Christmas

I wanted to document our Christmas Day meal with the parents because it was something I always looked forward to as a kid. Some years a few of us would volunteer to wake up early to help put the bird in the oven. As we got older, this stopped as all us kids, with the exception of Julie who was an early bird, love sleeping in. The pictures that are to follow are of the food we had this past Christmas vacation.

This is the original food list for the week. (We crossed off items as we went along.) We did everything except for the lasagna. This year we tried some new things (wings and lamb) so there was no time for lasagna this year.

You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream! My parents have an awesome ice cream maker that they used a few times while on our visit.

Wonderful chocolate!

Orange frozen yogurt

This was breakfast one morning. Each tin contains half a slice of salami, broccoli, onion, egg and topped with a little bit of mozzarella cheese. It was quite tasty and almost dairy free with the exception of the cheese.

This deep dish is covered with cheese, salami, sausage and chunks of tomato. Can you smell it?

We love our carbs!

This family has always loved pizza. We had it almost every Friday night growing up. You had to eat what you wanted the night it arrived, otherwise by the time you woke up on Saturday, Julie had usually finished it off.

Christmas Day
We always have our shrimp with our kicked up cocktail sauce! (Lindsie is keeping guard.)

I'm seriously addicted to this treat. Carr crackers topped with cream cheese, caviar and a cocktail onion. It isn't Christmas (or Thanksgiving) without it!

Here is Greg mixing the cranberry relish which consists of freshly ground up cranberries, pineapple chunks and/or mandarin oranges, sugar/splenda and cool whip.

Turkey with stuffing

Christmas Day Spread: mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, gravy, stuffing (oyster & Stove Top), turkey, yams and rolls

Cheers!

Apple pie! (before baking)
After

This pumpkin ice cream tasted exactly like pumpkin pie. It was really good.

Uses for leftover turkey
Pot pies!

This fried pickle was amazing! Our dad also fried up fries, wings and mac & cheese my mom & I made. It was a pain to take pictures while eating finger foods so I only took a picture of the pickle.Lindsie will love me for this picture. :)

Parents had ground lamb so we had a Greek night complete with pita bread, feta cheese and Greek salad.

Lindsie and I actually made a successful batch of snickerdoodle cookies! This is quite an accomplishment for us as baking together is not our forte. I didn't take any pictures as the cookies did not last long.

We always ate well growing up so that leads people to think we are 'snobs' when it comes to food as adults. I wouldn't say we are snobs, we just know what's good. :-)