What made you happy today? :)

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:12 pm

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Murfreesboro » Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:26 pm

Lol. I would if I could. It's going to be a quick trip, up on Thurs and home on Sun. I think the same teenage girl who plays the Christkind in Nurnberg (sp?) for two years comes to Chicago for a third year. I heard about it on Rick Steves' European Christmas special. I looked up the market on line, and most of their vendors seem to be German or have connections there.

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Sat Nov 23, 2024 1:47 pm

It sounds splendid.

Rick Steve's Christmas special is one of his best.

I watch it several times a year.
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Post by Murfreesboro » Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:39 pm

I have a lot of his travel dvds, all of them through 2016 in fact, but nothing since. Except I do have a Martin Luther one he must have done for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.

The Christmas one was probably the first one I bought. He also has an Easter special, but it's mainly about the Mediterranean countries. Sadly, more Northern Europe doesn't do much about Easter these days.

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Mon Nov 25, 2024 6:09 pm

I made pork sausage and dill dressing today as a test run.

I'll have to make more for Thanksgiving, because this will be gone by tomorrow.
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Post by Murfreesboro » Mon Nov 25, 2024 7:47 pm

I showed your post to my husband. He just said, "That sounds SUPER awesome!"

I actually stuff my bird, but, like all Southerners, I call it dressing even when I stuff it. I make it pretty much like my mother and grandmother did. Cornbread, half a loaf of white bread, a large chopped onion and two or three chopped celery ribs, 2-3 T of sage and lesser amounts of other spices, usually rosemary, thyme, basil, marjoram, parsley, and bind it all together with 6 to 8 eggs.

I rub the bird with handfuls of salt, both inside and out, so I don't salt my dressing.

We had our annual Thanksgiving potluck yesterday at church. I brought something I called a 3 Sisters casserole. It was just the old Campbell's soup green bean casserole, but instead of 3 cans of green beans, I used 1 of green beans, 1 of whole kernel corn, and twelve ounces of chopped butternut squash, which I steamed for 7 minutes before I put it into the casserole. I thought it turned out well.

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:46 pm

Adding corn and squash sounds like a quality upgrade, as I find green beans in any form b o r I n g.

My dressing is just the traditional Mrs. Cubbison boxed product, an entire chub of Jimmy Dean sage sausage, partially browned so it won't dry out in the casserole dish as it cooks.

I add a teaspoon of herbs de Provence and a generous pinch of dry dill weed.

Of course ground pepper and a pinch of kosher salt at the beginning when I sweat the onion and celery.

No egg, but I will add one to any leftovers and make deep fried hush puppies .
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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Murfreesboro » Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:39 am

Thanks for that recipe. I won't use it at Thanksgiving, but I could see using it another time. The hush puppy leftovers sound good, too!

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Wed Nov 27, 2024 2:36 am

A foodie friend said you can also use a waffle iron and make fritters using stuffing/egg.

Serve with gravy or sour cream and chives.
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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Murfreesboro » Wed Nov 27, 2024 9:05 am

Oh, yum! I've never thought of that.

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:30 pm

O good grief; I made a cranberry compote with pear...and left it at home.

Oh well, I'm the only one who eats it.
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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Murfreesboro » Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:07 pm

Oh, that sounds delicious, too!

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Mon Dec 02, 2024 5:07 pm

I saw this idea for a Christmas village display, so my sister used it for hers.
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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Murfreesboro » Mon Dec 02, 2024 8:03 pm

Oh, how pretty, and visually interesting, too.

I'm behind in my decorating because I have the trip coming up. I've gotten my Advent wreath up, and the decorations on my outside doors changed from Thanksgiving to Christmas. But I'm unlikely to get anything else done before I get back next week. Yard lights, tree, all on hold.

And it's gotten cold here! Nighttime lows in the 20s and even teens. We're having snow flurries tonight, and whatever is falling is sticking, because the daytime highs barely hit 40, if that. We've had an unusually mild fall, so this wintry weather is feeling bitter.

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Re: What made you happy today? :)

Post by Andybev01 » Sat Dec 07, 2024 3:55 am

I'm almost done decorating for Christmas, I even put lights up on my balcony railing.

Here's a video walk-through.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gs0n2nhu ... uqtxs&dl=0
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