Winter is the time to bring others in. You do Christmas and Thanksgiving because you 'have' to. It's just what's expected. But when you beckon others to your home and hearth during the winter dreads, you make a statement: ' Sure it's nuts outside. Sure we all are getting kinda cabin feverish. Maybe the crafting you've been bent on doing for so long is in a stalemate. Whatever the reason, The Winter Months are the perfect time to throw open your door to prepare meals for others and enjoy the focus of the indoors....
This past month, I've hosted my Fleur de Lis friends for a Comfort Food Fest luncheon. I love this group and all it's varied personalities and back stories. I could listen to them for a long time.....
One dinner party was canceled due to the fact that I got the date wrong. Made an entire meal for a friend only to re read the Facebook message and found that the date was scheduled for the following week....No worries there! Hubby and I scooted our chairs close to the fireplace and had a luscious, scrumptious dinner just the two of us......
Last week, amidst the schizophrenic weather, I scheduled the aforementioned dinner party for the night of cold, cold snowy. I included another girly friend to join us because she wants to learn to sew as well. You see, if I plan about anything, I tack on dinner to it. It just suits me to feed the body as well as the soul. Jesus used meals and food in about all His dealings with people, so I think it's good policy.
We feasted deeply then scooted upstairs to learn the basic of sewing so that one friend could go home with capes for her stuffed animals. She had a bit of travel in the nasty weather. Good thing we decided to eat the yummy baked apple dessert she prepared for us in house, by the fire while the street crews cleaned off State Route 37 for her. What some people will go through to learn to sew.......
(As you can see my her very fine Wild Things hat.scarf, mitties snow protector, she was suited up for the weather. As were her stuffed animal buddies.) See what you miss when you hibernate by yourself? We three had a grand time and experienced lots of raucous laughter. The perfect remedy for cabin fever.
Baby Girl and her Baby Girls are in town for a brief stint, and you can be under complete assurance that feeding them is high on my priority.
Saturday, while it snowed, we, once again, landed ourselves near the fireplace while Lil Lady played around us and Delightful Della entertained us with her coos and beauteous smiles.
Dinner time brought about home made stew with Cloud Biscuits (thanks to Joyce Mundy's mama's recipe!)
Leftovers? Pshaw. The teeniest amount....
Do you have favorite winter recipes?
Don't you know that there are others out there very eager to try them?
Don't you know that there is very few times in the year where you don't have seasonal expectations other than the dead of winter to be still and visit your buds with a sated palate and a full tummy....
Do not let the Eatin' Season slip by you.....
I love winter for all of the reasons you mentioned. Yesterday I roasted acorn squash with nutmeg, cinn, butter and sugar and steamed sugar snap and shelled peas with salt, pepper, butter and fresh basil. My grandma provided the pork loin, asparagus and apricot pie and we feasted away to the slow-falling snow. Pure familial felicity :)
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