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Skriven 2015-12-25 01:09:38 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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It's December 25, so I wish everyone a happy and healthy
holiday season and 2016 wherever you may be. Not that one
should wish people well only on the one day.

Anyhow, Annie has sprung today's menu on me.

Pate (provided by one of the guests)
Cheese and crackers
Consomme (requested by one of the guests)  with Leberknoedelen
 (because Annie overbought on the liver for the)
Beef Wellington (Austrian recipe sans foie gras and sans truffles)
Wild rice
Peas
Christmas cookies
Fruit cake

The snag. She had no clue that consomme was supposed to be
clarified by a lengthy process involving egg whites and minced
beef (which will be thrown away) - she boiled up some veggies
with beef shin, lamb neck, and a chicken and was going to just
decant that and serve it as is. She didn't have the ingredients
for the clarification, so that plus the fact that there was no
leafy green of any kind (I suggested going to the back yard and
getting some grass clippings) for garnish entailed a last-minute
rush to Weggie's to pick up the supplies - we got there at 5:40
and checked out at 5:50, the place closing at 6.

Big Charlie, who has a fabled cellar, was asked to bring wine.
Last year, when Christmas dinner was served at his mother's
house, he brought Gevrey-Chambertin. It will be interesting to 
see what he comes up with this year, especially because he and
Annie are sore at each other for some manufactured reason.

I hope you all have an equally sumptuous but less potentially
theatrical meal.
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