Food - 4 days, counting what is left of today, until Christmas Eve. If you're like most families, you are getting together with an extended group of family members at "one lucky family member's home," to celebrate the holiday. Our family has a meal that was passed down from my fathers ancestors it is a Norwegian potato dumpling called: Potet Klub.
All the original family members love this dish, but the ones who married into the family - not so much, or I should say, not all of them like it.
What is Klub? Short version: glue. Just kidding. However, some of the newer members welcomed into the family say it is (they're wearing out their welcome, real quickly.) Klub is basically made up of ground potatoes and flour mixed together to form a ball, but we put cubed up ham in the center of the balls. Then you boil them in for about 1 hour and serve them stemming hot with butter on top and a milk, flour and ham gravy.
This meal is a lot of work and a very messy meal to make, especially for a large group of over 33 people. 40+ pounds of potatoes are used to create this feast...that's a lot of potatoes to peel. The messy part is all the pots and electric ovens it takes to make these gooey Klubs have to be emptied out in-between each batch (spilling usually is involved) and new water has to be added and brought to a boil. But, I think it is worth it! This is a tradition that I just love!
I have a question for those newer family members. What's so wrong with eating glue?
Some of my family members, would disagree. In fact they would like to discontinue this tradition; not because they don't like the Klub, they do. They love to eat them, but, they just think it is far too much work and mess. They would like to opt out and have
hors d'oeuvre's instead.
I am putting up the good fight on this one. I am fighting the fight. Fight, fight, fight. Fight till the death. I argue to them that it is only once a year, surely we can manage that. I argue that it is a tradition that we can pass down to our kids. I argue that in a world of so many changes, there should be something that stays the same. They hear me argue, but still don't agree. I am pulling out the heaviest arsenal in my repertoire that I have: guilt. I argue that it is the only thing we have left that was our fathers.
Oh, dang, I am good. That got'em.
If you need a great ruby, red Jello salad to go with your meal, I have just the recipe for you.
Grandma Shirley's Jello
Ingredients:
2 c. boiling water
2 small pkgs red jello
2 pkg frozen raspberries (brake apart so there are not huge clumps)
2 c. apple sauce
1 container cool whip
Boil water. In a medium bowl combine water and jello, stirring to disolve; add remaining ingredients and refrigerate until set-up. (I usually make this the day before serving it.) Top with cool whip and serve.
Dish - The tie that binds...Jen and Brad.
The topic of the just about every TV talk show lately is the "tie with stripes." And the body wearing it. Jennifer Aniston has barely graced the cover of GQ magazine; only a striped tie cascading ever so gently, fluidly flowing down her naked body. Accompanied by two strategically placed hands (yes, they're Jens) to hide the breasts of a woman.
Recently she started her day off at the crack of dawn with an appearance on Good Morning America and the fanfare continued into the TV late night show scene. David Letterman was the well suited host to be the recipient off the tie; given to him as a Christmas gift from Jen.
That's not the only tie that's been tied though. The article on Jennifer inside GQ talks about Jen and Brads tie and the comment she makes: "We don't not talk," leading us to believe that there is still a tie that binds them. (I bet Brad will sneak away from Angelia long enough to get a peek at the stripes Jen is wearing.)
When Jennifer was asked about Jolie, she hemmed and hawed, and It becomes obvious, that she feels about Jolie as exactly how you'd think she'd feel.
That's the part, however, that makes me go hmmm....
As if Brad was an innocent by-stander? What? - I suppose Angie made him have the affair? It's as if I can hear Jen saying: "I know Brad; he would never have done this, she must have forced herself upon him.
This mentality reminds me of a parent that whose child gets in trouble and it is always the child's friends fault. This must be our way of coping with things seeing the glass half-full, making sense out of a senseless situation, trying to salvage some of the investment we invested in that person proving it was all - not just wasted time.
But then again - " It must be the tie! "
You can read the full interview here ~
Embellish - Dress for success - wear it like you own it!
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