Last Christmas Eve was the first annual Mimi & Murphy making cookies for Santa event. We will repeat that, and have a simple gumbo for Christmas Eve dinner.
We’ll be having Christmas dinner at son & DIL’s house, along with her parents, sisters, and their families. Everyone brings something, and mac and cheese and cookies were requested. I will happily comply. My DIL’s father is Lebanese and he will be making a couple of dishes that I look forward to trying.
I’ll probably also bring a low carb faux wild rice pilaf, using hemp hearts in place of wild rice. It consists of diced mushrooms, chopped pecans, diced onions and red bell pepper, garlic, and hemp seed hearts. DIL and her mom and sisters enjoyed it last time I made some.
And it ends up looking like this:
The cookie tray will include lemon crinkles, dark chocolate dipped peanut butter, dark chocolate and cranberry oatmeal cookies*, salted vanilla toffee cookies, and the ubiquitous (but delicious) chocolate chip (with flaky salt). I’m not good at making pretty cookies, but I can make some that taste really good!
*Might be replaced with iced gingerbread oatmeal cookies.
