Bites of My Life

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying the necessary downtime that comes with the space between Christmas and New Year’s. Our Christmas was low key, but great. I love getting to hang at home for days and do all of my favorite things like making Christmas cookies, sitting by the fire at my parents house, watching Christmas movies, going on a late night walk to look at lights, and making new memories. I’m working a few days this week and have zero plans for NYE, anyone else? I’m not mad at all about easing out of 2020 without any big hoopla. This past year doesn’t deserve it’s own holiday LOL. Even with the start of 2021 looking a heck of a lot like 2020, there’s always a sense of weight off your chest with a new year, and I’m here for that feeling!

-Cleaning out the fridge before going home for the holidays had dinner looking like scrambled eggs for more days than I’d like to admit. Made them fancy and called them cacio e pepe eggs by adding a ton of black pepper and parm!
-Festive family Friday night right upon pulling into OKC. Great way to kick off the holiday week!
-The brandy ices were strong, the gossip was stronger! A hilarious night with some of my closest gal pals after getting back in town.
-It’s not Christmas without Spode!
-Home means cooking for my parents, one of my favorite things to do. I made Half Baked Harvest’s Butter Chicken. It certainly took more than 30 minutes but it was fabulous.
-Delicious and festive coffee date with my work bestie to get our minds right before a busy last day of work before Christmas.
-While I take my cookie decorating pretty seriously, getting to make a mess with this little three-year-old is worth putting my perfection aside.
-A favorite newer tradition is spaghetti and meatballs for Christmas Eve dinner. We cheat and buy meatballs from Whole Foods, but let the sauce simmer on the stove all day and through our church service (online this year😢).
-Proud of my little charcuter-wreath!
-Homemade Brandy Ices for Christmas dinner adult dessert!
-Post-holiday de-puffing. I used these chinstrap masks and Arbonne eye pads. (Selfless photo to also show off my new robe I got for Christmas)!
-Sunday night cranberry gimlets. Sure why not? Fully influenced to make these after seeing the recipe for pomegranate gimlets in Ina’s new cookbook!

Annie