Skip to main content

Food Friday

We spent our third Christmas at home this year. As I have posted before, we decided we would always try to have Henry in his home for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. I was always at home growing up and Randall wasn't. He said it was not enjoyable and wanted to ensure that Henry have the experience I had and the one he always wanted. I think Randall loves it more than anyone. He is finally getting to have the Christmases he always wanted. It makes my heart happy. We do love the calmness of it and the fun of getting to make our own traditions.

One of those traditions is having my mother-in-love in my kitchen with me on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Randall's parents come to stay with us on Christmas Eve and wake up with us on Christmas Morning. I love having Molly help me prepare our dishes and she always praises what I serve. I love some praise and some help in the kitchen...who doesn't?!

I am working on finding the recipes we like a lot and want to serve each year. This was the third year for a few things and a new year for a few. Maybe in a couple of years we will have a set menu for our Christmas meals. I love variety and new things though...so maybe not! I also want to tie in our old family traditions with the new ones. It is fun to put it all together.

I thought I would give you a little summary of what we cooked up for our Christmas Eve supper, Christmas breakfast and Christmas lunch.


On Christmas Eve I made a "weenie ring". It is not called that but I thought I would be redneck a little bit since my stone was beyond tacky looking. I should have put it on a tray to serve it but after our Christmas Eve service and preparing our dinner, we were some hungry kin folk! There was no time for presentation. I loved the bell pepper wreath. It was so cute. I made a mix of cranberry sauce and bbq sauce for a dipping sauce. It was yummy stuff. Just lil' smokies wrapped in crescents. The stone was empty when I went to clean up. We ate every one of them...along with redneck caviar, sausage cheese dip and a cheese ball!

I failed to take a photo of breakfast due to having a toddler and Santa coming. We had cream cheese danish casserole and sausage balls. It was super yummy.

Christmas lunch was yummy stuff also. We cooked a truducken - a turkey with a hen and duck stuffed inside. It was really good. We bought it ready to go into the oven. No prep work. I loved the duck in it a lot. I am glad Randall picked that for our main course. It was a hit. We had hashbrown casserole, green bean casserole, dressing and yeast rolls. We also had my Meemaw's chocolate pecan pie and Molly's famous coconut pie. I am still full.

I prepared most of the dishes before we left for Fort Smith and froze them. Planning and preparing ahead of time makes for an easy and enjoyable Christmas. I am so glad I just had to heat and serve most everything. We now have great leftovers!

Happy Food Friday
Abby
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

All Aboard The Birthday Polar Express

  Can you believe Henry Patton will be 4 years old tomorrow?! Neither can we. We celebrated his birthday last weekend with his first all boy party, polar express style. I had so much fun preparing for it, as you can probably tell! My mother who is never at a loss for words said it looked like Polar Express threw up in my house. She was SO right and we loved it! We had a breakfast pajama party with 7 three and four year old boys. It was such a fun time.   I had his pajamas monogrammed with a train and his name. He loved them and I liked how they sort of looked like the ones on the movie. Henry loved all the bells I had everywhere. There is no doubt we believe at this house. We had the jingle loud and proud!   I had his invitation made from a shop on Etsy and I was very pleased with them. One of his little friends came to the door ready for me to punch his ticket. It was so cute. I ran to get a hole punch and punched it for him. Every good party has to have go
22 comments
Read more

Meet Shaun

This is my single co-worker and church friend, Shaun. He and I have so much fun bantering back and forth. He takes what I dish out and scoops it right back up and hands it back to me. He is a keeper for that and many other reasons, which I will share on this post. He was kind enough to allow me to highlight him on Kelly’s Korner http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/ for her singles link up. His last words to me about this were, “ This better not be an embarrassment! ” I trust I will do my best to make it not be, but I make no promises! The first thing you need to know about Shaun is that he loves Jesus and the Boston Red Sox . He asked Jesus into his heart at age 8 and is still seeking and serving him today at age 26. Shaun graduated from Arkansas State University with a degree in digital media and design. When he is not busy creating masterpieces for our customers he is hiking, watching the Red Sox , playing basketball, horsing around at the lake or beach, and watching movies. He is fu
16 comments
Read more

He's home!

I know you didn't know my dear husband was out of town. I decided not to post such information. I get scared enough as it is, I sure didn't want to advertise the information. Yes, you read correctly, I get scared. Before we had children, and well, even after Samuel was born, I would stay with a friend of mine when Stephen was gone overnight. When we moved from that town I didn't have anyone to stay with, so I would just sit up and watch tv all night. Fear kept me awake. Isn't that silly? Well, it didn't seem so at the time, but when I look back on it now it seems silly. That is until I have to be without a manly-man in the house. I'm telling you what, I hear every noise, sound, creak, croak. It's awful. Sunday night (the first night) while I was lying AWAKE in my bed I was praying and telling God that I knew He didn't want me to be fearful and that I knew there were many verses in the Bible that told of His being with me at nighttime . I just couldn'
10 comments
Read more