December -- the beginning, again

... testing the Twixt bar recipe ...

Tonight we were trying to decide which of the Christmas joys to book into our collective calendars.

For one thing, I am trying to spread the baking and the cooking of extravagant entrees over the whole month instead of trying to have them all happen on the week around the holidays.

At this house there is a Jarvis traditional fondue that lasts from 6 pm until 10 pm.

That pretty well takes care of Christmas Eve.

And this year there is a problem with the timing for shopping, since some of the stores are closed on Sunday.

That is just Montreal.

... chow mein ...

Two of my hopeful joys are out of the way.

One was making a big pot of chow mein for people who like Chinese food.

The second of my hopes was to make home made Twixt bars that would at least match the ones I saw Mary make.

Check.

A success on two counts.

Arta