g’evening pups — how’s everyone doing tonight?

Aloha, Suz and lln pups…! How’s your hamlet tonite, Suz…?

Hey Suzanne!
Of all things, I’ve been cleaning my oven. Big family will be here for Thanksgiving, and I need nine places at the table. Garaged pots from the summer and worked like a demon on leaf cleanup. Boring.

aloha tut — how’s paradise tonight? not as cold as last night — tis 37 at the moment. we got down to 32.3 in the wee hours

Watching in the Fray in NYC.

hey ce — how’s cleveland? i’ve started a pot of beans with bacon for tomorrow and am gonna get my mom’s cornbread recipe and make cornbread to go with the beans. this cold weather has me thinking of all my fav cold weather foods

I’m baking red stuffed peppers tomorrow. Stuffed with bacon, sausage, panko, egg and onions and garlic.

mmmmm hearty food…. i’m thinking meatloaf is on the menu for next week and that its time to start making bacon jam

Suzanne, attention!
Tomorrow is the annual fruitcake baking event. 5.1 pounds of fruit and nuts in this double recipe.

I was home alone most of the day, the Better Half was at the SA shredding turkeys all day,(26 in all) for their big T-day feeding, they expect over 800 mouths to feed…! I did a bunch of house work and had a ‘surf n turf’ (steak & garlic shrimp)dinner ready when she got home…!

ohmygoodness!!! the drunken fruitcake is here… that means the holidays are a’coming!!!

Ooh, that sounds totally delish, Christine…!

sweet! altho i live best solo, sometimes i wish there was someone who had surf and turf waiting for me when i get home…or to help carry in the groceries.

i love garlic shrimp — how did ya fix it?

Noel!

Mango and ginger too!

gonna have to go through my stash of alternative non-traditional christmas songs… its not the holidays without some robert earl kean or the christmas jug band

My new booze for 2012 fruitcake: Shieldaig: The Classic Blended Scotch Whiskey.
That’s from the label. No research yet.

I totally need to make me some of that Bacon Jam…! ;-)

The garlic shrimp was a simple saute of garlic and maui onion and some shrimp I’d marinated in Italian dressing…!

what criteria do you use in selecting the whiskey for the drunken fruit cake?

great christmas gifts. you can substitute apple juice for the brown sugar for those that don’t do sugars. i noticed the local market sells bacon ends in bulk in their meat section for cheap.

Whats is on sale in Pennsylvania liquor shops when I visit my Dad in southeastern PA. And Delaware!

hahahahaha dammit i woke up token. here i was thinking you based it on flavor or traits or some other highfaluting criteria

Hey baby, it is the cheap seats!

Really, MrCE liked my selection so much that he drank a couple of inches off my cake bottle!

hehehe still has me thinking about flavors … perhaps something with a citrus hint or nose.

does whiskey have such a thing?

well there ya go! the mr ce seal of approval *laughing*

evening, firegods & firegoddesses

hiya Suzzz & CE — wtg last week, buckeyes!

The funny thing is that I love baking, love fruitcake, and really hate whisky. MrCE has a love for all Scottish whiskey and keeps a few bottles. I’m not allowed to touch them for fruitcake.

Man, what a horrible week.

good evening, Suz. Hey CT and Christine, good to see you!

hiya ppd — what didja do today?

hey past — how’s utah tonight?

Hey! Great to see you.

horrible? sorry to hear – waaaa happened?

Cold and snow-filled. Woke up to snow yesterday, snowed all day Friday and part of today. Good for the mountains!

You guys are making me hungry and thirsty with all this food talk!

We had a great lunch with my cousins visiting from Cincinnati at a place overlooking the bay.

what’s your fav cold weather or winter holidays food past?

sweet! hoping ya had one of those picture perfect bay days

Aloha, past and PPD…! Had to step away to pull my first batch of chocolate chip cookies out of the oven…! ;-)

For cold weather – my fav is chili, mildly spicy. My fav part of Thanksgiving dinner is stuffing with gravy.

hiya CT

do ya make it yourself? with or without beans?

It was cold today, but Mom dressed with warm clothes so it was fine. My cousins enjoyed our tour of the peninsula, then they spent the rest of the afternoon walking around Carmel.

carmel is lovely no matter the weather.

Christine, did you have a lot of damage with hurricane Sandy?

Yes, sometimes I make it, sometimes the missus does. I use red beans and kidney beans, ground beef, some diced tomatoes, and of course, a little tabasco.

Well, it was sunny but not warm. We talked a little politics at lunch. My cousin is a doctor and they live in John Boner’s district. They had nothing good to say about him so we didn’t ruin our lunch talking about him.

Yum!

yum! sounds similar to the way my dad taught me to make it…. sometimes we would also add in ground pork with the ground beef.

sunny is always a bonus :) how long has it been since you’ve seen your cousin?

Hi PPD. Carmel is a nice place, been through there just once, many years ago.

Did you set an empty chair at lunch for Clint? Does he still live in Carmel?

Hey Suzanne & Pupses of the Late Night.

I assume I missed all the good stuff, as usual…

hey shoto — how ya doing tonight?

we’ve just been chattering about fav winter/holiday foods… you got one?

Christine, where’d you go? Are you & the family OK?

Hiya Past. Clint’s estate is in Pebble these days. I’m sure he still owns alot of property in Carmel.

iirc they lost power but were otherwise ok from sandy past — she might have nodded off already since its so late there…

We had a cousins get together in Walnut Creek maybe four years ago, actually have six cousins in the greater bay area.

used to have several aunts and uncles in the bay area along with a myriad of cousins. time has gone by and most everyone is scattered now …. my brother and two aunts are still in the bay area but that’s it.

OK, just wonderin’ because her comment at 30, she didn’t elaborate.

All of our grandparents were from Missouri, so our parents were first cousins.

i think she has been very busy working at the museum… iirc they have a huge new wing that is opening soon

my dad was the middle of 11 outta kansas and my mom the oldest of 11 outta kentucky. back when california really was the golden state, a bunch settled out here where education was king and good jobs could be had.

token is giving me the look — time for him to go save a tree. thanks for letting me hang out here with ya tonight. i’m looking forward to seeing what tut has up his sleeve sun and mon — hope to see ya there.

g’nite all

Sweet dreams, Suz…!

Sweet dreams, Suz. Time for me to turn in too. G’nite, CT, tomorrow is Armistice Day, hope I can stay awake for LLN tomorrow.

night Suzzz – be well