Merry Christmas

[Lurker]

All,

The gifts are all wrapped and ready for little fingers to tear into tomorrow morning, the ham is thawed and ready for a nice long stay in the oven, and the wassail is mixed and ready for heating tonight, so the only thing left is to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

[DeadReborn]

I wrote my letter to Santa.



Merry Christmas!

[Relaxo]

Beat me to it!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

P.S. Would you share your Wassail recipe?

[Breakdaddy]

Merry Christmas, chieftains!

[Go0gleplex]

BAH! HUMBUG!

I really dislike Christmas.

[ArgoForg]

Merry Merry to everyone! It's just about December 25th, which means it's a great time to sit back with a mulled brandy, watch the snow drift down in big thick flakes, and give thanks for the birth of the Savior.

I mean me, silly.

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year, as well.

(I got my Wyrms books a couple days back in the mail, so it was indeed a Merry Birthmas to me.)

[narpet]

Merry Christmas to all... may all your hits be crits

[Dead Horse]

Bah-humbug!




(its my birthday, your silly holiday is wrecking my day)




But seriously , Merry Christmas to all!

[Relaxo]

Well, Happy Birthday!

[Andred of Albans]

Happy Everything to Everybody!

[Omote]

Merry Merriment and many more merry moments to all.

~O

[Relaxo]

Happy Everything to Everybody!

WELL SAID!

[Dead Horse]

I am officialy half way to 90 now. sheesh getting old sucks.

Happy everything to everyone!

[Lurker]

Hope it was a good one for everyone!

Beat me to it!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

P.S. Would you share your Wassail recipe?

Rgr, here you go (this is modified from my mom's recipe which is "a touch of this, some of that, and a few of these" kind of thing, and even after I copied it a few years ago, there is still a lot of "to taste" notes in it.

Wassail ( good for mulled wine too)
1 gallon apple cider (red wine for mulled wine)
4-6 oranges (cutties or other sweet oranges are what mom likes) cut into wedges and lightly squeezed into the cider
– can add pineapple juice to further sweeten, or up to 1 cup lemon juice to tartin it up depending on the oranges
1/2 cup honey (more to sweeten if needed) – I prefer more honey than adding more sugar
1/3 cup of brown sugar (more to sweeten if needed)

In cheese cloth
6-8 cinnamon sticks – I prefer cinnamon sticks to float and not in the cheese cloth)
1 table spoon allspice (not ground)
10 -20 cloves (I prefer closer to 10, a little bit of cloves goes a long way!)
1 nutmeg ground
Mix first 4 ingredients into crock pot or Dutch oven over low – mid heat.
In cheese cloth tie off all other ingredients and put in to simmer.
Let simmer for at least 20+ min, but do not boil.
(can mix, heat, and cool, then reheat but it must be Served HOT!!!

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas!

[Relaxo]

Lurker, that sounds YUMMY!

I thought Wassail had ale in it... shows you what I know. Yeah, every Thanksgiving I grab 3-5 bottles of bojolais to mull later in the year. (Why dress up an expensive wine? While mulled wine (TRY MULLED MEAD! HEAVEN!) is tasty, I'm not going to drop 10+ bucks for a wine I'm going to flavor up so much. I digress.

Thanks for sharing! I may try that out for New Years Eve!!!!

[Tadhg]

Happy Christmas!