{"id":134,"date":"2008-12-23T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-06-18T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:35:44","slug":"holiday-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with DeMenthe family tradition, we&#8217;ve invited friends and family over for Christmas Eve.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll serve them boiled shrimp, <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/?p=4\" target=\"_self\">clam chowder<\/a>, and cheddar cheese biscuits.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll bring appetizers and desserts.\u00a0 In a break with tradition, Ditalini decided this year to decorate the tree early; we started hanging ornaments last night.\u00a0 Normally we enlist our friends to help trim the tree; this year they can just enjoy clam chowder and good company.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting a break as well.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been invited to a friend&#8217;s house for Christmas dinner, so apart from whatever small thing we prepare to contribute to our friend&#8217;s holiday table, we&#8217;re going to take it easy and enjoy.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember the last time we haven&#8217;t slaved over a Christmas day feast!<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you&#8217;re doing this holiday season \u2014 cooking, eating out, visiting friends or family, or just hunkering down until the economy recovers \u2014 Ditalini and I wish you happiness and comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with DeMenthe family tradition, we&#8217;ve invited friends and family over for Christmas Eve.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll serve them boiled shrimp, clam chowder, and cheddar cheese biscuits.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll bring appetizers and desserts.\u00a0 In a break with tradition, Ditalini decided this year to decorate the tree early; we started hanging ornaments last night.\u00a0 Normally we enlist our friends to help trim the tree; this year they can just enjoy clam chowder and good company. We&#8217;re getting a break as well.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been invited to a friend&#8217;s house for Christmas dinner, so apart from whatever small thing we prepare to contribute to our friend&#8217;s holiday table, we&#8217;re going to take it easy and enjoy.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember the last time we haven&#8217;t slaved over a Christmas day feast! Whatever you&#8217;re doing this holiday season \u2014 cooking, eating out, visiting friends or family, or just hunkering down until the economy recovers \u2014 Ditalini and I wish you happiness and comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookblogging","tag-cookblogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pixFB-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}