FOOD PRE-PREP ON A COLD PRE-CHRISTMAS DAY

With twenty humans soon indwelling our home for a Christmas feast, our challenge has been: "How do we prepare all the food so that it is all ready to serve at the same time?" Part of this challenge has been a small oven and a stove top that has one burner that doesn't work.

So, thanks to easy-to-access ideas on the Internet, we are meeting the challenge. Today, Debra and I peeled twenty potatoes and eleven sweet potatoes, placed them is water and set them in the garage for the next 72 hours. According to the information we obtained, they will store in water just fine and will not turn brown while they are submerged.

That's one food prep task we can now check off our to-do list.

However, rinsing out the potato peel bucket presented a challenge of its own.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes wait on a workbench in the garage for Christmas consumption.

Even though the morning passed and the afternoon arrived, it was still too cold to use the hose in the back yard to rinse the peels from the bucket.