Culinary Tour

Here is a culinary tour of the holidays for the "Phoodie's" out there

(a.k.a. people who love food & recipes!)

On Christmas Eve we had cinnamon waffles for breakfast

made in our circus waffle maker.

This is an elephant and a lion ... can you see it?

Christmas Day we had fresh fruit (blackberries, raspberries, bananas, & pears).

I also made Pinch-Me-Cake (a.k.a. monkey bread, pecan bread, or pull apart bread)!

It looks nice here, but due to a slight overestimation regarding the melted butter

the Pinch-Me-Cake immediately fell apart on the plate.
It tasted wonderful, but it should more appropriately been named

Fall Apart Bread! Oh, well! It tasted delicious!

We always have something different for Christmas dinner.

We've had ham, duck, goose, ribs, steak, etc.

This year Grammie baked a variety of quiches.

We had salmon & dill, spinach& bacon, spinach & ham,

and possibly some others that I can't remember.

They were all delicious!

We also had traditional Southern ambrosia salad

which is made with oranges, grapefruits, pineapple, cherries, & coconut.

I did not get a picture of them ... but Aunt Allene also made

flour-less chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate ganache for

Uncle Carey's birthday, and they were absolutely divine!

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It was a bit of a challenge this year being on Weight Watchers during the holidays,

but I managed to stick to my points plan for the most part!

I am very excited because I have now officially lost 45 pounds!

Merry Christmas to me! :-)