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My wife is making her traditional holiday treat.  It is a pot of stuffed 
cabbage rolls with sauerkrauet rather than tomato sauce.  She grinds top 
sirloin with hickory smaoked bacon for the meat. That is mixed with rice and 
minced onion to go in the cabbage leaves. She freezes the whole cabbages, 
rather than boiling them to make the leaves soft in which to roll the meat 
and stuff.  Saurekrat is placed bewteen each layer and kind of ladded in 
around the individual cabbage rolls.  

.  My MIL made them until she died.  They are different than I have had 
ellsewhere.  My Wife, others side of the family is Slavic, this is one of 
their recipes; they call it sadama (sp?).  Some other East Eurppeams make a 
similar dish called Sarma.  Neither uses tomato sauce.  This pot of cabbage 
rolls will last the two of us through the first.

Usually, some mexican lady will have come by to sell us tamales.  That is the 
Phoenix traditional Christmas snack.  So far, none have come by.  Between now 
and the first, we will go to a Mexican restauarant and pick up a couple of 
dozen if no mexican ladies come by with any to sell.

Oh, and my wife took a 2 foot christmas tree with built in lights out of a 
box and set it up at the end of the den.  Ho-Ho-Ho.  No presents, but, the 
dog and the cat have each had fun knocking over her tree.

I have yet to hear a Christmas song this year.  Maybe I will watch a few 
minutes of the Lawrence Welk show if it comes on tonight.  Ho-Ho-Ho.

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