Christmas dinner menu

Hello!

Was anyone else affected by the bad weather this holiday season? We’re in Nebraska, have to travel through Kansas, and live in Missouri. All three states got quite a storm and it’s definitely affected our traveling. We left to come a day early and we’re staying a day later than planned. It’s actually kind of nice to do nothing for another day.

But we’ve got plenty of delicious Christmas dinner leftovers to polish off as we’re stuck another day!

In case you missed it, Erik and I did most of the cooking this year at my mom’s house just because we felt like it. The menu was as follows:

• An organic turkey. This was my first experience cooking a whole turkey. We ended up cooking it just a little longer than I would have preferred but it was still tasty.

• Cold couscous salad. It contained couscous, sliced almonds, assorted dried berries, feta cheese, olives, sliced grapes, orange juice, agave nectar, apple sauce, onion & herb seasonings, sea salt, and olive oil.

My family didn’t know what couscous was but they didn’t mind it. The feta cheese threw my parents off because they don’t like feta. Erik and I have plenty of leftovers and we don’t mind, ha. Though, we discovered this salad tastes better warm.

• Mashed red potatoes.  The mashed potatoes included our “secret ingredient” of light laughing cow cheese wedges. Yum!!

• Mashed sweet potatoes. Erik was in charge of potatoes and he made the best mashed sweet potatoes I’ve ever tasted. So good!!

• Roasted veggies.  We smoked these on my parents’ Traeger grill and they came out amazing! I was in veggie heaven! It included Brussels, green, yellow, orange, and red bell peppers, sweet onions, zucchini squash and cherry tomatoes.

Along with that, my sister contributed a cold salad and corn, my mom made her famous rolls, my grandma made dressing (no one can make dressing like grandmas can ;), and banana cream pie.

For my dessert contribution, I made “Nikki’s Healthy Cookies Recipe” from 101 Cookbooks.

It was dinner for seven that included my parents, my grandma, my sister and her husband, and Erik and I. Needless to say, we were all stuffed!

Karmon and Erik took a dorky table picture …ironically they both just randomly posed not knowing what the other one was doing. It worked out well ; )

While cleaning up, I fed all five dogs some scraps. It was interesting, ha. But they were all pretty good and took turns very well, considering. We will be thoroughly enjoying our leftovers today and will probably do some juicing on my new juicer! : )

What was the best part of your Christmas meal?