Ideas from the critics

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cooking, food, menu ideas, menus, postaday2012, writing

My hubby, the baby girl and I were in the car today and as I was driving, the question of the Christmas menu hit me and so I threw it over to them. The ideas came pretty quickly, nothing has been decided, but I do have various ideas from the very invested food critics that live with me. The baby girl’s first request and I think only request was for palmier cookies; the ones that I made last weekend for the annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. Since these were such a hit with my hubby and the baby boy; moreover the baby girl missed out because she had stayed at school that weekend, so I decided that at least for the dessert part of the menu, palmier cookies were a go.

The rest of the menu is still up in the air, not only because the baby boy hasn’t weighed in with his requests, but also because so far the requests are all protein; some type of shrimp dish, Lobster Newburgh or Beef Wellington. I am not waiting on my family for vegetable requests, that’s my department, but when I come up with a few selections, I’ll run them by my very interested foodies. So far I am leaning towards something very simple with the vegetable course, since the main courses, so far, are fairly complicated.

I like devoting all this energy and thought to creating an exciting, tasty menu for us to eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

Where did inspiration hit?

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introspection, memory, postaday2012, thinking, walking, writing

Nowadays I have to be careful where inspiration can hit me because if it's far away from my computer or any sort of writing paper; that sudden flash of inspiration might as well have never happened because with my memory failing me, the flash rapidly transforms into a DUD, no BAM for me.

I often get inspired during my walks throughout the day, I wonder if it's the increased circulation and blood pumping throughout my veins and arteries that inspire such flashes, sadly these flashes sometimes dissipate into the ether as I get closer to home or as soon as I walk into the door. Maybe it's the decrease in blood flow that erases what memory I had of the idea, I don't know. I used to have flashes of creativity in the car while driving but that hasn't happened in a while, nowadays I concentrate on where I'm going and paying attention while I am getting there. There have been too many times that I have arrived to my destination and I couldn't remember how I got there because I was busy thinking of everything other than driving. That is most definitely not a good thing to be doing while you are driving a motorized potential weapon. So I limit my bursts of creative thinking to the safety of my walking routes.