The Day Before Christmas!!

A beautiful Winter Scene

'Twas the day before Christmas!!!!! A beautiful day it is and we do not have snow. We have sunshine and are promised more for tomorrow with 50º temp. That is OK, travel will be much safer for those who will be traveling.

We are having at least "3 days of Christmas"!! It has been good to have an early Christmas with Darla and family who were here for 2 days. Ron and Vicky, Jan and her family joined us for a Sunday Dinner. Tomorrow we will have local people plus some friends from OK.

Each year as the Holidays approach, I find myself wondering what foods I can prepare that would be different and yet festive. There are thousands of recipes available for our viewing and many, no doubt, would measure up to our needs and desires. However, more often than not, I go, once again, to my "untidy" batch of recipes that are neither alphabetized nor sorted in any manner. They are instead, a hodgepodge of cards, scraps of paper, some scribbled on notepad, some on the backs of blank checks and others on letter head paper. Some I recognize by color or shape or by the hand writing. They have followed me from state to state and kitchen to kitchen and many remain favorites. As I rummage through the jumbled collection, I am reminded of people, places and different events from the past. On some of the cards, the handwriting has faded, the edges are yellowed and bent but the recipes are important to me perhaps because of the person who gave them to me and I don't want to re-write them, I want to keep them as they are.

Almost without fail, each Holiday and/or special occasion, I rummage through that infamous drawer, knowing full well that I will go right back to that all too familiar meal which will consist of turkey with dressing and gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn casserole, candied sweet potatoes, baked ham, salad, earthquake cake, pumpkin pie plus the ever-expected pecan pie and the "ragged" new (?) recipes go back into the drawer to be in safe keeping until the next special day!!!!

SOOOOOO, if the menu sounds interesting to YOU, you are invited to eat with us at 1:00 Christmas Day!!!

Merry Christmas and God's blessings to one and all,

Dortha