[HPFGU-OTChatter] Christmas Eats - was Nosy Chistmas/Holidays Question?

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 6:15 PM +0000 12/24/03, junediamanti wrote:
>--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, ~Ivy~ <desiivy at y...> wrote:
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>That sounds fantastic!  Is there a spare seat? <g>
>
>We will be having a very large chicken (free range - taste the
>difference, and there aren't that many of us) because I find it very
>hard to source a turkey that is humanely reared and doesn't cost
>roughly the price of a three-bedroomed suburban house.

There's a gourmet/natural foods market here in Houston that carries 
semi-humanely-reared turkeys at somewhat less exorbitant prices.  I 
rather like theirs, although I ended up buying a turkey breast 
elsewhere because they were *!crowded!* on Christmas Eve.

The rest of our meal was green peas (from frozen - even here, you 
can't get fresh this time of year), rutabaga, and mashed potatoes.

The fun part was the huge platter of Yule Cookies - things that are 
traditional for my families of birth and choice this time of year: 
refrigerator sugar cookies with a bit of spice, date nut balls, 
Danish wedding cookies, and cherry winks.  (There's also a 
grasshopper-brownie bar that my grandmother used to do, which I don't 
have the recipe for; I tried something that looked similar from a 
recipe on Hershey's website [and you would think they would know, 
wouldn't you?], and it turned into a rock-hard mess, so I'm going to 
have to see if I can get my mother to get the recipe for me.)

We do Movie Night at our place every Thursday, and the Spouse decided 
that last night would be no exception, so he showed _Three 
Businessmen_.  (If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching once to 
see why it's an appropriate Xmas movie.)

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