G’day Beach Cottage chickens, I hope you are chirpy and full of the festive spirit?
I have had quite a few emails about Christmas entertaining and how to survive it! As if I would know, I spend most of my time on the broomstick anyway Not really.
Well first of all, I, in the whole keeping it simple and keeping it real thing, don’t think there will be any big food spread posts from me, that might be a bit much for me right now and to be very honest, I am totally pretty much more interested in the party shoes for my trip to KL next week rather than what I am cooking, but I will try and get my crock pot salmon dip, layered salad and mulled wine recipe on here…because I love you and you seem to like me too.
…I love cooking Christmas dinner though and we always always have turkey, but I don’t get all stressy over it…really I think of it as just a glorified roast dinner, with a bigger, more unusual bird…and I certainly don’t go in for that cook it til it’s dry and horrible school of thought, getting up at the crack of dawn to put the turkey in the oven is not in my make-up…I just treat it as if it were a large chicken and change the times accordingly…with the turkey I just do roast potatoes, a tray of roasted veggies & aromatic gravy (just shove turkey, pots and veggies all in the oven at the same time, no brainer) and now we are in Australia we also have a salad too…mostly a layered salad that I make the day before and sits happily in the fridge until needed.
…plus there are a few simple things I do to keep things easy and enjoyable for me and not just in Christmas entertaining but when having anyone over for dinner.
For me, I like to foof around with main courses, as long as they are fairly easy but the other courses I like to make as least work as possible.
So what I do for easy entertaining to save me running around like a headless chicken getting stressed… firstly when someone asks what shall I bring? I nearly always answer can you bring the dessert? One main reason for this, I am not a dessert-maker or a baker, as you know, so this solves that problem in one fell swoop, also I often think people like to bring something other than just wine and I think when you are asked to bring a dessert along to something it can actually be quite enjoyable thinking about it and making it when that’s all you’ve got to worry about.
Failing that, I will nearly always buy or make some kind of tart especially if there is a budget (I do have a French Apple Tart recipe that is no-fail, using frozen pastry that even I can bake with my eyes almost shut)…you can buy some lovely patisseries, indeed those pastry chefs are qualified in the art…so why not utilize it?
Next up, you can’t go wrong with a cheese plate.
Now I have had a whole lot of cheese plates in my little life…including many in France, where cheese in nigh-on a national sport.
Here’s what I think…first of all you don’t need to go ultra fancy, if you are on a tight budget, one nice cheese, some crackers and an apple or pear can go a very long way…I am so over food snobbery and cheese snobbery it’s untrue
…secondly I like to only do a couple of cheeses, there is something that is disagreeable to me when faced with a whole array of cheeses artfully placed on some swivelling cheeseboard…I would much rather two (possible three) well chosen and lovely cheeses.
Three I will always choose a goat’s cheese…mainly because goat’s cheese is nearly always nice and more, not many people buy goat’s cheese as part of their regular repertoire so it’s a bit more special but not ludicrously expensive and when people dip in they more often than not love it.
Since moving to Australia, we noticed a very funny and strange (to us) thing. Now this may have nothing at all to do with Australia or Australians, and you may have experienced it before but we hadn’t….after a few lovely invitations for dinner we noticed that cheese comes out very often as a first course, a cheese plate as an appetiser. Yes.
Now for me, in the old days, cheese always followed the main course, before dessert, so on arrival at someone’s house to be presented with a lovely quality cheese and a few crackers as a first course was pretty surprising. Sorta weird but really really nice and very tasty.
And these days, I keep this trick up my sleeve quite a lot, it’s different on the palate if you are not used to it…but there is something to be said for it…and mainly that, if you are a cheese lover, like me, relishing that cheese before you are full up and have had two courses already is really very nice….plus sharing the cheese, in a relaxed and laid-back way is a very informal way to start the evening…all dipping in to the cheese plate in the middle and with a glass of bubbly too…
I always stick a chutney, relish or most likely a lump of Quince Paste on the side and depending on the mood, some fruit or cornichons…it’s no brainer entertaining….oh and I like plain old old-fashioned, give it to me water crackers, and I buy Carrs if they are on offer, being By Appointment to Her Majesty, no less, of course they are good…but really any plain cracker floats my cheese boat, I wouldn’t go near any of those fanchy schmancy ones that cost more than the cheese plate…duh.
So that’s my tip…farm it out (the dessert), throw in a few bought things, and buy nice cheese dressed up on a foofy plate…and spend your time on the main course and obviously dressing up the table…
OK, I am outta here…I would love to hear your entertaining tips for this time of year? Go out for dinner? Oh yeah that’s one… Or maybe I’ll just show you my new black ankle-strap-oh-my-God-I-Love-You PARTAY SHOES….. I think I love them more than my new boyfriend and Flicky Cloud’s. Yep indeedy.
Flying through people (and not quite on the stick yet), flying through
Hey Sarah
we always had a cheese and crackers plte set out at all our family holiday gatherings at great grammas or an aunts house i even do this now when i have people over we use different crackers and cheses on a pretty platter we also used to make the cheese balls with the nuts sprinkled on top sooo yummy!!!
Loved reading your Easy Christmas. I rember when I lived in England for a short time, we had hubbies family over for dinner and I did the cheese platter on arrival. Months later they told me how funny it was to eat cheese before dinner. When you think about it, it is kinda weird. Enjoy KL. Mimi xx
We always start off entertaining with a cheese platter. It just wouldn’t be the same without it. I have always thought it funny that people have the cheese platter after dinner. Anyway, looking forward to seeing those party shoes!! Leahx
We often do a cheese platter as a before, but I have also been known to serve one instead of dessert particularly with some nice fruit and a few petit fours or when I have an afternoon tea- particularly when accompanied by one of those party plan type things, with a plate of fancy choccie bikkies – it makes it very easy entertaining with no cooking involved.
Just wondering are those things you called cornichons are they gerkins or something else entirely?
Sarah, have a look at the current Donna Hay magazine – there are some fabulous Christmas recipes in there with a few twists. I only picked it up yesterday and I need to have a better read and consider my own options
Also for a few years we did the USA Southern Deep Fried Turkey – sounds fatty, but we measure the oil level before we start cooking and there is always more fat and oil leftover than what we started with. Can’t stuff it so we inject marinade under the skin and it is flash fried, so it cooks very quickly and is ssssooooooo juicy and moist. Cottonseed oil is best but was hard to find in Australia and it’s expensive to buy oil in bulk (used to cost MORE than the turkey)…. but, thankfully CostCo have opened and it is in bulk and cheap (relatively speaking but not as cheap as the USA)…
In fact thinking about it, I might do it this year – it is perfect for Australian Christmas as it’s done outside so the house stays cooler by not having the oven on all day!
Yum, now I am really thinking about Christmas dinner. Snack on wine and crackers and different cheeses, and some tangerine slices. I
always cook a nice big turkey and a ham for Christmas dinner. I never stress about cooking it just sometimes about food shopping for it. I HATE food shopping. My kids like a bunch of different vegetable casseroles so it’s a lot of different dishes but they are all really very simple to make. the creamed cauliflower is the easiest and the best.
Have a happy Holiday! I really want to see those shoes. I love shoes. It’s one of my downfalls.
Wow – I’ll never look at the cheese tray quite the same again! Who knew…from small-town backwards Texas, we always just threw cheese on a tray with saltines, sardines, and Nemecek Czech sausages! Even though my ancestors came from Isle of Wight, knowledge of Quince paste didn’t pass down the genetic bloodline….? I’ll google it. OH….I’m becoming so refined and worldly following your blogs Sarah!
Mm, love the look of that cheese plate.
Style and simplicity yet again Miss Sarah. Something you do so so well.b
Love blue cheese and I must investigate the quince paste further. I have only tried it once, but forget to buy it myself.
Woohooo Christmas hosting is over for me for the year! I like buying the turkey drumsticks (1 whole turkey would last us over a week so it would be a waste) . I cut gashes to the bone and rub them with paprika and lots of garlic salt and olive oil all over. Then bake/steam in the oven for about an hour. Then squirt lemon/lime as soon as out of the oven let is sit for 5 minutes then tuck in with a side of baked potato wedges and a yummy garden salad…. That is how I cook my turkey any time of the year… Sarah I will be taking your panotone (? I know I haven’t spelled it right) creation to my hubbys boss christmas lunch… Thank you once again…Enjoy KL I have only ever heard good things baout the place . Partayyyyyy!!!!Woo hoooo….
Loving that “cheese plate”! Where I’m from, cheese and crackers are a must for greeting guests. As are olives and pickles of some sort (preferably home-made okra pickles, but not always available). Thanks for keeping it real with stress reducing posts- I love all the eye candy this time of year, but it sure can cause an inferiority complex
Your home looks so comfy and inviting even when dressing up for the holidays. And the reminder that yes, there will be soccer cleats and children lolling in your serene white spaces, is refreshing too.
Cheese platters are always our appetizers before a big get together here in VA ( USA.) Pickles and olives are also added. Lovin’ the paper Sarah you never cease to amaze me. You give me so… many fresh ideas. Thanks! Can’t wait to see your party shoes!
Everyone loves what you guys are up too. This sort of clever work and coverage! Keep up the terrific works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to my own blogroll.
Let’s see those party shoes already! BTW, I made your layered salad tonight. Very good. I think I’ll make it again tomorrow for Christmas dinner at my in-laws. (sorry, too lazy to go to that post to comment) Love your style, I’m going back & forth & all around.
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G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
Not really.
Hey Sarah
we always had a cheese and crackers plte set out at all our family holiday gatherings at great grammas or an aunts house i even do this now when i have people over we use different crackers and cheses on a pretty platter we also used to make the cheese balls with the nuts sprinkled on top sooo yummy!!!
That craft paper is inspired!
Loved reading your Easy Christmas. I rember when I lived in England for a short time, we had hubbies family over for dinner and I did the cheese platter on arrival. Months later they told me how funny it was to eat cheese before dinner. When you think about it, it is kinda weird. Enjoy KL. Mimi xx
We always start off entertaining with a cheese platter. It just wouldn’t be the same without it. I have always thought it funny that people have the cheese platter after dinner. Anyway, looking forward to seeing those party shoes!! Leahx
We often do a cheese platter as a before, but I have also been known to serve one instead of dessert particularly with some nice fruit and a few petit fours or when I have an afternoon tea- particularly when accompanied by one of those party plan type things, with a plate of fancy choccie bikkies – it makes it very easy entertaining with no cooking involved.
Just wondering are those things you called cornichons are they gerkins or something else entirely?
love your brown craft paper & happy to see you’re a blue cheese gal!
Melissa x
Love this idea!! I will be sure to use for New Year’s Eve! Easy Clean Up!!
Sarah, have a look at the current Donna Hay magazine – there are some fabulous Christmas recipes in there with a few twists. I only picked it up yesterday and I need to have a better read and consider my own options
Also for a few years we did the USA Southern Deep Fried Turkey – sounds fatty, but we measure the oil level before we start cooking and there is always more fat and oil leftover than what we started with. Can’t stuff it so we inject marinade under the skin and it is flash fried, so it cooks very quickly and is ssssooooooo juicy and moist. Cottonseed oil is best but was hard to find in Australia and it’s expensive to buy oil in bulk (used to cost MORE than the turkey)…. but, thankfully CostCo have opened and it is in bulk and cheap (relatively speaking but not as cheap as the USA)…
In fact thinking about it, I might do it this year – it is perfect for Australian Christmas as it’s done outside so the house stays cooler by not having the oven on all day!
hmmm thanks Amanda I like the sound of that…and I MUST get to Costco
I should definitely buy the Donna Hay mag this year! xo
I would like to join the Saturday club, thank you!
Hi Sandi
You are in. Just go to the Club page for the missions
Sarahx
Love reading your site everyday, its just so pretty and white
Yum, now I am really thinking about Christmas dinner. Snack on wine and crackers and different cheeses, and some tangerine slices. I
always cook a nice big turkey and a ham for Christmas dinner. I never stress about cooking it just sometimes about food shopping for it. I HATE food shopping. My kids like a bunch of different vegetable casseroles so it’s a lot of different dishes but they are all really very simple to make. the creamed cauliflower is the easiest and the best.
Have a happy Holiday! I really want to see those shoes. I love shoes. It’s one of my downfalls.
Wow – I’ll never look at the cheese tray quite the same again! Who knew…from small-town backwards Texas, we always just threw cheese on a tray with saltines, sardines, and Nemecek Czech sausages! Even though my ancestors came from Isle of Wight, knowledge of Quince paste didn’t pass down the genetic bloodline….? I’ll google it. OH….I’m becoming so refined and worldly following your blogs Sarah!
Mm, love the look of that cheese plate.
Style and simplicity yet again Miss Sarah. Something you do so so well.b
Love blue cheese and I must investigate the quince paste further. I have only tried it once, but forget to buy it myself.
thanks Kat
Woohooo Christmas hosting is over for me for the year! I like buying the turkey drumsticks (1 whole turkey would last us over a week so it would be a waste) . I cut gashes to the bone and rub them with paprika and lots of garlic salt and olive oil all over. Then bake/steam in the oven for about an hour. Then squirt lemon/lime as soon as out of the oven let is sit for 5 minutes then tuck in with a side of baked potato wedges and a yummy garden salad…. That is how I cook my turkey any time of the year… Sarah I will be taking your panotone (? I know I haven’t spelled it right) creation to my hubbys boss christmas lunch… Thank you once again…Enjoy KL I have only ever heard good things baout the place
. Partayyyyyy!!!!Woo hoooo….
Hi Alice…good luck with the Panettone, I hope they like it!!! errrm don’t think they could not like it…just be careful transporting it x
Loving that “cheese plate”! Where I’m from, cheese and crackers are a must for greeting guests. As are olives and pickles of some sort (preferably home-made okra pickles, but not always available). Thanks for keeping it real with stress reducing posts- I love all the eye candy this time of year, but it sure can cause an inferiority complex
Your home looks so comfy and inviting even when dressing up for the holidays. And the reminder that yes, there will be soccer cleats and children lolling in your serene white spaces, is refreshing too.
Cheese platters are always our appetizers before a big get together here in VA ( USA.) Pickles and olives are also added. Lovin’ the paper Sarah you never cease to amaze me. You give me so… many fresh ideas. Thanks! Can’t wait to see your party shoes!
Everyone loves what you guys are up too. This sort of clever work and coverage! Keep up the terrific works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to my own blogroll.
Let’s see those party shoes already! BTW, I made your layered salad tonight. Very good. I think I’ll make it again tomorrow for Christmas dinner at my in-laws. (sorry, too lazy to go to that post to comment) Love your style, I’m going back & forth & all around.