and I will tell adeli. It was one time "on the dark side" that people worked together on a project and there was very little fighting or arguing, and generally very happy with the results. Believe it or not, some people even had to complain about the format! I guess they don't have lives. There are some really GREAT recipes on there, and I have tried some of them. Carrot cake and Tukey Shepherd's Pie from mickeyduck are just GREAT, and I can attest to my recipe for Baked Ham. I say it's my recipe, but I got it from my sister's husband, and he can cook meat.
To let you know, my sister and her husband donate dinners to charity, and people bid on them and then they can come and bring a group of people with them for a dinner at my sister's house. It's better than a 5-star restaurant and looks like dinner at Buckingham Palace with all the silver, china and crystal! The food is fantastic, and everything is homemade, including Pate to a Tree made of cream puffs with spun sugar on the ouside of the tree as decoration. The just went to Italy and took some cooking classes, and if I could, I would take you all there for dinner so you could all enjoy the "royal" treatment!!! She thinks nothing of dinner for 20 or 30 people. I have trouble with it for 2. I can make a grilled cheese sandwich, though, which she can't because she burns it! LOL
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Barbara Wheeler
IP: 66.82.9.71
12/01/2005
17:32:15 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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> my sister and her husband donate dinners to charity, and people bid on them and then they can come and bring a group of people with them for a dinner at my sister's house. It's better than a 5-star restaurant and looks like dinner at Buckingham Palace with all the silver, china and crystal!
That is really great. Doesn't it just fill you totally up when you do something nice for someone else. It really IS better to give than to receive. But when you are in need of even the smallest things to sustain life itself the receiving is a pretty great thing too!
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karen1225
IP: 72.224.51.37
12/01/2005
18:26:43 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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It is really better to give and you are totally right Barbara. When any of my sister's friends are sick, or are busy taking care of elderly parents, she cooks meals for them that will last for a week, and even knowing that my nephew and his wife both work, and they have a little boy who is a year and a half, she will make them spaghetti sauce, and take it to them or cook a dinner and bring it to them. She does this for me too, and she makes homemade chutney and hot fudge sauce and lemon curd and drops those things off to people. She is very generous, and dinner at her house is an event, not just dinner! She takes "giant" carrots, peels a long piece, puts it on a circle, and purees peas and puts that in the center of the carrot circle. It's all the fine little touches, and the food is magnificent! I wish I could bring you there just to let you have a good time there and she would love you too!
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joytoday
IP: 69.139.202.143
12/01/2005
19:00:32 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Karen, that is so fascinating about you sis and bil. Now I am sooooooooo hungry! Sounds like you guys have a really good time at one of their "shindigs"!
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karen1225
IP: 72.224.51.37
12/01/2005
19:08:03 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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We always do and the serving pieces and table is so beautiful looking too. They are going to France for Christmas, and they are having us over for our family Christmas on Dec. 9th and I can't wait. My sister and I are going to see a Broadway road company of Chicago the night before. For the Christmas family dinner we are having the Baked Ham I mentioned before, and I'm so glad!!!! It is so delicious, and my bil does such a good job!!!!! There will be chicken liver pate too, and great wine!!! It will be the first time my nephew's baby will be there, and I don't know if the house is ready for a baby!! It's definitely not child proof!
I'll let you know how dinner is!!
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Barbara Wheeler
IP: 69.19.14.16
12/01/2005
19:51:44 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Well Karen, I, for on,e am just a touch jealous. But don't let that stop you from enjoying all that wonderful food, and interesting conversation. Just have a bit extra desert for me. Then you will be expected to jump back in here with all the gory, tasty details, and continue to make our mouths water!
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karen1225
IP: 72.224.51.37
12/01/2005
20:12:01 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Barbara, it will be my birthday celebration with my family too, so it will be extra special. I can't wait, and I will come home and tell you all about it. It will be fun, and we will have laughs, and great food. I wish I could bring you all along to celebrate Christmas and my b'day with you all who are my NGF family, and with my biological family! You would all enjoy each other so much, and the food would be so great. I'll have some extra dessert for you too, Barb, as a special request!
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joytoday
IP: 69.139.202.143
12/01/2005
20:15:07 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Happy early B'day honey!
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karen1225
IP: 72.224.51.37
12/02/2005
04:40:19 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Thank you, joy, and it will be a wonderful celebration because I will be with my family and my "adopted niece and nephew" who are friends of my older nephew.
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Lynnie
IP: 69.207.171.31
12/02/2005
08:33:21 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Karen, I need to read all those recipes. Thanks for sharing because I always like to cook the traditional things and throw in something new each Christmas.
Your sister sounds like a powerhouse and I'm glad she pampers you too. I had an aunt very much like that who loved entertaining, from soup to nuts.
My sister's birthday is Dec. 9. Have a happy, happy day and enjoy your gala celebration!
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karen1225
IP: 72.224.51.37
12/02/2005
21:26:39 | RE: Holiday Goodies
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Lynnie, I have been pampered by my sister, she's 9 years older, and she and my brother only wanted bikes and a baby sister named Karen for Christmas the year I was born. Needless to say, they got both.
The holiday goodies are on the QBBs,and I can give you the thread over here if you would rather not go over to the Dark Side. I put some new recipes on today for Homemade Manicotti, a treat my nephews always request from me every year for New Year's Day dinner, and for my homemade sauce and meatballs. I'm Irish, French and Dutch, and people like my sauce better than Italian restaurants. So these are over there too, and I can bring them here. They are on a separate thread from the Holiday Goodies one. Just let me know what you prefer and if you want the Italian recipes I added today!
I always share my recipes, and there is nothing that's a secret with me concerning cooking!
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