I know that there are some strange foods and odd drinks on the market. Especially in other countries. I wonder if there really is a Diet Coke with bacon flavor? So many people know how to use Photoshop that this could be a fake photo. I found the photo on Facebook, so it could be just a fake digital image that someone made for a laugh. But I like bacon and I have to admit that a flavored Diet Coke is intriguing.

One thing I really don’t like to eat is cucumbers. I don’t like them, no matter what you do to them or how you fix them. I don’t like them raw. I don’t like them marinated in vinegar. I don’t like them pickled, either. When I order a burger at the fast food places I have to ask them to hold the pickles or I have to pick them off with my fingers before I can eat the burger. Cucumbers are a pretty much useless vegetable as far as I’m concerned.

Last year we did have a white Christmas. It snowed for several days before Christmas and it snowed on Christmas Day, too. Not this year! The temperatures have not been below 35 degrees this winter.

We started the day out slow and easy, then we had to go to my mom’s house for dinner. She is a great cook and takes this Christmas dinner thing very seriously. So we all have to get dressed up nice, can’t be late, and have to make an extra effort to not get into an argument with anyone in the family so we don’t upset my mom and ruin her Christmas.

Holiday dinners always seem to be based on turkey or ham. What is up with that? Why don’t we celebrate Christmas dinner with some great T-bone steaks and lobsters? That’s what I’m talking about! Enough with the turkey, people! I want steaks – big, think grilled steaks are my idea of celebrating!

One thing I learned from watching the Food Network is how to make the perfect scrambled eggs. Like most people, I learned how to cook breakfast from watching my mom cook. Some people might also learn by working in a fast food restaurant or full service restaurant. But I learned from my mom, who put milk in the eggs when she beat them. I learned from the Food Channel that milk or water is not a good thing to add to scrambled eggs. Eggs and added milk or water will separate during the cooking and create wet, overcooked eggs.