Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

We are hosting 7 tonight. We decided to go buffet style with an assortment of finger food. Chilled peel & eat shrimp, crabbies, buffalo chicken dip & homemade salsa for chips, bruschetta, pork potstickers, bite sized miniature meatballs, veggie tray w/dip and an impressive charcuterie board we ordered and had delivered this morning. Also an assortment of cookies my wife baked yesterday. A really colorful spread.

For drinks we have a few bottles each of red & white, cooler stocked with beer and my wife made a batch of holiday margaritas this morning.

Tomorrow will just be the 4 of us and plan on having a more traditional meal. A ham, twice baked potatoes, corn and roasted Brussel sprouts & butternut squash.

I’m sure with the amount left overs we’ll have, Monday & Tuesday meals will already be handled.

Merry Christmas

 

Scooter, can I come over?

 

Let’s see if I can get today’s menu listed with some order to it—We plan on our meal to be served about 4:00 PM. We are having a smoked turkey, a smoked shank portion ham, and a spiral cut Honey Baked Ham for our meats.

Ms. Jan’s homemade cornbread dressing (her Mama’s recipe) and giblet gravy with homemade cranberry sauce, cream 40’s & petite butter beans, fresh turnips & mustard greens, sweet potato dumplings, mashed potatoes, sweet potato soufflé, corn casserole, Watergate salad, deviled eggs, pineapple casserole, and yeast rolls.

Deserts are pecan pie, an assortment of homemade cakes and cookies.

The bar is open and ready for you to make your choices.

Life is good in Gator Nation and Merry Christmas to all!

 

Sure LOL

A ridiculous amount of leftovers. My Mon & Tue meal prognostication was incorrect. I think we’ll be all set thru Friday.

 

Merry Christmas and all the best to my friends over here and their loved ones!

 

Apparently a shortage of eggnog in the area. I wanted to make an eggnog shake as shown in the photo.....but it'll have to wait. I know I can make homemade eggnog but would rather just buy some......

 

Leftover situation was not as a bad as I thought originally. The Bruschetta, crabbies, shrimp, meatballs and salsa are gone from the first night. And Thankfully, my son, daughter & their significant others liked the food enough that we were able to send a healthy amount of “to go” containers of leftovers. So the corn, a good chunk of the ham and Brussel sprouts are taken care of as well.

We have maybe 1/3 of the ham left. I diced it up and froze it for western omelettes and whatnot later. Also froze the hambone for a split pea soup for later as well.

We have just enough scraps leftover for dinner tonight, and probably a salad. Not bad.

Now, what to do with all the leftover booze …hmmm

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend!

 

The day after Christmas is Ms. Jan’s birthday-so—tonight we’re grilling boneless ribeyes, choice of potatoes, choice of salads and grilled asparagus.

Her birthday cake is a lemon cream cake.

A full bar awaits our guests.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Well, with all of the leftovers we have access to our choice for tonight is chicken’n’dumplings and cream 40’s & petite butter beans.

We had snow late yesterday afternoon, evening, and night. However we have broken out of the hard cold temperatures getting up to 39* today.

The family time that we are sharing is largely due to the way our parents raised us up—so grateful that we have this type of family relationships to draw off of…..

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

One of the signs at Big Joe's.....

 

Last night kinda got away from my posting but we had breakfast for supper….it was a welcome change.

Tonight we’re going to be treated to Ms. Jan’s homemade Swiss steak and gravy. She likes to use cubed beef steak rather than sirloin steak and boy is it tender-she also adds vidalia onions, sliced green bell peppers, and sliced mushrooms.

Homemade mashed potatoes, field peas with snaps and homemade biscuits will be our sides.

Adult libations are available as desired.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

That's funny because I had pancakes for dinner last night.....been a while since I've had them and had a brand new bottle of syrup staring me in the face...lol....I had no choice!

 

Congratulations to you and the Mrs...that's something to be very proud of!