Christmas is here!!! Christmas is here!!!

Made a stop in Walmart after work today and sure enough, the Christmas trimmings are out for sale in the (formerly) garden area. Indoor and outdoor lights, mostly, along with a few other outdoor decorations.

I'm sure by this weekend the trees and outdoor inflatables will be out. Hope they have carols playing!!!

Seriously...I guess I'm starting to expect this so it's not quite the shock it used to be. But still, I'd really like to get at least Halloween behind us before we start on Christmas.

So what signs of the holidays are you seeing in your neck of the woods?

Hundreds of threads killed.

The Dollar Tree has had Christmas decorations out for about a week or so.

The Halloween stuff has already been crammed up into one corner while the Thanksgiving & Christmas stuff is taking center stage.

All this talk of the Dollar Tree reminds me.... I need to go there & pick up a couple of bags of meatballs.

Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.

I saw an ad in our local Pennysaver that was adorned with Christmas ornaments and on the radio, I heard a "Santa Claus" ad. Don't ask me what the product was- probably electronics, but I tend to zone out on anything but music when I'm in the car.

The artist formerly known as Madawee

Thor wrote:

Jimbo wrote:

All this talk of the Dollar Tree reminds me.... I need to go there & pick up a couple of bags of meatballs.

Are you talking about the Circle Ranch Homestyle Meatballs? They come in a red bag? I get those all the time. Probably have ten bags in the freezer right now. They don't exactly taste like the meatballs I make (but then again they're primarily ground chicken), but they're OK---a good snack.

Yep!!! Them's the ones.

I knew I'd get a response from you if I mentioned meatballs!!!

But you're right, those things are a good snack. I like to eat them cold right out of the fridge. I'll munch on them with those little potato stick things, or like this afternoon, with some (Dollar Tree) nacho tortilla chips or, rolled up in a slice of nice, soft Cobblestone Mill potato bread. Tater tots go good with them, too.

One of these days soon, I'm gonna put a bag of them in a baking dish, dump a jar of spaghetti sauce & a bag of shredded mozzerella over it & bake it. Maybe eat them with garlic bread.

I've made meatball subs out of them too.

They taste fine, but my only complaint is that they don't really fill you up. It's like eating turkey or chicken hot dogs. They just don't hit the spot like beef does.

Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.

Jimbo and Thor.......Nooooooooooo!!! Please don't eat those nasty things! Ever see a pic of "mechanically separated chicken??

http://davescupboard.blogspot.com/2009/06/circle-ranch-homestyle-meatballs.html

"Pickle you....KUMQUAT!"

Virginia Dare wrote:

Jimbo and Thor.......Nooooooooooo!!! Please don't eat those nasty things! Ever see a pic of "mechanically separated chicken??

http://davescupboard.blogspot.com/2009/06/circle-ranch-homestyle-meatballs.html

I am NOT going to look at that!!!!

I did NOT look at that!!!!

Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.

XMAS delicacies for all...

http://www.moolf.com/interesting/top-ten-strangest-foods-from-around-the-world.html

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"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike

You're all missing the point.

It's $1.

I get the best deal in my kitchen.

1 lb ground beef

1/2 lb Ital sausage

coupla eggs

milk

bread crumbs

garlic

grated Romano

parsley

pepper

fennel seed

Mix together. Form into meatballs. Bake at 400 or so for an hour or so.

Then, place into pot with spaghetti sauce and cook some more so that the meatballs flavor the sauce and the sauce flavors the meatballs.

Thor wrote:

I get the best deal in my kitchen.

1 lb ground beef

1/2 lb Ital sausage

coupla eggs

milk

bread crumbs

garlic

grated Romano

parsley

pepper

fennel seed

Mix together. Form into meatballs. Bake at 400 or so for an hour or so.

Then, place into pot with spaghetti sauce and cook some more so that the meatballs flavor the sauce and the sauce flavors the meatballs.

Sounds like a lot of work.

And all those ingredients prolly add up to somewhere just south of ten bucks.

Ouch.

BUT...... they do sound mighty good.

Think you could mail me a batch?

Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.

Jimbo wrote:

Virginia Dare wrote:

That's more like it, Thor.

BTW, just how many balls do you get in that $1 sack??

I think there's about a dozen.

And as that blog you linked in your post said, they're more like lumps, rather than balls.

As long as they aren't Schweddy!

"Pickle you....KUMQUAT!"

Here's something for you guys...as well as me....

71 More Shopping Days 'til Christmas...I hope the Economy didn't bite you in the ass to prevent spending!

Thank God for kids who love Obscure Things.

Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)

Jimbo wrote:

Sounds like a lot of work.

And all those ingredients prolly add up to somewhere just south of ten bucks.

Ouch.

BUT...... they do sound mighty good.

Think you could mail me a batch?

It's some work, but I have it down to a science. Takes about 1/2 hour prep before going into the oven.

And I'd say it's about $7. The beef and the sausage add up to maybe $6, 3 eggs maybe 30 cents, bread crumbs another 50 cents. The rest is negligible.

Third-class mail OK with you?