December 31, 2008
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I've been planning a post-Christmas post detailing all the great gifts that my family gave me, but that has been pushed the wayside. Yesterday though, I managed to use a couple of my gifts so that was fun...
Those of you that have been hanging around here know that I love to cook. This year when I was making my Christmas list I asked for some cookbooks. I've always just found recipes online, for better and worse. Yesterday I took out the Christmas cookbooks and looked through them to find a tomato sauce and meatball recipe for our spaghetti. I found a couple recipes that looked good in "The Joy of Cooking". The recipe turned out great. I was really impressed how good it was (or maybe that was the bottle of wine I drank). Even Amanda said that she liked it (and she didn't drink any wine), so that alone says something.
I'm so excited to go through the cookbooks and find recipes that I like and try them out. Yeah, I'm kind of a strange kitchen geek.
Oh, and I also used my new stick blender on the tomato sauce. Just stuck the end in the pot while it was on the stove and within seconds my chunky tomato sauce was thick and yummy!
No big plans for Amanda and I tonight (New Years Eve). We have never been big NYE fans, we have never went to a NYE party or anything. We'll probably treat it like any other night. Maybe go watch a movie or something. We'll probably drink some bubbly around midnight but we won't go crazy...that is Saturday night.
I am looking forward to the day off tomorrow though!
I think that I'm also going to sneak out of work early today too!
Tomorrow I'll try to put together an end of the year post as we close out on 2008. This was a good year and it deserves a post and some related pictures.
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