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Last meal of 2011?
Went to my sister's annual fondue party.
Salad course with a lovely raspberry dressing
Cheese course: spinach/artichoke and cheddar herb served with dippers of bread, broccoli, celery, carrots, apples, cauliflower
Entree course: oil with a tempura batter and a court bouillon with dippers of par-cooked veggies (asparagus, broc, fingerling potatoes, cauliflower, mushrooms, onion rings), lobster, scallops, shrimp, chicken, and steak.
Chocolate course: a turtle chocolate (choc, caramel, pecans, rum) and a peanut butter chocolate with dippers of pound cake, strawberries, pineapple, apples, coconut macaroons, shortbread, graham crackers, bananas, cheesecake, and marshmallows
It's a lot of fun and everyone can eat the things they like. And she's always got so much food left over that she has great fixings for omelets and stir fries on New Years Day.
First meal of 2012
First food today was lunch: a toasted ham and cheese sandwich. For dinner I made homemade tomato soup. They were both supposed to be made for lunch, but I couldn't get up the energy to do the soup earlier in the day :)
What food/cooking items did you get for Christmas?
A knife set - nothing fancy, but oh-so-needed
Ellie Krieger's Comfort Food Fix
So much chocolate that I won't run out of my afternoon fix for a very long time: Godiva, Ghiradelli, Lindor, Russell Stover - I must really talk about chocolate a lot for everyone to give me some along with my other gifts
Countertop Egg Cooker - THAT should be interesting, but I'll try it out!
A recipe-a-day calendar (a yearly tradition in my stocking)
And my favorite: a countertop convection/toaster oven - Cooking for One is going to be so much easier this year since I won't have to heat up the whole place when I want to bake or broil something

Take the stairs at least once a day either at home (4 floors) or at work (5 floors), make two new recipes a month out of my cookbook collection, and buy a house.