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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I totally over did it today. I made 36 cocoa rolled rum balls with rum soaked cherries inside, 50 walnut kolachky cookies, and a rum cherry orange essence bread pudding. And I promised my hubby that tonight I'd use the fresh wild chanterelle mushrooms we bought. I'm going to make a steak with a chanterelle mushroom shallot Cognac sauce eith tarragon, homemade red skin mashed potatoes, and steamed carrots and peas with fresh dill.
I'm going nuts with these Christmas cookie projects. In addition to the above, I've made 100 vanilla crescent cookies, molded spice cookies (though hubby helped with the spice cookies), and have some wild plans of making Linzer tart cookies tomorrow, a cookie called "Morrocans" on Thursday, and perhaps pecan tassies (like mini pecan pies), and coconut cookies with salted caramel chips (half dipped in melted bittersweet chocolate) this weekend. Then I have Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas day brunch to grocery shop and prepare dishes for. For the Christmas day brunch, I plan to make three different kinds of fancy open-faced sandwiches for eight people. I'll of course bring Christmas cookies (some of all 8 varieties). I'm going to pass out at the end of this! I really need to cut back, maybe, but whenever I think I will I plan one additional thing.
I see my psychiatrist on Wednesday. I don't want him to get the wrong idea.
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Oooo I so want to come to your house for Christmas!
Well I had epiploic appendagitis. A fancy way of saying one of the fatty sacks on the outside of the colon twisted around cut off its blood supply and died. Painful but self limiting the sack became inflamed but the problem will clear up on its own. The reason my liquid diet helped the pain was because it slowed the movement of the colon so it wasn't agitating the sack. I really like my doc, he even printed out a medical paper for me to read up on it. The pain is better than it was and will go away in another week or so.