Friday's Favorites Fare and Deck the Halls

 

LISTENING TO:   Christmas music, click here for today's song

READING:  Dante's Divina Commedia

PHOTO TODAY:  Looking through the kitchen nook window into the backyard...the seasons seemingly undecided amongst themselves:  the lovely red leaves on the maple tree and those that have fallen below it, the golden tones of the decorative grasses, and the snow newly fallen on the ground.

COOKING THROUGH:  Le Cordon Bleu at Home (Le Cordon Bleu School of Cooking), this coming week pages 84-85 Truite de Mer, Sauce Verte; Baking:  From My Home to Yours (Dorie Greenspan), this coming week pages 146-147 Grandma's All-Occasion Sugar Cookies.

FAV NEW FIND:  Remote control for the Christmas tree lights, stair garland, etc.  One click and they are off, no more reaching behind the trees, etc. each evening!  Reasonably priced. 

FAV THING TODAY:   Finishing decorating the house for the holidays, decking the halls and all; baking Christmas cookies; Christmas cards in the mail; a fire in the fireplace in the evening with my chair pulled up to it, my favorite throw spread across my lap, and a good book!

GOING TO:   Concerts and Sports...and I am looking forward to it all.

PRAYING FOR:   Families who are going into their holiday season with a loved one being absent for the first time, please join me.