I am sending you all a great big Christmas Hug, and wishes for a wonderful day with your loved ones!
Thank you all for your faithful support of me and my blog. It means more to me than I can express!!
Love to you all,
Kathysue
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Our Christmas Eve Eating Marathon!!!
Today is Christmas eve, and I feel like a little kid. I love this time with my family. I can’t wait to see their faces when they open there gifts. I just love giving gifts.
I think if my kids had to choose between a gift, or their sock and ornament they would choose their sock and ornament. Even when they were grown young men they would wake up in the middle of the night, and dump out their sock, and go back to bed until Christmas morning!! Oh such sweet memories.
I am just like the rest of you, and I have been cooking for two days to get things done. I thought I would share with you what we will be munching on throughout the day.
We are going to have:
Antipasti tray:
Veggie platter and Dip:
Fruit platter:
Pulled Bread:
Hot artichoke dip with a variety of crackers and sourdough bread:
The one pictured has spinach in it, but I use Paula Deens recipe.
The picture was too small so I used the above image!!
Just click on the link below if you would like to see her recipe. I highly recommend it and so does my family. I usually make a double recipe and they still ask for more.
Source: foodnetwork.com via Kathy Sue on Pinterest
Baked Brie:
Garlic Shrimp
We will hang out and relax, eat, visit, watch TV, eat, play games, eat, do a Christmas puzzle and eat!!
Then we will have a late dinner of comfort food:
Baked ham
Ina Garten’s Mac and Cheese
Sorry for the small picture, but I wanted you to have the link for the recipe. Another family favorite!!
Balsamic Roasted Green beans with cremini mushrooms:
For dessert Mima’s apple pie!! Definitely a family favorite!!
So there you have it!! We will be pigging out , as the saying goes and enjoying every minute of it!!
I am wishing you all a wonderful Christmas Eve full of family and friends and lots of good food!!
Merry Christmas!
♥ Kathysue♥
Friday, December 23, 2011
And Then there were NO Lights!….
I thought maybe I had slept through Christmas, and it was all over, the lights were off and the gifts were no longer under the tree!!
Actually, what happened was………
It was like every other morning. The very first thing I do is open blinds, turn on the Christmas music, and then click on the tree lights. We have one of those cords with the buttons you just step on, and the tree lights magically come on.
I stepped on it the lights flickered, I heard a psssp, crackle and a pop like a light bulb burst, then I smelled it, Oh my!!
After my hubby took all the gifts out from under the tree he discovered a fuse in the cord had burned up. It did its job by turning all lights off, but it also left a burned spot on my hardwood floor the size of a salad plate.
He proceeded to clean it off and as far as we can tell at this point it is just a little darkened. Whew!!!
Lessoned learned: We could not have prevented the fuse from going out, but it really made me realize why they always have the warning about not leaving tree unattended. There have been many times that we leave them on when we leave, just so the house looks and feels happy when we return. I won’t be doing that anymore.
The lights are fixed and all is well with my Christmas world!! We are back on track!!
I will be busy cooking and dicing and chopping for tomorrows appetizers and dinner today. So I had better get going!!
Before I go I just wanted to share with you the dining room table make-over…….
We needed to add leaves in the table for Christmas Eve dinner so I used the same centerpiece, but it is reconfigured and has a new backdrop……..
I loved using all white, but I must admit I think I actually like the black better. You know me and my black and white!!
I need to get off the computer and start my falalaing!!!
Kathysue is thoroughly,
Enjoying the Process
and
I hope you all are too!!!
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