I could have used a soul cake last Christmas, a really big one to get me to here and now, but I made it without one

 

Hey ho, nobody home, meat nor drink nor money have I none
 Yet shall we be merry, Hey ho, nobody home.
 Hey ho, nobody home, Meat nor drink nor money have I none
 Yet shall we be merry, Hey ho, nobody home.
 Hey Ho, nobody home.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
 An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry,
 One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

God bless the master of this house, and the mistress also
 And all the little children that round your table grow.
 The cattle in your stable and the dog by your front door
 And all that dwell within your gates 
we wish you ten times more.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
 An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry, 
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

Go down into the cellar and see what you can find
 If the barrels are not empty we hope you will be kind 
We hope you will be kind with your apple and strawber'
 For we'll come no more a 'soalin' till this time next year.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake. 
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry,
 One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

The streets are very dirty, my shoes are very thin.
 I have a little pocket to put a penny in.
 If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do. 
If you haven't got a ha' penny then God bless you.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
 An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, 
any good thing to make us all merry,
 One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

Now to the Lord sing praises all you within this place,
 And with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace. This holy tide of Christmas of beauty and of grace,
 Oh tidings of comfort and joy.

Christmas is finally over

 

I made this salmon with spinach creme sauce for Christmas Eve and it was a big hit

 Also very easy to make. I will do it again.

I made substitutions because I didn't have the exact ingredients: my own tomato sauce for the cherry tomatoes which made the outcome redder, half & half instead of heavy cream, and since the tomato sauce was made with basil I omitted the chopped parsley.

The recipe is very adaptable.

 

Happiness is Chinese carry-out on Christmas

Happiness is the Wonderland Bear Band

 

The season's trending gift is the women's heated vest with three temperature levels

 

 ✔  cold titty

✔  warm titty

✔  hot titty

Happiness is four black birds on the fourth day of Christmas, December the 28th

 

 

  "Colly" is derived from "coal", a word at least as old as Shakespeare. "Calling" birds is a later alteration. Use of coal for domestic heating in England became more widespread in the 1500s when the wood supply came under pressure, but the Romans were mining it there already in the 100s.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" dates to at least c. 1780, as shown here from "Mirth Without Mischief", perhaps but vaguely recollecting the traditional drunken revelry of Christmastide which English Puritanism had long attempted to mute. This work was for children, who were in any event prone to mischief after school.

Happiness is what is seasonal

 At Christmas I no more desire a rose,

Than wish a snow in May's newfangled shows;

But like of each thing, that in season grows.

 

-- William Shakespeare

Happiness is December the 25th, the dearest day in all the year

 

Happiness is an authentic German stollen on Christmas morning

 

Happiness is . . . Santa Claus is coming to town

 

It's Christmas time again, and you know what that means

 

Happiness is the old Majestic 36BDVR gas fireplace fixed over Christmas by your son for less than ten bucks

The best gift of all was always Tommy coming home for Christmas

Happiness is Starbucks Christmas Blend varieties in festive holiday colors

Salty things I ate at Christmas

A waffle (409 mg sodium) on Christmas Day. ... And that's after substituting the salt and baking soda of the Betty Crocker recipe with more baking powder instead. Otherwise Betty's version would have packed 522 mg sodium per waffle. Eat just two of those (without butter) and you're more than half way to the daily limit of 2000 mg. Add bacon at 220 mg per slice and . . . ouch, because no one can eat just one waffle or one slice of bacon. 

A slice of spinach pesto Sockeye pie (308 mg sodium) on Christmas Eve. ... The canned salmon is the killer here, as is the pesto. One can't do much to reduce the sodium in canned fish except to use fresh instead, which is kind of a waste. But the salt in the pesto recipe can be cut in half and still taste like pesto, especially if you use salty Romano cheese instead of parmesan. Thus prepared I ended up with nearly 700 mg sodium in 1/2 cup for the recipe.

Two slices of this savory fish pie are normal for a serving, so the ketchup condiment had to go (190 mg sodium in one tablespoon). I used San Marzano tomato sauce instead and that was fine (16 mg sodium in one half cup). A teaspoon of the pesto is also good on the morning egg (about 30 mg sodium), as it is on the Saturday pizza.  

A gingersnap cookie (66 mg sodium), from frozen dough bought for a fundraiser. ... I ate only two, because at fewer than 4 mg sodium per square I'd rather eat Lindt 85% cocoa chocolate instead.

Happiness is a Christmas-box

When time comes round, a Christmas-box they bear,

And one day makes them rich for all the year.

--  John Gay, Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London (1716)

Happiness is a Kreutzkamm Christstollen after church on Christmas Eve

Happiness is Commander Cody singing "Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Christmas"

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