Re: what should I bring?

["Robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:59:17 -0800
 >
 > Dear Robert,

At the bottom of this message, I have included the summary of what you'll
provide and what I will bring.

 >     I will be serving mashed potatoes, so I'll have potatoes in the house,
 > but I put butter and milk in them. I don't remember if you can have that.

No, I cannot.

 > If
 > you prefer soy milk, perhaps we can buy that and try them with that in them
 > instead. Let me know.

If you can set aside the cooked potatoes before you add butter and milk,
then I won't have to bring my own.

 > The other items are fine for you to bring.

What vegetables will you be having exactly?

 > If anything
 > requires a lot of preparation, maybe you can do that the day before as I
 > will here also as much as I can, so we don't get in each other's way too
 > much on Thurs. in the kitchen.

I was planning to cook everything on Wednesday.

 > I am making cranberry sauce which I believe
 > you can eat,

Yep.

 > and I'll have fresh green beans, so will save some out for you
 > before I doctor them up with the sauce you can not eat.

OK.  Then, I won't bring the green vegetable I was going to bring.
(I was originally going to bring spinach, but then I was going to bring
Brussels sprouts.  But I will not bring either of these.)

 > I believe the other
 > items I'm serving you cannot eat which are: turkey, gravy, stuffing that has
 > wild rice, sausage, muchrooms, onion, and celery in it, but except for the
 > sausage, you could eat  your portion of those individual ingredients before
 > I mix them all in.

I'll make my own stuffing/dressing.  I think that would be easiest and
best.

 > I'm also serving green beans with mustard cream sauce and
 > toasted almonds,

I could just have the cooked green beans alone.

 > for dessert apple-cranberry crostada wich is a puff pastry
 > crust and vanilla ice cream,

I'll be bringing a dessert.

 > and for breakfast I'll make dried apricot
 > pumpkin bread.

You mean, Friday morning?  In any case, I'll probably deal with breakfast
once we get down there.

 > So any of those individual ingredients that you can eat, you
 > may have.

OK.

 > In our cupboard we also have dried prunes, raisins, chopped dates,
 > Thai light coconut milk, Thai red chili curry base (a hot seasoning package,
 > taco shells, and Thai minced red chili peppers all of which you may help
 > yourself

OK.  That may help on Friday.  Noelle and I will go shopping Friday
morning.

 > The cranberry sauce will have chopped candied crystallized ginger
 > and lemon in it.

That's fine -- I can eat it.

 > So all of that may give you ideas for recipes you could
 > easily put together for yourself without having to buy anything. Of course
 > the grocery stores will be closed Thurs. I believe. Let us know about what
 > time you may arrive on Thurs.

Probably the afternoon.

 >      Also I would like to ask a favor of you that I want you to be prepared
 > for in case you have to bring something to do it or look it up before
 > coming. That is for the past couple of months I have been having difficulty
 > with our computer regarding getting all e-mail from an organization I belong
 > to called SCORE to go in its own separate folder. I have arranged that to
 > happed with three other organizations I belong to in order to better
 > organize my voluminous e-mail. So I have had success with the others, but
 > can't seem to make that happen with this one organization, so I need your
 > help with that. Thanks.

I'll see what I can do.

 >     Don has been away all weekend car racing at Laguna Seca, so when he
 > returns I'll show him your wish gift list so we can decide on that.

I assume you mean the on-line one.

 > I
 > e-mailed Mirielle about staying in our guest room since you two volunteered
 > to stay in a near-by hotel in Feb.

Noelle just told me just now that that's what we're doing.

To re-summarize, here's what I'll be bringing:

sweet potatoes
stuffing
rutabaga
veggie turkey
dessert
soymilk for the potatoes

What you will make that I will eat:

cranberry sauce
potatoes (naked)
green beans (naked)

Hopefully, this will work out.

 > See you soon,
 > Gail