Every once in a while, a little stroke of brilliance happens. I never know when they’re coming….and I always wonder afterwards what took them so long!
I had just one of those “Why didn’t I think of this earlier?” moments.
Such a world apart from a cake imbedded with soaked fruits, our family’s traditional Christmas fruitcake is really a dense loaf of whole dates, marashino cherries and whole nuts barely held together by an egg mixture.
My pictures continue to be awful–perhaps Santa will bring me that new digital camera I’m dreaming of…or maybe a light box…—-but this medley of vegetables turned into a tasty stuffing for half of those mushrooms!
I don’t know if it’s me, my crazy life, or my tiny, almost-counter-free kitchen….but things that I would just knock out at my folks house (with that wrap around island and kitchen table that seats 12) take me days. And I usually doing it by breaking up the tasks into separate days.
That all those delicious holiday foods and special ingredients will be on sale the day after! (Ok, maybe not the thing I am *most* thankful for (!)….but it does make me a pretty happy girl/cook, I must say!)
I so look forward to heading to my parent’s local grocery store and scooping up as many deals as I possibly can and get a jump on all that Christmas season cooking and baking. This year’s best score: Baskets full of large, snowy white stuffing mushrooms—priced at $7.99 pre-holiday—were on sale for $1.99 each! There was a limit of four…so guess how many I bought? *smile*
