Big NYE plans?

So, does anyone have any plans (big or not) for NYE 2010?

Deb and I will be on our own, a quiet supper, tv and a 50-50 chance we will be asleep in bed before the ball drops at midnight.

How about you?

We are staying home, having a pizza for dinner; and then killing a bottle of bubbly at or before midnight.

I'm having friends and family over - going to fire up the grill and do a strip loin.

[Robin Garr]

Small plans ... get-together and bubbly with potluck apps in the early evening, then a quiet NYE at home. I expect we'll declare Virtual Midnight somewhere between Greenwich and Newfoundland time.

Dinner at home with my wife and kids, opening a (hopefully) great bottle of red, and off to bed before midnight..unless one of my kids wakes me up during the night.

Best, Norm

At home with either pizza (take away) or lasagna (home made), either of those with a nice Chianti Classico Riserva and then at least oneor two glasses of Champagne.

So, does anyone have any plans (big or not) for NYE 2010?

Deb and I will be on our own, a quiet supper, tv and a 50-50 chance we will be asleep in bed before the ball drops at midnight.

How about you?

Bruce, I would say it is an 80/20 chance that I will be in bed by/before midnight, When one has seen as many as I have, they know that it is just another night.

As usual, it's to be New Year's Eve at my in-laws' (always a large bash), dinner on the 1st at my father's (immediate family and a few friends). We all live in the same village, so no hassle.

Walking the floor at the Grill, then party it up with the servers. Bubbly naturally and a couple bottles of Chablis before hitting the Red Star on the main drag!
Want photos?

[James Roscoe]

I was going to to some big champagne soaked soirée Debbie and Bruce were throwing in Ottawa, but it appears I had the wrong information! Thanks a lot Howie!

Since our four-month-old son is pretty much running the household right now, we're not too optimistic about any special NYE plans. He doesn't even know it's a holiday!

But, I will open some wine. Including an after-dinner 'festive' 375 of 02 Huet Le Mont Moelleux 1er Trie. I purchased this even against the advice of David Lillie, who couldn't fathom why I wouldn't wait 20 years to open it.

I was going to to some big champagne soaked soirée Debbie and Bruce were throwing in Ottawa, but it appears I had the wrong information! Thanks a lot Howie!

Low key this year. Hoping for a cool(ish) change to arrive some time late afternoon so we can get some sleep tonight. Dining à deux, opening a cold bottle of something, listening to the distant sound of fireworks in the city.

I am pouring the wine pairings to the prix fixe at our first New Years Eve at the restaurant I work at. Fingers crossed that it is a big success!!

[James Roscoe]

Since our four-month-old son is pretty much running the household right now, we're not too optimistic about any special NYE plans. He doesn't even know it's a holiday!

But, I will open some wine. Including an after-dinner 'festive' 375 of 02 Huet Le Mont Moelleux 1er Trie. I purchased this even against the advice of David Lillie, who couldn't fathom why I wouldn't wait 20 years to open it.

Lillie must have known you had a four-month old!

Congratulations by the way!

[David M. Bueker]

Just dinner and the evening with some friends. Nothing big.

Since our four-month-old son is pretty much running the household right now, we're not too optimistic about any special NYE plans. He doesn't even know it's a holiday!

But, I will open some wine. Including an after-dinner 'festive' 375 of 02 Huet Le Mont Moelleux 1er Trie. I purchased this even against the advice of David Lillie, who couldn't fathom why I wouldn't wait 20 years to open it.

Lillie must have known you had a four-month old!

Congratulations by the way!

Yes, Rahsaan. Nice work!

NYE (Silvester) here is all about fondue, fireworks, Sekt, Dinner for One on You Tube and maybe later I'll even get lucky!

Cheers,
Bill

Betsy's parents leave today, I think we're just going to have a seafood dinner for two. Afterwards, we'll go to her sister's for a party (15-20 people), and probably come home shortly after midnight. Tomorrow dinner with good friends, I think rib roast, I plan on dropping over a mature Bordeaux today so it can stand up in place

I bought a 5 pound standing rib roast, and that'll be dinner for a week! I'll pull a nice wine, maybe a Burg. I'll make a mince pie because I didn't for Christmas, then I'll probably go to bed before midnight.

[James Roscoe]

Now that Bruce and Debbie have let me down, I guess we will go to the neighborhood soirée and drink Presecco at midnight. Tomorrow will bring its own plans. (Is Howie having that rib roast on NY day?)

Staying home and leaving the streets to the amateur drunks.
Making a homemade pizza and popping a bubbly. Luckily, I can see the NYE shows at 9 pm our time on satelite TV so I don't have to stay up too late. lol

Well, except for doing the dishes and going to bed, it's all over.
The roast, with garlic roasted potato and roasted carrot, was fine.
The wine was Ok, and not too bad a buy 7 years ago.
France, Burgundy, Domaine Tollot-Beaut, Aloxe-Corton Premier Cru "Les Vercots", 1999
$36.00 at Beltramo's in Menlo Park in 1/03. 13.5% alcohol.
Has all the elements, but is just GBNG. I liked it better as dinner went on; that may have been actual improvement or just alcoholic satiation.
Nice Burg color, not much aroma, a little acidic at all times, generated some fruit (I am, of course, a Californian born and bred) and a bit of garrigue in the second glass.
The mince pie was just like it should be and will be better with a day to mature.

John

Has all the elements, but is just GBNG. I liked it better as dinner went on; that may have been actual improvement or just alcoholic satiation. Nice Burg color, not much aroma, a little acidic at all times, generated some fruit (I am, of course, a Californian born and bred) and a bit of garrigue in the second glass

What is GBNG?

Otherwise, sounds like a pretty classic shutdown red Burgundy.

Good but not great is my guess...