'tis the Season

[robbidobbs]

Totally! AntiM yay you!
I'm keeping it small and personal this year. I really can't afford extravagances as my employment is scheduled to end in 4 months. So I figure that making gifts is cheaper and more personal. One year I was so poor, I gave IOU's so specific services written on cards. The one I gave my grandfather: pajamas. He handed me his pajama bottoms that his girlfriend had attempted to fix the waistband. I took them home and fixed them. When I brought them back to him in a couple weeks, he said they were so well repaired, they'd last longer than him.

It was about 30 mins of work for me, but it meant a great deal to the both of us.

[Lonesomebri]

Happy Holidays from our family to yours!

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Willie Little Bite Johnson, Peaches el Diabla the WORM, and Young Saint Bri.

[tatonka]

my family has gotten so big , we stopped doing gifts, and we would just give cards. We got bigger ,and we all decided to forget the cards ,and just get together for food. Each person brings some food or drink. We all get together on christmas eve cause most of the kids have spouses with there side doing christmas on the 25th.

[The Rod]

Seriously? All these cooks, all these gluttons and no one has an egg nog recipe?

What gives?

[tatonka]

Seriously? All these cooks, all these gluttons and no one has an egg nog recipe?

What gives?

Was never big in our household , sry dont know any. Also Ive never drank it before.

[Dr. Pyro]

Seriously? All these cooks, all these gluttons and no one has an egg nog recipe?

What gives?

Here you go:
1) Go to store, buy carton of Crystal Egg Nog
2) Open carton, pour into glass with some ice
3) Pour in brandy (one ounce per every three ounces of egg nog)
4) Sprinkle with nutmeg.
5) Drink
6) Repeat

Do I have to do everything around here?

[BAS]

Don't get the pre-mixed brandy and egg nog. That stuff is pretty bad in my experience.

[MyDearFriend]

I have a great eggnog recipe but it takes for-fucking-ever to make. I am very much happier now that I have Tink's Apple Pie recipe! I put together 25 bottles of that stuff in under an hour, including the clean-up, and it is much easier to drink.

I have spent this whole day making good good things to eat & drink, to give away as gifts.

I have only ever wanted to pray with my hands & feet instead of my mouth, which puts me in a decidedly non-xtian category, ha, so today I really felt the season. Grating a teaspoon of nutmeg will do that for me, placing me in a long line of holiday goddess workers who wish for their loved ones to be happy.

'Tis the season, indeed! Light your space. The sun has gone but will return. There is blood on the snow under a tree that keeps its green when all else fades; wrap a gift in those bold colors, and give life.

[ygmir]

I have a great eggnog recipe but it takes for-fucking-ever to make. I am very much happier now that I have Tink's Apple Pie recipe! I put together 25 bottles of that stuff in under an hour, including the clean-up, and it is much easier to drink.

I have spent this whole day making good good things to eat & drink, to give away as gifts.

I have only ever wanted to pray with my hands & feet instead of my mouth, which puts me in a decidedly non-xtian category, ha, so today I really felt the season. Grating a teaspoon of nutmeg will do that for me, placing me in a long line of holiday goddess workers who wish for their loved ones to be happy.

'Tis the season, indeed! Light your space. The sun has gone but will return. There is blood on the snow under a tree that keeps its green when all else fades; wrap a gift in those bold colors, and give life.

this^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Aurelia]

But maybe share the eggnog recipe ?

I am inundated with preparingthe gifts for everyone and would like some virtual eggnog

xoA.

[Lonesomebri]

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[The Rod]

But maybe share the eggnog recipe ?

Right? What a tease!

[southern crone]

Eggnog: 1/2 pint bourbon, 1 pint heavy cream, 4 pints milk, 3/4 cup sugar, 6 eggs separated, 1 tablespoon vanilla, pinch of nutmeg (optional).

In 1st bowl beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar until thick. In second bowl beat egg whites with 1/4 cup sugar until thick, in third bowl beat heavy cream until thick.

Add cream to egg yolks and fold in egg whites, add milk, bourbon (optional), vanilla, and a touch of nutmeg (optional). Chill in freezer before serving. If too thick add more milk until desired thickness is reached.

[Ratty]

I have a question for you cooks and homemakers. Why is it that during the one time of the year when I have NO extra minutes, I always decide to try and cook something? My mouth is watering over the thought of homemade chicken pot pie. I don't cook. I only bake once or twice a year and that is usually a boxed mix. So..........I reach up on the top shelf and get my tupperware of flour that is God-only-knows-how-old. You can can guess what's coming.


Here's my question. If I transfer this flour to a glass jar, (and make it airtight), will it make a suitable substitute for an ant farm. These little critters are about as interesting Sea Monkeys. Maybe there's a cottage industry here. I'll call them Flower Babies. For only $2.95 plus S&H I'll send you 500 Flower Babies in their self sustaining natural habitat.

I remember one time I made deviled eggs and the paprika skittered off when I sprinkled it. Don't ya just love nature? Please don't suggest that I keep my flour in the freezer. I'm convinced that flour, like a tomato plant, comes with the pests included. You could plant a tomato in the Sahara and it would have a giant green caterpillar. Where do those come from if not the plant itself? My husband is going out to buy a pie crust and a costco chicken, and some mushroom and chicken pot pie progresso soup. This is just for me. Hummmmmmm. The $12 pot pie.

[Aurelia]

Yuck , Ratty !

Please throw it all out and start fresh.
Then in future put it in the freezer.

I just obligated myself to make my mother's German apple pie..2 separate ones
each pie requires a half lb of butter !
but I really must say they turn out perfectly delicious.

However , my discipline will be to simply enjoy the fam enjoying the calories and then going to the burner dance party.

xoA.

[Simon of the Playa]

gearing up for the big ride.


and yes, Ratty, this is what i actually look like.

[The Rod]

Your antlers look great this year Simon.




Thanks fer the nog recipe SC! I knew someone had it...

[MyDearFriend]

Eggnog is great and I love it but mine takes at least 4 hours to make. Eggs eggs eggs, with some of the whites removed, beaten in a KitchenAide with sugar sugar sugar until thick & creamy, then booze booze booze dripped in very very very slowly so the eggs don't curdle. Homogenizing is tricky but the result is fantastic. Even so, I usually don't bother, since I can almost always trade for eggnog among my inner circle since I make buckeyes.

[The Rod]

Soo... Whats a guy gotta do to get the whole recipe?


This is my first year on the eggnog, I picked up a carton back at the beginning of Nov when it first showed up in stores and fell in love. I always remembered it being disgusting when I was a kid but I hadn't had it in years so I decided to try it again (with booze added). Now I can't stop.

I started with a carton of the Organic Valley brand. When I went back to get more they were out so I got the 'conventional' stuff from Umpqua, compared to the OV it was garbage. After comparing ingredients I now know why....

Anyone can look up one of the infinite eggnog recipes online and try it out (I've tried a couple), but there are literally a million different ways to make it. Cooked, not cooked, whipped and folded, frozen and on and on. I figure instead of having to test a million recipes to find the best I'd ask the folks who usually know how to do things best: Burners.

I'll try SC's uncooked version in the next couple days, but now with the suggestion of a method I've not yet heard of and standing over the kitchenaid for four hours have got me really, really, curious....

I'm the kind of cook that will spend an extra four hours on something if it's the difference between making something good and making the best.

[MyDearFriend]

Soo... Whats a guy gotta do to get the whole recipe?

Check your PM's.

[BeeWeeDee]

Eggnog - This recipe really works well in July.

Buy a quart (or more) of good quality vanilla ice cream.
Let it melt
Grate in some nutmeg
Add booze (I always liked how much booze I could hide in a little bit of eggnog)

Done

[The Rod]

BWD: Hah! Us french guys call that creme anglaise.... Don't know why I never thought of adding booze and drinking it...

MDF: I can't wait to give that one a try!

This is awesome. I'm just gonna drink eggnog the whole year!

[some seeing eye]

A little different direction. Unfortunately hard to imagine a 6th grade or any grade teacher would be allowed do this today with their students. Which is sad. A happy 100 year old story of Christmas.

[media]

Burning Man is a tool to free us from believing change is impossible.

(A student project for Mr. Cutler's grade 6 class, 2007)

[msj2u]

I sorta hide through the holidays. tough time of year, on some of us.
I try to make it nice for kids around me and all, but, would really rather just sit in the Hof and sip cognac and eat pork.

This, haven't posted in awhile. I find the holidays tough for many reasons. Would enjoy being somewhere like the Hof (is there such a place)??

To those I've met and those who I'd still like to find, Happy Holidays.

slinks back to the rafters,

MSJ

[robbidobbs]

I spend a great deal of time on xmoose. It's a randomly selected day that you get to eat crap you'd never make yourself and gift people you don't particularly need to gift. It's an exercise. But it's a good, albeit cathartic at time, one.
I am currently alone. I spent today being as alone as I could. See my family doesn't know how to express love. Some do what we can. I'm an outcast, so I'm out of the loop on a lot of shit. I got filled in on some heavy shit today.
I needed a lot of sewing therapy ( sewers know what that means) after my recent drama.
I did something thoughtful on several levels because I wanted to. It took time, my most preciousness resource.
I got a blanket and shit I will be re gifting.
So the lesson here is: strength comes from within. So does validation.
I'm moving on to my next adventure.
Family isn't entirely biological.

[Simon of the Playa]

Santa Got My Note!!!

[Bless]