Wish I had some of that pie

I got stuck working today and tomorrow so no baking for me. We may bake a homemade pizza for dinner tonight.

Pretty much on top of things here. Just took a carrot cake out of the oven that I need to ice with cream cheese frosting when it is cool. It is my stepdad's birthday and carrot cake is his favorite so I bake one every year for him. He looks forward to it.

We are celebrating Christmas eve, and everything is ready. Visiting daughter and I made decorated Christmas sugar cookies yesterday. Man! It is so much faster with 2 of us, and more fun! Pecan pie in oven now. Cheesecake done. Tonite is our main meal, and kids will back tomorrow nite for leftovers, ham sandwiches etc. I am not worn out. Daughter was able to come earlier in week and it has been great!

I wish I felt as on top of things....but I'll relax once I've finished a couple more projects. Blackberry pie is cooling, then had drop in company (that DH loves and happens a little too many days a week to suit me sometimes). I have things out to make salmon spread, two pumpkin pies and one apple cream pie. DH has offered to peel & slice the apples - we'll see. He says that every year and about one out of three he's actually here or free to do it ;0)

Marilyn yum black rasberry.

I baked two loaves of banana walnut bread. My neighbor gave me a bunch of over ripe but not rotton bananas she was gonna toss and I had walnuts in the freezer. Two loaves of pumpkin bread done also. Two pumpkin pies cooling on racks and a apple pie in the oven. My sweet potatoes and jumbo russets are scrubbed and ready for the oven tomorrow. Cranberry is made and in the frig. I'll wait until tonight to make deviled eggs. I'm now working on lasagna for tonights dinner. I have been cooking and cleaning all day. I can hardly wait till the pastas in the oven so I can shower. We eat late on Christmas Eve so dinner won't be ready until 7.30.

Marilyn Sue, you are amazing. All that baking and cooking and then you just whip up a table cloth for good measure!

No baking here. We're leaving in a few hours to spend the night near the airport where we are catching a flight in the morning. Hey, maybe I'll have a piece of pie or cheesecake or carrot cake at the airport tomorrow!

Salad and mini cheesecakes for tonight are done (at friends' house.) Tomorrow I have to make breakfast casserole and fried apples. Then when we get back from there I need to make scalloped potatoes, and yeast rolls. I'm sitting here trying to calculate if I have enough rising time. And how to prep scalloped potatoes so they don't turn brown before they go in the oven.

Otherwise, I'm totally ready!

Your doing a lot of work Marilyn Sue. Sounds wonderful!

Yesterday I made a pot of turkey chili & a chocolate cheesecake.

I only made 2 batches of Rice Krispee squares, 2 batches of shortbread cookes and a batch of Peanut Butter Cup cookies. That's it. I was going to chop up veggies for the stuffing, but will just do that in the morning before everyone shows up to open gifts. I finally got all my gifts wrapped and put under the tree. I just want to relax today or it won't feel like I've had a day off at all. We are ordering pizza for dinner tonight.

I am waiting for the rolls to finish baking and then I will go up and almost call it a day. I still have the little table cloth to cut out and hem. It is still lightly snowing here.

Sue

Our plans have morphed into having mostly appetizer/small plates at home tomorrow. Eating all day.... Then I have to make corn dish, and some sort of bread for Tuesday family dinner.

I tried a new cookie recipe this year. First test batch was pretty good. Second batch, I accidentally left out the eggs. So, I tried baking them as shortbread, took them out of the oven, they tasted pretty good but needed a few minutes more. Well I forgot to set the timer and the whole mess burned. Ugh.

I must dash downstairs shortly and bake grandson's birthday cake for tomorrow. He will be 11.

Black raspberries are my very favorite. We grew black and red raspberries in our garden when I was a kid. They don't even sell them out here in southern California. I have not seen one in decades.

Making Cherries Jubilee for tonight's Christmas Eve dinner. Our big day is tomorrow. Tree in the morning, quiche brunch, then birthday presents, then a big fancy dinner with birthday cake. Whew. Just 8 of us this year, so we will fit comfortably around the dining room table.

I had our family here for an early Christmas yesterday, so everything done, cleaned up and put away. It was a fantastic day, but I cooked for two days and loved every minute of it!

I worked on my Christmas cookies today. Tonight we just did pizza and Christmas cookies that I set aside for just us.

Tomorrow we'll have DH's sister and BF. Planning a ham, vegan ham, veggies etc.

I'll bake an apple cake in the morning.

I am just making sides for tomorrow so no need to prepare anything tonight. So we decided to just take it easy and order oriental food. They give you enough food for 2 meals. I am having orange jumbo shrimp with fried rice and egg rolls. I will be putting most in the fridge.

For the first time in my memory I baked nothing. Went to family party and they asked that we contributed money and took on all the cooking. We are going to be home alone for Christmas with leftovers...I could get into this! Plan to snuggle in bed late, watch movies and eat the leftovers.

Marilyn Sue you amaze me all the time with your energy and your yummy food.

I still have to bake bread and make a pineapple casserole in the morning.

Today I prepped all the veggies for tomorrow and made a big Romaine lettuce with mandarin oranges salad for a party we are going to soon. Last night I made a batch of Spritzer cookies. My dds are suppose to be baking a cake sometime for tomorrow, but it hasn't been baked yet!

Everything sounds delicious and that
Chinese food looks good. I have cooked most all day, made two cakes German chocolate and Italian Cream cake. Also baked a ham and made a broccoli/rice/cheese casserole. I think I am ready for tomorrow. Just have to put it all in the car and travel 160 miles, then turn around and come back.

Black raspberries? YUM! ! ! Haven't seen those in many a year! Grew them on the farm when I was growing up. Red raspberries were added during my early teens. No raspberries at all down here in South Texas, until a few years ago, when the reds started showing up in the store. Ridiculously expensive, but once in awhile I splurge on a half pint, just to indulge myself. It's funny, when we first got them on the farm, I thought they were really good, better than the black, But now I would much rather have the black, if I could ever find any! ! !

I did no cooking or baking this year, a first time ever. But we had our Christmas yesterday at Grandson's house, 165 mi. drive from here. I went up early yesterday morning, and came back last night. He decided that getting myself and his Dad there was enough of a task for me, but I still felt bad about arriving with no food to contribute to the dinner. But there was more than enough there, and every bit was delicious!

Rusty

All I have done is cook for weeks! Candy, cookies, turkeys, dressing, sausage gravy and biscuits... so much food! Ugh. But, I was most proud that I actually found a Cinnabon copycat recipe that was bang on exactly the same as the rolls you get in the mall.

65-75 mph winds here and a day long power outage. Fortunately we have a gas cooktop and. heated up some frozen stew. The house got really cold but power is back on now so we're warm.