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Every year I go home for Christmas and every year my sister makes dinner and every year I feel compelled to share it with you. This year...

Our menu is:
Starters
-Christmas Caipirinhas
-Chile-Roasted Almonds
-Piquillo Pepper Cheese Crostini
-Roasted Butternut Squash & Apple Salad
Main & Sides
-Standing Rib Roast, Spinach-Porcini Stuffing, Irish Whisky Gravy, & Horseradish Cream
-Potato-Mushroom Gratin with Truffles
-Cheddar & Chive Yorkshire Puddings
-Sherry Vinegar- & Molasses-Glazzed Carrots
-Broccolini with Pecan Brown Butter
Dessert
-Chocolate-Coffee Gingerbread with Hazelnut Poached Pears

Mind you, all this goes down after the huge casual Christmas Eve dinner and the even more huge formal Christmas Day breakfast. I'm full just thinking about it.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:37:31 PM EST

Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 1)

That sounds good.

What time should we show up? ;)

"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:50:03 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 1)

12/25 6:00 pm

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:06:52 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

I'm curious about what makes a "Christmas" Caipirinha?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:50:59 PM EST
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Lemme guess (none / 1)

You add a twig of holly?

by Nomad on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:58:39 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

To answer that I'd need to know what a "Caipirinha" is.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:06:14 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 1)

Chirstmas Caipirinhas

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:12:21 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

Hmm, must try that.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:21:51 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

Caipirinha with ginger ale! Blasphema!

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char

by Melanchthon on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 05:42:37 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

If Caipirinha is like dark rum, then it would go well with ginger beer. (Homer moment - Dark and Stormy mm mm mm ), but ginger ale is the devils claw and will ruin anything it touches.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 05:50:59 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

I buy my Jamaican Ginger Beer from the same place I get my PG tips. I never mix it with anything. It is perfect as it is.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 06:12:24 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 1)

Ginger is very good for you. Theoretically, if you get blotto on Caiprinhas or whatever they are, along with ginger ale, you should not be throwing up along with your hangover. :)

I'll put ginger ale in almost anything, probably.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 06:20:39 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

It's a popular drink in Brazil (allegedly)...

Muddle up some Muscavado sugar with some lime wedges, throw some crushed ice on top then apply liberal quantities of Cachaça.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:14:49 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 1)

I survived two months in the Matto Grosso,with Cachaça as a nightly companion, while my Tzukhamai protectors shot rats in the dark.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 06:14:53 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

Mmmm, Sounds great. Tho, maybe skip the starters, let's just go straight to the ribs.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:54:57 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

Sounds like something to go home for.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:57:00 PM EST
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Re: Holiday Gluttony (none / 0)

I should add, that those truffles mentioned in the menu were just brought from France. :)

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 05:40:29 PM EST
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