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Monday, December 25th 2006

4:52 PM

Divine Decadence

Or, could also be titled Culinary Gluttony......either way twas an unusual, but decadent Christmas.
We exchanged gifts with the girls on Friday night after the birthday outing. They left Saturday morning to go to their dad's. So, Sunday and today were quiet days of......eating!
Eman loves to cook and he got a French Bistro Cookbook. This book is huge and way more than just a cookbook. It is called  Bouchon by Thomas Keller.
Eman has been reading it for the past few days.

Last night after a wonderful dinner of shrimp scampi with a bottle of Reisling, we watched Elizabethtown - I so love that movie - and had cappuccino's and cheesecake.
Another of Emans gifts was a top quality Cappuccino machine. He has gotten very good at making latte's and cappuccino's.(and I'm not complaining about that!)

Today he spent all day making French onion soup. The real thing, take all day long to cook, french onion soup. It was the first course to our fench dinner tonight.
It was, by far, the most divine french onion soup I have ever had!
Second course is Steak Au Poivre with Potatoes and Spinach Au Gratin.
Dessert is blackberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream.
(Ok, as soon as this snowy cold spell is over, I must go walking!)
Tomorrow I will be making a cake that I loved as a child called Fruit Cocktail cake (not to be mistaken for a fruit cake...*bleck* do folks still make those??)

I also finished reading the book Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield  this morning.
I have had my eye on this book for months. It was one of those that jumped at me while crusing the books at Sam's. I put it on my christmas list and got it along with Windflower by Nick Bantock and Someplace to be Flying by Charles De Lint. (my two fav authors)
Having a daughter who is a writer/booklover who works at Barnes & Noble pays off!!
The book was indeed engaging and a page turner. The odd thing was that unlike Charles DeLint books, I realized that once I put the book down, I did not think about the characters anymore. It was a very dark, heavy book. But as I finished it this morning it made me cry. I related to it in more ways than I wished to. Maybe how I related to it was why I didn't want to think about the characters all day long. Anyway, I highly reccommend it.
I can't decide which book to read next!

The cats received their traditional sock full of catnip...they are now zonked out on the couch.
My main gift has still not arrived...should be here tomorrow!

I am looking forward to 2007.....I know it will be full of ups and downs as we make our way through the stuff we are going through right now...but, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel and I feel hopeful.
I hope you all enjoyed a magical day with family/friends and I am looking forward to catching up on your holiday posts this week.

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