Ice and Eggnog

As I mentioned in the previous post, we had an ice storm here Thursday night. King County Metro canceled all of its bus routes until about 3 pm Friday, when they went to the snow routes. Our driveway was a sheet of ice until Saturday morning

Since we were scheduled to go to the annual Christmas Eve Latkepalooza/White Elephant exchange Saturday night, we needed to make our contributions to the festivities. One of our contributions was the Infamous Eggnog Bread. This batch included dried cranberries, raisins, and dried apricots. I didn’t include nuts because there’d be a few new bellies around the table and I didn’t know their dietary aversions/allergies. I tried a different brand of eggnog for the recipe because that was what was available in quarts. This meant a taste test – pretty good, but a little heavy on the nutmeg.

Making the other contributions had to wait until we could get to the grocery store. More about that shortly. I made applesauce to go with the latkes, while Julian made crème brûlée. (Note: Our hosts have a corgi pup named Latke. He was NOT be on the menu).