Hope you had just a wonderful Christmas.
We stayed here this year and enjoyed some family time with just the four of us and some delicious food, if I might say so… HA!
On Christmas Eve, I made a modified Tuscan Bread Salad from the recipe on {Jones Design Company}. I just adore Emily’s blog. Have you seen it? It’s one of my favorites. She is so talented and inspiring! I made mine as more of a side salad than an entree. It’s so delicious and the vinaigrette…well, let’s just say I will be using it on just my “regular” salads too!
For the main course, I made Jeff’s favorite dish. It’s called Braciole. It’s a flank steak stuffed with garlic, cheeses, breadcrumbs and parsley. Then you bake it in a wine-marinara sauce for a couple hours. The meat gets all melt-in-your-mouth tender.
It’s not the prettiest looking dishes, but I assure you, it will delight your taste buds. :)
Christmas morning, I made homemade Cinnamon Sugar Donuts to eat while we opened presents and you would never know they were gluten-free and vegan!!!
and then around 10:45 we had brunch.
We started off with a cocktail…Pomegranate Champagne Punch.
I thoroughly enjoy cooking for my family. And even though we didn’t have company, I still wanted to make it festive with some special dishes. And, I got to enjoy the fruits of my labor via leftovers! The strata btw, is great for dinner too with a salad!
Jeff went back to work yesterday and I worked really hard putting some assemblence back into the house and doing some cleaning. It was making me crazy.
Does your house get like that too from the holidays?
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