What do you mean? The 2 weeks surrounding Christmas are just cooking and eating. Meeting people to cook together, meeting people to eat together. Visiting distant parts of the family you only see once a year and eating together. Visiting friends you only see once a year and eating together. I mean, chocolate is good; but there’s way too many dishes you want to eat that you likely don’t have enough vacation days to prepare them all. Then it becomes a point of optimization and huge discussions regarding what to prepare for lunch and dinner, attempting to make it so that none of the 15 people at dinner had already had that dish in those days or were planning to have it on another day. This is clearly impossible and that is where the real importance and respect of a person amongst the group of people he’s meeting becomes evident as he will muster support towards the dishes he was proposing by parts of the other people.
Well, I’m cooking dinner tonight for a few people; respect is very high: in fact yesterday I just said I’d cook something and nobody actually asked what I’d cook. I don’t know yet what to cook. A couple days ago with one of the people in there I made risotto, I’d rather not repeat. I guess we could go for a pasta to keep it moderately simple as they work tomorrow morning and we don’t have much time, but I’ll accept suggestions.
It’s cheese week.
I had a cheese fondue going for 3 days.
Neverebdind fondue???
i mean i’ve had spanakopita every day since yule
Made turkey rice soup so basically am eating Christmas for another week. Delicious though.
Real meals come back when you’re out of Rochers and the only sweets left are those disgusting cherry Brandy things.
ferrero are somehwat expensive.
they’re ridiculously expensive for the quality
Cheese, chutney, crackers, apples, and grapes for most meals.
That sounds nice actually, I haven’t done any holidays foods yet this year. But also the temperature here is going wacky. It’s 23 outside right now, and tomorrow the high is 2. It’s changes like that which make us understand why tornados are common. Hard to feel like Christmas at 23C
Mmmm… Cheese chutney… 🤤
You volks clearly overdo it with christmas.
We have 4lbs of honey baked ham to go through. I’m eating a lot of ham.
Christmas leftovers and noodles with grated cheese. Definitely eating a lot of sweets and snacks, though.
Deliziös
Oh, cheese on the noodles?
I like it.
Making freezer pot pies with mashed potatoes while collecting candy taxes from my kids
We’re surviving
Lindt balls, Christmas cookies, and staying hydrated with beer or Dr Pepper.
I think at this point, by dry weight I am 20% ham, 20% mince pie, 20% cheese (mostly camembert and Wensleydale) 20% chocolate and 20% Christmas cake.
Congratulations on staying at 100%. I’m at about 130% full.
I cooked a big christmas dinner for 6 people and the leftovers are only just now running low.
Tomato basil soup with wild rice and respectable dashes of mixed habanero-Sri Racha sauces. Yeah, I’m all good. My meals don’t end just because the year ends.
do you do anything unusual with your tomato basil soup?
No, I just eat it.
i like adding stilton crumbles, but i might be cooking a different flavor profile
Oh, I wouldn’t call that unusual. I’ve added Monterey Jack to mine on occasion.
ah, i’m the only one in the household who like bleu cheeses. i have no idea whether it’s supposed to go together.
Bleu cheeses are fantastic! Unless you’re applying for a prestigious culinary institute, it doesn’t really matter if they’re “supposed to go together”.
As long as it tastes good to you, it doesn’t matter if you add fresh Canadian maple syrup to your beef stroganoff, pungent horseradish to your crème brûlée, or fresh marinara to your vanilla ice cream. Experiment with flavor profiles and go nuts! You’re the one eating it, you should enjoy it no matter how unusual the combinations might be!
i really really really want to make an orange mint ice cream. i KNOW. but i wanna.
I just got so tired of salty and fat food now, im eating tons of vegetables… :)
