New Year’s Eve may well be my favorite holiday. I love the possibility that a new year brings. I love its very newness.
Paul and I used to make an elaborate meal to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of the next, but then we had a baby. And anyway, who really wants to begin a new year with a sink full of dishes, and probably a hangover to boot.
So last year our elaborate feast was downgraded to a really good sandwich.
Now don’t you go feeling bad for us - it was a truly remarkable sandwich. For the second year in a row we made reubens and ate them with potato chips and good beer while we reflected on the action-packed year behind us and marveled at all the coming year would bring.
While others are making resolutions to be broken in the weeks to come livin' it up like they don't have children, we sit down on New Year’s Eve with that sandwich and we write our TO DO list for the coming year. Our track record for these items is pretty decent. They range from the incredibly mundane to the life-alteringly dreamy, and help to focus what we’re doing in the near future. This year my list contains a few projected alterations for this here blog:
-On Tuesdays you will find a quick post on produce.
-Wednesdays will bring you a recipe for a simple mid-week meal.
-Fridays will deliver a rotating roster of baked goods, weekend breakfast ideas, meals out, cocktail recipes, and more elaborate fare to kick off your weekend.
-And then, of course, there will always be unscheduled odds and ends. So be please, come back often.
Happy, happy 2008 my dears.
