Christmas Menu
December 22, 2006
Its that time of year again – Christmas. That means time to cook up some good meals. Being on NutriSystem, I dont get to cook that often anymore, but gonna do it for the holidays.
Its been a while since I have posted anything about NutriSystem. Thats because of work travel, the Mexico Cruise and the holidays, I havent been doing all that well. I believe I am still down 15 lbs but certainly not losing anymore. I will hit it back hard after the first of the year and post some updates once again. Its still working for me anyways. This year, I will prepare a nice dinner for Christmas Eve and then again for Christmas dinner.
In keeping with the Christmas Eve tradition in our house, I will prepare a Standing Rib Roast (Prime Rib). We have gotten where we really enjoy that, its simple to make and tastes wonderful. I will prepare a nice little French Red Wine and onion sauce to go over the Prime Rib. Savannah has been asking me to make my Rosti or potatoe latkes, so that will accompany the Prime Rib. To keep it simple, I will just add a mixed green salad with a raspberry vinaigrette. Mass will be at 5:30 pm and the kids have a short play afterwards, so dinner wont be until about 8:00 pm and we cant take too much time as we open the family Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. The morning is all for Santa’s gifts.
On Christmas Day, Suzanne has convinced me to make a Turkey. I usually like to go another way but being as we were on our Mexico cruise at Thanksgiving, she wants a turkey. It will also give us a chance to take the leftovers to eat in the New Mexico cabin.
The meal will consist of the Turkey with a Southwestern style rub on the turkey and stuffed with a wild mushroom stuffing. You cant have a turkey without mashed potatoes, so I will prepare some bacon and buttermilk mashed potatoes. To go on top of all that, I will make a shiitake mushroom gravy. Since Suzanne loves to stuff herself and Thanksgiving and this is mimicking that meal, I will also add a southwestern cranberry sauce, green beans with walnuts and a nut bread. Whew, thats gonna be a busy day. Hooah!
Savannah has asked to be my assistant this year. She is really getting into cooking and loves to help me. She is pretty good help if I can keep her attention span long enough. The cooking starts tomorrow.
Halloween and NutriSystem Update
October 30, 2006
Our little rural community of Sonoita celebrated Halloween this weekend. Living in the country, there is no real way for the kids to trick or treat. They might walk two miles and only visit 4 houses.� Instead, the community gets together at the county fairgrounds and holds a Halloween carnival.
The chamber of commerce sponsors the event. They have booths set up for the kids to visit to simulate trick or treating. Local residents bring candy to hand out to the kids also. In addition, they supply hot dogs and snacks for anyone who attends.
The local volunteer fire department set up a haunted house for the kids to go through. It was a big hit! :devil: There was also a cake walk which is a lot like musical chairs except you walk around and have to end up on a pumpkin tile on the floor. A number is randomly drawn and the person is removed from the game. The last person in the game gets a cake. Sean was able to win once. His cake was actually six cupcakes. Savannah never did win despite trying many, many times. She had lots of fun trying. There was also a sack race. Sean did very well in the sack race. The only person who could beat him was a girl that was just out of this world. She is the same age as Sean and I think he kinda likes her which was why he was trying so hard. Or was he letting her win? :wub:
The whole family, except for Mr Papa, was dressed in a costume. Savannah went as a Geisha girl. Sean had a unique costume as he was dressed up as a football player riding on the back of Frankenstein. Suzanne’s was a bit wimply, but at least she dressed up. She was a flamenco dancer. Nobody in the family won any of the costume contests.
The festivities lasted for us for about 2.5 hours though it was still going when we left. A lot of the town attended and fun was had by all.
On the NutriSystem front, I finally weighed myself after my business trip to Germany. I wasn’t expecting good news and I didn’t get any.� Actually, it might have been better than I was expecting. On the trip, and the bit of a cheat week after, I gained five pounds. That means I am still down 13 pounds. I so enjoyed the German Beer while on the trip, that I picked up some more for the past weekend. I am back at this week and suspect I will be able to lose those five pounds this week to get back to where I was at.
My aggressive goal is to be down 25 lb by the time of the cruise at Thanksgiving and then to hold that weight for the cruise. That should be doable as I have done it before.
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