Shop Vac and Powdered Sugar

(Already My Mother is sending a scathing email

due to this image)

I packed up every stupid inch of Christmas today.    I wrapped up every Nutcracker, individually wrapped precious ornaments.  I tore down the tree and the "outdoor display".

blah blah blah.

I pulled in the Shop Vac and sucked every piece of tinsel off that tree.

(The Shop Vac is called Noo Noo.)

I went to the storage unit and rotated the holiday storage boxes.

Buh-Bye Christmas.  Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

I came home and continued to work on my New Media Literacy paper.  It is going swimmingly except for the fact that I am 15 pages over my assignment requirement.

sigh

So I decided to make a Moroccan Party.

yes.....I have a clay Tangine dish thingie

I made a lamb tangine and decided to make a B'stilla (a Moroccan chicken pot pie with powdered sugar on top).  I think it turned out pretty well but I didn't know what to do with the B'stilla leftovers..... So I took a picture of it.

can you smell the cumin?

the cinnamon?

the tumeric?

Big Funny Kid had a friend over who had neither eaten Lamb nor had Moroccan food.  I think I managed to check those things off of his Bucket List.

Chez Loco:  We suck up the tinsel, try to figure things out and end up creating something yummy. 

More importantly, we love having friends here.

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