New Year's Eve

It was just great waking up NYD without a hangover. Does this mean I'm growing up? It made it much easier to enjoy all the delicious foods I cooked up and devoured from family and friends.
This year I even got my husband to watch the Rose Bowl parade. For years, I'd be up getting more food ready for those sleepy head sons and I always encouraged them to 'come watch the parade' just s my sister and I did when we were young. But, they never were interested. My husband who watched it with me actually said how much he enjoyed watching and hearing the commentaries. It's pretty great how that all comes together. I think my favorite one was with the dogs. They were having a heyday!
While we watched the Parade, we noshed on nothing, really.
But, the night before, my sister linda and her husband, my friend Cheryl and her husband joined us for a delicious 'simple' NYE dinner with things we had in our fridges with just a few purchases.
We started our dinner with my sister's French Onion sup- it's always betta with liqua! She adds brandy and who knows what other liquor to it- but it was so delicious.



We started dinner about 8 pm and we actually timed it pretty well....we had some shrimp spring rolls and a delicious blue cheese and walnut dip which was served with apple and cucumber slices before we had the soup.
My friend supplied us with the entree: Beef kebobs and avocado filled with lobster louie- we made that up.





Next....dessert.
I made a Gran Marnier souffle. And, after the timer beeped, and I turned off the timer, I also forgot to take the souffle out of the oven! The resulting texture was similar to an angel food cake. Fortunately I had some peppermint ice cream in the freezer and covered my mistake. We all ate the flopped souffle and gobbled up the ice cream. We thought we'd try playing a gme or two but the time got away from us. We got busy posing for pictures!



And then, there was the next day......