Jeff Lewis has been posting some cute photos lately with Zoila. He is keeping the new baby girl’s face off the Internet for the most part and instead we are seeing behind the scenes stuff with Zoila and their exhaustion. This one is captioned “Movie Night!”
Every year right after Thanksgiving, I get super into Christmas movies. I love all the ones that come on the TWO Hallmark Channels and the Lifetime ones. I fall asleep watching them, and wake up watching them. This year, with so much going on in real life, and all the recapping, and ad agency and website redesigning, I’m a little bit late getting into it. But tonight I’m all in. I’m watching a new one for 2016 right now. Most all of these movies are all the same, and in the end everyone lives happily ever after.
I like that. I like it so much that when I snuck away to Paris last year for the holidays, I spent a large chunk of my time piled up on the bed watching the very same movies. Earlier today, there was a movie with Ernest Borgnine as the grandpa that I watched this time last year in Paris. I know it seems odd to fly half way around the world to watch the same Christmas movies that I do here, but I wasn’t there to be a tourist. I was there to say goodbye. It was a sad time full of anxiety right after the Paris attacks. I realized then that my anxiety was getting a lot worse and it was a two week mental fight to get on the plane and make it there. I just wanted to be in the city. With all that is going on in the world, I think I’ll be limiting my international travel to the Caribbean for a while. My point is, wherever I am in the world at Christmas, I am watching sappy Christmas movies. It’s my thing.
So I was wondering, what is your favorite thing to do during the holiday season? And if your answer is making Christmas cookies, you might find me hiding in your bushes soon. But for now, I’m looking a lot like Zoila right now, piled up in front of the TV.
Oh Me too with Hallmark. Have some in my DVR. Just watched Mrs. Miracle. Love! I am happy in a world where it all ends good. No cookies yet but Apple and Choc Cream Pie. Come on down. Lol
Sappy Christmas movies are the best! We are busy making Christmas treats, watching movies, putting together Christmas puzzles and listening to Christmas music. We are all in!
Hallmark movies are a must, and I love watching The Family Stone every year. Tons of cookies and sausage balls, plate is in the rose bush.
Weeping at the thought of sausage balls. Sigh. So good.
What is a sausage ball?
A little slice of heaven.
What is a sausage ball?
Just when I am free of all the sad, sad, comments, someone asks “What is a sausage ball?” Oh, Deb. We must find you a sausage ball maker in your area. It you are in the south, find a rural Baptist church and see if they are having a Christmas potluck or something.
I haven’t had any in a long time, It’s basically small balls made of loose sausage like those Jimmy Dean tubes… with Bisquick and lots of cheese. I don’t make them because …well sometimes you just don’t want to know how the sausage balls are made. They are better when some else makes them. They can be a delightful bit of greasy goodness at a party where you need just that in your belly. They are usually the size that is somewhere between a gumball and a golf balls. They are the first things to go at the party.
My Christmas wish for you is that you find a couple of tasty balls this holiday season.
I have a friend from Tennessee, i shall ask her, although she doesn’t cook… Maybe her mom has a recipe for them. I shall ask! they sound devine.
Bless her heart. Don’t forget that the sausage needs to be spicy and served with grape jelly to dip!
I do not support the grape jelly. But I know it is a thing.
Geez, I never heard of sausage balls, now more than once today, I find myself thinking about how good they sound!!
Wal-Mart.com has 24 for $3.00 (had to laugh at that)
I have to admit the only movies I watch during the holiday season is The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Story, however, I’m a sucker for all the holiday themed cartoons, everything from The Flintstones to Teen Titans to Bob’s Burger’s. And the classic ones, too, like Frosty the Snowman. I miss the original of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
I saw the original Grinch show the other day. It was great. I’m always a little disappointed when the Grinch sell out in the end and joins the Who feast, but it makes Max happy.
The kids and I decorate a gingerbread house also we all watch the movie Elf on Christmas day.
Next week we will take our yearly Christmas trip by train into my beloved Boston. Fanueil Hall, lights on the common, window wishing on Newbury Street, street vendors and performers, carolers…love it more every year. I am in love with all things Christmas.
Ah!!! My beloved Boston, too!!! I promise you, I cry every time my plane departs from Logan. (And when it lands, too.) My heart and soul will forever be in Boston. Have a wonderful time!!
Oh, I understand totally. Will give a city hug for you! Merry Christmas!
Thank you Sunday! I’m so glad you’re able to go! Merry Christmas to you, too!!
I spent a Christmas in Boston once. It was a best worst ever thing. There was so much snow, and pretty decorations in the burbs I was in. I loved the train and the city. We went into town to shop at the fancy places. Needless to say I didn’t do much shopping.
It really is a beautiful area.
To me, it’s in almost magical place. I love it all year round. Christmas is really nice there but so are all the other seasons, though the humidity in the summer time can be particularly tough and a lot of those older homes don’t have central air.
I feel the same way- LOVE Boston all year round- each part of it- but especially at Christmas. From the Revolutionary sites dressed up for the holidays to the downtown hotels, I could spend a week there , busy all day each day, going from place to place.
When we lived on the East Coast(Pennsylvania) we travelled to Boston and did more each year . Then my territory was New England – so I was blessed to stay in the fun parts of town and just loved it.
My other favorite at Christmas is Williamsburg- American history all around us, the carolling in the town hall, all the many ways they celebrated the holidays. Those were rugged, hard working patriots- such a special part of America’s heritage.
But the most fun tradition we have here is to go downtown,. and both see the lights and have dinner in the Walnut Room, at the base of a 30+ foot (?) tree decorated differently every year, when Marshall Fields owned it. Now that Macy’s does, it isn’t the same, but they still make a number of the special recipes in the Walnut Room, so it brings back many special memories.
I haven’t gone to Williamsburg yet but it is definitely on my list !
Netflix non Xmas but great shows. Calm and. Easy to fall asleep and great stories.
Hart of Dixie
Cedar cove
Sorry off topic
Cedar Cove… that sounds like a series that used to be on Hallmark that I loved.
It was a series on hallmark. Hallmark cancelled S4. It’s based on the Cedar Cove book series which I read first. I loved the books and the show. I hate that they cancelled it.
I watched that too! My parents were two generations older than me, rather than one, so I have a lot of “old people tendencies” when it comes to some TV shows. I love all the old fashioned type shows that I watched with my parents. Plus living in Libya, we didn’t have TV for all five years of my elementary education, since we got home, I have watched TV every chance I have. Which is prettty much constantly now, lol.
Netflix non Xmas but great shows. Calm and. Easy to fall asleep and great stories.
Hart of Dixie
Cedar cove
Sorry off topic
I love happy endings for my movies, too, so Hallmark it is! Sometimes Lifetime. One of my favorites is the Dolly Parton movie with the orphans and Lee Majors. I love Dolly.
Im not normal. I love Christmas Vacation and Bad Santa. I fall asleep to forensic files, I watch my DVR but then when that’s over it defaults to Forensic Files. I have bad dreams and wake up scared sometimes. I probably should fall asleep to pleasant Christmas movies and wake up joyous.
Lol. I make it a point to fall asleep with only pleasant sorts of things on TV. Preferably comedy. I figure that’s better for my subconscious than something more intense. We probably should be sleeping in silence though. Sometimes I do but mostly I don’t.
Liza!
I once bought a family member the ultra deluxe Christmas Vacation collector movie thing for Christmas. He STILL uses the coasters (with pictures and quotes from the movie).
Did you know that they have come out with a Marty Moose punchbowl and mugs? (They all come separate, at least the ones I saw, so it is terrifically expensive in my opinion.
It isn’t Christmas until someone says “he was a beastly, bulging man” or “Shitters full!”
LOL.
Why is the floor all wet Todd? I don’t know Margo! My kids and I love watching National Lampoons Christmas movie. That’s our tradition for movie nights.
“Don’t go puttin’ none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at the VA they had to replace it with plastic. It ain’t as strong so I don’t know if I should go sailin down no hill with nothing between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.”
I only fall asleep to forensic files. When it switches over at 3:30 a.m., back to investigation discovery. I think it’s the man’s voice. 🙂
I lobe watching Christmas movies, drinking wine while wrapping gifts.
Well, this isn’t my favorite thing to do but it is a plea that this holiday season everyone be sure to get in pictures with anyone you love, no matter your size or issues with your appearance. I lost my beautiful, beloved 20 year old niece on 12/3. I am saddened that vanity took the place of what could have been nice memories for me … I have tons of Katie (thankfully) but the only pics I could find of us together are basically until she was 4 or 5 … And she never cared what I looked like … Peaceful holidays … Enjoy your holiday traditions and capture those moments ❤️
This current trend to CAPTURE ALL THE MEMORIES is the reason I don’t go to as many family functions as I would if everyone were actually present and not trying to shove a phone in my face. It’s annoying as fuck.
I think I’m kinda lucky, I couldn’t find a picture of my family if I had to. Either lucky or sad, cause I have a 30year old and a 20 year old. The 20 year old doesn’t want or need an I phone. Has his computer room, but maybe I’ll see this year if I can pull off a family picture. (Won’t happen, but nice thought) 🙂
I’m sorry to hear that
That is one thing I will not miss this Christmas. If you have to spend the holidays laid up alone, at least no one will be there to document the momentous occasion, then expect me to ohh and ahhh over the photos later. I hate cameras and camera phones and I’m not too found of people who use them.
That’s kinda what I was saying above. None of us take, want, or look at pictures. My 20year old and myself took ONE selfie, just for the novelty of it. I probably would put looking at pictures near the top of my ugh list. That’s why I just don’t get it with the tons of pictures thing.
Someone already mentioned A Christmas Story. You’ll shoot your eye out. That is a must, and I’m probably one of the only curmudgeons who doesn’t want to see It’s A Wonderful Life.
Who doesn’t love Christmas cookies, but I have a favorite molasses cookie that I make this time of year.
I have to watch A Christmas Story every year, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Also Bridget Joneses Diary and Love Actually. I got a replica “leg lamp” from Bed Bath and Beyond, and somehow nobody who comes over gets it?!
How do they not get the leg lamp? I urge you to make them all watch A Christmas Story immediately!
As an aside – when researching our summer road trip I found you can visit the A Christmas Story house in PA and if you bring the museum admission stub, you get 10% of your meal at the Chinese restaurant that was featured in the movie
You aren’t the only curmudgen who does not want to see It’s a Wonderful Life, Bella. And I love a good molasses cookie!!!
I watched It’s a Wonderful Life last night. No something one should do alone, but the tears were the healing kind.
Hey Mary, I know I’m missing out on a lot of great movies but I refuse to watch anything that may cause me to shed a tear. I hate crying over movies. I’m a movie buff and know I’m depriving myself of excellent films, but I can’t deal with my tears. The way I see it, I’ve shed enough tears in life that I refuse to do it for entertainment purposes. Silly. I know.
How could I have not mentioned Scrooged? If you want silly rather than sappy.
I love Christmas movies and Christmas shopping! One of my very favorite things to do during Christmas is to spend hours at the mall shopping for people, however this year I did 95% of my shopping online. I still might sneak up to the mall one of these nights.
I also like to bake during the holidays and usually I hate it. I’m a good chef, but I don’t have the patience or the talent for baking. Nothing looks pretty, but it tastes good enough. I also like to experiment with some boozy cookies during the Holidays..last year my rum balls could get one drunk 😂
Our family Christmas Eve tradition may be odd to come, but we love it! I had been a single mom since my sons, now 28 and 22, were 7 and 12. The year I became a single mom for the 2nd time, 1st time was when oldest was 8 months, the boys got me a DVD player, the original Miracle on 34th Street (black n white) and Dazed & Confused DVDs. After the family obligations were over, we pop popcorn with an air popper (no microwave crap here), curl up on the couch with lots of blankets, no lights except the tree and watch Miracle on 34th Street and then Dazed & Confused. As they became men wine, beer, fireball, etc. has been added, but to this day on Dec 24th late at night, there we will be under a ton of blankets! FYI, Dazed & Confused is a family staple for the 3 of us!
My favourite thing about the holiday season is that we have a solid six weeks (Dec 1ish – Ukrainian Christmas) of excuses to get together with friends to play cards and have a little “Christmas cheer”. Mmmm… spiced rum and eggnog paralyzers mixed with sequence and kaiser! Merry Christmas y’all!
Every year, my family along with several friends gather together on Christmas Eve and go Caroling around to different nursing homes (no one is more appreciative). I love dressing up in the traditional velvet Dickens attire including my absolute favorite, the Muff. Also, the smell of a Balsam Fir and all of the twinkling lights. I could look at Christmas lights for eternity and never tire.
I love the funny Christmas movies. Elf, National Lampoons, the Kranks, the Grinch (Jim Carey is a genius in that movie – the production staff must have been pissing themselves laughing the entire time), Deck the Halls (with Danny DeVito and Ferris Bueller) and The Muppets Christmas Carol. Then I throw in my fav feel good but makes you cry Christmas movie, Miracle on 34th Street. The one from the 90’s with that adorable little girl who was also in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire. Actually now I’ve made a list, my evenings for the next week are sorted.
I love to decorate and then decorate some more ! I will make excuses to make decorations and I will decorate my moms house too. I put up three trees inside and two on my front porch. If I could my hubby into I would totally be onboard for doing the outside of the house like the Griswalds lol
And then comes the cookie baking and fudge making and pumpkin bread.
I wish the season lastest longer but if it did I would gain even more weight than i usually do!
I make pretty Christmas sweaters for all of my cats and dress them up and have kitty Christmas parades around my one room studio in the basement of the Curves. Then I take the year’s medical tests and make origami ornaments that I hang from my radiator. It’s all very festive.
Did I say for? I meant from.
Thank you teecee 66
My day is now complete.
🙂
Are you lost? Do you need directions to a more appropriate place to hang out? Because I know just the one!
I live in Oregon and have been snowed in for a week (can’t get out of the driveway) with a grouchy husband and 4 dogs. That is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week! Thanx TeeCee! I might make it another couple days w/o having to strangle someone.
So tell me this: do you make a sweater from cat A and put it on cat B, and so on and so forth? If so, that’s quite a novel and original idea.
This was a question for TeeCee. Not sure why it nested here.
It might be more apropriate for you to learn the art of wire bending and make a chasity cage for your little penis. That would make TT happy, too.
Lol. What does that mean? Have you been sniffing you scrapbooking glue? Are you drunk on rum balls from the piggly wiggly?
I’m confused that you don’t seem to know what a cock cage is, or where they are purchased or who does the purchasing or that an actual cock is required. Is this something you want to purchase for your husband? If so, my favorite place online is stockroom. They can be a bit pricey but the quality is worth it.
Have a very BDSM Christmas!
The safeword is Rudolph!
You are going to have to get A NAME if you want to keep commenting here. I don’t care what it is, but ME isn’t it.
Hubby and I day drink. Carolan’s in the morning coffee, Christmas cider in the afternoon, wine at night…we had the week between Christmas and New Year’s off last year and this was our main activity. That and eating tons of cheese, cookies and appetizer type foods because “it’s Christmas!”
No day drinking for me this year as I’m nursing 🙁
But a new baby is the perfect excuse to go all out with the decorations, which we have!
I like sending out Christmas cards. Not photos with stuff printed on them, but actual cards that I write stuff in and I love getting those in return. Not that I don’t like your baby or your family all wearing the same outfit while casually lounging all over each other on the beach or whatever, but pictures I’ve seen, lots of them. As a side note, I also hate it when people are wandering around constantly snapping pictures of everything. I suppose it’s against the spirit of things to slap it out of your hand. Sigh.
I love, love, love A Charlie Brown Christmas and feel like I’m missing something if I don’t see it every year. It has to be whenever it comes on regular TV, too. I still miss the Dolly Madison commercials, ha. And the Grinch. Throw Elf and Christmas Vacation in there for good measure – and when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse. Love it.
Oh, and who doesn’t love a good Christmas cat parade? It as the “from” that made it.
We always had oyster stew on Christmas Eve and opened one present. I used to bake and decorate tons of cookies and many loaves of anise biscotti and send them to all my friends…
Christmas Movies.. I liked the Muppet one. As a kid of course A charlie brown Christmas. . Even though I am not Catholic.. I always liked to watch Midnight Mass from the Vatican.
I will admit to watching Hallmark channel movies..usually fall asleep while watching..endings always the same.
While I usually cook, clean, serve and purchase for everyone, I started a new tradition today. I SAID NO. No in-laws and their randoms showing up with their luggage for an extended stay at what is, apparently, my bed and breakfast. No more cooking while they open the gifts I got them when they have never once given me (or my children) a gift. No more of their fat asses laying all over my house and taking nasty shits in every bathroom. No more having coffee ready when they wake, and no more espresso and cookies in the evening. No more watching them shovel caviar down their fat throats while I prep. No more dishes morning, noon and night. No more cleaning their dog’s period blood off my floors. No more. Happy Fucking Holidays to me!
Dee…Keep saying NO to all that nastiness and say YES! to a heavily spiked super-sized eggnog! Your comment made me chuckle. Thanks!
Dee! Whatever will you do with all that free time??
Sounds like a liberated holiday at your house, and it sounds like it’s about fucking time!
Good for you, Dee! Sounds like what I used to do before my divorce. Freedom!
This place has gotten so much smarter and funnier in the past few weeks
My Christmas traditions are the following: (just for the sake of brevity, please assume that every action is accompanied by many glasses of wine)
-Put up all Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving Weekend, anything that doesn’t get put up in that time frame doesn’t go up.
-All Christmas decorations have to fit in two plastic storage bins, anything new that I buy (in the after Christmas sales) is balanced out by giving or throwing away something else. The wreathes are the exception since they store easily on a hook in the back of the closet or garage.
-We do a table-top Christmas tree, I think it’s so cute and at only 3-4 feet tall, it can only hold so many lights and ornaments, and most dropped needles end up on it’s table not the floor) Also, I can do the intricate decorations that I like, that I otherwise wouldn’t if I were decorating a full size tree.
-I love sitting in front of the fireplace, watching the tree lights flicker (flicker flame led candle lights) and listening to the Ronettes and other Phil Spector (hate him, love the music) Christmas songs, and the Peanuts Christmas soundtrack.
I also love watching the Christmas episodes of sit-coms and cartoons, more than actual Christmas movies, except for A Christmas Story.
-The decorations come down on Three Kings Day, and that’s a little celebration in itself with wine and Christmas music.
Besides all the cleaning and decorating, our Christmas tradition always includes making a big pan of baklava and packaging it up in festive boxes to give away. This year I’m adding homemade chocolate pretzel bark to the box. Since I’m not a sweet eater and I don’t usually make desserts for my family, this time of year is the time to try out some new recipes. One new one I’m saving just for Christmas dinner is gingerbread cheesecake muffins with maple whipped cream. Everyone at work loved the trial batch. On Christmas Day, for some reason, we always have “I Love Lucy” DVDs playing in the background. I have no idea why but the kids (adults now, 23 and 26) just love that show just as much as my husband and I.
Whatever your tradition, I thank everyone here, both Tamara and all the contributors, for another year of fun reads and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Joyous Holiday, and Happy New Year!
My husband and I celebrate Christmas like the people on the Cote d’azure. It isn’t about presents, but about huge platters of seafood!
One of my favorite Christmas activities is baking cookies while watching Hallmark movies. Perfect day. That’s the plan for next week. One of our favorite are macarons. My daughter and I took a cooking class in Paris a few years ago to learn to make them. It’s quite the process, but they are delicious–rival Laduree, and better than anything I’ve ever bought in the states. Our favorite are with a mocha filling. Yummy, yum, yum. We’ll also be baking all the traditional cookies. Baking cookies for dessert for the homeless shelter where I volunteer. Those guests love the Mexican wedding cookies, so I have to make a lot of those.
I’m making cookies this year in the shape of special snowflakes! Then I’m getting my parathyroid checked!
Make sure bake the snowflakes at a very low temperature. They can’t take much heat at all without melting into one big runny mess.
We watch Christmas movies and make a gingerbread house. On Christmas day they are so into thier toys I catch movies on lifetime or hallmark and snuggle in bed for a bit to get up.and cook dinner, which is brunch really then my husband and I have a drink or two and just lay low. It’s fun.
Since most of my family is dead, me and my lovelies read other people’s obituaries. We spend twelve days cyberstalking someone who pissed us off. It never gets old. Fun times!
^^^sorry. Egg-nog related. Hate when that happens. I am so we Todd did.
Btw, after re-reading thread with newer (yet still red) eyes, you know what sounds really divine right about now? SAUSAGE BALLS! Think I should text one of my spawn from my bed & tell them to make me some for breakfast! Yummy! Lol!
Hubby and I cuddle up with popcorn an lots of wine. We try to make it through Die Hard every Christmas Eve.
I once TRIED to start a tradition with my family. Generally everyone goes to my sisters house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The food is always fantastic and there is always champagne flowing. There is sort of a underlying bring some if you’re gonna drink some rule. Since I have to drive back home I try to keep my drinking under control, this doesn’t always work. The key is to get out before the sad discussion of dead relatives starts. If you are there for that part, you’ll end up sleeping on the couch, or worse.
Anyway, a few years ago, I got on the whole Beaujolais nouveau market whirlwind. In case you don’t know, the third Thursday in Novemeber is Beaujolais Nouveau Day! It’s sort of a celebration of the end of the fall harvest and some of the grapes from the year are used to make a very young wine just weeks after being picked. It’s not very good wine. LOL. It’s just sort of a gimmick as well as giving a bit of insight into the notes of the wine from each winery for that years harvest. One year seemed to be to be the year of the rotten banana. I would bring a bottle or three depending on how many different vineyards I could fin and we world taste them and give our opinions. It was not something you would want to drink a lot of.
Anyway, today I had lots of errands I had been putting off that much be done before Christmas. The last stop was Whole Fooods. There, in the middle of the aisle was the most marketed Beaujolais Noveau from Duboeuf . $10. Sold. I’m chilling it, though I don’t think you are supposed to, to make it more palatable. May day drink it on Christmas Eve between naps.
Speaking of naps, Today was the most active I have been in several months. I got all of my purchases in the house but only the refrigerated stuff got put away. Then I ate some smoked chicken wings and fell over into a three hours coma, Banjo woke me up. He usually doesn’t do that, but I fed him before I went face down and he is very punctual about his backyard time an hour or two after eating.
I am still exhausted and will probably fall asleep before the next Christmas movie ends.
If you were me or TC you’d know that chilling young reds like that is a-ok.
We stock up the fridge with red sancerre every summer. Just love it.
oh, and do you think this sweater makes my parathyroid look fat?
My nephew is a sommelier and says if chilling a red makes it palatable, fine, do it. Who are others to tell someone what their personal preference should be? He does say that this rule generally applies to low cost wines. The better the wine you may lose appreciation for the fine notes the wine has to offer.
I love all the holiday parties and events, private or corporate, pretty much from the 10th thru Christmas it gives me a legit excuse to go out, socialize and drink cocktails everynight!! I also like the progressive dinner we do in my neighborhood Christmas Eve, i do cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, meaning i have a sexy mixologist friend of mine over who puts on a great show, flirts and turns on the charm, makes my portion of the night very easy lol
We may cross paths and not even know it, I’m going to Miami for New Year’s with friends then some of them are off to the Bahamas and the Caribbean with me for some much needed relaxation!!
Loved reading everyones traditions, also love watching the holiday movies that come on every year! hope you all have an amazing holiday season!!
I just received the best Christmas present. A Friend from college to help me devoid myself from lots of maple four poster beds from the 1940’s. and other furniture in my second home.
I love Christmas music. I’ll be playing it well into January.
I read this topic on the day I exhausted myself with a big pot of tamales. I already perfected my cookie recipe early this month and I’m done.
mmm tamales. I have a Mexican drive through that sells them. They used to be cheap and fantastic and then they changed cooks or something. I think it is just whoever makes them at this point. I was spoiled by my Mexican parents who would bring me tamales at Christmas.
I usually love making gingerbread cookies & deco them to the nines. I sometimes have folks who won’t eat them because they are so nice. I’m not doing that this year because I’m in lazy mode, plus the top element on my oven is on the blink. The lower element works but temp & gauge is wonky. A few years back I picked up a Nordic ware mountain range Bundt pan. I bake devils food cakes & sift powdered sugar over the top. I fill the middle with chocolate coins. My hub took it to work yesterday & everyone was quite impressed. In all the cake cost $5 max, easy least, & I give to neighbor children, who become excited beyond belief, to at least be able to sneak a chocolate from the center. What do i want for Xmas? I want my oven repaired among other things!
I usually love making gingerbread cookies & deco them to the nines. I sometimes have folks who won’t eat them because they are so nice. I’m not doing that this year because I’m in lazy mode, plus the top element on my oven is on the blink. The lower element works but temp & gauge is wonky. A few years back I picked up a Nordic ware mountain range Bundt pan. I bake devils food cakes & sift powdered sugar over the top. I fill the middle with chocolate coins. My hub took it to work yesterday & everyone was quite impressed. In all, the cake cost $5 max, its easy , & neighbor fams with children, become bonkers beyond belief to hold back from sneaking a chocolate from the center.
What do i want for Xmas? I want my oven repaired among other things!
I haven’t had sausage balls but I make a delicious sausage chip dip. We also have a delicious oyster casserole as part of Xmas eve dinner. I get hungry just thinking about that meal . Turkey, Smoked Smithfield ham, dressing, sweet potatoes etc. Yummy. Once a year and oh so good.
I get in the mood to make gingerbread and pumpkin cake diring the holidays. In the Caribbean, we make sorrel, maubi and coquito drinks, which definitely gets you in the spirit.
All this talk of sausage balls reminds me of another holiday day classic, the SNL skit with Alec Baldwin as Arther Shwetty with 2 ladies from NPR, all wearing ugliest of Christmas sweaters, discussing his Shwetty balls. A real holiday treat! 🙂
As for my traditional brouhaha, we always go to a movie on Christmas Day. There’s a bunch of new releases and it fills that gap of time between opening the presents and dinner.
After a terribly stressful 2016, I plan on the easiest Christmas possible. We will pick up our ‘ordered’ food from Boston Market, which I really should order. It seems like a good day for relaxing for once, not worrying about cooking. We will enjoy watching our 16 year old open her gifts. The rest of the day lounging in pj’s watching holiday movies and just being thankful. Boring and simple! This is my first post, but a very long time reader. Happy Holidays Tamara! Wishing everyone a great holiday season!
Babette’s feast. A guest blog as sumptuous and there’s bourbon involved in an old fashioned way.