xmas shopping done! Thank you Harry & David and Legal Sea Foods!

[CTyankee]

LA family and Manhattan family getting Harry & David gift boxes. WI dear friends and neighbors getting Legal Sea Foods (including their famous chowdah).

Easy Peasy. I figure everybody's gotta eat and getting a gift basket with a variety of cheeses, sausages, nuts, cookies, and some fruit is a treat. Midwesterners get some East Coast sea food.

It's all good...

[femmocrat]

1. Yummmm!

Those are great gift ideas!

[Lochloosa]

2. Websites for the lazy

That Chowder sampler looks good.....


http://shop.legalseafoods.com/?source=google&page=homepage/pd/1

http://shop.legalseafoods.com/?source=google&page=homepage/pd/1

[surrealAmerican]

3. Why, CT, why?

Now that chowder is all I'll be able to think about for the next few days.

I'm in the Midwest, and had no idea they shipped the stuff.

[CTyankee]

5. they'll ship lobsters too...but you do know how to cook them, right?

I was a girl from Texas who had never encountered a lobster in her life until I got to the East Coast many years ago.

Also, you have to have "crackers" and they are not saltines, they are the device you use to crack open the lobster tail and other delicious parts to get the meat out and you have to use a pick for that. Believe me, it's a lot of work but wow, is it tasty...have yer melted butter nearby and a big napkin and go for it...

[surrealAmerican]

6. That, I do.

Even though it seems like this should not happen, we can get lobsters. I assume they are flown in. I can even even make my own chowder - but it's not that chowder.

I'm originally from New York, but I've lived here a long time.

[CTyankee]

7. then, you're good to go...

[Worried senior]

4. I would

love to receive one of those. Chowder looks very good and I didn't dare look any further.

Great gift idea.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. I thought Harry and David went out of business

[CTyankee]

9. nope. they're up there on my email advertising their wares...

I needed something easy and they make it simple, giving you the option of just repeating what you did the year before. works for everyone as it turns out...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. you want excellent fruitcake or nut cake?

Try Eilenberger's Bakery in Palestine Texas. Much better than the famous Corsicana fruitcake. Www.eilenbergerbakery.com.

[CTyankee]

12. I never got into that growing up in the 50s, cuz there was a lot of it that was

terrible. When I discovered that it could be excellent, esp. with tea (afternoon break) I sought out better made fruitcakes and really liked them.

Thanks for the tip...

[mnhtnbb]

11. Flying through Philly for holidays? My favorite airport for a layover:Legal Seafoods in Term B/C