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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Afternoon Open House

Hot Spiced Cider with or without Rum (Pum Pum Pum)

An afternoon open house is the perfect party ... No main course. Everyone's gone by dinner time... And folks show up because other commitments are for evening. Few dishes to wash. Food that's easy to prepare ahead. Your goal: everything out and ready for guests to help themselves. Your reward: To be able to enter your own party!

Ginger cookies, Chocolate Snowballs, Date bars--Made ahead and frozen

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Favorite Quotes

Among virtually every culture on Earth, anything worth doing is best done over dinner. Bring out a nicely braised roast, a hot loaf of bread, and a slice of lemon pie, and rifts can be healed, pacts sealed, loves revealed. Even the condemned do not want to leave the world without one last supper. --Natalie Angier

New York Times, November, 2000.

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike." ~ John Muir

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”E.B. White

"We sing because we can."(John Bell)
"And remember, anyone can cook" Auguste Gusteau.
"No one grows old at the table." (Italian proverb)
"A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do."-PJ O'Rourke.
"Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake." - Dean Koontz... plus...
"Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed."-- Arthur Rimbaud.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, 'Now, is that political or social?' He said, 'I feed you.' Because the good news to a hungry person is bread." --Desmond Tutu
"People who love to eat are always the BEST people."Julia Child.
“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud, because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.” --Anne Lamott.

It seems that all my bridges have been burnt
But you say that's exactly how this grace thing works.
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart
But the welcome I receive with every start

- Roll Away Your Stone, Mumford & Sons

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. --Robert Louis Stevenson

If we have no peace, it's because we have forgotten that we belong to one another. --Mother Teresa

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Psalm 96:1

Oh sing to the Lord a new song.

"I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us." Anne Lamott

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Afternoon Open House

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Afternoon Open House

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