Happy New Year’s Eve FoFo readers! I was so sad to take down our big light display today. We always light up our backyard as you see from the photo above.
For those of you who have visited the Oakland Zoo and perhaps have seen that exact same display there, please don’t ruin it for the rest of the internet by tattling about me lying. Does anyone else have a home that looks super bare without all the holiday decorations? I need some color back in my life!
I’ll be cruising through all of 2012’s top 10’s and looking-back posts around the web, after my kids are in bed. We plan to celebrate NYE New York time, which is 9 pm for those who are even worse at math than I am. My little party planner has tonight all mapped out.
It reads:
- TV
- Cookies
- Barbies
- Slurpees
- Dinner
- Freeze Dance
- Chess
- Countdown
Who says we don’t know how to party? Everyone? Oh, yeah, everyone says that.
My friend Jody gave me a great recipe, which has inspired my second new favorite salad. (My first is a few posts down and it’s buffalo chicken-licious).
Paso Uno (That’s step one, Gringos): Buy a fat pomegranate at the end of the farmers’ market for $1.00
Step Two: Read the photos below. You’ll be slicing off the top, scoring the corners, peeling back the pom and pulling out all the seeds.
Next: Toast some nuts. Any nuts! Pour raw nuts into a dry pan and turn the heat to high. Once the pan is hot, keep the nuts moving for 1-2 minutes and you’ve got yourself some flavor!
Step Twelve: Use a dressing which is light in flavor. I don’t think you can go wrong with a Poppy Seed or Balsamic.
Step C: Mix seeds, nuts and dressing into a giant bowl of lettuce.
Step Last: Crumble blue cheese, feta, cojita or whatever crumbly stuff you’ve got over the top.
Step Eat: Eat it.
Before I go party with my family in my pajamas, I’d love to wish you all a Happy New Year! 2013 has great things in store for us all. Yes, it will have some poop as well, but it’s all in how we look at it and deal with it, right?
Thank you all for making 2012 a bigger, better year for Food It Forward. As of yesterday, FoFo has had a little more than 82,000 views this year. I plan to triple that number in ’13. Lucky number 13, right! Be safe tonight!
As my Grandfather would love to say on NYE,
“I’m not brushing my teeth until next year,”
Kim
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