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ellen_datlow) wrote2007-12-26 01:19 pm
ellen_datlow) wrote2007-12-26 01:19 pm
A delicious holiday
I ate too much--cheese and bread and some kind of smoked cod and a clammy dip on toast and incredible homemade charcutier by Sid (one of the regular guests at my friend's annual Christmas dinner). Then goose and scalloped potatoes, and brussel sprouts and I drank too much (champagne and then red wine and finally bas Armagnac).
Beforehand, my friend Donni and I exchanged gifts (birthday as well as xmas) at my place. She's decided I need things that eventually disappear--like food and drink--so she brought me an intriguing looking bottle of white wine from Oregon and a bottle of red, some chocolate mint Baileys, an olive oil dip for bread, and a wine set with corkscrew, stopper, foil cutter, and wine ring (I don't know what the latter is for)...
Previously, I'd opened gifts that came by mail: a nice bottle of shampoo/bath oil from my friend Suzi and a wondrous Bosch sculpture from Mikey and Richard (of the amazing Cougar Gold Cheddar cheese) called "The Temptation of St Anthony.
I still have a bunch of gifts to exchange over the next week and beyond: New Year's eve I'll be having dinner at my friend Ellie's where we will exchange gifts and hopefully Rob K and his fiance Gwen will be attending so we can exchange our gifts. Then a New Year's Day brunch where a whole bunch of other gifts will be exchanged.
And then I still have my friend John, who I promised to visit to his new house upstate in January and my sister...and there might be a few things still winging their way to me from out of town friends...so it's a monthly ritual this year, not a one day thingie.
Beforehand, my friend Donni and I exchanged gifts (birthday as well as xmas) at my place. She's decided I need things that eventually disappear--like food and drink--so she brought me an intriguing looking bottle of white wine from Oregon and a bottle of red, some chocolate mint Baileys, an olive oil dip for bread, and a wine set with corkscrew, stopper, foil cutter, and wine ring (I don't know what the latter is for)...
Previously, I'd opened gifts that came by mail: a nice bottle of shampoo/bath oil from my friend Suzi and a wondrous Bosch sculpture from Mikey and Richard (of the amazing Cougar Gold Cheddar cheese) called "The Temptation of St Anthony.
I still have a bunch of gifts to exchange over the next week and beyond: New Year's eve I'll be having dinner at my friend Ellie's where we will exchange gifts and hopefully Rob K and his fiance Gwen will be attending so we can exchange our gifts. Then a New Year's Day brunch where a whole bunch of other gifts will be exchanged.
And then I still have my friend John, who I promised to visit to his new house upstate in January and my sister...and there might be a few things still winging their way to me from out of town friends...so it's a monthly ritual this year, not a one day thingie.
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This year for Christmas my grandma sent us all recipe books compiling a bunch of "family favorites" that she used to make. I'm SO excited. It's like a midwestern smorgasboard of food choices. Heh.
(P.S. Sorry, I accidentally posted that under my other name first. Gah! That's like, twice I've done that now. Oops.)
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