Just a few flurries, but it was very seasonal for the Winter Solstice today.
We'll have a late Hanukkah celebration with my sister Amy's family and our stepmother tomorrow. There will be cheese (goat brie, lemon Stilton, mustardseed gouda, and cordobes) and crackers with fig jam and red grapes; latkes (shredded potato pancakes) with applesauce and sour cream; beef brisket made with beer; fresh spinach cooked with scallions and parsley; cucumber sunomono (made by 
smillaraaq); chocolate Hanukkah gelt (coins); and iced gingerbread cookies (made by The Young Lady) ... .
The smell of the gingerbread is killing me ... soooo good! It's a Smitten Kitchen recipe, which was in turn adapted from Martha Stewart. (No, they are not directly on top of the newspaper ... there's a sheet of waxed paper under them.)
And yay for holiday cards! Many thanks to everyone who's been sending them!
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Cara just gave me a bite of the one she was eating for dessert. In the way of gingerbread, they're getting even better.
She's getting very confident in her kitchen skills, which is nice to see.
Edited at 2012-12-22 02:25 am (UTC)
It was nice to see Ally get more confident in her kitchen skills as well, but they don't extend to cookie-baking.
Your gingerbread is gorgeous and makes me nostalgic. I have a favorite recipe, and used to make it every Christmas. The last few years of my friend Tom's life, when he had little appetite and most food did little or nothing for him, my gingerbread was one of the few things he'd eat, and I'd always make it for him. Have a lovely time at your Hanukkah party - kind of cool that it ended up being on the Solstice! Enjoy!
Well, truthfully, the snow was just flurries. There were whirling flakes on the way home from the grocery, but not enough to even dust anything, really.
Hanukkah actually ended a week ago! But Amy was very miserable with genuine influenza last week, so we put it off a week. I still haven't decided whether it's really appropriate to light a menorah ... . And I'm still wrapping packages.
Edited at 2012-12-22 02:30 am (UTC)
I bet they'd be really yummy! My card is on its way :) it will be late so sorry about that.