Christmas Eats

We stayed home for our first Christmas as a married couple.  Since there were no kids or other family we decided to focus on our next favorite part of the holidays, the FOOD!

This year I wanted to also start some traditions, mostly food related.  

Christmas Eve traditions included crab bisque (Klatt family recipe) and bread bowls.  My family always has a pot of crab bisque on the stove on Christmas Day.

Christmas morning we had homemade cinnamon rolls (Alton Brown's recipe) and Portuguese eggs.  Christmas night we had grilled asparagus and tomato salad (recipe from my bridal shower), scalloped potatoes (my new favorite food blogger) and cowboy cut rib eye steak.

Cowboy Cut Rib eye from Costco

Joe found an authentic sausage shop in Phoenix.  We had so much food on Christmas day that we never ended up making them.  They are still in the freezer!

Bread bowls rising

Cinnamon roll prep

Thanks for the awesome baking pan, Kennedy's!

Oh yeah, and Dan came to visit!  We went on a bike ride Christmas Eve night to an AMAZING display near our place. 

Complete with fake snow!

Crab bisque bread bowl

Christmas morning

Colorado shirt from Cadence!

Dinner!

I'm hoping to keep the crab bisque and cinnamon roll traditions.  Even though we didn't eat the sausage, we'll definitely keep that tradition as well.  Now we have something from my family (the crab bisque) something from Joe's family (the garlic sausage) and something new (the cinnamon rolls)!

We sure missed you all, but after hosting two holidays in a row on our own we are totally ready for a big old fashion family Christmas!!