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[tortoise]

My Christmas dinner menu is just starting to take shape, but here are the basics:

• Grilled butterflied leg of lamb
• Grilled pork tenderloin tips (aka "those Costco pork roasts")
• Grilled asparagus
• Roasted red potatoes w/ shaved parmeggiano reggiano
• Creamed spinach
• Yorkshire pudding
• Roasted beet and arugula salad w/ clementine oranges

I was also thinking of starting with a squash and chestnut soup, but that might be too difficult to coordinate.

The lamb and pork will both share the same marinade, which consists of cumin, kosher salt, pepper, cilantro, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and the secret ingredient: anchovies.

So, what are you planning on serving for your holiday feast?

 

[Ginny]

now ya see....my man can cook.....omg i love you baby.....<squeezing you tight>....your planned menu sounds delicious....

 

[Ginny]

<delayed snicker at anchovies>

i'm calling grandma....

 

[marksgirl]

This year I'm not cooking I'm going to Mom's house, is that lame or what?

 

[tortoise]

LOL

I think the entire family knows about the secret ingredient now, baby. The trick is to tell them after they devour the feast and make all manner of yummy noises. At that point, they're hooked. Sure, it's a wee bit devious, but that's half the fun.

I love you madly, sweet girl.

 

[Saint Peter]

Sounds like alot of work cooking all of those viddles, tortoise. It is a holiday. You should relax, open a few doodads, and generally kick back. Hope it all turns out well.

 

[tortoise]

LOL, that's what my family keeps saying too, Pete, but I absolutely love to cook, so it's more like play than work to me.

Besides, this menu is actually much easier than my Thanksgiving menu was. The only real time consuming task is the creamed spinach, but I can prepare that even a couple days beforehand.

 

[Ginny]

Sounds like alot of work cooking all of those viddles, tortoise. It is a holiday. You should relax, open a few doodads, and generally kick back. Hope it all turns out well.

lol St. P....cooking turns him on.....makes him friskier....nothing like our masturbatory sessions after he's cooked a big meal......i think he gets intermittent erections handling all the raw meat...cutting up the vegetables with his prized bitch knives.....

 

[tortoise]

<blushing>

Well, they are pretty damn sexy, doncha think?

 

[Ginny]

<brown eyes turning lovely shade of green>

those bitches!

 

[tortoise]

Anyone else cooking for the holidays?

 

[Lili]

Anyone else cooking for the holidays?

Well I was gonna, but now I feel all inadequate.

Plus I don't have those sexy knives.

Can I eat at your place?

Lili

 

[Rubyfruit]

Tortoise, I want to come to your house. You had me at the grilled asparagus but sealed the deal with the yorkshire pudding.

 

[Nora]

I might make a lasagne. Or tuna sammiches or something.

Edited to add: Hey Tortoise? In the same issue of Cook's Illustrated as the article on the knives (Nov/Dec 2002) is an article on Yorkshire Puddings.

If you can't get your hands on a copy, lemme know and I'll fax a copy of it over to you on Monday from work. I *really* don't feel like retyping it, but it has some nifty tips.

 

[tortoise]

Tortoise, I want to come to your house. You had me at the grilled asparagus but sealed the deal with the yorkshire pudding.

Yorkshire pudding is a necessity; you need it to soak up all the yummy lamby jus.

Grilled asparagus just rocks. I never prepare it any other way theses days.

 

[tortoise]

I might make a lasagne. Or tuna sammiches or something.

LOL

I unfortunately missed out on what promised to be an excellent Hannukah feast last Thursday. Remember those weekly family style dinners I told you about (I met Marina Goldovskaya at the first one)? Anyway, last week's theme was something like... wait, I think I have the menu still:

Channuka from Eastern Europe
The Food you wish your mother made

To Begin
Latkes with Homemade Applesauce and Sour cream
Baby Eggplants Stuffed with Garlic and Cooked in Tomatoes

Main Course
The Best Pot Roast in the World
Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
Cucumber Salad with Horseradish
Celery Salad

Dessert

Fruit Stuffed Potato Dumplings sautéed in Butter and Cinnamon Sugar
with Walnuts

---

Anyway, when we tried to make reservations, they were completely booked.

 

[Ginny]

i think a Christmas Dinner Orgy at turtle's house would rock....Torty the chef...Nora his assistant...all of us nude, including the chefs....easy cheese for hors d'ouevres....yep....an orgasmic tastastic holiday celebration....

 

[bluemuse]

Thanks alot, tortoise. Now I am STARVING, and a frozen waffle ain't gonna cut it

 

[Ginny]

I met Marina Goldovskaya at the first one

adorable...

 

[tortoise]

i think a Christmas Dinner Orgy at turtle's house would rock....Torty the chef...Nora his assistant...all of us nude, including the chefs....easy cheese for hors d'ouevres....yep....an orgasmic tastastic holiday celebration....

<just beaming>

I think that "Easy Cheese on Ginny's Left Nipple" might just be the most delectable hors d'ouvre EVER.

 

[Ginny]

well love....just wait until you taste Ruby's pussy smothered in the stuff.....Nora's lil butthole (uh oh flashing to worms...sorry) oozing Easy Cheese.....and we can prolly get Eumenides to slather her thighs with it....**** cityyyyy........

 

[Rubyfruit]

I love the turn this thread has taken.

Tortoise, do you grill yours with a little olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper? That's how I like mine. Yum.

 

[tortoise]

Exactly! After I pull them off the grill, I then sprinkle a few drops of meyer lemon olive oil over them. Smoky, slightly sweet, just a hint of lemon (more of an aroma than a taste). Yum!

 

[Freya]

Can I come to your house for dinner? You caught my interest with the menu but hooked me with the orgy.

 

[tortoise]

The more the merrier!



Any other holiday feast menus out there?