This week is fairly busy. Today we're headed to East Lansing for a Wharton Center family show with my BIL, SIL, and niece. Tuesday we may go downtown for the Flint Holiday Walk in the evening. Friday is my flex day and I think Kevin will take the day off, too. We have Kindermusik, milk/CSA pickup, and the last cleaning and prep for Saturday. We may go up to Faith Lutheran on Friday night for their annual Journey to Bethlehem - if we don't go Friday, we'll go Sunday afternoon next weekend. We're hosting my dad's family for Christmas on Saturday. We're keeping it casual and doing a mid-afternoon lunch/dinner combo buffet. Mostly appetizer and some meal type stuff. I've got a great local, nitrite/ate-free, pastured ham that I'll be making and I'll be using all real food ingredients in the other things I'm making. My mom, grandma, and cousins are all bringing some things, too.
Most of the extras this week will be prep for Saturday's party. But I'll also be doing some sewing, wrapping more gifts, addressing Christmas cards, and the normal cleaning. I've already done some sewing today and will fit more in throughout the week... I have some things that I need to get done ASAP so I can ship them out to Colorado and Arizona in time for Christmas.
Anyway, here's the plan...
Sunday ~ Wharton Center family show
(reserve bacon crumbles for layer salad; make mayonnaise)
B: pancakes with maple syrup; bacon
L: leftovers
D: out to eat
Monday ~
(make truffles?)
B: yogurt; granola
D: chicken noodle soup in the crockpot; sourdough corn muffins
Tuesday ~ Flint Holiday Walk?
B: oats
D: cream cheese chicken in the crockpot over noodles
Wednesday ~
(bake cookies?)
B: smoothie
D: homemade pizza on sourdough crust
Thursday ~
B: oats
D: leftovers
Friday ~ flex day; Kindermusik; milk/CSA pickup; Journey to Bethlehem?
(make sourdough gingerbread; make jello salad; prep breakfast casserole; bake cookies)
B: cheese and veggie omelets
D: crockpot chicken cordon bleu?
Saturday ~ Moore family Christmas
(make real whipped cream; make layer salad)
B: breakfast casserole
L/D: ham (me); meatballs (mom); lil' smokies (cousin); cheese ball/crackers (cousin); pickle/olive tray; nacho dip/chips (mom); layer salad (me); jello salad (me); sd gingerbread with real whipped cream (me); truffles (me); cookies (me); caramel cake (grandma)
3 comments:
Sounds like a fun week.
So, I see you're using bacon quite a bit lately. Have you found you can tolerate it now?
Good luck with the party prep. And have fun at JTB! I bet it will be great.
I've made it twice. I've eaten a few bites each time, but I'm still not a fan and it upsets my stomach. The smell is the worst part... blech! The only reason i've even been trying is b/c I know our bacon is high quality, pastured, and milk-fed.
Thanks for sharing this
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