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2019 Plans

December 18, 2018 Tuesday

8:03 AM Sassy
It’s Tuesday time! Let’s rock it!
I get to take 25 people out for a holiday lunch! We’re doing the Indian buffet! And the Yankee swap…whee!

4:24 PM Phil
Woo Hoo! Awesome!

Just booked a cruise – San Diego, San Francisco, Victoria and Vancouver

4:53 PM Sassy
Oooh! I adored Victoria- so British!
And Vancouver is awesome – beautiful, cosmopolitan… fun!

6:36 PM Phil
Both are fabulous and five days of being spoiled on Disney Wonder

Plus a long weekend in San Diego with a short trip to DisneyLand

8:21 PM Sassy
Wow… sounds fantastic!

9:04 PM Phil

[photo of a ship sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge]

Be gorgeous in the spring. Still cool and beautiful at sea

9:07 PM Sassy
My current theory on retiring is May 17… worked on the numbers tonight to make sure I can make enough by then to do the pre-tax 403(b) and Roth IRA contributions I want to.

I visited Victoria and Vancouver in late April… fantastic!

9:09 PM Phil
Awesome! That’s wonderful. Love both towns but Victoria is spectacular. I have another five years at work but I’m still enjoying it

9:10 PM Sassy
You are so lucky!

My boss makes every day bad. Couldn’t even get through the Holiday Lunch without her trying to sabotage my setup.  But everyone else said it was wonderful, so I will focus on that!

9:14 PM Phil
That’s why I left my last job. Boss was a two faced prick. Honestly hope I never see him again. I’m very happy where I am now
9:16 PM Sassy
I am so happy to hear that!

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Karl’s Sausage Kitchen

December 16, 2018 Sunday

8:09 AM Sassy
Good morning kid!
I’m off to Karl’s Sausage Kitchen to get brunch and Christmas treats!
Then two project meetings. Whee! Have a superb Sunday!
11:04 AM Sassy
Tasty breakfast and Christmas shopping at Karl’s Sausage Kitchen in Peabody
The entrance
Their distinctive sign
Lebkuchen gingerbread hearts from Germany
Lebkuchen prices
Cafe
The shop filled with European treats
Cute salt and pepper shakers
American breakfast with fried eggs, soft rye toast, 
bacon and polish sausage
Bavarian breakfast with scrambled eggs, pretzel and weiswurst
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Fisherman’s platter

December 15, 2018 Saturday

9:11 AM Sassy
Good morning kid!
Congrats on the test results!! Does this mean you get to work now?

I’m off to Sis’s house to sort through family photos. Aiming to cull 10,000 down to about 1,000 to be digitized. Whee! Good task for a rainy Saturday.

9:35 AM Phil
It means I get to work now. Have fun!
Cantata practice today, uncluttering my office and then football!
Have fun sorting through photos!

1:59 PM Sassy
Lucious late lunch at Court House Seafood!  I got their stuffed clam and fisherman’s platter with fried clams, shrimp, scallops and fish and a baked potato!  So fresh and good!

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Yukon survivor

December 14, 2018 Friday

7:21 AM Sassy
Happy Friday kid! I’m working at home this morning then heading out to the burbs to see The Northerner! Have a fantastic day!

11:28 AM Phil
Happy Friday! Enjoy!

2:19 PM Phil

[photo of the Athena Pallas restaurant – we ate there when I first saw him again in 2010]

2:20 PM Sassy
Oooh!

2:20 PM Phil
Yummy!

2:21 PM Sassy
What’d you eat?

2:22 PM Phil
Moussaka. I’m sure I spelled it wrong. It’s my favorite

2:22 PM Sassy
Yay!

2:23 PM Phil
Not been there for a long time. Good as always

2:24 PM Sassy
Take folks with you?

4:33 PM Phil
Went with people from work. 

Lamb looked amazing! Saganaki looked good too. Wish I had tried the octopus

5:13 PM Sassy
Fascinating obit

Helen Klaben Kahn, survivor of a 49-day Yukon ordeal, 76

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2018/12/13/helen-klaben-kahn-survivor-day-yukon-ordeal/udlbDmpeoFAGjCRRC5hw4O/story.html

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Festive food

December 13, 2018 Thursday

10:36 AM Sassy
Good morning!
Hope you’re having a terrific Thursday!!
It’s my Friday and it’s Holiday Party day at work. Wheeeee

3:21 PM Sassy
Holiday Party treats at the office!  From Via Lago catering in Lexington 

 A festive table 
 Scottish smoked salmon and boursin toasts
 Middle Eastern platter with hummus, tabouli, grape leaves 
and olives with pita bread
 Paprika-dusted deviled eggs 
 English cucumber cups with Maine lobster salad 
 Vegetable crudites with dips
 Cheese and crackers with fruit 
 Caprese skewers with marinated mozzarella, grape tomatoes 
and basil with pesto sauce
 Gorgonzola Pistachio Apricots 
 Shrimp cocktail 
 Fruit tray
 Mini-pastries
 Chocolate-dipped strawberries 
 Cupcakes
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Christmas wreath

December 12, 2018 Wednesday
5:03 PM Sassy
Hope you are hanging in.

5:12 PM Phil
I am!

How you doing?!

Meeting an old workmate for a pint and then picking up a Christmas gift.

[photo of a beer sitting on a bar]

5:12 PM Sassy
I’m super deluxe!

Heading out soon…

5:14 PM Phil
Super deluxe?

5:14 PM Sassy
Big smile… life is good.

5:14 PM Phil
That’s a wonderful thing!

5:14 PM Sassy
Indeed!
Mwah!

5:18 PM Phil

back at you sweet girl!

8:12 PM Sassy
Our Christmas wreath!  Thanks to Ricky’s Flower Market in Union Square Somerville, and awesome augmentation by Hubby with lights from The Dollar Store at Twin City Plaza.  🙂

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No sticky buns

December 11, 2018 Tuesday

8:49 AM Sassy
Tuesday time! Let’s rock it!

9:15 AM Phil
Woo Hoo! Enjoy the day!

1:22 PM Sassy
Van from a local bakery – door sign says “Notice: Driver does not carry sticky buns!”

7:02 PM Sassy
Quick sushi supper at Genki Ya in Davis Square Somerville

Steamed shrimp shumai
Sashimi and sushi
Soft-shell crab tempura
Steamed gyoza
Fresh roll with shrimp with peanut sauce
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Holiday Cookie Exchange – Melting Snowmen Balls

Dear Readers,
It’s time to share recipes for holiday treats!  Yum.  A gaggle of sexy bloggers are kicking off the holiday season in style with the 10th annual recipe exchange!  Jz from A Reluctant Bitch encouraged us to post a favorite holiday treat recipe today.  Bless her heart and many thanks for pulling this together! So you can see holiday treats all over this part of the blogosphere!  And drool over something other than my cleavage today!  The recipe I picked is below, and then further down are the links to the other blogs sharing their tasty treats!  
I adore cookies!  Cookie Monster is my favorite Sesame Street muppet.  Om nom nom.  I am not much of a baker these days, but I used to help my mom make hundreds of cookies for church events – from lebkuchen (that had to be started a month ahead of time), to sugar cookies, currant bars, icebox cookies, shortbreads, thumbprints with raspberry jam, molasses cookies, spritz, ginger bread men, and something she called “snowballs.”  See my cookie post from 2012 about those!  Ever since I’ve been hooked on eating balls of all kinds!  
In 2013, I shared Noreen’s easy recipe for Oreo Cookie Balls.  There was even a video to make prep extra easy!

The 2014 entry was an amazing recipe for toffee cookie balls from Snackworks!  With only four ingredients!  And three steps!  And NO BAKING!  I could do that!  More balls made of cookies! With chocolate and toffee!  

For 2015, I shared something a little more exotic – doggy style cookies.  They still had balls on them!
The 2016 post was an easy no-bake recipe with caramel, chocolate and nuts that turn into TURTLE BALLS!

In 2017, I shared an easy no-bake recipe with chocolate and stuff that turns into RED VELVET BALLS!

Last year, my cookie exchange creation was a chocolatey nutty oaty delight called NO-BAKE MONSTER COOKIE BALLS!

And this year, I am sharing

MELTING SNOWMEN BALLS 


Adapted from Christi Johnstone’s Love from the Oven blog
https://www.lovefromtheoven.com/melting-snowmen-cookie-balls/

Ingredients: 
  • 24 Chocolate Sandwich Cookies/Oreos – divide up into 9 to crush, 15 to top
  • 3 Tbsps of Philadelphia Cream Cheese softened 
  • 9 oz Baker’s White chocolate broken into pieces and melted in microwave
  • Assorted colored decorating gels

    Also needed – Two bowls, sheet of waxed paper and a baking sheet, plate or platter

    Instructions:
    1) Finely crush 9 cookies in a bowl then mix in cream cheese until blended.  Roll into 15 balls

    2) Place remaining cookies on a waxed paper-lined rimmed baking sheet

    3) Melt chocolate – Place chocolate in microwaveable bowl. Microwave on HIGH 2 min. or until chocolate is completely melted, stirring every 30 sec.

    4) Dip balls in melted chocolate, place on the cookies on the baking sheet

    Use a toothpick to dip the cookie balls into melted white chocolate; shake off excess chocolate then place on remaining cookies.

    5) Tap cookies on tray 3-4 times, allowing excess chocolate to pool onto cookies

    6) Decorate with gels into smiling faces

    7) Refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm.  Keep refrigerated until served.

    8) Display elegantly on a plate or platter, serve and enjoy!

    Makes 15 balls

    Happy Holidays Dear Readers!  Extra hugs with groping! 
    -Sassy
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    You can see other recipes on any of the blogs listed below!  Click for treats!
    Bloggers Sharing Holiday Treats 2019

    Baker            blossom           Cat
    greengirl        Hermione        Jz
    Lindy             little monkey    messymimi     morningstar
    Mrs. Fever     olivia               Ronnie
    Ryan             Sassy              selkie  (blog here, recipe here)
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    Eggs Maryland

    December 9, 2018 Sunday

    12:20 PM Sassy
    Eggs Maryland at S&S Deli in Cambridge!  Think Eggs Benedict minus the ham plus a shrimp and crab cake!

    4:27 PM Sassy
    Wow! Snow for you! Supposed to get much?

    4:29 PM Phil
    Who knows? Inch or two maybe. Pretty though

    4:29 PM Sassy
    Our weekend guests are gone, can finally relax!

    4:35 PM Phil
    Ahhhhhhhh

    My team won, Pats lost, great weekend!

    4:36 PM Sassy
    Congrats!

    4:41 PM Phil
    THX!

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    Dim Sum Brunch

    December 8, 2018 Saturday

    10:02 AM Sassy
    Good morning kid!

    11:08 AM Phil
    Good morning! Happy Saturday!

    12:30 PM Sassy
    Dim sum brunch with Mary Chung’s in Central Square Cambridge

     Shumai
     Suan la chow show
     Peking Ravioli
     Egg roll
     Crab Rangoon
     Soup dumplings with ginger soy sauce 
     Upcoming open hours

    5:26 PM Sassy
    Avgolemono soup on a cold night at Greek Corner in Cambridge