All I Got For Christmas

Was a lot, really. In this season of giving, much was given. Of course, coming from my friends and family, there was an ulterior motive. (Too bad that title's already taken.)

As you can see, there was a theme to this Christmas at casa-de-family/friends-of-geeking. And that theme was best expressed by Chez, who calmly noted as I was tearing in to package number one at the McC Christmas morning-fest.

D: Is it my turn now?

Chez: Yes. And this present will be very beneficial to me and J too.

We had to go in order youngest to oldest one present at a time. There were no people there under the age of 22. It was still required to maintain some modicum of Christmas order.

I already have some things in mind to cook with these bits. Chez has required that my new spring-form pans be used to make timbale. The tapas book has a great looking recipe for cheese stuffed eggplant round mini sammys. Can't beat that with a stick.