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With Christmas behind us it is time to focus on New Years. What are your food and drink plans for New Years?
Well we had contemplated having an early cocktail party on NYs eve but being avid football fans have decided to spend the evening alone, just the two of us, watching TV. Now I guess that shows our age. I am steaming crab legs and making a big ceasar salad. That with a few drinks will be NY eve. NYs day our daughter and hubby will join us for traditional Ham, greens and beans. No, not black eyes peas, we don't like them, so we have pinto beans instead. Nys morning will be lox and bagels, as usual, every Nyears for God only knows how many years
New Year's Eve we'll be doing very heavy apps. Heavy, in that there will be a LOT of them. Shrimp cocktail, gazpacho shooters, cocktail wieners in the obligatory chili/grape jelly sauce, Hanky Pankys, mini quiches, mini mushroom, onion and cream cheese turnovers, chili/cheese dip (can of chili and Velveeta), hot spinach and artichoke dip, spinach dip in a bread bowl with Royal Hawaiian bread, and hot parmesan toasts. So far, I think that's all.
Husband always has beer, I have Cold Duck (oh quit laughing at me!) My friends will bring their own bottles as usual, so we'll have everything from good scotch to Patron, Jagermeister to Fireball, and someone told me they'll need the punch bowl when they get here - so not quite sure what will be in it. Someone else asked me if I had martini glasses, I said something along the lines of "have you lost your mind?", but if Solo sells 'em in plastic, I'll get some. Otherwise, they can bring their own.
New Years Day, everybody better be gone (I've had my fill of the holidays and "togetherness" by this time - I usually start getting cranky about 11:00 New Year's Eve when I start wishing everyone would JUST GO HOME!) and husband and I will have steaks on the grill, he got lobster tails but I don't want one so he'll have one with his steak and freeze the other, sherried mushrooms, roasted asparagus with garlic, lemon and parmesan, baked potatoes on the grill, and I'll make him the stuffed crescent rolls he likes so much, and the dog will get his own steak (a small filet).
Human dessert is chocolate cake with white buttercream frosting, and dog desert is 2 Nutter Butter cookies. He loves those things to distraction.
I will probably be in bed by 8:00. This is a good thing.
Thinking of ordering some fancy schmancy pizza up the street...making, some kind of pasta, deviled eggs, stuffed mushrooms, Latkes,
Greman chocolate cake.
Then catching the Hawks vs Spurs game in Phillips Arena.
Brown sugar glazed ham, fried cabbage (or coleslaw), fresh black eyed peas cooked up with a little smoked sausage, onion, and celery, pickled radish salad, and corn bread.
Quiet evening at home, I have a stiff neck and both DH and I are getting over bad colds. Making shrimp with cocktail sauce, spinach dip with crackers, maybe some onion dip and chips, honey bbq boneless wings in the oven.
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