Whew! Made it through the holidays!
Since my last post, we've had loads of snow, insanely cold temps followed by a freakish 55 degree day or two and then more snow.
For Christmas Eve dinner, I made a very local ham, with scalloped potatoes (Michigan cheese, butter, onions and milk). We bought rolls from a local bakery and bought two amazing cheesecakes from The Old World Bakery. Asked my sister to bring a salad. I was soooo looking forward to fresh greens! I was quietly disappointed when she and her husband showed up with 6 Greek salads of iceburg lettuce from Benito's pizza along with 2 liters of Coke and Canada Dry. Apparently they were too busy to make a salad. I understand.
Heavy sigh.
My mother brought two shrimp platters with cocktail sauce... from Vietnam. How the hell many miles is it from Vietnam to good old Ypsilanti?
At any rate, it was all good and fun. The kids received a lot of really nice stuff, both from family and Santa, ahem.
Today we had Hoppin' John for our New Year's dinner (made with left over ham from Boxing Day), and stuffed chicken breasts wrapped in bacon. The stuffing was loads of garlic and collards mixed with cream cheese. Very decadent. The green apples were from a gifted box of produce. My brother owns a restaurant and the guy he gets produce from gave him a box of fruit as an extra gift. My brother then gave it to my family. The kids were ecstatic to have PINEAPPLE! and MANGO! and APPLES! and KIWI!
Holy cow! It's so nice to see the kids grateful and thrilled to eat fruit from afar.
Now I'm off to continue making my lists from assorted seed catalogs. It is that time of year! Aren't you excited?!
1 comments:
I love getting my mail this time of year just for the seed catalogs (blush). Cocktail sauce from Vietnam - eep. Reminds me of a couple weeks ago when my mother reported on garlic from China in her local grocery store. Sigh indeed. But you're right, its really about being with family and their company, that's what I'll cherish in the end.
You know I was smiling at your children enjoying the mango - that is quite possibly the worlds greatest fruit. Did they get the juice dripping down the chin? :-)
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