Re: A Cup & Platter Holiday Celebration
Posted: Dec 29, 2016 10:21 pm
Rosie, I'd say we simul-posted, but since it was a bit apart, I'm gonna guess I was crafting my post when yours went up. If you want to argue my omniscience, talk with the kids I work with. They have yet to figure out that I can hear things and sense movement, even when I'm out of the room. Plus they are dreadfully predictable. Economics is fun, and the Vikings in Iceland book sounds interesting, too. I'm actually supposed to be headed there in about two weeks. Pray I don't freeze.
Hmm...favorite part of the Nutcracker.... That's complicated because I danced it for about a decade, so I have a very intense love/hate relationship with the entirety, and I've probably watched it from the wings more times than I can count. I probably like the Waltz of the Snowflakes the most, despite the fact that I once got pulled from a role because they didn't have enough people to sing for it (nbd, since most people do 3-5 changes throughout the two acts, but still a bit...strange). Ended up with five people singing it, four of them being small children. But I love the choreography. Watching it this time was strange because there was the choreography of this production, and then there was the choreography that was playing in my head, and they were sometimes vastly different. The Pas de Deux (The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is the female section of the pas de deux) is also a favorite, but of course it would be, since it is danced by the primo and the prima, and they're traditionally the *best* dancers in the production.
*stops waxing eloquent about dance*
Oh! Oh! But you might enjoy this take on the Nutcracker.
Moving on....
The only type of cocoa that can tempt me anymore is Irish Drinking Chocolate, which is pretty much the most amazing thing, since it quite literally has a full ladle of melted chocolate in it. I miss it greatly.
Booky, you might try cow milk overseas. I can drink it on pretty much any other continent but the American one. Also, I like Rosie's theory about you. It fits in more ways than one.
Aileth, I hope you feel better soon! Do you have like a mudroom outside where you could perhaps put dairy stuff? I've done that one before.
In Thanksgiving's Defense, Rya, the leaves are all still nice and colorful in California at the end of November. Honestly, I don't think it's so much the fault of thanksgiving but the fault of the people who refuse to even think of Christmas before Thanksgiving. Who cares if half the Christmas decorations are up in time for Thanksgiving? It makes it more cheerful. And less stressful.
Santaland sounds pretty cool, Mel-y. And I'm down with singing trees. Feels downright Narnian.
Following up on the general Christmas Dinner traditions, we don't have much of one (beside food), although my dad made cioppino Christmas Eve throughout my childhood. I don't eat non-finned seafood anymore (unless it's impolite to turn an item down), so I don't have that, but I do make the base and put it over chicken. Or dumplings. Or on pita. It's fairly versatile. We also do cinnamon rolls Christmas Eve morning, and sometimes Christmas Day, depending on the schedule. Besides the usual chocolate coins for Hanukkah, we don't tend to have any set foodie things for that.
Hmm...favorite part of the Nutcracker.... That's complicated because I danced it for about a decade, so I have a very intense love/hate relationship with the entirety, and I've probably watched it from the wings more times than I can count. I probably like the Waltz of the Snowflakes the most, despite the fact that I once got pulled from a role because they didn't have enough people to sing for it (nbd, since most people do 3-5 changes throughout the two acts, but still a bit...strange). Ended up with five people singing it, four of them being small children. But I love the choreography. Watching it this time was strange because there was the choreography of this production, and then there was the choreography that was playing in my head, and they were sometimes vastly different. The Pas de Deux (The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is the female section of the pas de deux) is also a favorite, but of course it would be, since it is danced by the primo and the prima, and they're traditionally the *best* dancers in the production.
*stops waxing eloquent about dance*
Oh! Oh! But you might enjoy this take on the Nutcracker.
Moving on....
The only type of cocoa that can tempt me anymore is Irish Drinking Chocolate, which is pretty much the most amazing thing, since it quite literally has a full ladle of melted chocolate in it. I miss it greatly.
Booky, you might try cow milk overseas. I can drink it on pretty much any other continent but the American one. Also, I like Rosie's theory about you. It fits in more ways than one.
Aileth, I hope you feel better soon! Do you have like a mudroom outside where you could perhaps put dairy stuff? I've done that one before.
In Thanksgiving's Defense, Rya, the leaves are all still nice and colorful in California at the end of November. Honestly, I don't think it's so much the fault of thanksgiving but the fault of the people who refuse to even think of Christmas before Thanksgiving. Who cares if half the Christmas decorations are up in time for Thanksgiving? It makes it more cheerful. And less stressful.
Santaland sounds pretty cool, Mel-y. And I'm down with singing trees. Feels downright Narnian.
Following up on the general Christmas Dinner traditions, we don't have much of one (beside food), although my dad made cioppino Christmas Eve throughout my childhood. I don't eat non-finned seafood anymore (unless it's impolite to turn an item down), so I don't have that, but I do make the base and put it over chicken. Or dumplings. Or on pita. It's fairly versatile. We also do cinnamon rolls Christmas Eve morning, and sometimes Christmas Day, depending on the schedule. Besides the usual chocolate coins for Hanukkah, we don't tend to have any set foodie things for that.