My apologies, I've been so busy lately that I haven't written in a few days. On top of that, I didn't get many pictures in, but I'll sure tell you about what I made!
I made apple pie and pumpkin pie. We are eating the pumpkin, which I made for Christmas dessert. The apple pie went to my brother. He claims it's the best pie ever and that the crust was "superb" and therefor he was even eating the crust. I call that success. I also made fudge that I was going to take to my parents house for Christmas Eve, it was a bit soft and I didnt really feel like taking it. We are slowly eating it. Believe it or not I'm on chocolate overload.
I also made rum truffles. I gave those out to my parents, sister, Marks gramma and neighbors. I learned during that process that it's best NOT to double or triple a recipe when dealing with chocolate. The chocolate that I had done that was for the dipping of the truffle before being sprinkled with walnuts and chilled again, hardened very fast. I had to melt down more chocolate just to finish the dipping process. I threw away a lot of chocolate that day. But hey, what's home cooking without a bit of imperfection, and I thought they still tasted great, some of them just were a bit out of shape that all.
I woke up Christmas morning, and we were already on a very late schedule. My husband now works night, and I mean late nights. He worked Christmas Eve night until 6am Christmas morning. So the plan was to let him sleep as usual and then do presents, so I had all morning to enjoy my coffee and make chocolates! It was kinda peaceful taking the morning as I did, because when Mark got up and we started opening presents, it was chaos, good chaos, but still...chaos. My kids made out like bandits this year! I couldn't even keep track of who was doing what and my camera got lost in all the mess so I got very few pictures. Sad, but there's always next year right?
Christmas breakfast was excellant! The night before I put together a strada. It has to sit for no less than 10 hours so it's not something you do the same day. Anyways there was cut up english muffins, bacon, broccoli, swiss cheese, sour cream, eggs, pepper, oregano, and some milk. So all I had to do Christmas morning was heat the oven, toss it in a let it bake for 1 hour. Which is how long it took to do presents so it was perfectly timed. We all loved it. I'll definitly do that again next Christmas.
I honestly hadn't planned a big special dinner for Christmas. We were so excited that we didn't have to go anywhere why would I want to make a huge dinner. I ended up doing a ham anyway, thanks mom! It was good, there wasn't much work to it really.
This morning for breakfast I toasted english muffins, made over easy eggs, took out some swiss cheese and fried up some left over ham. I placed the toasted muffin in the pan, placed ham and then cheese on it and let it melt just a bit, then put the egg over it. Like a twist to eggs benedict. It was awesome! I'm honestly thinking of doing that again tomorrow. I did get a picture of that, and the apple pie.
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