A good old fashioned recipe for fudge can be found in Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking. The kind you cook, no marshmallows. It is very similar to my Mom's recipe from the 50's or 40's or earlier. You have to beat this fudge w/ a wooden spoon until it looses its sheen, and then. introduce it to a buttered pan. Mom always did it drop style, which most people find almost impossible. Walnuts too. My favorite. I used hazelnuts tonight because I have a super abundance of them.
Next is mahogany butter crunch toffee w/ a chocolate and hazelnut topping. Why am I doing all this tonight.? Family Christmas gathering tomorrow.
The menu? Alaskan King Crab Legs and ratatouille on polenta pie w/ an alfredo type sauce on top - bolognese style. I am using spaghetti squash instead of eggplant in the ratatouille. Can't get eggplant up North at the corner store, but they did have spaghetti squash. Never had it. Should be interesting. A salad w/ dates and walnuts, bleu cheese, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Maybe bacon too. Thielen's pepper bacon. A galette style apple crisp w/ whipped cream for dessert.
Egg nog to drink w/ Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum and Courvosier Cognac. I am testing that tonight while I make the sweets. Sweet.
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