Doreen is off at Christ Church Cathedral, singing and praying (I hope) for my soul.
Today, though, we spent some time getting ready for the big day tomorrow.
We always cook goose, and you have to blanch it and let it sit for a day to get the skin nice an crispy. Like goose cracklin's.
Of course, we had to go shopping for more stuff, so here I am, girding myself for the trip
The stuffing (dressing, I suppose) will have pears. Lots of pears. We will also have mashed potatoes. We have figured out that with all the other things we are eating, we only need 2 pounds of spuds for 9 people.
Some of the stuff we bought. We are making a beet recipe that calls for a beet vinaigrette. You make a beet reduction and add white balsamic vinegar. Who knew? You also steep caraway seeds in the vinegar, and steep raspberries in the reduced beet juice. This recipe also calls for a goat cheese foam. We made this last year and it was a huge disaster. Delicious, but it exploded all over the kitchen. We are trying it again tomorrow.
Apple juice for the red cabbage.
you can see that our refrigerator is stuffed. It will be thus until late tomorrow when it will be stuffed with leftovers.
Let's not forget why we celebrate! Baby Jesus, Dante, and Camels.
This will be a great Christmas. The first for our sweet grand-niece Renee, and we will have Quinn and Roxy to take care of her, as well as Trouta, our dear friends Charles and Eddie, and Ree and Jon - so Jon gets to see how the Texas Piettes celebrate. He may never move back to Wisconsin.
Today, though, we spent some time getting ready for the big day tomorrow.
We always cook goose, and you have to blanch it and let it sit for a day to get the skin nice an crispy. Like goose cracklin's.
Of course, we had to go shopping for more stuff, so here I am, girding myself for the trip
The stuffing (dressing, I suppose) will have pears. Lots of pears. We will also have mashed potatoes. We have figured out that with all the other things we are eating, we only need 2 pounds of spuds for 9 people.
Some of the stuff we bought. We are making a beet recipe that calls for a beet vinaigrette. You make a beet reduction and add white balsamic vinegar. Who knew? You also steep caraway seeds in the vinegar, and steep raspberries in the reduced beet juice. This recipe also calls for a goat cheese foam. We made this last year and it was a huge disaster. Delicious, but it exploded all over the kitchen. We are trying it again tomorrow.
Apple juice for the red cabbage.
you can see that our refrigerator is stuffed. It will be thus until late tomorrow when it will be stuffed with leftovers.
Let's not forget why we celebrate! Baby Jesus, Dante, and Camels.
This will be a great Christmas. The first for our sweet grand-niece Renee, and we will have Quinn and Roxy to take care of her, as well as Trouta, our dear friends Charles and Eddie, and Ree and Jon - so Jon gets to see how the Texas Piettes celebrate. He may never move back to Wisconsin.
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