Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Every year, I gather up my '08 classmates, plunk them down at my dinner table, and serve them food. As usual, I made one bajillion tons of eggnog. This year, I decided to preserve my sanity and premade nearly everything the day before. All that was left to do on party-day was crisping up the shepherd's pie, mass producing eggnog, and preparing the roast asparagus (along with cleaning the apartment and getting dressed. But, you know. Whatever). This was really quite doable. And I almost didn't lose my cool, ahahaha.
I had my usual holiday decor (i.e., white twinkle lights) but also put 2yds burlap cut in half on top of some white lace thrift store tablecloths. Combine that with a bunch of estate sale and Ikea red candles, and we were all set. Instant holiday-party-times.
The Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies from Joeycake were really the nicest surprise from this year's recipes. They'll be getting their own post shortly.
Recipes I used (I recommend them all):
- Shepherd's Pie from SimplyRecipes
- Roasted Asparagus with Shallots from AllRecipes
- EverybodyLikesSandwiches' Broccoli Crunch Slaw
- Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies from Joeycake
- Pumpkin Pie Recipe from Betty Crocker and Combination Pie Crust from Wistenmade
- BYOV's Eggnog
5 comments:
Sergio loved the cookies, so I can't wait to see the recipe and try baking them ourselves.
The cookie recipe is right here: http://joeycake.blogspot.com/2011/09/chewy-chocolate-gingerbread-cookies.html
Although I used a couple ounces less chocolate, but that's about it.
Oh my word, how fun...and delicious!
Man, your nog recipe looks GOOOOOD
The food looks delicious!! Looks like you guys had a great time. :-)
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