The Bubbo sez:

> This afternoon I finally settled my Christmas dinner menu, which is good,
> since it's tomorrow.
> I'll have a small cheese plate set up in the living room for nibbling
while I
> am in the kitchen. Mirableu sheep's milk blue, Humboldt Fog chevre and an
aged
> irish cow's milk cheddar. There will be mixed olives, sweet and spicy
walnuts
> and this sour cherry/lemon balm conserve I picked up not too long ago for
a
> different dinner. I have a rosemary olive oil loaf and a multigrain loaf.
>
> Salad will be greens with thin slices of roasted sweet potato, pears,
walnuts
> and a bit of the mirableu along with a champaign vinaigrette.
>
> Dinner is bouillabaisse, but with crab instead of lobster, i just don't
have
> the time or the tools to futz with lobster.
>
> Dessert is a gingerbread trifle with gingered pears, apples and dates and
> spiced whipped cream.
>
> My dearest hope is that I can stuff my mother into a food coma fast enough
to
> alleviate what I am sure will be a grueling evening.
>
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> .:Heather:.
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> Step off, beyotches, I'm the roflpimp!

I'm there. Whereabouts do you live??!?

Great menu, btw. Your cheese plate selection has me wiping copious drool
from my chin. And the breads sound perfect with the meal; did you bake them
yourself? As to the bouillabaisse, I prefer crab to lobster as it is, so
what's not to like about seafood stew?? Dessert, of course, sounds both
festive and delicious.

Yo mama can be a problem? Families and holidays can be *such* a test of
one's maturity and patience!!

Good luck,
Spitz
--
"Home, James, and don't spare the horses!"