The Menu:
- sticky gingerbread loaf and creme anglaise
- crepes (made by mom) and caramelized apples (à la Baked Expectations)
- marinated steamed veggies with feta and olives
- mushroom, scallions, dill and feta quiche
- tomato and basil quiche
- pork roast with Jamaican jerk rub
- Christmas Morning Wife Saver (made by Mrs. Danby)
- sweet potato and zucchini latkes
- fresh fruit with chocolate yogurt dipping sauce and mini banana muffins (brought by friends)
- coffee and Baileys
- Momosas
Invite family, friends, neighbours and those odd, interesting people you would like to hang out with more. Prep and make as much of the menu as you can before the day of. Borrow chairs from your friend's parents. Stack firewood in a pyramid so that it looks like you always have such a ready, organized supply right at hand. Put on a dancer dress and the Stars, Buena Vista Social Club and Adele. Pull out the garage sale 70's yellow-flowered coffee urn (1'6'') and replenish regularly. Set out your collection of mugs and mug trees. Tell the cat to sit on all the chairs and the dog to guard the buffet table, like the troll under the bridge that he is. Fill your plate, fill your mug, fill your glass and get your fill of amazing people (and food). Then, after all are gone, a book has been read, the kitchen is cleaned, take a walk on the ice to Snake Island and lie down in the snow with your head on your lover's arm, face turned up to the falling flakes and the grey, cloudy skies.
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