Food Glorious Food

Perhaps I should save this title until after Christmas, but today it is all about planning food. I've made my list and checked it twice. Tomorrow is last minute grocery shopping to make all the goodies that have to go to complement the various holiday festivities. I have become the vegetable expert. No weird stuff for holiday gatherings - just basics. The HUGE disadvantage of having such a small house - it is hard to have more than just the smallest number of people in. I need to have at least a few people in to show off my beautiful kitchen floor. But cooking for gatherings elsewhere is great fun. Heck, just cooking for me is great fun. I'm still learning good things to make. Who would have thought that rutabagas would be just the thing for in-between eating to keep the diabetes in control. Gee, and the doctor just let me in on another secret I didn't know: if the sugar gets too crazy, just increase the meds cuz I'm on such a low dose anyway. It's all so easy. And great-grandmother would be pleased because on Christmas morning, finally, after all these years of singing in church, it's Ihr Kinderlein kommet (O Come Little Children) - in German! I will never forget when great-grandmother sang it for me in her 80's or 90's, showing me that she still remembered the German. Now, I will sing it for her! - and cook for everyone else whose path I will cross!