Hot Potato Topic December #5

See you in the new year!
The Chef

Hot Potato Topic December #4

Since I celebrate Christmas I will be saying Merry Christmas! Whatever you celebrate, I hope it is a wonderful celebration of love, joy, peace, and rest!
The Chef

Hot Potato Topic December #3

Well I'll bring the wine if you pop the popcorn!
Happy Holidays to my Favorite Cooks!
The Chef

Top 20 Christmas Movies

1. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
2. Elf
3. Home Alone
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas
5. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
7. It’s a Wonderful Life
8. Frosty the Snowman
9. Miracle on 34th Street
10. The Santa Clause
11. A Christmas Story
12. A Christmas Carol
13. White Christmas
14. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
15. Holiday Inn
16. The Muppet Christmas Carol
17. Scrooged
18. Christmas in Connecticut
19. The Nightmare Before Christmas
20. Bad Santa

Hot Potato Topic December #2

Season Greetings Fellow Cooks,
The Chef knows when its time to get out of the kitchen. I am leaving these great quotes to the originals that said them. No elaboration on my part needed!

Season Of Giving Quotes

• No one has ever become poor by giving.
  

  Anne Frank

  
  
• Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  
  
•   We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  

  Winston Churchill

  
  
• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
  

  Charles Dickens

  
  
• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
  

  Khalil Gibran

  
  
• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
  

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  
  
• My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
  

  Bob Hope

  
  
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
  

  William Arthur Ward

  
  
• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
  

  Bill Vaughan

  
  
• Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.
  

  Oren Arnold

  
  
• To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
  

  Oren Arnold

  
  
• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
  

  Charles M. Schulz

  
  
• Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
  

  Ruth Carter Stapleton

  
  
• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  

  Norman MacEwen

  
  
• For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
  

  William Jewett Tucker

  
  
• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
  

  George Eliot

  
  
• Good news from heaven the angels bring,
  Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
  To us this day a child is given,
  To crown us with the joy of heaven.
  

  Martin Luther

  
  
• Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
  

  Thomas S. Monson

  
  
• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  
  
• Give, but give until it hurts.
  

  Mother Teresa

  
  
• I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
  I notice this, each year I live;
  I always like the gifts I get,
  But how I love the gifts I give!
  

  Carolyn Wells

  
  
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
  

  Mao Zedong

  
  
• Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  
  
• I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
  

  Khalil Gibran

  
  
• I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
  

  Antonio Porchia

Hot Potato Topic December #1

Hello my fellow cooks! Hope your kitchens are hot and healthy. Once Thanksgiving rolls around I am a baking fanatic and I enjoy taking care of everyone's sweet tooth.

So as we get into this season of giving I hope that you all will take an opportunity to give of yourselves. No matter what you are going through or how sometimes dark things seem to be there is always hope. There is always a chance to start anew, start fresh, start over.

Donating your time and talent can be just as valuable as you money. Visit your city or state websites for times and places that can use your help.

Here are a few websites to get you started! I look forward to reading how you all lent a hand, gave a hand up, or just made a difference in someone's life this holiday season.
Happy Holidays,
The Chef

1. www.volunteermatch.org
2. www.volunteer.gov
3. www.redcross.org/voluntee
4. www.Projects-Abroad.org 
5. thesamaritanwomen.org
6. www.serve.gov