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Teakafrog
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OK, so it’s only lunch time and the biggest part of dinner hasn’t even been started yet, but here’s where we are so far:
Guest list has changed dramatically the last 48 hrs, keeps going up and down as people change their minds as to whether they’re coming or not–hard to cook if you don’t know whether you’re cooking for 7 or 20!
Menu changes–DH wanted a Christmas goose, so I looked up recipes and had planned on making one. I saw there were some at Wally World, so he went to get one. It was $5/ lb!!!
Needless to say, he came home with an 88 cents/lb turkey. Which he decided to smoke. So he started it last night, not entirely thawed…we’ll see what happens there. 
DS wanted to help cook this year. He’s 12 now. He wanted to make fudge, and a cheese ball.
So with the fudge, we found a simple recipe that came out deeeelicious, and for the cheese ball, I just made him figure out what he wanted in it, so he ended up with chopped pepperoni, dried onions, and a pinch of Italian seasoning, season salt, and garlic powder. It’s chilling now, but it smells really good, so we’ll see.
Mass is at 4pm, so it’s going to be a challenge to get everything ready to put on the table when we get home from Church.
So what’s going on at your house?
Guest list has changed dramatically the last 48 hrs, keeps going up and down as people change their minds as to whether they’re coming or not–hard to cook if you don’t know whether you’re cooking for 7 or 20!
Menu changes–DH wanted a Christmas goose, so I looked up recipes and had planned on making one. I saw there were some at Wally World, so he went to get one. It was $5/ lb!!!
Needless to say, he came home with an 88 cents/lb turkey. Which he decided to smoke. So he started it last night, not entirely thawed…we’ll see what happens there. DS wanted to help cook this year. He’s 12 now. He wanted to make fudge, and a cheese ball.
So with the fudge, we found a simple recipe that came out deeeelicious, and for the cheese ball, I just made him figure out what he wanted in it, so he ended up with chopped pepperoni, dried onions, and a pinch of Italian seasoning, season salt, and garlic powder. It’s chilling now, but it smells really good, so we’ll see.Mass is at 4pm, so it’s going to be a challenge to get everything ready to put on the table when we get home from Church.
So what’s going on at your house?
) any way I am also going to try for the very first time to smoke a turkey breast but will do that tomorrow. According to all the recipes I found on-line I need to soak it in a brine and found one I really liked - a maple-apple juice brine, found one of my tupperware cannisters that is deep enough to do this in too!
- this time not mine). Have to pop over to the Albertson’s for the right rolls for the sloppy joes. We will probably add a simple lettuce and sweet pepper salad and maybe some potatoe chips. We will be going to Mass at 5 p.m. (we never go to the 4 p.m. at the main church because it is the one that all the families with little children go to and we leave the space there for them!) My youngest (an agnostic) will be working until right after we get home from Mass, my husband (a Lutheran) may or may not go to Mass with us.
Never made one of those before. And the recipe for pumpkin pie that was supposed to make 2 pies…actually made plenty for 3. So we have a LOT of pumpkin pie. Not that that’s a bad thing. 
So DH made a hotel reservation near them (their house is too small for all of us), and we will be bringing the ham and potatoes and cooking them there. Also the apples and broccoli. The cheesecake is too tricky to bring or make there, so the boys and I made dozens of cut out cookies and decorated them last night; we’re taking a bag to church tonight and two bags to Christmas dinner at the ILs. That will be dessert.