Home Again

We had really a wonderful weekend in DC, and despite the news media trying to terrorize us about impending winter weather, it was an easy drive home -- in fact, in the mid-50s most of the way, including New York City.

We had a wonderful Christmas dinner on Saturday with meat loaf, mashed potatoes, corn pudding, salad, and mushrooms.

My contribution was making the mushrooms which are a culinary invention of Cristina. You take a pound of mushrooms, clean them off with no water, then put them in a colander and put a few tablespoons of flour and shake them around so they get coated.

Next put the mushrooms in a sautee/frying pan with olive oil and butter on Med/High heat until they get a bit golden brown. Then add heavy cream, a tablespoon or so of soy sauce and salt and pepper to taste. They are so easy to make, and so delicious. Then you just sautee them for a while. You can eat them as a side dish or really it could be a sauce for meatloaf or potatoes.

Then we exchanged presents, had coconut custard pie that Fran made for dessert and basically sat and gabbed for the rest of the evening.

And finally, Milo the Cat is all partied out, along with his wrapping paper, he fell asleep under the Christmas tree.