I definitely did my share of cooking both at home and at work for the Christmas...and my share of holiday eating. For having to spend Christmas day at work, I'm happy that the feast came together well. A couple other fellow Coasties and I put our enthusiasm for cooking together and created a gluttonous Christmas spread:
Deep Fried Turkey
Ham
Green Bean Casserole Two Ways
Mashed Potatoes
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Potato Salad
Spinach Artichoke dip
Lumpia (a Filipino version of the Chinese egg roll but with a thinner wrap)
Cream of Corn
Collard Greens
Deviled Eggs
Meatballs
Homemade cranberry sauce
Dinner Yeast Rolls
Pumpkin, Peacon, Apple Pies
Brownies
Peppermint Bark
And the next day:
Eggs Benedict
Pancakes
Cinnamon Rolls
Hot Chocolate
For the afternoon food experiments:
Battered and fried Oreo cookies
Battered and fried-anything-you-wanted-to-fry
I wish I had taken pictures of everything we did. Hopefully I'll be able to find candid pictures perhaps someone else took.
Anyways, my husband gifted me a Vitamix for Christmas - and we love it. The Vitamix is a two horsepower blender that is extremely powerful; you can even grind wheat grains and make wheat flour. We have been buying vegetables and frozen berries at Costco and experimenting with veggie fruit smoothies. My favorite smoothie concoction has been:
1/2 cup non fat yogurt
a bunch of spinach
1/2 cup carrots
Diced Apples
Berries
Ice
Sweetened with 2 tsp of agave nectar
Not only smoothies, but even sorbets. I am only at the tip of the ice burg with the Vitamix; so far, this is what we have made with it:
Veggie Fruit Smoothies
A mock but better version of V8 Vegetable Juice
Green Tea Sorbet
Orange Creamsicle Sorbet
Pumpkin Soup
Avocado smoothie
Various fruit combination smoothies
Apple Pie Milk Shake
In the next blog about Vitamix, I will be including pictures.
Cheers to a happy new year and good health.
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