Friday, December 25, 2009

My Christmas Post

Merry Christmas Everyone! This morning my sister came over for our traditional Christmas breakfast of biscuits and cinnamon rolls.  I know this isn't very balanced, but I'm OK with this holiday tradition.  

Biscuits: 
Cinnamon Rolls: 
I signed up to bring dessert to my sister's for dinner so I made these Reese's Fudge Cookie Bars.  This was kind of dreamed up by Chris.  I was telling him what I was thinking about him and he suggested some substitutions for some ingredients and I thought they were great ideas so I decided to go with it!
First, preheated the oven until 350.  Then, I took one tube of cookie dough and lined the pan: 
After that was ready, I put 2 T butter, 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 2 tsp vanilla, and 1 bag of chocolate chips and melted them together over medium heat. 
Then I poured that over the cookie dough crust. 
On top of that, I put chopped up Reese's peanut butter cups and crumbled up pieces of cookie dough (1/2 tube). 

Then I baked it for about 35 min and ta-da! 
Cut into small pieces because this stuff is rich! But oh-so good!  Luckily, everyone liked it tonight! And I set some aside for Chris when I see him tomorrow so he can try his brilliant idea!

So for the first time ever, Christmas was not at my mom's.  My sister had dinner at her place and her boyfriend's family came.  This was the first time meeting them so that was fun!  There were a couple appetizers, but the one I stuck with was the pizza dip with fritos.  

The pizza dip is basically cream cheese mixed with oregano, topped with marinara, then mozzarella.  Bake it and your done! It's so simple, yet sooo good!  Fritos are always served with it at our functions. 

Here's my dinner plate: 


On my plate: 
  • Mac and cheese
  • Applesauce jello
  • cheesy baked potatos
  • apple kugel
  • spinach casserole
For dessert, I had a piece of the Reese's creation and a taste of my mom's cookies that she makes every year.  Spritz cookies and M&M cookies.  


Well I have a bad headache and have to get up early so I'm off to bed!  I probably won't post until Sunday night since I'll be in South Bend the rest of the weekend.  

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