Merry Christmas and Cooking a Bird . . .

Merry Christmas to one and to all.  Hope each of you get to spend time with those you love and cheerish.  Wow, it's been a year since I communicated with most of you.  Hope during this absence you've had a great time.  There's been a couple of you I haven't been in contact with  .  .  .  yet, just give me time. 

Since last year I've added a new member to my family, Peggy, a rescue dog, ugly and ahhhhh so cute.  Just discovered she likes the Christmas song I'm sharing.  As I gave the video a test run she laid there, eyes looking up at me, a smile on her face, and her tail was just a thumping. 

Caught in the holiday mode.  Told my girlfriend that this year I will do all the cooking (she always helps).  She'll be coming in late tomorrow so I've planned a light evening meal.  Roast, beats in cream, and green beans with their own light cream sauce.  Then Christmas Day for breakfast blueberry muffins (with a few walnuts) and hot cona coffee.  We don't care for all the left over turkey and seldom do we eat any ham  .  .  .  so I'm trying a new southwestern dish - hot and spicy chicken, baked between onion wedges, it will be wonderful.  Still not sure on the various side dishes, but there will be green beans (fresh), spiced with salt, paper, garlic, added almonds (the almonds will be roasted), and perhapes simmered in coconut oil.  For desert I will be using an old family recipe for date pudding (this pudding will knock your socks off).  Am still open for suggestions on side dishes.

Hope you enjoy the video.  The Pretenders have always been a favorite.