Holiday Cheer

Hello everyone. Yes, you're right -- it has been awhile since I last blogged. I bet you can't guess what I was up to!? Now the holidays are right around the corner and it seems like between playing tennis and attending holiday parties, there's little time for much else. Ok, don't fall over but I did find the time to cook this week. Seriously. I probably should be embarrassed to admit (though strangely I'm not) that it may have been the first dish I've cooked all year. I say this being fully aware that boiling pasta does not count as cooking.

Anyhow, I made Beef Stroganoff for my tennis cup team's holiday party. Amazingly, it was the hit of the party. Well, it shared that honor with the seemingly unending supply of vodka coupled w/Rock Band well into the night. It was like Josie and Pussycats -- for real! My fingers were sore for days. Several people texted me for the recipe, which I unfortunately couldn't pass on as I just made it up as I went along. Which is just how I happen to cook : on the fly and when the mood strikes me. Actually my mother is an amazing award-winning cook. It's like having a European-trained chef at your disposal, which as I think about it is pretty sweet. Her cooking is really the best part of the holidays. (Now I'm starting to get hungry!) Who knows, maybe along with her tennis-genes, my mother passed along to me a smidgen of her cooking sensibility. I should make a mental note to thank her for that.

Happy Holidays!