Gator Pam

I have two songs that I need to hear for it to be Christmas, although I don't believe this one is meant to be a Christmas song specifically. Growing up in the southeast US of A, there is a supermarket chain who ran a seasonal commercial every year, starting at least in my teens and continuing many years later. The commercial portrayed a young family traveling for the holidays via train, with cuts to the hosting family members preparing a holiday feast with items supposedly bought at that grocery chain. There is no dialogue, just Pat Metheny Group's Last Train Home playing as the soundtrack. For me, Christmas has arrived when I hear that tune. I will occasionally hear the radio edit of this one on the rare times I listen to a radio station which plays holiday music 24/7 during the season. But, this full length 6+ minute long version is never played; in fact, the only place I know of to hear it is this specific YouTube video. For me, the inclusion of the skit paying tribute to The Christmas Truce of 1914 during WWI at the very start of the track takes it way out of just a novelty Christmas tune for me.

Just to be clear,try what again? The invite link? Restarting? Or deleting and reinstalling the app (which I haven't done yet)?

Already tried that when it first happened, before posting in the discord thread and messaging Brad. All it did was take me to Google Play store to reinstall, even though the button to reinstall says Installed. What's strange is I've had no response from Brad anywhere, and he's usually very prompt in responding to messages and posts. I don't know if he's taking some down time for the holiday. But, I'll wait to delete and reinstall the app until I do hear from him, as everything else on it is working fine.

I've restarted both my phone and laptop. It's missing from both devices.

hmm... Maybe I should delete and reinstall the app. But all of the other channels I joined are still there. Strange.

Is anyone else having issues with the discord? The channel disappeared from my app. I posted both in the thread about the discord and messaged Brad, but have not received any response.

What a feast!

Yum!

I am not changing my planned menu at this point, but I did realize this year Christmas falls on Shabbos. Many years ago in the bigger cities where Jewish immigrants settled, Chinese restaurants tended to be the only places open on Christmas. So the tradition, or minhag, which for many can become as important as a mitzvah, or commandment, of eating Chinese food on Christmas came to be. This meme is a humorous look at the minhag. In the spirit of the Chinese food on Christmas minhag, I offer this recipe. Scallion Pancake Challah

The channel has disappeared from my list of channels on discord. Is anyone else having an issue?

It sounds wonderful! Please let us know how it all comes out. Ah, I forgot to mention the home made au jus, which I plan to make tomorrow. It calls for three pounds of oxtail, but at $12.49/lb that's a bit steep for me. Last year I substituted beef shank cuts, which worked fine for the au jus and at $4.99/lb is much more within my budget.

I generally do Jewish Appetizing with seven different offerings for Christmas Eve. Here on the Eastside of Seattle, the most reliable source tends to be Whole Foods for the various fish: Belly Lox Nova Lox Smoked Whitefish Smoked Sable Matjes Herring Herring in Cream Sauce Kippers and Eggs Standard accompaniment of bagels, bialys, lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, sliced onion and various cream cheese. My two bone standing rib roast is out of the packaging wrapped in a flour sack towel to "dry age" for five days before I smear it with the fresh rosemary, thyme and garlic paste on Christmas Eve to season overnight. I'll buy the ingredients for the Oxtail and Wine au jus tomorrow and make that ahead. No Yorkshire pudding this year; we all decided we would rather have homemade garlic mashed potatoes. We haven't decided on a vegetable yet. I would love to do carrot soufflé, but with the potatoes that may be too much starch. I'll probably save it for Passover. I'm not planning on desserts; there's been far too many sweets in the schools I've been subbing in the past few weeks. I won't turn down anything my roommates decide to do, though. So, we may wind up with a homemade pumpkin pie.

Last day of school until after winter break. I'm at an elementary school today, so...

Last time sharing the play I was in. Here's the upload to YouTube. Both the audio and video seems much improved.

For those of you who are fans of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but would like a new Christmas story, check out Symphony North. Comprised of former members of T-SO and other musicians of such caliber, their release last year of The Bell Ringer is worthy of an annual listen.

Congrats!

If anyone is interested, the videos for two of the performances of The Prince and The Pauper, where I played two roles is available. From what I understand, pnp1 is the preferred performance over pnp2. https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/11riLD2kbx57mjNa3RFo2cJpTJcdKEnY5

Ugh. I hope the clot dissolves or whatever treatment is supposed to do to it soon.

We finished up the planned overs on Tuesday. All we had left at that point was about 3 cups of white meat turkey which I cubed and froze for a future meal, and some crockpot stuffing. Since we are still in the midst of Hanukkah, I combined the stuffing with sweet potatoes and made stuffing-sweet potato latkes. Shredded white fleshed sweet potatoes lightly steamed until just tender What was left of the crockpot stuffing Stuffing and sweet potatoes combined with beaten eggs to form the batter. What was nice was since the sweet potatoes were slightly cooked, there was no risk of the batter discoloring due to oxidation. What I didn't consider was the recipe didn't call for additional seasoning; I think it was assumed the stuffing seasoning would be enough. I found the results to be a little flat. I should have fried up a small tasting latke to balance the seasoning before forming the rest. I feel it definitely needed some salt. Lesson learned. Latkes formed and placed on parchment lined sheet pan, which has been lightly oiled to hopefully prevent sticking. Placed in to the refrigerator for a couple of hours to firm up before frying. First batch in a shallow fry of extra light olive oil Nice golden brown on the flip As the oil got used, the latkes turned out a little darker. They didn't taste burnt to me, though. Dinner plate with a different protein than turkey! Steak, steamed broccoli crowns, stuffing-sweet potato latkes, and some apple sauce with ground Ceylon cinnamon for dipping. Happy Hanukkah!

Ouch!

Sounds great! Which one did you get? I keep looking at them, but truly have not researched. If I got one for Beorn, it would be a cheaper knock off for Android. Any recommendations?

Another Google Hanukkah game with a direct link this time. If anyone needs an explanation of how the game of dreidel works, feel free to ask. https://g.co/kgs/HTwAUQ

So happy you enjoyed!

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huh. Thanks, Brad. I'm still just seeing text.