
Okay, so call me crazy.
Halloween is barely over and I’ve already started listening to Christmas music and thinking of menu ideas.
I can’t help it! Christmas is my absolute hands-down favourite time of the year. Not because of the presents, not because of any of the “commercialized stuff”, but because of these 5 things:
- Snow. I effing love it. Can’t get enough of it.
- Decorations. Everything looks so pretty with all the lights and garlands and ornaments.
- Getting together with all sorts of people. Especially people you maybe don’t see so often. I love it!
- Getting to snuggle up on a cold night in a big blanket drinking hot chocolate while watching Christmas movies.
- FOOD! Who doesn’t love the food aspect of Christmas.
Christmas just makes me so happy. There is no other time of year when I am happier or in a better mood. I busted out the ol’ classic Christmas tunes today and guess what? No really, guess! IT SNOWED! Seriously man, it snowed like crazy. Maybe it was just for 2 minutes, but it snowed none the less. And it got me all shivery inside with excitement and happiness and wonderful feelings. So that’s when I got down to the business of starting to plan the menus. This is something I do every year and it brings me so much joy! And then when I finally start making all the things I planned it’s sort of a bitter-sweet ordeal. I get to make the delicious wonderful things and then eat them, but it also means that it’s either super close to Christmas day or already is. And that makes me happy and sad at the same time because I know that it means that the next day it will all be over and time to take down all the decorations! So sad.
But this year it also means something else bitter-sweet. After new years I will be leaving home and heading to school. Sure it’s only 5 hours away, but that’s a long way! Not as close as my last school was where I could just go home every weekend if I wanted to. But guess what school I am going to? That’s right! Pastry school! And I couldn’t be more excited about that fact. I can’t wait for Christmas. And I can’t wait to start school.
This is going to be a wonderful holiday season. I can just feel it.
Oh yeah! And here is my first draft of what I plan on making (most things with mom!) for Christmas and the holidays in general!
Christmas Menu
December 25th Breakfast
Crisp corn flapjacks w warmed maple syrup and butter
thick cut applewood smoked bacon
scrambled eggs
(with cream cheese and chives)
fruit salad
(banana, mango, apple, peach, pear, dragon fruit, passion fruit juice)
cherry cheese danish
December 25th Dinner
rosemary & garlic turkey
(basted with butter and dotted with garlic and rosemary)
apple walnut stuffing
(traditional stuffing with apples and chopped walnuts)
garlic & artichoke mashed potatoes
sautéed corn w shallots
pull apart soft and buttery home-made dinner rolls
cranberry-cherry sauce
(my twist on a classic cranberry sauce. A hint of cherry sweetness and lime zest)
Cookies and Breads
shortbread cookies
(mom’s classic with glacee cherries)
gingerbread cookies
nanaimo bars
cinnamon bread
All of which I will include recipes for slowly but surely!
Oh man I am so excited for Christmas!








