Thanksgiving Eats, and What to Cook for Christmas
Ah yes, another Christmas where my family invades for week or so, piling in the house to eat and nap Dagwood Bumstead style on the couch while my husband hides in his office upstairs. He actually proposed getting a hotel room until the Vikings pulled up oars on the shore below the charred ruins of the homestead and set sail. The idea was that I
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...mmm.... There was some of that crumbled sausage with pepper gravy over biscuits for breakfasts around the holidays, but that sounds southern American, doesn't it, not southern German.
Do you also skip the eating a festive meal part? One can always do the Jewish thing and eat out at Chinese restaurant, which sounds nice. While most things are closed, that would be cozy.
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Uhm what does 'bechemel' mean?
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It's one of those sauces you make with a roux in a flying pan, like how you start gravy? You add milk and slowly cook it until it's thicker, but not gravy-thick. For plain old mac-n-cheese, you add cheese to make the cheese sauce part. There is some technical term for bechamel once you fancy it up with cheese, but, naturally, I can never remember it.
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