"Wayne Boatwright" & Cyndi" chatted about Potted Beef Spread
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: Cyndi,
:
: No need to apologize... We have busy lives and being sick and
taking
: care of a 4 year old certainly doesn't help with your schedule
or free
: time. Hope you are much better by now!
:
: I'm delighted to have this! At the time of our first exchange
about
: this, I did a bit of googling and found a fair number of
recipes.
: However, absolutely none of the ones I found are seasoned quite
the way
: this one is. This really sounds delicious.
:
: I already have all the ingredients, so will be making this next
Saturday
: as a dry run. I plan to serve this as one of the appetizers at
both
: Thanksgiving and Christmas. Can't wait to tastte it!
:
: Thanks again, so much...
:
: Wayne
: =====

Awwwwwwwwwwwww, you're so darn cute! <giggle>

Thank you. Yep, feeling much better; however, DH now has the
nasty bug. Arrgghh! He's on the road to recovery but now has a
definite understanding about how nasty I had felt.

After our initial talk of this and then once I finally got off my
duff and posted it - well, I too, will be making it for friends
and family. My thoughts are to make it the weekend after
Thanksgiving and give out as early food gifts. In our
neighborhood, several of the neighbors like to deliver goodies on
Christmas eve... Well, knowing how many goodies are passed
around - my thoughts were to do this early before everyone gets
hit with more food than they can eat. I dunno. It sounded like
a good idea in my head... ? Some of the voices can be very
persuasive. LOL

I'll be making some mini loaves of bread to go with them.

If I had fewer friends/family and a bigger budget... I got the
coolest idea while at Bed, Bath & Beyond the other night... for $
2.99 and $ 3.99 a piece, they had the cutest mini porcelain and
steel containers with a tini ladle attached. Anyway, the idea
would have been to pack the Potted Beef in those and place them
in a basket with the loaves of bread nestled around one of the
containers. Of course, if I really wanted to stretch myself thin
(effort-wise, as happens every so often) I'd also make a couple
of batches of different flavored crackers and toss in a small
block or two of cheese... Hmmm, maybe I'll use that idea for
next year's goodies... Crackers and Cheese. Cool.

Wayne, please let me know how the Potted Beef goes over with your
crew. Ummm, just a note, I remember when I was keeping the bowl
submerged in the pot of water I used a couple of cast iron
trivets to keep the bowl from floating up. HTH.


Cyndi
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