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Title: Holiday Rush (Part 4)
Characters: Ron/Draco
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
NOTE: This is a HP Rare pair series, so you won’t find Harry/Ron, Ron/Herminone, Snape/Harry (Snape/anyone actually) and who winds up with who will be revealed as we go along.
Summary: Christmas is a time for love. Will Charlie and company find it?
Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by:
Harry Potter: JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc

No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Title: Sucking…um, make that Saving Face
Characters: Charlie Weasley, Neville Longbottom
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
NOTE: This is a HP Rare pair series, so you won’t find Harry/Ron, Ron/Herminone, Snape/Harry (Snape/anyone actually) and who winds up with who will be revealed as we go along.
Summary: Christmas is a time for love. Will Charlie and company find it?
Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by:
Harry Potter: JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc

No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Title: A Stray Dog? (Holiday Rush, Part 2)
Characters: Charlie Weasley, Oliver Wood, Dennis Creevey
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
NOTE: This is a HP Rare pair series, so you won’t find Harry/Ron, Ron/Herminone, Snape/Harry (Snape/anyone actually) and who winds up with who will be revealed as we go along.
Summary: Christmas is a time for love. Will Charlie and company find it?
Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by:
Harry Potter: JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc

No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Title: Holiday Rush (Part 1)
Characters: Charlie Weasley, Oliver Wood
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
NOTE: This is a HP Rare pair series, so you won’t find Harry/Ron, Ron/Herminone, Snape/Harry (Snape/anyone actually) and who winds up with who will be revealed as we go along.
Summary: Christmas is a time for love. Will Charlie and company find it?
Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by:
Harry Potter: JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc

No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Regardless, with the help of my wonderul and patient beta (and she knows who she is) I will make my extended deadline.

 

Saturday, I made baked chicken, hash browns, and a salad. For dessert we made and sipped a spiced chai latte

For dinner today, we made Braised Short Ribs…Recipes below

For today’s dinner, I did short ribs in the oven.

Coffee_N_Cocoa is thinking of organizing a Neville Big Bang fest. It it comes to be, which pairing should I write?

I made these for breakfast this morning and topped with a makeshift combo of blueberries and strawberries (the frozen kind, thawed and warmed up).

1 ¼ cups all purpose flour

¾ cup cornmeal

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

Pinch of salt

1 cup low-fat buttermilk

2 large eggs beaten

¼ cup olive oil

¼ cup water

1.        In a bowl, whisk the flour with the cornmeal, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  In another bowl, whisk the buttermilk with the eggs, olive oil and water.  Whisk the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients, leaving small lumps.

2.       Set a griddle or small skillet over moderate high heat and spray with vegetable spray. When the pan is hot, spoon in about ¼ cup mounds of better and spread to form 4-inch rounds.  Cook the pancakes unit the bottoms are browned and bubbles appear on the surface, about 2 minutes.  Flip and cook other side until browned on bottom (1-2 minutes more).

That was breakfast. For lunch we had cranberry bean soup with bacon, and cheese bread and a salad.  For dinner, we indulged and had pulled pork sandwiches (Teh Rock did the pulled pork in the crock pot).

One 6 pound roasting chicken

2 garlic cloves thinly sliced

6 rosemary sprigs

3 tangerines, washed and halved

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

½ cup dry white wine

¼ cup honey

1 ¾ cups chicken broth

1.       Heat oven to 425 F.  Set the chicken on a rack in a roasting pan and stuff the cavity with the garlic, rosemary, and 4 of the tangerine halves.  Juice the remaining tangerine halves. Rub the oil all over the chicken. Pour the wine and juice over the chicken.  Drizzle on the honey and season with salt and pepper.

2.       Roast the chicken for 20 minutes.  Add 1 cup of the broth to the pan, cover the pan with foil and reduce the oven temperature to 375.  Roast the chicken for 40 minutes.  Add the remaining ¾ cup of broth to the roasting pan. Cover and roast for 50 minutes longer or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the inner thigh registers 165.

3.       Transfer the chicken to a carving board and let rest for 15 minutes.  Strain the pan juices into a sauce pan and skim the fat.  Carve the chicken and serve with pan juices.

NOTE:  I have put the bones and fruit into a stock pot and it is simmering with water.  That stock is going to taste so good.

From the cookbook: “The Craft Of Baking” by Karen De Masco and Mindy Fox

 This is on through the first week of November.

And that is if I don't catch the flu.  We have Typhoid Harry and Mary who seem incapable of covering their mouths when they sneeze.  Mary, (not her real name) has called in sick 10 days in the last month and then when she comes back to work you can hear her tell her friends how late she stayed out partying at clubs the past few days. 

So, of course, when she really is sick, she doesn't call in.

Then we have Shirley (her real name) who must be a descendant of The Big Bad Wolf.  Literally, you can hear her sneeze 10 aisles away.  She also doesn't cover her mouth.

She was most perplexed as to why, after she sent an e-mail saying she brought cinnamon rolls for everyone that she had few takers. " Uh, Honey, logic would dictate that after you've sneezed all over you desk with no attempt to cover your mouth that we have no wish to touch said rolls that were on your desk"

SIGH..

Tomorrow, I shall have fun though.   The local no-kill animal shelter is having a doggy wash and adoption day.  I won't' adopt, we have two dogs and a cat already but I have volunteered to wash them.

Then, after laundry and a nap and a perfunctory house cleaning, we are having dinner at my Aunt's.  She has promised Lobstor risotto.  I am looking forward to that.

What else?

I have made the brine for the fried chicken, and said chicken is soaking in it.  It has to soak at least 12 hours, but really it makes the best fried chicken I have ever tasted. 

I am also trying a recipe for oven-roasted tomato sauce.  No stove top tending or stirring.  It looks good, we shall see.