What a lovely moment of holiday cheer !

What a wonderful thing - finished with your education. Congrats Kimmie!

Ta-da! I am all ready for Christmas. After the truly early job, we went to Wally World (the only store open that early) and picked up assorted stuff for five days of more-or-less holiday-ish foods. (We comply with three different sets of dietary demands now.) In the past, we shopped throughout Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at lots of stores in bigger cities and acquired Feast Fixins'! Now, we do this little thing and I am much happier. I am binging on a wide variety of non-fat, not-caloric, often saccharine, occasionally meaty, sometimes stringy and rarely truly tasteless holiday movies It's a good thing.

Reading, belong to a book club at my library.

One last full day with the family. Tonight we're packing up for an early morning Uber to the airport :-(

I'm enjoying Christmas and the days before with my family.

Perfect, quiet day here. We finished work early and have the rest of the day and tomorrow in which to do as much or as little as we want to do.

I've been shop shop shopping. I see congratulations are in order for a variety of delightful life events, new grandbabies, graduations and such. Best wishes to all.
I finally have a couple of days to do things other than shopping so I'm reading here and we are deeply immersed in our binge of the last two seasons of Handmaids tale. A laid back holiday is planned with just visiting the grandbaby to give him his gifts and the rest of the time we will work on our various projects here at home, eat salad and pie and continue binging our favorite series.

This made me snicker. I could have written it.

@Rousseau wrote:

Besides shopping? Writing reports of completed shops. Securing shops for the comming months. And staying out of retail shops!

Broker's appointment today to finish up with home improvements, then Notary is coming to house for me to sign final papers. Cooking for rest of week, and getting stuff in garage for final pickup Thursday. Found company working on another neighbors house to remove unwanted furniture. Funny how things work out as their supposed too. Daughter and boyfriend arriving Jan 3rd. for five days helping Mom move and I just got a restaurant (favorite) to treat them to a nice meal with a $75.00 reimbursement. We will have a belated holiday. No retail for me, staying away from the malls.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Yes, enjoy the day

Thank you. It was tough at times but well worth. I loved what i was learning and i was able to get a better job with better hours. Allows me to take care of my parents. Win win.

@cjbstar wrote:

What a wonderful thing - finished with your education. Congrats Kimmie!

Holy cow! How do you find things to cook? Thats got to be hard.

@Shop-et-al wrote:

(We comply with three different sets of dietary demands now.)

Going to MIL's for dinner with the family later. Just lazing around in bed right now.

Housemate and I will order from the great local Chinese restaurant. How nice it is to have a local that was voted among the top 100 Chinese restaurants in the country by fellow restaurant owners! Not a chance of finding parking nearby today, as it sits in a row of small restaurants, all catering to different tastes (Ethiopian, Italian, Jamaican, all in a row, lol). Only in America !!

Home, T.V. on, will make brownies later and normal stuff....funny how fast this year went, welcoming 2020, seeing what it will bring. Schlping more stuff to garage for Veteran's pickup tomorrow. My holiday is belated until Jan.3rd, but I heard from daughter and spoke to her boyfriend who said when they visit, we'll take a day and have brunch at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara, he's never been there, fine with me......and just an hour 20 minutes from me on the back road, there are fruit/veggie stands and Oxnard is the Strawberry capitol of the world, a definite stop. Looking forward to seeing them together,......#living vicariously.



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I've been getting last minute gift wrapping done and went and put gas in the car. After we go visit the grandbaby we will come home and have leftover chinese in our jammies while watching a movie. I am otherwise looking at recipes for stuffed dates.

You mean like these? I've never had stuffed dates before
[pinchofyum.com]

@CoffeeQueen wrote:

I am otherwise looking at recipes for stuffed dates.

I've been watching Valerie Bertanili's cooking show, she is good and left my mouth watering. I've had dates stuffed with creme cheese, great.

I was watching that earlier! I saw her make Kalua Pork with Ponzu Smashed Cucumber Salad. I have got to try that.

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

I've been watching Valerie Bertanili's cooking show, she is good and left my mouth watering. I've had dates stuffed with creme cheese, great.

I have accomplished nothing more ambitious than finding 'Kingdom' on Acorn TV. I would like to hire Stephen Fry's character in the unlikely event that I could need an attorney, This would restore at least a little hope for the future. What!?

Eventually, I will pull myself away from my new fave show and sort through cosmetics and other girly girl stuff. Some of it fell behind other things and moldered there, unnoticed until I began to excavate a closet. This morning I found a gift with purchase set from eight or nine years ago. Ew! i hope that was the worst of it.

Yes! Those are the exact ones. I was going to make some for our daughter in law because she works so hard and is quite the foodie. I forgot to get the goat cheese so didn't make them. I will make them next time.

I also saw another recipe I liked. They were stuffed with cream cheese, a whole cranberry out of the cooked sauce, and then drizzled with honey. They looked delish.

@kimmiemae wrote:

You mean like these? I've never had stuffed dates before
[pinchofyum.com]

@CoffeeQueen wrote:

I am otherwise looking at recipes for stuffed dates.

We came home to a refrigerator empty of fresh produce, and most of the stores are closed for Christmas. After Mass, we went to the food counter of our local Asian market, where I ordered a big bowl of chicken pho (because unfortunately one of the souvenirs I brought home was a head cold).

We probably set a record for high temperature today. Hubby and I took a walk mid-afternoon and the marquee at the local high school said it was 75 degrees.

Kathy, I'm sorry about the cold. Any excuse to eat pho is a good one.

That sounds delish.

I made dressing once with goat cheese in it. Very yummy and very creamy.

@CoffeeQueen wrote:

Yes! Those are the exact ones. I was going to make some for our daughter in law because she works so hard and is quite the foodie. I forgot to get the goat cheese so didn't make them. I will make them next time.

I also saw another recipe I liked. They were stuffed with cream cheese, a whole cranberry out of the cooked sauce, and then drizzled with honey. They looked delish.

@kimmiemae wrote:

You mean like these? I've never had stuffed dates before
[pinchofyum.com]

@CoffeeQueen wrote:

I am otherwise looking at recipes for stuffed dates.

Agreed.

@HonnyBrown wrote:

Any excuse to eat pho is a good one.

It was husband and my annual marathon of movie, restaurant meal, and a 2nd movie.
Action scenes of 'Star Wars' were great. 'Uncut Gems' is very stressful because Howard Ratner talks non stop for the entire movie.
I came thisclose to telling off the manager of chain restaurant. Let me vent here. We had a coupon for BOGO. I ordered a chicken cranberry salad. After eating the entire vegetarian raisin apple salad I realized it was my fault for not paying closer attention but I was served the wrong item. Manager didn't actually apologize but said he would comp my meal. HELLO I walked in with a coupon that comped my meal. He started to WHINE that he had no authority to do anything else.

He had the authority to comp everything. He could have at least given you the correct item to go. I would probably have told him I would be contacting corporate about it.

Bummer about the restaurant experience. Like the manager, I have no authority to fix it. Hmmph! Alas.

But in a different food-related tangent, I found this at Wikipedia. I cannot decide whether I like the olde englysh more than the date data or vice versa.

Copied/pasted from Wikipedia: Medieval cooking commonly employed figs, in both sweet and savoury dishes.[1] One such dish is fygey, in the 14th century cookbook The Forme of Cury, which in Modern English is "figgy", this dish being known as figgy pudding or fig pudding:[2][1][3]

Take Almaende blanched; grynde hem and drawe hem up with watr and wyne; quartr figs hole raisons. Cast þerto powdor gingr and hony clarified; seeþ it wel and salt it, and seve forth.[4]


Take blanched almonds, grind them, remove and mix with water, wine, quartered figs, whole raisins. Add in powdered ginger, clarified honey, boil it well and salt it, and serve.[5]
—The Forme of Cury recipe 118

It is referred to in the Christmas carol "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" in the line "Now bring us some figgy pudding!".[6] Despite this, figgy pudding is not plum pudding, although it can be considered a precursor to it; it is not as rich, and the recipe is simpler.[2]

The Middle English name had several spellings, including ffygey, fygeye, fygee, figge, and figee.[7][8][9] The latter is a 15th century conflation with a different dish.[8] Figee was in fact a dish of fish and curds, which was named figé in Old French, meaning "curdled" (the past participle of the Old French figer).[8][7][10] But it too came to mean a "figgy" dish, involving cooked figs, boiled in wine or otherwise.[8] A turn of the 15th century herbal has a recipe for figee:

Nym figes, & boille hem in wyn, & bray hem in a morter with lied bred; tempre hit vp with goud wyn / boille it / do therto good spicere, & hole resons / dresse hit / florisshe it a-boue with pomme-garnetes.[11]


Take figs and boil them in wine, and pound them in a mortar with bread. Mix it up with good wine; boil it. Add good spices and whole raisins. Dress it; decorate it with pomegranate seeds on top.[12]
—Laudian Manuscript 553, Bodleian Library

Liber Cure Cocorum has the recipe under the name "fignade" on page 42.[7][9] Richard Warner's Antiquitates Culinariae has it under the name "fyge to potage".[7][13][9] Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management contains two different recipes for fig pudding that use suet, numbers 1275 and 1276.[14]
References
Cross-reference

Threlfall-Holmes 2005, p. 61–62.
Breverton 2015, p. 236.
Hieatt, Nutter & Holloway 2006, p. 113.
Pegge 2014, p. 45.
Albala 2006, p. 65.
Cassidy 2004, p. 48.
Austin 1888, p. 129.
Shipley 1955, p. 267.
Hieatt, Nutter & Holloway 2006, p. 38.
Morton 2004, p. 51.
Austin 1888, p. 113.
Ayto 2012, p. 133.
Warner 1791, p. 67.

Beeton 2006, p. 618.

Reference bibliography

Albala, Ken (2006). "The Middle Ages 1300–1450". Cooking in Europe, 1250–1650. Daily life through history. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313330964. ISSN 1080-4749.
Ayto, John (2012). "figee". The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199640249.
Austin, Thomas (1888). Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. N. Trübner & Co. (Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books at the Internet Archive)
Beeton, Isabella (2006). Mrs Beeton's Household Management. Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 9781840222685.
Breverton, Terry (2015). "Sweets". The Tudor Kitchen: What the Tudors Ate & Drank. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445648750.
Cassidy, Jennie (December 2004). "Now bring us some figgy pudding!". Early Music Review. King's Music. 104. ISBN 9783761815946.
Hieatt, Constance Bartlett; Nutter, Terry; Holloway, Johnna H. (2006). Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries. Medieval & Renaissance Texts Studies. 312. ACMRS. ISBN 9780866983570.
Morton, Mark (2004). "bouce Jane". Cupboard Love 2: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities. Insomniac Press. ISBN 9781897415931.
Pegge, Samuel, ed. (2014). The Forme of Cury, a Roll of Ancient English Cookery. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108076203.
Shipley, Joseph T. (1955). "figee". Dictionary of Early English. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442233997.
Threlfall-Holmes, Miranda (2005). Monks and Markets: Durham Cathedral Priory 1460–1520. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199253814.
Warner, Richard (1791). Antiquitates Culinariae, Or Curious Tracts Relating to the Culinary Affairs Of The Old English. London: R. Blamire.

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