what's your Xmas look like?

[Carol]

 Sharon:
> What's eggnog? How do you make it? The Green bean casserole sounds
good too!
>
Carol responds:

What's eggnog? I thought it was a traditional English drink, but
evidently it didn't get imported to Australia! (If it isn't mentioned
in the Potter books, it ought to be, I would think.) However, I'm
American and could be entirely mistaken about eggnog and England.

However, I get to "How To of the Day" on my "iGoogle" homepage, and
today's how-to just happens to be "How to Make Eggnog" (the alcohol is
optional). Rather than copying and pasting the recipe, I'll just
provide the link.

Anyway, eggnog is a thick, rich, sweet, spicy drink rather like liquid
custard. I buy the nonalcoholic variety, usually the Sharmrock brand,
which comes in festive plastic bottles decorated with cows in Santa
costumes (I could swear they used to be a red-and-grean tartan plaid):
http://shamrockesl.com/images/prod-egg&hvycream-pic.jpg

BTW, I forgot to say that the high temperature on Christmas Day will
be in the low 60s F here, about 15 degrees Celsius/Centigrade. My
Remembrall is glowing red, telling me that I've forgotten to post some
other detail as well, but, like Neville, I can't remember what I've
forgotten.

Carol, whose mother used to make what she called eggnog from beaten
eggs, milk, sugar, and nutmeg until she (my mother) decided that raw
egg white was bad for us