Getting Ready for the Holidays

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Getting Ready for the Holidays

^^Outcome of my last holiday cooking adventure^^

Oh you sillies, that's not really my kitchen.

But I am cooking next week....seriously.

Did I ever mention that I've had a few problems in the kitchen...

Like the time a part of my metal cake beater fell into a bowl of chocolate batter. And as luck would have it, the birthday boy (Rich) was the person who discovered the two inch piece of twisted metal in his slice of cake.

Or how about the time I made linguine and white clam sauce for my SIL and niece who were visiting from CA. We were midway through the meal when little Deanna politely interrupted the dinner conversation and asked, "Aunt Lisa....is this part of your pepper grinder?". She pulled a large chunk of black plastic from the middle of her dish and held it up for all of us to see.

She was right; it was from the pepper grinder....errrghh.

I have more stories, but I'll spare myself the embarrassment.

So anyway, I went to a kitchen store today and purchased a few tools that ought to help me with dinner.

No, no fire estinguishers.

I bought a pasta machine, some serving bowls and a bunch of gaudy Christmas placemats.

Our family follows the European/Catholic tradition of celebrating on Christmas eve, so next Saturday I'll be making something with seafood.

I'm thinking my usual linguine with white clam sauce - sans the pepper grinder pieces.

Maybe some zuppa di pesce. We'll see how adventureous I feel.

But no matter what, I'll make the homemade pasta.

Now I'll just keep my fingers crossed that my furniture arrives this Tuesday. They are loaning me couches, so that should be OK. Hopefully they'll find a loaner bedroom too - am getting really tired of the air mattress...

I downloaded a bunch of Christmas music today and am getting all teary-eyed as I write this.

Bocelli's 'Stille Nacht', or better yet, 'Adeste Fideles' - eh, he gets me every damn time.

Whitney Houston's 'Oh Holy Night'....sheesh, get me the damn Kleenex already.

Ok, no more tears...my face is throbbing. I'm even more bruised today than I was yesterday. And swollen on both top and bottom of my eye. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

A lady at Home Depot's check out counter had the balls to ask "what happened to your face?".

"My boyfriend slammed my head on the edge of our bathroom sink the other night" I stated, without missing a beat. "I forgot to use fabric softner on his jeans".

She looked at me with wide eyes, "Oh my gawwwd".

I smiled sweetly, gathered my stuff and walked out the door laughing.

Silly people.

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