Christmas Post Game

Day Before:
bake potatoes
saute mushrooms
shred cheeses
be sure you have beans
 Take frittata order the night before.

Stockings this year: toblerone, meat sticks, cheese packets.
Set out as morning snacks: lindt truffles, ghiradelli peppermint bark, almonds in shell, trisket crackers to eat with stocking cheese packets. Nice to get away from the all-candy morning.
Had kids shovel driveway before driving out to fetch relatives. Went for a walk after breakfast, except L who was sick. Most beautiful weather EVER.

Morning
saute kale and spinach
halve the cherry tomatoes
cut up ham

Brunch: Individual Frittatas and Blueberry muffins. 
Frittatas take ~25 minutes to bake.
We did:

• 12 eggs 
• 3/4 cup whole milk s
• liced baked potato 
•  cheese: gruyere or cheddar 3/8 cup per order 
• baby kale 
•  baby spinach 
• cherry tomato 
• roasted red pepper 
• artichoke hearts 
• sauteed mushrooms 
• beans sliced 
• sandwich ham 

 They come out too hot to eat.
Next time, make the frittata first, muffins second?

Dinner:

• Porterhouse Steak 
• Olga's Salmon 
• diced leftover baked potato, rewarmed in microwave (next time bake set of potatoes)
• broccoli was cut, we ate it earlier by mistake.
• pear salad 
• sliced pear, 
• 1/4 cup dried cherries, 
• 1 cup candied walnuts, 
• 5 oz greens, 
• 1/2 cup balsamic dressing (too much: cut in half!!) 
• leftover mushrooms, rewarmed in microwave 
• drinks: 
• martinelli, 
• blood orange soda, 
• watered down grape juice. 

 Steaks on the grill on the deck.
 Genius: J teaches me to light the grill with a long candle lighter instead of using built in battery sparker. 5 minutes first side, 4 minutes second side.
 Salmon prep topping ahead of time, it may take 15 minutes. bakes for ~12 minutes.
 Should have done baked potato ahead of time.

We aimed for a 9:30 breakfast, and ate at 11:00 am (flour bag ripped).
We started making dinner at 3:15 but I wasn't serious about it. and I think started eating before 5pm.