a surprise

I have something to show you guys, but I need to wait until Steve sees it first. So you'll have to wait until tomorrow! It's a festive surprise for him, but to be honest, I think his reaction will be one of polite disgust. Yeah - it's that good! (or bad... or ugly...) I like it though, and so does my mom (she got a sneak peak).

Steve has to work on Christmas Day (unless the head resident gives him a real nice Christmas present), so we're doing Christmas the Petrar way from Steve's childhood this year. Presents will be opened on Christmas Eve, with a dinner of spaghetti and meat sauce. The Maritime influence will be scallops with bacon for appetizers. The Stonehocker influence will be lots of coffee and booze.

And on Christmas Day, we're having a couple of Steve's friends over for dinner. The main course: not a turkey, but salmon! (Maybe if tuna is chicken of the sea, then salmon is turkey of the sea?) The menu is Steve's special teriyaki salmon with caramelized onions, mashed potatoes with goat cheese, and brussels sprouts with lemon and hazelnuts. Dessert will be cookies (of course) and truffles (you know the kind in the gold bag from Costco? I got an entire box from my boss for Christmas, and we definitely need to share those; it's much too dangerous to have 2.2 pounds of truffles between only 2 of us!).

And that is all for now!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!