What the heck, it's only once a year, and I have th rest of the year to work it off.

Smoked sausages, cheese (my favoarites: CHeddar, Edam, Gouda, Swiss, Gruyere) with crackers and really good mustard.

Nuts: almonds, walnuts, pecans, filberts - in the shell. No brazil nuts, which were always in the mixture when I was a kid, and which I always thought tasted like dirt.

petit-fours - which I swear are smaller these days.


Booze - wine from local wineries, a bottle each of grape, blueberry, cranberry and raspberry. A bottle each of B&B and Bailey's Irish Cream.

A ham, to be baked with cloves and pineapple; cranberry sauce; baked potatoes, and biscuits.

A variety of pickled things: watermelon rind, olives (black and green), sweet gherkins, cauliflower, onions, mushrooms, peppers.

Blueberry cobbler for dessert.

Popcorn and pretzels for later at night.

Oh, yeah, gourmet English muffins from Wolfermans's for breakfast.

I hope the rest of you have as much fun as I will.