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Mike and I jumped right back to work after our really really great Christmas time off.  Christmas Eve was spent in Freedom with old friends eating Jack Knife Beef and a myriad of delicious appetizers.  I tried this out in my Insta Pot Artichoke Dip and was very pleased.   There was also a blue ribbon sour cherry pie to finish off the feast!

Christmas brunch with Todd and Janet, a bottle of wine at (gasp) 1 in the afternoon and a vigorous game of Pitch.  Mike and Janet won, dang it!! 

Christmas Dinner at Spotted Horse where we all have celebrated together for 18 years now (we were absent last year, in the Adirondacks with the Trumbowers).  Mike perfectly fried an amazing turkey (best one yet!), we sliced up the delicious smoke turkey sent every year from the Beckers, a cranberry sour cream salad was enjoyed as well as a hot loaf of rosemary sourdough bread.  Plus what everyone else brought!!  Janet gave us a tray of her amazing homemade cannolis which were half gone by dinner time!! 

Back to eating salads.  Please, please!

Off to Freedom for the weekend.  Cutter Races on Saturday.  Painting the barn quilt.  Entertaining our neighbors on Saturday.

Here is the lemon tart for Saturday dinner.  Dust with powdered sugar, top with whip cream swirls. Want the recipe?  It's kind of fun to make!  Lemon Tart Recipe

Happy New Year Everyone!!