For Thanksgiving we went to a friend of my boyfriends house for a "friends giving" I suppose. It was a week before Thanksgiving but it was somewhat of a test run for their family. I was asked to bring desert and I was very excited because I had seen these adorable little pumpkin pie bites from Bakerella that I really wanted to try. Bakerella is an awesome site, by the way. I adore mini things so you can imagine how excited I get when I look through that site. Anyway I think they turned out cute!
They were actually really yummy too, not too sweet. My Grandma says she puts condensed milk in her pies, but this recipe called for cream cheese which gave it a less sweet flavor that I really liked. One of their other friends that was there is a pastry chef and she said they tasted great as well, go pumpkin bites!
The beginning of the process...
And the delightful end result!Next I was asked to bring something for a pot luck for a work Christmas party. As it was an all day event, we could sign up for breakfast or lunch. Because I am a procrastinator, and also partly because I forgot, I was stuck with bringing a main dish for breakfast. So, like I usually do when I need an easy recipe quick, I googled easy breakfast recipe and this is what came up:
This is a very tasty breakfast casserole that was just as easy as I hoped it would be and tasted great. I could tell it was pretty good since none of it came back with me as all my co-workers had eaten it. Now it seems kind of strange because it has chicken stove top stuffing in it, but it is actually really good. And the fact that it is a casserole is great because I made it the night before, then took it to work the next day. I would certainly recommend this yummy little dish, and can't wait to make it again!
Also, the recipe calls for ham, but I don't really like ham so I sprinkled bacon on top. Mmmm so good!And finally, I would like to share with you my delightful spritz cookies that I made this year for Christmas. Last year I asked for a spritz gun for Christmas and my boyfriend bought me a really nice one, but I never did get around to make the cookies. So this year, I promised him over and over that I would actually make them so I whipped out my little spritz gun and made some.
They are really not that hard to make. I just used the recipe on the box, its the classic spritz cookie recipe from Wilton, the brand that created the gun. It took me a few minutes to figure out the gun, but once you figure out that you are supposed to press the gun to the cookie sheet to make the cookies it's easy from there!
Cute little things aren't they? My Grandma, who is the absolute best cook I know, told me she thought they were much better than hers. High praise for these little things!
So there you have it, my busy holidays. I hope everyone else had wonderful holidays as well! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
