Jamie, myself and The Boys spent Christmas at Mom and Dad's along with Aamie and Papa (Morris).
We opted for a book exchange for gifts and made it festive by mandating a color theme for wrapping--red and teal. Mom came up with the most creative wrapping, which was craft paper and red and teal pens tied with ribbon to "design your own wrapping paper." It was really fun to see all the different variations on the theme...
We continued a long-standing tradition this year--foregoing a Christmas dinner and cooking up several hors d'oeuvers to snack on throughout the day instead. We've done this for about 15 years now--a great way to spread the chore of cooking around. This year I made something new, which I found out of the Highland's Bar and Grill cookbook (a great "South of France meets the American South" restaurant if you're ever in Birmingham.) It's pictured on the left here, and called Cured Pork Crostini with Sweet Potato Brandade.
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We opted for a book exchange for gifts and made it festive by mandating a color theme for wrapping--red and teal. Mom came up with the most creative wrapping, which was craft paper and red and teal pens tied with ribbon to "design your own wrapping paper." It was really fun to see all the different variations on the theme...
We continued a long-standing tradition this year--foregoing a Christmas dinner and cooking up several hors d'oeuvers to snack on throughout the day instead. We've done this for about 15 years now--a great way to spread the chore of cooking around. This year I made something new, which I found out of the Highland's Bar and Grill cookbook (a great "South of France meets the American South" restaurant if you're ever in Birmingham.) It's pictured on the left here, and called Cured Pork Crostini with Sweet Potato Brandade.
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4 comments:
yummy looking recipes! Thanks for sharing them with us....
....i recognize the fun red and white Martha Stewart wrapping paper....happy new year!
This recipe was the hit of our xmas dinner- well worth the effort. Thanks for sharing it!
ahhhh... such memories of good chats and good eats!
We might just have to adopt that book exchange idea! I absolutely love it! You can never have too many books, cookbooks, and good reads! And coordinating the wrapping papers- fabulous.
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