Made whole wheat biscuits for dinner one night last month. But we were out of buttermilk. Not even the powdered kind.

When fetching the accustomed substitution of regular milk with lemon juice. I noticed we still had some flavored Sugar Cookie Egg Nog (Hood brand) in the refrigerator. So I used that. Fortunately I hadn’t already put sugar in the batter.

The biscuits came out great.

Later that night, like much later, like 2 a.m. I decided to start some slow cooker oatmeal for breakfast– four cups water, two cups rolled oats, a few diced apples.

Kathleen gets up hours before i do. The note she left next to her bowl. “try the oatmeal with sugar cookie egg nog!”

That got me wondering if I could work the stuff into the potato kale soup, or quiche, or pie. Luckily, the holiday season ended and the egg nog left the Stop & Shop shelves before things got out of hand.