Rob brought brisket to the Holiday Pot-Luck?

I'd be taking out a key-man life insurance policy on him. At least in my experience, those kind of people don't come around often enough.

Looks like Editor Liz brought some Pillsbury© Savorings Flaky Pastry Bites. So much for homemade pot luck parties, I guess.

I think it is hysterical that the Restaurant Critic, of all people, forgot about the POTLUCK PARTY!
One time I forgot about a party, stopped and bought the veggie platter, and no one at my party ate any either.
People want food that is bad for them. They don't want healthy!

If people weren't meant to eat meat then why in the world does it taste so darned good! And, yes, the more fat the better.

EL - you shouldn't have ignored Rosebud's list - skip the carrots!

Got to agree with Joyce, this is no time for healthy food, I have never seen a vegetable platter at one of these things that has more than a couple of carrots actually consumed. Now, the thing to have done was to send him to Eddies for some of their roasted sweet potato wedges which would have been great with the brisket. Now that you have been properly admonished, pass the brisket, please. I'll bet that Gailor can turn those vegetables into something yummy for dinner.....lol.

Where's the mention of Food Editor Kate's homemade brown sugar-sour cream cheesecake with graham cracker-cornmeal crust, topped with shavings of dark chocolate? Sniff...

I ate too much meat to even consider dessert. But it did look beautiful. EL

So, Kate, are you going to post the recipe for that cheesecake over at your blog?

Kate I tried a slice of that cake and it was delicious indeed. Four stars!

Will do, Dahlink -- look for it tomorrow over at Charm City Moms. Too bad I didn't snap a pic before it disappeared...

I am curious why someone who blogged about fear of stomach flu would sample the offerings at a potluck - perhaps the perfect breeding ground for gastroflub!

I'm very brave. Also I was hungry. EL

Yum...brisket. It is a fortunate pot luck that contains brisket.

Enough brisket talk. Now its time for recipes. Please.

And I bet it was grilled or smoked!

My family's favorite brisket recipe - melt one can of gelatin style cranberry sauce with brown sugar, cider vinegar, 1 pkg onion soup mix, worcestershire sauce, ketchup and garlic powder. Heat til sauce is melted and all ingredients are incorporated. There are no amounts, just mix it up til it tastes right. Pour 1/3 on bottom of 9 x 13 ceramic cooking pan. Place the largest possible brisket fat side up on top of sauce and pour remaining sauce on it. Cover tightly with foil and bake at 300 degrees until extremely tender. I've cooked them for as long as 6 hours and a short as 3 before - depends on size of brisket. Before serving allow to cool and cut AGAINST the grain. This recipe never fails to please - it's awesome mashed potatoes so you can make a lake of gravy on them.

I know our id's are stored in our browsers, but something weird is going on with the number of us loosing the id's and filing as Anonymous. Despite logic I still want to blame the blogware.

Anyway, Ms W. thanks for the recipe. Sounds good and easy, too.

Help. I have been looking for Rosebud's holiday list and unable to find. Anyone remember under what post it appeared. I meant to copy it and forgot. You know the one I mean; the one Joyce W referenced above. Now back to the topic.

As the late Colonel Sanders once said, "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."

Oooh, SWFP used gastroflub. One small step toward world domination. Now I have to drive my Owl Metals dumpster around the beltway some more.

Shameless ploy for attention:
Check out today's Owl Meat Apocrypha for an item about the other other red meat -- penguin. I think it represents the very small niche of penguin ranching literature. But they're so cute ...

Hi, Regina. That was from "Gingerbread men, yule logs and other good things," posted on Dec. 11. I'm working on committing it to memory.

Thanks, Kristin. I had driven myself crazy looking for it. You saved the day.

I took relatives to Philip's Inner Harbor two weeks ago and had the WORST meal ever. For $30 I was given 3 large(not jumbo) shrimp, 3 medium scallops, 1 Tbsp of mashed potatoes and 2 slivers of red pepper.That was all that was on the plate4. What a rip-off. NEVER will we go there again.

Anonymous - everyone at some point makes the Philip's mistake. Just remember it applies to the OC location too (except Philip's by the Sea for breakfast in the Beach Plaza Hotel).