Christmas in in two days! Are you ready? We're ready. Well...one main present hasn't yet arrived, and it's not expected to arrive on time. It's one of the tough parts of living abroad. Things don't always arrive on schedule. Everything else is wrapped and tucked under our little tree, ready for Wednesday morning. My daughters are planning to set their alarms for 5 a.m. Christmas morning. I do so hope they oversleep.
I'm linking up to Menu Plan Monday. If you're visiting from there, welcome! I hope you'll hang around a while!
Here's what's cooking at our house this week:
Monday, December 23rd
Breakfast: Gingersnap Oatmeal
Lunch: Black Bean Pumpkin Soup
Dinner: Chicken and Dumplings
Snack: Cookie Dough Balls (below)
Christmas Eve
Breakfast: Cinnamon Rolls
Lunch: Leftovers and homemade bread
Dinner: Paleo Chicken Pot Pie, Flourless Orange Cake
Christmas Day
Breakfast: hootenanny and bacon
Late Lunch: Roasted Goose, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potato Rolls, Oven-Roasted Whole Onions, Carrots, Spice Cake with freshly whipped cream
Snacky Dinner: Deviled Eggs, gingerbread men cookies, leftovers, cinnamon raisin bread
Boxing Day
Breakfast: biscuits & cream sausage gravy
Lunch: leftovers from Christmas
Dinner: Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, leftover veg from Christmas, leftover sweets
Friday, December 27th
Breakfast: leftovers
Lunch: Simple Sesame Noodles and Baked Ham & Cheese Sandwiches
Dinner: leftovers for the kids while Mom and Dad go out on a date! We're venturing out for the first Mexican food we'll have since moving to Europe two Octobers ago. The restaurant is supposed to be pretty darn good, but having lived in the midwest may have spoiled us for Mexican. We'll see. I'll let you know how it was.
Saturday, December 28th
Today, I am going to begin stocking my freezer for future meals. I'm going to assemble this list of slow cooker freezer meals as my first go with freezer cooking.
Breakfast: donuts and fruit (they balance each other out, right? hehehe)
Lunch: sandwiches and chips
Dinner: Beef Noodles
Sunday, December 29th
Today, I'm going to assemble several breafast freezer/pantry meals.
DIY Instant Oatmeal Packets
Breakfast Sandwiches
Cinnamon Applesauce Waffles
Pancake batter (mixing it up and storing it in decorator bags to use later)
Pumpkin Spice Scones
Breakfast: breakfast sandwiches
Lunch: Loaded Baked Potato Soup and homemade rolls
Dinner: Meatball Sub casserole and salad
And now, I've got a recipe for you. You can take it to a Christmas pot luck, or you can wrap it up and give it as a gift. Edible, safe, raw cookie dough. What's not to love?
Cookie Dough Balls
total time spent: 30 minutes hands-on
total cost to me: $5 per batch, roughly
craftiness level: beginner
Ingredients:
2 cups flour (gluten-free or otherwise)
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter at room temperature
1 cup chocolate chips (recommend mini but all I had was regular)
Beat butter and sugars together until creamy, then add in flour and salt. Mix in chocolate chips. Roll into balls and chill until firm.
Now, you can leave them as is, or you can dip them in melted chocolate. It's up to you!
Nom them relentlessly. Or, you know, gift them.
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