Christmas Dinner 2010

Our Christmas Day meal for 2010 consisted of cinnamon rolls for breakfast, leftover spaghetti for lunch, and a feast of glazed ham, green beans casserole, fried rice, and creamy mashed red potatoes for dinner. Plus apple pie for dessert. I didn’t make Irish soda bread like in the previous years coz my brother-in-law and his family couldn’t make it to dinner due to the weather. Ham and 3 side dishes were MORE than enough to feed 4 people and have leftovers for days.

Cinnamon Rolls with Cinnabon inspired frosting. I woke up early to make this so we could have it for breakfast after opening the gifts. I’ve already made a bunch for the neighbors on Christmas Eve.

Sliced Glazed Ham.

Bacon, Peas and Cilantro Fried Rice.

Green Beans and Mushroom Casserole. This picture was from our Thanksgiving dinner by the way. I didn’t bother taking a picture from the Christmas table since it’s the same thing anyway. Even the casserole pan :) .

Creamy Mashed red skin potatoes. This is similar to the creamy white mashed ‘taters from Thanksgiving which was inspired by The Pioneer Woman. I’ll post a step-by-step in a few days.

That’s my plate. Yes, I had seconds. But just the ham, and rice………….then the mashed potatoes and beans.

Our Christmas dinner can’t go on without apple pie every year. The Blue Bunny white chocolate w/ macadamia nuts ice cream on top is oh-sooooooooooo-good. It’s better than plain vanilla ice cream.

Christmas 2009 Dinner

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For our Christmas dinner, we didn’t do the traditional ham or roasted chicken. Hubs found some really nice looking rib eye steaks from BJ’s days before Christmas which made him declare, “we’re having steaks for Christmas.” I had no problem with it coz it meant he’ll be grilling, :) .

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Christmas Apple Pie For 2009

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I made my traditional Apple Pie for our Christmas dessert  tomorrow. It turned out really gorgeous. Better than the pie I made last year. My 3 yr old daughter said “oohhh” when she saw it on the table after I took pictures. Then she started singing “…..to you”, to the tune of the happy birthday song :lol: .

Here’s my recipe for the Apple Pie. Merry Christmas Everyone!