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I didn’t cook Christmas dinner at home, as we had our family dinner at our daughter’s house. So “leftovers” here are baked goods. I tried a new-to-me Martha Stewart recipe this year, along with a few of our usual favorites, and it was a hit wherever I took it. There’s *one* piece left, which I plan to make sure is gone today. \ud83d\ude09 This is the last remaining piece of the chocolate coconut cheesecake squares<\/a>. Yum!<\/div>\n

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Now for the choices. I’ve had to give up on my original plan for quilting that Storm at Sea miniature, as I just couldn’t make the intersections work out right. Fine. I’ll probably use my original idea in the borders instead. Next question: what color thread should I use? Going through what I already had on hand, I thought a cone of turquoise\/purple Rainbows polyester might be pretty good, but then I also liked a lighter lavender I have. Decisions, decisions! I’m leaning toward the turquoise\/purple, but I’m still thinking …. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t cook Christmas dinner at home, as we had our family dinner at our daughter’s house. So “leftovers” here are baked goods. I tried a new-to-me Martha Stewart recipe this year, along with a few of our usual favorites, and it was a hit wherever I took it. There’s *one* piece left, which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192],"tags":[47,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-1478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kitchen","8":"tag-food","9":"tag-storm-at-sea","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/chocolate-coconut-cheesecake-squares.jpg?fit=640%2C492&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1440,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/24\/dinner\/","url_meta":{"origin":1478,"position":0},"title":"Dinner!","author":"Sandy","date":"July 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's get one thing out of the way from the start: I love\u00a0ratatouille! 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