Christmas gifting isn't something my partner and I do with each other much (although I was sneaky and got her something she loved this year; no other Christmas gifts other than that morning...well, never mind about that right now, that's not for the blockchain.
Anyway, Santa actually decided I'd been a good boy all year and was gift-worthy...and when I say Santa I mean myself. Yep, I'm my own fucken Santa Claus, it's so much easier that way. And my gift? Well, I decided to buy a new serving platter for when I make food platters for BBQ's and when guests come over.
I love making platters because they're so easy and I get to put a heap of different stuff on there for people to pick over as they like. My issue was that the platter I had wasn't well-suited to the task and while my platters came out ok I felt platter-envy when I saw other people's that were presented on way better serving platters far more legit than my own. I had to have one so I Santa Claused one for for myself a couple weeks before Christmas.
On new years eve, another day that always seems quite pointless to me but is a good chance to have yet another BBQ, I had a couple over and decided I'd hit them with a platter, on my new platter-serving thing. I know, it's not the best platter you've ever seen and I forgot to leave room for the fucken crackers but overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and it was fucken tasty...that's the main point of it.
My wooden serving platter has four little cutouts for the four dishes across the back in which I have hummus (or however it's fucken spelled), feta-stuffed olives, sweet potato and cashew dip and feta-stuffed red bell peppers. (Fucken yum to all of that.)
The next row is dates, almonds and cashew nuts, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. (Again, a big old fucken yum to that row.)
I have camembert cheese, chedder, pickle onion crumbly cheese and a three colour cheese plus Barossa gypsy ham and hot sopressa salami on the final row. (And you guessed it, fucken yum.)
Because I'm a fucken idiot I forgot to leave room for the Jatz crackers but don't worry...they went in a side bowl and (were fucken yum).
I'm pretty happy with how the platter went and it was certainly big enough to create a generous platter; I reckon what I had on this one would have easily been enough for six to eight people to pick off after the BBQ food and as the beers and wines, gin and tonics and scotch flowed. (It was a big fucken night y'all)
I'm really pleased with my new platter, and not at all dissatisfied that it's a brand new year now either.
We sent the old one off with a great BBQ (and an amazing fucken platter) and after we kicked 2024 in the ass on its way out we gave 2025 a welcoming hug, (I'm the world's best hugger folks, I mean seriously), and my partner and I are looking forward to some new adventures, consolidating our position even more and to planning out our future together. Brand new year, brand new platter and brand new relationship plans to create as we choose...seems like a good combination.
I hope y'all have a really great 2025 whether it's a building year, a recovery year, or one in which to consolidate and launch into the next phase of life from...have a good one...and get yourself a legit platter!
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Yum! is the word here...I'm thinking alot of people have platter envy after looking at that spread.
It is a guarantee that I will be stealing this phraseology in the future. It fits well for a multitude of pre-holiday purchases I have planned for next year.
For 2025 I wanted to start the New Year off on the right foot, so...at 11:59 I lifted my left foot off the ground and stood there like a dumbass until the clock struck 12:00...sure hope it works lol
Happy New Year to you and your lady, and your kitty girl, too!!
Haha, the right foot strategy....seems like you've hit on the exact way to get a new year started off well, and on the right foot!
Yeah, the platter was good for sure, worked nicely. You're totally welcome to use my self Santa clausing strategy any time you like...the old fat bastard can't always be relied on to get it right.
Hot dang! That looks amaze. People think that there is no cure for bad platters but boom, you have gone and bloody done it! :OD
Thanks man, it went down pretty well even though I forgot to leave room for the fucken Jatz crackers on the platter. It was ok though, I adapted, overcame the situation, and ended up with a side bowl of Jatz and that was that.
Side bowls conquer all problems with platters! I had a nice platter myself last night but nothing on this scale!
Yeah, I might have gone overboard with it; go hard or go how huh? 😉
Hope you had a good NYE...it's all in the past now it's 2025 though huh?
Yeah, stuff that NYE nonsense. It's done, forward!!! Raar!!
I must confess I am an antiplatterist.
They still exist? Wow, I thought they were extinct years ago.
No, you're mixing us antiplatterists up with the anti-philatelists. The authorities stamped them out years ago. We antiplatterists are still around but we have a lot on our plates!
Haha, a lot on your plates! You're a funny gal methinks...and me likey.
Happy New Year ! (my old year still has about an hour and 35 minutes as I type this) I won't be sad to see 2024 go!
....and as always, hoping for the best year ever for 2025. Sure, I know that is not likely, but it is good to have hope against all odds. LOL !!
I like your "charcuterie" board, or that is what the Foodies here call them. It's french I think and I had to goog the pronunciation once long ago, just so I could actually say it right most of the time 😂
It looks like you did a fine job with your platter. I'm sure all of your guests appreciated your fun effort as well.
Hello from the future, how does it feel being stuck in the past? Lol
Charcuterie...yes, it's called that here too but I'm not that fancy so decided to use the layman's term. It looks ok huh? I think it's actually pronounced, shark-oot-er-rhee but fuck that, platter is easier.
I hope 2025 is the best ever too, but I'm always after continual improvement so I'll say that about 2026 as well.
Happy new year, it'll be good to welcome you to the future.
Whew ! I finally got to 2025. Strange, so far it feels just like 2024 !
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Lol...it does right? Oh well, welcome to the future...although my future is a little more futuristic than yours because I'm a little more in the future than the future you're in. Not that my future is a better future, just a future a little farther in the future than the future you're in and therefore my future is more futuristic.
Well... if something goes wrong, maybe I'll see it happen to you before it gets to me and I can duck!
Oh yes,that's a very good plan...use me as an early warning system. Good idea!
Yeah.... I thought so too. 😂
That tray is great!!! I have one but without holes and it's great for example to prepare a table that I'm seeing that by the way... my mouth is watering, what a treat!
When I read about the hug .... how many hugs the world needs, that's the first thing I thought.
I liked for me the theme of consolidating and launching myself into the new stage of life. I'll stick with that one and keep building.
Very happy new year Galen!
Keep building, that's the way to do it...before long you'll look around you and realise you've created exactly what you wanted. Happy new year.
I will do so Galen, thank you for that advice. A big hug! Thank you always.
It is great to be your own Santa.😃
Happy New Year!!
I trust myself to be my own Santa as I know what I want...the real Santa can be a little bit unreliable. 😁
Didn't have the best 2024 if you wanted to boot it on the way out?
That platter is legit. I love platters, they were often a go to for lunches at home when the kids were little coz they were easy XD
I might have to go and make myself a tiny one now, be a much healthier snack than what I was contemplating (basically any of the remaining pile of chocolate on my desk).
Nah, it wasn't a bad one...it looked at me funny on the way out so I decided to administer a good ass kick as it left just to show it who's boss.
The platter was good, not my best ever, but good enough for sure. Hopefully it inspired you to platter-on yourself!
Sadly platterising will have to wait til tomorrow or so as I got summoned for extraction. But it is definitely a thing that is going to happen XD
It's something exciting to look forward to!
Just wanted you to know, ages later, I finally got my mini platter XD It was water crackers with cheese, salami and an olive on top (J made it, I wouldn't have put salami).
It was good.
Already cured of the wrong platter syndrome, which I am glad about, I wish you a great year 2025.
Yep, it's cured...and as for 2025...it should be a good one, for all I hope.
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Plates are very wise creatures because they contain what we eat and that is what we are. Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you too as well, hopefully it's a really good year for all of us...and my platter thing gets some more use!
Omg, it was a platter, not a plate. 😆 This mistake of mine can only be solved if I eat a little bit of everything there hahaha....
Oh yeah, you'll have to sample everything, go back for seconds and maybe a third and fourth time just to make sure.
Happy 2025. I hope that it will be a great year for us all.
I agree, a good one is well needed. Happy new year.
Happy New Year @galenkp and your partner. 2025 going to be more exciting and adventurous to both....enjoy!!
Happy new year to your and your family, may it be a great year for all and may it end with a new platter like 2024 did. Lol.
That opening quote gives me the vibe like it is some thing you would read in a Douglas Adams book. It's got a very Hitchhiker's Guide vibe to it. My wife and I did appetizers tonight too for New Years Eve. We also don't do gifts for each other during the holiday's since we can pretty much buy whatever we want during the year. Buying something just to buy it and gift it never made much sense to us. We'd rather put that money towards camping trips etc.
Even galaxy hitchhikers can get wrong platter syndrome, although I wish it on no one.
I get it with your gifting thing, I'm the same, I get whatever I want/need throughout the year at the time that's appropriate so Christmas (and birth gifts) aren't a thing. I actually had one such thing turn up yesterday actually...a new holster I needed. Yay for holsters and platters.
Haha, yay for holsters and platters indeed!
Oh,
that's what I call diversity on a plate...you have it all, and with a perfect arrangement...no doubt you are a person who likes order....
My house and my table had a crazy mess, everyone talking, drinking, eating and happy with the roast beef I prepared for them...it felt good after all the madness in my kitchen...I am relieved.....
So here we are, starting a new year that promises a lot without at doubt.
Many successes to you in this 2025.
I like some structure for sure, but not always; it depends on the situation.
Anyway, it seems you had an enjoyable gathering and now it's time to focus on 2025 and the goals we've all set. Good luck.
Happy new year 🎆🧨🎇
And to you too, hopefully you have a good one.
Yes I do celebrate it with my family❤️
You got yourself the perfect gift. Brand new year, brand new platter and brand new relationship
The platter is awesome...I've tucked it safely away in the cupboard ready for it's next outing, hopefully soon.
That platter looks incredible, can title it as the masterpiece of deliciousness. I'm wishing you both a fantastic year ahead.
It was pretty good to be honest, kept everyone quite happy.
All the best for your year too, I hope it is a good one.
it'd be so unfair if it did not, lol.
Thanks. I believe in luck and in the terms "inevitable", but I'll try to make it a good one.
those dishes look shabby, happy new year friend
Shabby?
Shabby means: In poor condition through long use or lack of care.
The term you're looking for is "not too shabby" which means the opposite of shabby.
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delicious I meant, I don't know why the translator changed the term haha😁
Ah ok, yeah I forget about the translator thing now and then. All good.
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