Christmas Meal!!!!

Breakfast was pork sausage, pork scrapple, pancakes, and some kind of egg casserole that the mother in law made. It was delicious, by the way. Just in case anyone knows her.

We made the drive to see family in Pennsylvania afterward, and they had shrimp cocktail, crab dip, ham, sweet potatoes, turkey, and my favorite...sauerkraut and kielbasa.

Right now I'm at work eating vending machine snacks...back to normal I guess

Christmas Eve breakfast was sausage, egg, hashbrown casserole and french toast casserole, mimosas.
Christmas Eve dinner was ham, salad, zucchini/yellow squash casserole (Yum), assorted vegies, rolls.
Christmas breakfast at son's while gdaugters opened presents was biscuits and sausage gravey. DIL grinds their wheat.
Christmas dinner was tritip on the grill, our green beans with ham and little potatoes, salad, broccoli casserole, BBQ shrimp, assorted vegies, rolls, party potatoes, spinich dip, deviled eggs, apple crisp/ice cream, bourbon bread pudding made with left over whole wheat banana bread and raisin cinnamon bread (DIL has been on a baking binge), and the BEST homemade elderberry wine.

I did a prime rib on the smoker. We only have it once a year due to the cost, but it is SO GOOD! I also made a huge loaf of bread, along with mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, and smoky gravy made from the prime rib drippings. I find myself craving a light salad today.....

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"What one generation tolerates, the next generation embraces." -John Wesley

Deep fried Turkey
Chicken and Dressing
mashed potatoes
green beans
corn
rolls
cranberry sauce

I ended up staying home with a sick child, so my (and DS's) meal consisted of leftover lasagna from Christmas Eve. My DH and DD on the other hand, got to eat baked ham, cheesy potatoes, green beans, and cherry pie. The really depressing part is that I had to make the ham and potatoes to send with DH-they made the house smell SO good.

There were just 4 of us this year for dinner, so we had a small turkey, gravy, herbed smashed potatoes, rolls, corn with thyme, green bean almondine, lasagna, macaroni and cheese and white sweet potatoes. There were also cookies and I had planned to whip up some chocolate mousse, but we'd all been snacking on chocolate truffles and really could not handle any more sweets.

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My latest novels:
Bystander: A Tale of the End of the World as SHE Knew It!

Christmas in Bystander & Other Village Tales

Coming Soon: A Slice of Heaven

My mom always made a pudding that we kids called blah blah because we couldn't say blanc mange. She had an oblong clear glass bowl that she would make red jello in. When is was chilled she added a homemade white pudding. This was topped with brown sugar/butter coated cornflakes. Yum. I still make it every year.