How are you after Christmas

Subject: How are you after Christmas
From: skarpi
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:03 PM

Hallo all , so how are all after all the eating at Christmas time ??
did you eat a lot did you do well for you over the holiday ?

did you drink , what kind a meat do you eat where you are ?
and how are you gonna put your self in right level again ?

did go to church , stay up late , did you have session over the
Christmas weekend ?

well , I ate smoked lamb , ham and salmon along with weg...
and a drink call Malt og Appelsín , we mix them together and there will be a great drink none alcahol .did I eat a lot , no I did not .
did I go to church , no I did not I forgot :( although I stayed with my family .

so speak up

all the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 08:01 PM

I gained 4 pounds. And quickly lost 4 pounds. Then, over a week, I ate the stuff I was given for Xmas... NUTS! Peanuts salted and sugared, cashews... and gained it back. I threw the rest of the stuff (nuts) in the garbage today and will try to lose the weight again.

Nuts are a big thing here... but they make you big.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: ClaireBear
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 11:58 PM

On Christmas Eve we (my husband, my son, and I) had pasta with alfredo sauce and chicken, and then I went to Midnight Mass and spent most of the night getting ready for Santa.

On Christmas Day we gathered with our neighbors for a dinner of smoked ham with ginger sauce, Jerusalem artichokes, fruit salad, and southern greens (all of which I made) as well as roast lamb and mashed potatoes (someone else made those) and a big salad (which my husband made). To drink there were wines for those who wanted them, and fruit drinks for those who did not want to drink wine. Then for dessert, I made chestnut ice cream and chocolate rum cheesecake.

The little session was on New Year's Eve. For that I made a big pot of black bean soup with the left-over ham. We all enjoyed it very much! And then on New Year's Day came the big session, at someone else's house. Our host made many different types of chili and served many wonderful wines and goodies. We sang until midnight...and went home very happy.

Happy New Year, Skarpi!

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Janie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 12:47 AM

I et lots. lots of different stuff. I am fatter now than I was before.

More seriously - These days, Mom is the prime chef and I am the prime cook. Christmas Eve we had shrimp and scallop coq au vin, asparagus, roasted garlic and new potatoes, burnt rolls (a family tradition started by my mother that I just can't seem to break out of - "Oh no! I forgot about the rolls!!!) a veggie relish tray, a fine German wine provided by my oldest nephew that I can not now remember, and choice of pumpkin, pecan or mince pie. with bad coffee.

After supper I went with Mom to church. Annie and I flipped a coin to see who would go with Mom and who would do dishes. No winners or losers in this game. The rest of the family played with my toddler grand-neice who we have only got to see three times since she was born, and visited until Mom and I returned. We spent a delicious additional hour or so together until second Nephew, delightful wife and grand-neice left for his Dad's house.

Christmas morning those of us remaining arose, ate Mom's special Christmas breakfast egg, cheese and ham cassarole with fruit salad on the side. Exchanged gifts, visited, snoozed. Mucked about in the kitchen individually for lunch. Christmas supper was prime rib, green beans sauteed with herbed butter, scalloped potatoes, a spicy winter greens salad, more burnt rolls (but not burnt as badly as the previous night) a bad red wine, and the same choice of pies, but with good coffee. Everyone joined in the after supper clean-up. Next was good conversation, family stories told for our own pleasure and the edification of the younger set, and one round of Scrabble. Sum Yung Sun joined the other males who were engaged in doodling on electronic devises, napped or watching TV after supper. We females completed our traditional Christmas bonding ritual of girl talk while finishing off a Christmas jigsaw puzzle.

A perfect Christmas, in my book.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 01:12 AM

AFter 14 carol singing gigs (all but one at the Ritz Hotel in London), I never want to see a smoked salmon sandwich until at least June. Neither do I want to sing 'We wish you a merry Christmas' which by my reckoning I sang 31 times (3 times a night for 10 nights, once at another gig) and 'Auld Lang Syne' which we did 9 times over 3 nights - it's very different singing it formally, correctly and soberly!

Glad you had a good time Skarpi, I am now off to the doctors to see if 13 nights of smoked salmon sandwiches has anything to do with the indigestion I've had for a week, and why my knee sounds like someone morris dancing on gravel when I go downstairs - I knew it was noisy but didn't realise just how noisy until another choir member asked what the crunching sound was!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: maeve
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 01:20 AM

Sandwiches and fruit salad at my mother's apartment. Came home. Couldn't get to church. No singing or session. We were cold and hungry and glad to be together.

Happy New Year, Skarpi. Lots of happiness is headed your way.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 04:13 AM

As usual, the question asked in the list of threads is directly followed by an answer
This thread - How are you after Christmas         
Next thread down the list - Lyr Req: 'stony broke and walking'.

Sounds about right!
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 04:21 AM

Turkey with all trimmings
Carol singing afterwards as we washed up

Too much rich food, cheeses, nuts, cakes, chocolates.

Champagne and wine on Christmas day.

Wii Fit board for Christmas prezzie in the hopes of taking off as many pounds from Christmases past as I can. Yet to be tried.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: IanC
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 04:43 AM

We tend towards the traditional and have goose for Christmas Day. This year, we had someone who was moslem and also someone who can't eat bread so the stuffing was sage & onion with potatoes & no sausagemeat. Christmas pudding as usual. We don't really eat a meal other than Christmas lunch on Christmas Day ... too busy for breakfast and no-one wants to eat much more after lunch (though we can always find room for Christmas Cake some time in the evening). This year, we departed from tradition and had an iced Simnel cake for Christmas.

Boxing day starts with full English breakfast (with beer). This year for 16 but there have been up to 30. Lunch is usually fairly late, and this year we had rib of beef with some 2003 Barolo.

I like Christmas.
:-)

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 04:55 AM

I didn't eat too much surprisingly.

Turkey isn't a great favourite with us as a family so instead bought 2 chickens, stuffed them both (the neck and the cavity with my own sausage meat and apple stuffing mixture with the usual trimmings. It was sticky toffee pudding instead of Christmas pudding on my son's insistence but it wasn't the same. We had champagne to go with the Christmas meal, wine and sherry. I always have a sherry when I start the cooking somehow it makes the cooking of it go smoother.

The remainder of the chicken was used to make a curry on Christmas Sunday which to tell the truth I enjoyed more.

This year I didn't go overboard with nibbles and treats on the basis that the nearby store was open for a while the next day and at a reduced price but I was good and made sure that we had healthy food in. The same with the local pub which was open which was quite pleasant to go to so didn't really go overboard with the alcohol either.

Holiday Monday brought the Berkeley Hunt out as is the usual thing there although I hate the thought of hunting it was impressive to watch going through the town of Thornbury in all of their riding gear, I stepped out of the door and looked around to see all of these hounds heading towards me in my path, wow, I didn't realise just how big the hounds were until seeing them up close.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 05:56 AM

Mustn't grumble

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: maeve
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:10 AM

Refresh for more cheerful reports for Skarpi. Sorry about my not-so-cheerful post!

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:54 AM

I stayed up well past midnight on Christmas Eve (eeeeek, it's almost 4am)

so brekkie (brekkie = first meal of the day!) was around noon - 2 egg omelette with cooked king prawns on top, followed by yoghurt & fruit, instead of my normal muesli with fruit & boiled egg.

4 hours later I was visiting friends carrying a lovely cheese & crackers & we ate them & some other nibblies, including smoked salmon on toast - yum! until it was time for dinner.

I drank water or orange juice, the host opened his new bottle of a very expensive whiskey, a present from his very rich brother, & he & the other guest enjoyed a nip, while the hostess drank wine, then we settled down to a lovely light dinner of the lunch leftovers - salad, sliced turkey, sliced ham, followed by fruit & the most wonderful home-made apple pie with thick cream. YUM.

Host's children & grandchild live interstate, the other guest had lunch with her mother who lives in a nursing home, & my sister lives in Brazil, so we gathered for dinner.

Australian Christmas meals are normally larger when all the family attend - they traditionally include a hot stuffed turkey, leg of ham, roast chickens, seafood, many salads, cheeses, an assortment of desserts, soft drinks, wine & beer. Nibblie stuff is always scattered around for folks to pick up when needed (? - wanted?) Meals are often taken in the back yard or on a beach or riverbank etc.

Mid summer is really not the time for elaborate cooking, but that does not stop traditionalists.

sandra

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:19 AM

Ate anything that stayed still long enough and washed it down with anything with a % sign on it. We tend to go for the traditional Christmas breakfast of chocolate followed by more chocolate with the occasional break of roast and stuffing. Gained 7lbs but have now lost 5 of them and am working on the other 2 and some more.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:31 AM

Well, we had an "interesting" time. A leak in the downstairs khazi,a fortnight before we were expecting a houseful of guests, the expiration of our central heating boiler a week later, the coldest and snowiest winter for ages meant that we were huddling over the only open fire, burning about 2 years worth of our stored logs. Both fixed before Xmas thank goodness. Our projected houseguests were warned to bring hot water bottles and extra sweaters but decided not to overnight! Our 40th wedding anniversaruy party was a social success but 25 of the expected 75 guests had to cancel because of weather or illness so we were redrawing the table plan at hourly intervals. The central heating men also flooded the garage, left a hole in the wall and broke one ornament (shaken off the shelf by drilling) and managed to lose 3 of our towels.
Xmas Eve spent warming the house up and hoovering up brick dust. Quiet Xmas day on our own in the warm(bliss!).Boxing Day we had friends over as usual, went for a couple of walks leading up to New Year then to S's sister for New Year to play electric trains and go to the panto with the great nephews & great n1ece. Oh, and the car needed a new battery and windscreen wipers. Have to hit the savings account for the bills for all this! Still I had the usual presents I can read, listen to or drink so I'm not complaining! (Much!) Job had it worse.

RtS

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:44 AM

Christmas? What Christmas? ;-)

I'm pretty much the same as I was before. Didn't eat any differently from normal. Didn't do much of anything any differently from normal. I played a lot of music, though, so I've been having a good time. ;-)

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:20 AM

Happier'n a hawg in a mud waller.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 09:43 AM

It seems that for Old Christmas (or just Christmas if you're Orthodox) I got a chest infection and arthritis in the left knee.

Am self medicating with gin.

Happy Days all!

LTS

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Maryrrf
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:34 PM

Well Christmas was very special for me. I went to Massachusetts and stayed with my son and his fiancee. We had Christmas Eve dinner at his future in-laws' house, who are wonderful people and great cooks. We had salmon with a chives sauce, salad and a delicious cranberry tart for dessert - all with good wine. My older son, who lives in Connecticut, joined us, along with his girlfriend. Then on Christmas Day, we all headed to the Berkshires and had Christmas at an old farmhouse in the country. The menu was roast capon, assorted vegetables, stuffing, etc. followed by the best ginger cake I've ever had topped with vanilla ice cream made at a local creamery. All this was accompanied by copious quantities of wine and meade. The day I went back to Virginia there was a big snowstorm on the East Coast. I made it back finally (train pulled in at 2:00 am rather than 8:00 pm) but developed a bad cold that turned into an awful bronchitis thing that still hasn't gone away. So New Year's was spent bundled up indoors watching TV and wasn't too great. But Christmas was very memorable, first time I've spent it with both my boys - the three of us together, in many years. It was wonderful! I'm slowly on the mend now.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:41 PM

I spent Christmas in bed sick. I spent New Years in bed sick without champagne. I had to use three days of next year's vacation towards sick time. I am back to work and still sick and very CRANKY! The antibiotics are finally kicking in but this cough is just hanging on forever. I will spend this weekend in bed with the kitties and hope I will be all better on Monday.

The holidays from hell.
SINS





glad you asked?

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 12:53 PM

For about 20 years we've been sharing Christmas dinner with friends at the same house, the New Years at another house. People bring various things. There was Roast Beef, a roast chicken, mashed potatoes, salad, appetizers.... and I guess *I* have become the semi-official gravy-maker for roast beef. (I figured out how to make gravy 40 years ago when I saw what I felt was WAY too tedious procedures...so I analyzed the process and now get requested to handle the making)

There was wine, but several of us like different beers, so I had only a small glass of wine.

I eat more than I should on Xmas & New Years...but it results only in indigestion, as I seldom gain weight from brief indulgences (sorry to those who must work to lose it again...I claim no credit...only genetic luck)

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 02:20 PM

I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:04 PM

gnu!
CELLAR!


sigh

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:25 PM

Ours was quiet. We don't eat much, but what we do, Rog does a great job of making: turkey breast roasted, mashed potatoes with sour cream, butter, and milk and I do the whole cranberries which I love with brown sugar. We also have celery stuffed with cream cheese which has green olives and pimento chopped up and mixed in.

My brother came over and brought some really good brie. We opened each other's gifts, visited a bit, then Rog moved out to the sofa and my bro went home.

We also had Christmas the next day when our grandson came home with his parents. They brought over a new version of Clue and we played for a couple of hours...Morgan and I were partners in crime as he'd never played it before. It was fun, but I am going to look for a retro version...the new one doesn't even have a library!

I was coming down with some bug, so it didn't really bother me that it was so subdued this year. Finally got antibiotics, like Sins, but have not had much symptoms except for being wobbly and very shaky hands. Sinsull, I hope this weekend you can kick that out!:-)

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:18 PM

I got some 4 kg back on me over the Christmas ,but its going away again
we got no snow in South Iceland sniff....but if we all had with us that we love over the Christmas , then we had the Christmas spirit in us .

I got no gifts ..:O) but I got my kids with me:O)good health
and thats the only gift I asked for :O)

all the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 05:40 PM

The best gift of all skarpi... family and friends.

Any rotten shark and Brennivín?

Subject: RE: How are you after Christmas
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 07:41 PM

yes gnu , there was a rotten shark and brennivín ...an old viking food on solstice and Christmas .

:O)