How was Christmas, my friends? Yesterday was Boxing Day - a holiday dedicated to charity, appreciation, and the sharing of leftovers. Love it. Although, I would be much better off if I were to share a few more of mine, instead of eating them!!
Time for my Ode to Christmas Food:
1. Christmas Eve. First of all, there were cream puffs on the table when I walked in. I'm so having those on my next birthday.... Josh's mom had a little problem when her ham spilled juice into the bottom of the oven. It smoked up the house terribly. Otherwise, though, everything went smoothly, and all was delicious. The cheesy potatoes were amazing, the ham was delicious, and Mariah has a thing for sauteed mushrooms, so they were served as a side. They were fantastic on the beef. There were also carrots with pineapple and brown sugar - very good, and Becky made some very tasty cheese broccoli. That is not even all that was there, but let me tell you - it all tasted great. And I ate too much. Two people asked for the recipe of my gooey butter cake, because it was pretty darn yummy, too! Grant told me it was one of his favorite things to eat all day. That's very flattering, after the cream puffs.
2. Christmas Day. I was still full in the morning, but we made cinnamon rolls anyway. Plus, Santa didn't eat all of the delicious cookies... Then, I put the marinated chicken wings in the crock pot and let it start cooking. Mom and Dad and Brother came around 10, and I made rice and veggies and Sister Schubert rolls. But that was nothin'.....Dad brought some of Uncle Raymond's gulf shrimp. When it was thawed, he fried it up in my kitchen in some Zataran's. Amazing. Both of my kids love shrimp. We still had some gooey butter cake, and also Brother had made some red velvet cupcakes. It would seem that he won the mix at a Christmas party he went to, and made them Christmas Eve at my mom's house. They were very yummy! Oink.
3. Boxing Day. Leftover ham? Check. Leftover wings? Check. Leftover cupcakes? Check? Leftover gooey butter cake? Check. Assorted cookies that were homemade by my own mother? Check. Turtle candies from husband for Christmas? Check. Appetite? Well, no, but that's never stopped us before!! I actually was meeting a dear friend for lunch at Denny's. That was pretty great, but all I could manage to order was an English muffin and hot chocolate. We had a nice time, and then I went home to get the kids ready to spend the night at my mom's. Later, Brother took me and Josh to Applebees. Ooof! I tried to order small, but there was this steak with shrimp on it... The waitress actually recommended it to me. By the way, she was flirting with my brother, and when she wasn't serving us, she was watching him from the other side of the room. Sadly, she was neither young nor cute. When we asked Brother how he wanted to handle it, he said, "I think I'll handle it by living in Colorado." And so we left to buy candy at Wal-mart. Yes. I said candy. With absolutely no appetite whatsoever, we went to buy candy to sneak into the movies.....because that's as rebellious as we get. And because we're pretty sure that the 16 year old at the counter doesn't really care that we got for 98 cents what he was going to ask us to pay $3.75 for - he just wants us to go away so he can text his friends about how bored he is. I got Runts. When was the last time you had those? Well, for me it was when they had cherry and lime instead of grape and apple. Still - fun. And what movie did we see? Why, The Hobbit, of course!!! I came home sugary, but happy. Can't wait for the next installment....but probably will, since I have no choice.
So the Christmas Oink is drawing to a close (I hope) and I am very piously planning all sorts of HEALTHY snacks to set out on New Year's Eve next week. With any luck, I can avoid waddling my way into the new year. Cross your fingers for me!
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