The List Game

[dana01]

I'd like to quit a few nasty habits, one of them would be eating. I do need to lose Christmas pounds and then some!

This spring I'd like to re-do my garden and plant more in it.

I need to paint the inside of the entire house, although I'm not sure it will get entirely done.

Clean out the basement. I promise myself every year I'm going to do it and it's been over 5 years now! Actually, I did get rid of 4 big items today! 2 of them were big (old) aquariums.


You're having a New Years Eve party, name a few things you'd serve besides alcohol.

[Junebug]

Hot chocolate
Water
Coffee
Coke, Sprite, etc
Pecan brownies
Strawberry Tarts
Spiced pecans
Homemade toffee with chocolate and pecans on top
Shortbread cookies
Cinnamon Cake
baked potato dip with way lays
pizza dip w/garlic toasties (I get in trouble if I don't serve this!)
Pink Dip with fritos
Cheese Dip with tortilla Chips
Homemade tamales, chicken, pork, cheese (I get a locale lady to make these. (And she gives all the money she makes to the church, which is also a plus!) Need a quick party men - I'm your girl HA!)

Please list a few of your favorite breakfast for dinner meals

[Trinkets]

Happy new year, y'all!

I love crustless quiche, like Caramelized Onion, Gruyere, and Spinach Crustless Quiche, and a fresh, green salad
Cheese grits and poached eggs
Grillades and grits Grillades if You are a Southerner, Stew if You're Not!
Nassau grits and fruit salad
Corned Beef Hash and poached eggs
egg and cheese sandwich
Vegetable Frittata
anything with cheese grits!

What foods did you enjoy over the holidays?

[Junebug]

homemade pralines
homemade toffee with dark chocolate and pecans
shortbread cookies
parmesan garlic potato soup
grape salad
cinnamon muffins
hommade tamales
breakfast casserole
Too many to list. I'm just happy to know that calories don't count on holidays!



Please list some fun activites that you do with family/guests inside on a cold winter day/evening

[dana01]

When it's just mom and I, we play crossword puzzles or rummage through kindle books to buy.

With family and guests, we usually play games. We very seldom play with the boards that come with them lol like trivia or Songburst ect. Sometimes we play charades but a couple years ago we found a game everyone will actually sit and play called Hedbanz


Please list any number of soups that you love (recipes welcome )

[Junebug]

We love soups at my house so I have lots of them! Most of them are healthy or can be with some changes. Good for the after Christmas lbs to loose! Most of my soups I just make up as I go along. I love Uncle Bill's minestrone Uncle Bill's Vegetarian Minestrone Soup hearty and healthy!

I have a pretty good list of soups under my reviews just type in soups under the search bar on my page. Of course I don't eat meats, but you can obviously add meats to any of the soups. The advantage to looking at the reviews is you will be different peoples changes, suggestions, additions and photos!!

Nite!

[Trinkets]

Junie, you forgot again! LOL...glad I am not alone:)

I love this soup:
Lentil Soup for People Who Thought They Hated Lentils! - Meat Op
I tell you, it's the best!
I also love French Onion soup
Tomato Basil Soup
Beef Vegetable soup made from my leftover pot roasts I freeze until I have one of those cooking days.
Chicken vegetable soup
Curried sweet potato and zucchini soup
bean soup made from leftover cassoulet (just did that one)

I find in this high-tech age-fast-pace life we live now we have left behind some simple traditions I wish were still common like high school dances in the gym or Levi jeans and letter writing. What do you miss?

[Junebug]

I have been sick since before Christmas with this crud and sorry, but I am hopefully about over it and hopefully my brain will start functioning at full capacity soon!

I miss getting personal snail mail
children that have regular bed times
children that say maam and sir
simple family games
televisions that aren't so complicated
knowing all your neighbors


Please list any number of delicious but easy appetizers
Recipes welcome!

[Trinkets]

Anything over cream cheese is good and easy:
Pickapeppa sauce
jalapeno jelly
pesto
pickled pepper salad
olive salad
black olive puree
chutney...
process all your cheese bits and fold in some cream cheese to make an instant cheese ball
warm up a round of Brie and top with toasted pecans or almonds or raspberry preserves or sauteed garlic and slivered almonds
Tuna tartare
Beef tartare
caramelized onion dip served with multi grain toasted pita chips
a dish of peanuts

What are some of your favorite salad dressings?

[Junebug]

Trinkets! Good to see you!

Italian
Ranch
Lemon juice
balsamic
mayo mixed with salsa for taco salads

Please list any number of foods you might take to a friends house that asked you to bring an appetizer and a sweet

[Karen Elizabeth]

Hi, Guys!!!



over here we have a great tradition of bringing bags of potato chips as appetisers, so thats pretty well what I'd do, with a couple of dips.
Maybe a platter of crudities if they especially asked for that


Desserts
first choice is always cheesecake
my Romany cream chocolate tart
apple pie


.... mmm, thats about it

maybe fruit salad if DH makes it





what have you been reading recently, since we were all last here?

[Junebug]

Hi Karen! Good to see and this game!

Honestly I haven't been reading much at all due to death in the family, taking a friend for treatments, the holiday, my family, etc so forth and so on!

J.f. Freeman
John Grisham
Janet Evanovich
Judith Michaels
The Hobbit
Cooks magazines
Food Neetwork Magazine
Cooking with Paula Deen Magazine

All light reading because I haven't had time to sit down and read a book I don't want to put down. But I think things are slowing down now, so....



Please list any number of books you would recommend?

[Trinkets]

May We be Forgiven
Gone Girl
Defending Jacob
Sweet Tooth
Afterwards
Redwood Bend
A Total Waste of Makeup
all above are on my TBR list.

How about movies? What movies would you recommend?

[Junebug]

Not sure what kind of movies you like, but I know one we both like, so I'll start there! (In no particular order)

Les Miserables

Lincoln (long and sort of slow, but I liked it because I like movies that are true or based in truth)

Hunger Games (Better than I expected it to be and if your daughter didn't see it she might like it also)

Silver Linings Playbook - Loved it!

Flight - if you like Denzel

Hobbit - if you are a fan of the trilogy

Mirror Mirror - A fun remake of Snow White with Julia Roberts, fabulous costumes and I adore the dwarves!

Iron Lady - with Meryl Streep and she was extraordinary in it! Love it!

For the younger Crowd - Madagascar 3 and The Lorax

The Odd Life of Timothy Green - an odd movie, but I did like it

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - A strange, yet oddly intriguing movie. Hard to say if you would or wouldn't like it

Joyful Noise - a simple story with some good music

Step Up Revolution - A good one for your daughter if y'all like dancing

Now that I go back and read my list, it's a very odd group of movies and I have no idea why certain ones popped in my head!?

Could you please list any number of movies, old or new that you liked?

[Trinkets]

Junie, You were spot on! We loved Les Miserables, Hunger Games, Mirror Mirror, Iron Lady, AND
Step Up Revolution!
My all time faves:
Out of Africa
The Godfather
Father of the Bride w/ Steve Martin
You've Got Mail
De Lovely
It's Complicated
Like Water for Chocolate
The Holiday
Shining Through
Witches of Eastwick
The Family Stone
Something's Gotta Give
Sense and Sensability
Life is Beautiful
An Affair to Remember
Please don't eat the Daisies
House Sitter

Phew! Now, when you think back on those life time's great memories, what are you wearing? Are you mostly in jeans and sandals or are you dressed to the 9's? white dresses? Black?