A Sandwich, 25/7, and Old Glory

Thanksgiving was wonderful, as always. The million dollar question is; what's better? Thanksgiving dinner, or the Thanksgiving leftovers?

Every year, I look forward to making the leftovers into what can only be called the ultimate sandwich. It's commonly called a Monte Cristo.

The blog Taste and Tell describes a Monte Cristo like this:

"It is believed that the Monte Cristo started off as the French Croque Monsieur, a grilled cheese sandwich with Gruyere and ham. Then, starting in the 1930s, more variations of this sandwich started to show up cookbooks, then in the 1950s, it made its way onto a menu in a southern California restaurant under the name of Monte Cristo. It then made its debut at Disneyland in 1966."

There's a recipe at the link too. For Thanskgiving leftover purposes, I like to use turkey, pepperjack cheese (because that's the melty cheese in my fridge) and jellied cranberry. Give the sandwich a try, it's absolutely delicious.

So since we're out of Thanksgiving, it's time to put away Turkey Bay. Here's where I got to this year:

I hoped to have a finish this year, but that's ok. It's packed away in a project bag, and waiting patiently for next year.

After laying out all my project bags (wow I have a lot of wips) I decided that I'll be stitching on two wips for awhile. My Mother told me about something called 25/7. You choose one project and work on it for 25 minutes every day. I like trying new systems, so we'll see how it goes. My 25/7 project is Russian Hunt by Riolis. Fairly confident that this picture us the right way up:

With a little bit of imagination and a lot of squinting, you can deduce that it's a horse neck. That 14 count aida is so nice on my eyes. 👀

The other project is Contemporary Flag.

Don't think I'll put this one away until I've gotten it finished. We'll see.

Hope you have fun setting out your Christmas decorations, and sipping your peppermint mochas! For anyone who wants a bit of ambience while they stitch, I recommend this lovely YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/c/Fireplace4K

The landscape videos are great, but the stars of this channel are the fireplaces.

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