Shanley

1. midnight
well...i'll stop here, so that others can have fun too

Arw65

ive got 12 of 16---- having issues with 2, 10, 14 and 15

lynnspotter

10.shepherd

lynnspotter

16.mistletoe

Baldur

2. Bethlehem

Baldur

3. cedar, or possibly seder

Baldur

4. elves
alright I should stop too

marius

You all are doing very well. marius was a disaster at this word game.

marg! LOL! You wrote "... and there's quite a 'lots' of me after Christmas!" Am thinking you had a good feast! Thanks for the kind words too.

Baldur

As you know Baldur also contributes to another website, I thought it would be good to copy today's blog here also
Enjoy:

The Yuletide Continues

First let me wish everyone a continued season of excitement and discovery.
Mr. Bear got the opportunity just this very afternoon to feel a bit more of the joyous holiday season.
Let me elaborate.
I have an exwife. While most would not consider having one in any way conducive to maintaining high seasonal cheer, I myself would disagree.
We remain excellent friends, even amid concessions that were our state of matrimony not terminated one of us would certainly have become spousicidal by now.
The dear woman gave me a rather generous gift card to what one refers to as a 'big box' book store.
Quite generous actually, especially since she and I reside in different centuries.
She is firmly ensconced in the early 21st century while I obviously never arrived there.
So gift card firmly tucked in waistcoat pocket Mr. Bear went out to enlarge his library.
It was a brilliant shopping expedition.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to encounter a hardcover copy of Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett's "Boilerplate".
But indeed there were several copies at hand.
Also to quickly get scoooped up by my greedy hands was a copy of Scott Westerfeld's "Leviathan".
This was going quite well.
While perusing the magazine racks there was slight disappointment in that the new issues of 'American Bungalow' and 'Style 1900' were not there yet, but there were copies of the most recent 'Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival'.
Now there was quite a nice stack of reading materials piling up in the crook of my arm.
At last I strolled to the discount book section and found 2 reasonable and well illustrated cookbooks, one on Tunisian cuisine, the other featuring the dishes indigenous to Turkey.
That ended the brief foray of hedonistic shopping on my part.
Now Mr Bear must concentrate on the impending New Year.
My partner and I expect a houseful of guests on New Year's Eve, and it falls upon me once again to feed them.
Wishing all my brethren here the best that the sands of time can uncover.
B.

marius

It is official!

Baldur has solved the holiday word game! If you want to check you answers - visit his answer thread. All his answers are correct.

Congrats, Mr. Bear!

marius

Sounds like Baldur had a grand shopping experience. Don't you LOVE gift cards! You can buy exactly what you want and it is SO fun! Should we be expecting Tunisian cuisine recipes to appear here soon?

And, ohhhhhh, waiting to hear the New Year's Eve dinner menu, guest list, centerpiece, and so on and so forth. : )

Baldur

Heavens, what does this say about my thought processes?

marius

I don't have a clue. Maybe matthew would know? Seems I read he says he even knows about nothing. (giggle) Seriously! : )

Baldur

The Tunisian cookbook is very interesting so far, Baldur reads them like novels.
There is almost nothing one could consider vegetarian, but things can be adapted.

marius

Yes, on Polenta's picture matthew wrote: "Yes, I know everything... (which includes nothing)..."

Still cracking me up!

marius

Like novels? ??

Baldur

Admittingly there is not much plot.
But you run into gems such as this:
'Ojja with scrambled eggs and harissa is nicknamed 'kadhaba', which means "untruthful woman!"

marius

Well, THAT would be worth reading! Does Baldur know what "ojja" and "harissa" are? Can they be purchased here?

It is late for one who wouldn't stop working her first jigsaw puzzle in twenty+ years ... and stayed up WAY too late last night.

Sweet dreams to all in TD-land.

Baldur

Harissa is a paste made of hot red peppers and other things.

I will try to explain Ojja in Western terms. if any Tunisians are reading this please forgive this oversimplification.
It is basically a chunky tomato sauce with sliced chili peppers (imagine salsa actually) simmered in a shallow pan.
Raw eggs are then cracked and deposited on top, the eggs are cooked, without stirring in the hot tomato/pepper mixture.
There are versions that also contains meatballs and other embellishments but the tomatoes, peppers and eggs seem constant.

sheftali52

Sheftali would love harissa, as she loves just about anything made with hot peppers. Glad you had a fun outing in the bookstore, Baldur. That is one of my favorite doings--wandering around a bookstore. However, frugal Sheftali also likes to check books out of the nearby country library.