Merry Christmas Chuck and all! I'm going to my daughter's around lunchtime. Hope all these presents and food will fit in my car. I couldn't decide between mincemeat and pumpkin pie so I made a pie with mincemeat and pumpkin layers! Also a Waldorf salad, bruschetta with spreads and many relishes.
The pie sounds interesting! I can see how that combination could be good. And I love bruschetta. When I'm in restaurants, I often order bruschetta (bru-SKET-uh) and the server corrects me: You mean the bruschetta (bru-SHETT-uh)? I don't correct them back, but my younger son thinks it's snooty of me to even pronounce it correctly in the first place. Which I think is ridiculous -- it's not like I roll the R and go full Italian accent.
I'm making a Manhattan strip roast -- something my local fancy grocery store sells every holiday season -- and Brussels sprouts, which I'm hoping my son will prepare, and what some people call funeral potatoes. (I call them potatoes a la Beth a la Katy, because I originally got the recipe from Beth, but I modify it with Southwestern Simply Potatoes has browns and shredded pepperjack cheese and, instead of topping it with corn flakes, I use crushed jalapeno & cheese potato chips.)
For dessert, I bought a store-bakery red-velvet bundt cake. Not super confident it will be good, but I didn't have time or inclination to make anything myself and even though the store is kind of upscale, its bakery isn't great.
For appetizers we have shrimp and cocktail sauce via my ex-husband and packaged liver pate with crackers.
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