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Don't be hesitant Jeff, the recipe is easy! And delicious.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Please do. I can't wait to see what you have decided to serve those 8 hungry women.
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Damn Soren, you're even more surrounded by estrogen than I am. I'm the only local male relative surrounded by three women, my wife, her sister and her mother. Event that gets to be too much of a hen party at times. Stay strong my man!
I have these same women 4/5 times a year for dinner, they meet for every B/day normally at each others homes, the one who has B/day doesnt do anything her birthday is at one of the others home, but the last 3/4 years they have begun to do it here, I dont know if they are just lazy, or because they found out that I can cook, 2 month ago they were here and discussing where and how Xmas dinner, a hen house in full speed, it was just too much, so I broke into their interesting discussion where everybody was talking and nobody listening, I told them I am going to make a classic Danish Xmas dinner and they were all invited, it took them about an hour to set the date, I gave 3 different dates in December, they asked me various times if I could change these dates, but they were the only dates where I didnt have works to do, within the hour I had to tell them no 5/6 times, at last I offered them my client list, and told them to call my clients to change my schedule, they dint go that far but it was near. Well I keep myself in the background when they are here, and what they are talking about is amazing, all from babys to love life and Victorias secrets and the results of the same, of course they describe their sicknesses and cramps in detail. Nearly all of them are on a diet, but they eat like horses all of them
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Søren Mexico:Tomorrow I will cook a nearly classic Danish Xmas dinner for 8 women, (my wife´s friends) I will try to remember to take pics
Søren Mexico:Well I keep myself in the background when they are here, and what they are talking about is amazing, all from babys to love life and Victorias secrets and the results of the same, of course they describe their sicknesses and cramps in detail. Nearly all of them are on a diet, but they eat like horses all of them
Yikes Soren,
I can't honestly say I envy you. Eight women discussing cramps, etc. and in detail. OMG, you are a patient man.
By comparison all I have to "deal" with is my father-in-law talking endlessly about family and his friends we have never met, and almost always set in 1939? Why 1939, I have no idea and would be afraid to ask.
I hope we all, including the "other" Jeff survive the holidays.
Duels:Of the women or the dinner?
Perhaps Soren can do both, take pictures of the food and the ladies. Victoria Secret huh? Oh boy.
Well, tomorrow is the group Birthday Brunch for the family members who have birthdays in Nov and Dec. I have a flour-less chocolate cake in the oven right now, and will be making this breakfast casserole that has eggs, sausage, potatoes, onions, mushrooms, and cheese tomorrow morning, and serving it with a fruit salad and croissants from the local bakery.
I've looked at a lot of flour-less chocolate cake recipes, and they all are about identical, only varying in amount of ingredients depending on how big they are. But they all are pretty delicious!
BeoNut since '75
Aussie Michael:I promised some photos of the Christmas Cake Now I'm on the iPad photos work.
Jacques
Hi Jacques,
I am not sure where you are, but from the delicious above photo(s) you really should be at that festive table. Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind having been invited myself.
Can't wait to see what we actually have here..... as the menu STILL isn't set beyond the turkey. And this year the family is making a special trip from Calgary, Alberta to celebrate New Years with our now "traditional" home made pizza and champagne. (Sounds odd, and frankly is odd, but the two actually DO go together.)
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah everyone!
chartz:Where am I?
CB:Rhodes ?
chartz:The clue is the bottle of wine.
The definitive sign of a SMART man.
Turkey here with all the expected "fixings." And yes, I will be close to the wine as well.
Athens, how truly wonderful. Studying fine arts in Athens.... I can only imagine, I am green with jealousy. Still, genuinely happy for your daughter.
My degree is in history with emphasis in modern European, but minoring in Ancient. You can probably imagine what studying in Greece would mean to me.
Thank you for sharing and please enjoy the grandeur that is Greece just a little bit for me. I need to live vicariously.
Aussie Michael:Shut Up! Haha. I was gonna just write that! Piaf. Pizza goes with everything.
Aussie Michael:Yesterday was approaching 40 Celsius and it was too hot to roast anything for hours on end so thank god (literally) for the Philips Air fryer. I thought it prudent that I make a number of different salads and that can be served with sliced ham.
Aussie Michael:Many others also do a big roast whether pork or whatever. I have never done a roast turkey
elephant:We (insanely) did our usual traditional hot dinner of a roast turkey with roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, as well as cold chicken, ham, salmon with salads. With Pavlova and Christmas Pudding for deserts. BeoNut since '75
Aussie Michael: I was in boardies!
Duels:Aussie Michael:I was in boardies!Translation?
elephant:Surfer board shorts
Been some delicious sounding meals and food described here for the Xmas season! With a lot of regional variations.
I had to do two dinner parties, the usual Xmas Eve one for the whole extended family, 8 in total, then Xmas Day lunch for the local crowd of 4.
For Xmas Eve I did a ham loaf (a meatloaf made of pork and ham, always yummy), rice casserole, herb bread, green beans almondine, and my brother-in-law brought a marvelous apple pie from this high end bakery in the big city. Also did nuts, cheese, and a smoked salmon spread I made for appetizers.
Xmas day I did homemade cream of tomato soup, and a mushroom quiche, something lighter after the bloatarama that is Xmas Eve dinner.
The tomato soup requires you make the base tomato stock, blend it with a stick blender, pour it through a strainer to get the pulp and pips and skin out of it, then return it to the pot and rewarm and add the cream. I'm getting better at it as time goes on, usually my kitchen looks like a crime scene after I make it, but I only had a couple of "blood" spots on the counter this time! I've always loved cream of tomato soup, but this makes the usual Campbell's stuff in a can look like comparing Hershey's chocolate to Lindt.
Aussie Michael:Thanks Ed for the translation ;-) Jeff have you ever heard of gin and tomato soup? Someone told me that it's a match made in heaven. I am yet to try it. Cream of tomato is lovely. I'm the number one fan of soup.
Jeff have you ever heard of gin and tomato soup? Someone told me that it's a match made in heaven. I am yet to try it.
Cream of tomato is lovely. I'm the number one fan of soup.
I've never heard of gin and tomato soup! Will have to find a recipe and try it.
One "secret" to tomato soup I've found is to forget about fresh tomatoes unless you grew them yourself and use, gasp, canned. Turns out that the ones you get in most markets have been picked so green they never truly ripen, whereas the canning companies want ripe tomatoes and are willing to take ones that are misshapen and/or bruised as long as they are ripe. The soups I've made with good canned tomatoes have all been much more tomato-y than the ones I've made with even decent looking grocery store tomatoes.
Jeff:Jeff have you ever heard of gin and tomato soup?
I have never heard of it either, but MORE than willing to try it!
Jeff if Victoria
While I can't get such a special bird here in Podunk (aka Rural America) surprisingly the local mega-mart has been having frozen duck, goose, and really surprisingly, capon, in addition to the usual turkeys and chickens. I have a goose in my freezer now waiting for me to get time to prepare it. I also have small ovens, and I'm not sure it'll fit! Fortunately my sister-in-law lives about half a mile from us and has a "normal" sized oven/stove combo.
Never knew you worked in a restaurant Aussie Michael. I never have, not even fast food, which is unusual for someone who grew up in the US. Most kids get their start at McDonald's or Burger King.
Jacques,
Wow, colour me impressed. Notice the Canadian spelling of COLOR. After 12 years, I am getting used to it, eh?
You are truly an accomplished chef extraordinaire.
For New Years we had two pizzas, one vegetarian, and one meaty for family from Calgary, Alberta. Both great with champagne, of all things.
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