Whats for Dinner in this December 2014?

Niagara Visitor wrote:I took son, DIL and a friend out to a really nice champagne brunch last week.  One of the salads was a cold seafood salad.  Very nice, interesting with a very light curry flavour.  I am not generally fond of curry, but really liked this.  There were squid rings, cuttlefish, shrimp, possibly other little creatures of the deep.  I don't remember much else, other than that it was really good, and everyone really liked it.  I have tried to find a similar recipe, have not been successful.  I would love to surprise everyone on Christmas Eve............. we don't do turkey here!

Anyone have an idea?  Thanks in advance!

Niagara Visitor wrote:I took son, DIL and a friend out to a really nice champagne brunch last week.  One of the salads was a cold seafood salad.  Very nice, interesting with a very light curry flavour.  I am not generally fond of curry, but really liked this.  There were squid rings, cuttlefish, shrimp, possibly other little creatures of the deep.  I don't remember much else, other than that it was really good, and everyone really liked it.  I have tried to find a similar recipe, have not been successful.  I would love to surprise everyone on Christmas Eve............. we don't do turkey here!

Anyone have an idea?  Thanks in advance!

bethk wrote:Yummy.  Nice job, Barb.  

bethk wrote:We had the memorial for Lyn & Bill's son today.  She ordered a deli tray from the Jewish Deli - rare roast beef, roast turkey, pastrami & corned beef ~ potato salad, cabbage slaw w/light dressing & a cookie/sweets assortment.  Oh, and a giant bowl of wonderful dill pickle spears!  Everything was very tasty.  We just put the salads into 'real' bowls and the breads in a nice basket instead of the plastic tray.  The meats & lettuce/tomato slices looked OK on the plastic deli trays.

The pastor from their church did a lovely job and Lyn (my techy friend, to be sure) put together a Powerpoint of pictures of Mark growing up set to Frank Sinatra singing, "I Did It My Way".  She is such a talented lady.  If she's not careful the minister will have her facilitating and doing the same type of memorial service for others in the church!

bethk wrote:We had the memorial for Lyn & Bill's son today.  She ordered a deli tray from the Jewish Deli - rare roast beef, roast turkey, pastrami & corned beef ~ potato salad, cabbage slaw w/light dressing & a cookie/sweets assortment.  Oh, and a giant bowl of wonderful dill pickle spears!  Everything was very tasty.  We just put the salads into 'real' bowls and the breads in a nice basket instead of the plastic tray.  The meats & lettuce/tomato slices looked OK on the plastic deli trays.

The pastor from their church did a lovely job and Lyn (my techy friend, to be sure) put together a Powerpoint of pictures of Mark growing up set to Frank Sinatra singing, "I Did It My Way".  She is such a talented lady.  If she's not careful the minister will have her facilitating and doing the same type of memorial service for others in the church!

bethk wrote:Oh, dear, what to cook, what to cook???  We went out for a late breakfast because we had a bunch of running around/errands to do and, quite honestly, filled both us up for the day.  Nothing much sounds good when you're not hungry.  But I knew we'd need a meal so I suggested the last package of Johnsonville 'Firecracker' brats in the freezer.  Neither of us cared much for them but I knew I wouldn't let them just go into the trash....might as well come up with a way to fix 'em that would be satisfactory to both of us.  Sauerkraut might just tone down the taste a bit, I figured.