All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas of food, fun, and family and I am looking forward to the new year!
Now, to go eat dinner!
12.26.2011
"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime"
Coming to you live from my new laptop...I cannot even describe my excitement over the cheese wantons and green curry chicken we are getting ready to eat for dinner...but back to my blog-post! I have been enjoying this Christmas break and have been eating lots of yummy food.
This year is the first Christmas in my life that I have not woken up to the anticipation of a giant Christmas breakfast and all my grandparents sitting in the living room ready to watch us open presents. My grandpa is bed-ridden now due to his advancing Alzheimer's, so instead of our normal Christmas morning tradition, we decided to travel around to both sets of grandparents' houses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It turned out to be a pretty good plan and we ended up opening presents three separate times, which helped to spread out Christmas a bit. There was no lack of food, either. We did plenty of baking (peanut butter blossoms, snickerdoodles, chocolate and peppermint-covered pretzels, and haystacks to name a few) and we are still enjoying our goodies. We also made gingerbread houses with our GBH crew and with my dad's parents.
The changes in Christmas traditions this year remind me that I am coming up on a year of many changes as I graduate from college and begin who knows what. Clinging to Jeremiah 29:11 for that one and just smiling and saying, "We'll see..." when I am asked the infamous question about what I am going to be doing after college.
All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas of food, fun, and family and I am looking forward to the new year!
Now, to go eat dinner!
All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas of food, fun, and family and I am looking forward to the new year!
Now, to go eat dinner!
11.27.2011
Thanksgiving: 2011
setting the stage
keeping things clean
breaking out the fine china
deviling some eggs
cooking up some grub
Thanksgiving staples: sweet potato custard and dressing
and the pièce de résistance: smoked turkey
10.31.2011
Trick or Treat!
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. It is my great pleasure to inform you that I have successfully found not one, but TWO food items this month that have long eluded me. I was so surprised I thought I being tricked. Instead, I got two awesome treats.
The first was introduced to me a short time ago. It is a Halloween Edition York Peppermint Pattie, which is shaped like a pumpkin and has orange filling.
One of these divine confections appeared one night in my room-mate's hand, and once she ate it, there were no more to be found. I searched the land, high and low, from Food Lion to Walgreen's and everywhere in between to no avail. Alas, on a trip to the Target in the thriving metropolis of Simpsonville, when the candies were a mere speck in the dark corners of my memory, there they were. There they were! In a mixed bag of Hershey chocolate, lining the aisle like it was no big deal! I could hardly believe my eyes! Needless to say, I scooped them up and have been enjoying them since.
The second is a long lost food that I once enjoyed as a microwaveable treat. Even though it has been years since I last held the egg/bacon/gravy goodness of a Red Baron Biscuit-Style Scrambles Bacon Breakfast Pizza on my tongue, I remember their taste and aroma perfectly.
All my cravings for these little frozen delights had gone unsatisfied for so long that I had given up hope...until...I found them. I FOUND THEM! On the same day as the peppermint patties! In the thriving metropolis of Simpsonville!
This is how it went down: On a whim, my friend and I pulled into the Dollar Tree to pick up a few things. I nonchalantly pulled into a parking place facing the front of the store. I turned off the car, took the keys out of the ignition, and looked up as I was about to get out of the car. There, right smack dab in the middle of the window in front of me, was the most beautiful advertisement I have ever seen. It depicted a series of miniature Red Barron Pizzas, one of which was the Bacon Breakfast Scrambles. My mouth dropped open, I might have screamed, and I immediately started strategizing ways to buy and transport as many of these small wonders as possible. I ended up buying all 8 packs the store had in stock, and yes, they are just as good as I remember them being. Plus, they are in a cute, miniature form of themselves made especially for the Dollar Store!
I was surprised at both of these discoveries and overjoyed with their timing, but I don't even want to know the nutritional facts of either of these products.... lol. Happy Halloween, everybody!
The first was introduced to me a short time ago. It is a Halloween Edition York Peppermint Pattie, which is shaped like a pumpkin and has orange filling.
One of these divine confections appeared one night in my room-mate's hand, and once she ate it, there were no more to be found. I searched the land, high and low, from Food Lion to Walgreen's and everywhere in between to no avail. Alas, on a trip to the Target in the thriving metropolis of Simpsonville, when the candies were a mere speck in the dark corners of my memory, there they were. There they were! In a mixed bag of Hershey chocolate, lining the aisle like it was no big deal! I could hardly believe my eyes! Needless to say, I scooped them up and have been enjoying them since.
The second is a long lost food that I once enjoyed as a microwaveable treat. Even though it has been years since I last held the egg/bacon/gravy goodness of a Red Baron Biscuit-Style Scrambles Bacon Breakfast Pizza on my tongue, I remember their taste and aroma perfectly.
All my cravings for these little frozen delights had gone unsatisfied for so long that I had given up hope...until...I found them. I FOUND THEM! On the same day as the peppermint patties! In the thriving metropolis of Simpsonville!
This is how it went down: On a whim, my friend and I pulled into the Dollar Tree to pick up a few things. I nonchalantly pulled into a parking place facing the front of the store. I turned off the car, took the keys out of the ignition, and looked up as I was about to get out of the car. There, right smack dab in the middle of the window in front of me, was the most beautiful advertisement I have ever seen. It depicted a series of miniature Red Barron Pizzas, one of which was the Bacon Breakfast Scrambles. My mouth dropped open, I might have screamed, and I immediately started strategizing ways to buy and transport as many of these small wonders as possible. I ended up buying all 8 packs the store had in stock, and yes, they are just as good as I remember them being. Plus, they are in a cute, miniature form of themselves made especially for the Dollar Store!
I was surprised at both of these discoveries and overjoyed with their timing, but I don't even want to know the nutritional facts of either of these products.... lol. Happy Halloween, everybody!
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