Oldie but eating Goodies... a lot...

Saturday was just PARTY PARTY PARTY!!!  

The morning was spent cooking for the PARTIES PARTIES PARTIES!!!

Oh and sewing!  I made 15 yards of piping in two hours.  More on that in January.

I made Eggnog truffles, Cinnamon/sugar pretzel sticks and Peppermint Patty cookies.

As I was messaging with my sisters that morning, I was asking for some advice on what to make with what I had, and looking into the refridge, I noticed the Eggnog.  

So I googled Christmas goodies with Eggnog and this came up!  But lo and behold, it doesn't even have eggnog IN it!  But it looked good anyway and I used white almond bark instead of white chocolate.  And vanilla instead of rum flavoring.  I didn't have any rum.

I could probably list it as a recipe of my very own now, huh?

We should probably drink the rest of the eggnog up...  I wonder what the expiration is/was...

NEXT the Cinnamon/sugar pretzel sticks!  Those were a hit!  Not at all with anyone in my family except me, but some folks from the church Christmas party at my bestie's nursing home LOVED them!  I still have a huge bowl left, but it made a lot to start with.  I'll probably be gorging on them the rest of the week if I remember which car I left them in...

And because NOTHING of what I made so far appealed to my husband yet, and there HAS to be SOMETHING that he likes there, I found some Andes mint bits in the cupboard and started googling a recipe to use those in.  Found one in my trusty Holiday cookies and bars recipe mag from 2008.

I didn't have the peppermint patties handy, so I used the Andes mint bits instead.  STILL delish!  

It made 5 dozen cookies (well, one cookies shy because I accidentally dropped one little cookie dough ball on the floor) and I came home with a couple dozen afterwards, so I packaged them up and stuck them into the goodie bags that our church gives out to the college kids from our church during finals week that is coming up. 

This nursing home is chock full of gorgeous antiques!!  I love to see what they come up with!

The church party was a lot of fun and a large group of us went caroling down some of the halls.  Saw a lot of folks that we knew and I'm sure they're now wary of us...  Those "singing" Christians...

We were stuffed with all the goodies and as that party wrapped up, Robb and I stopped at his office to change into slightly more festive clothes and headed to a local country club for his company party and MORE goodies!  Only this time, it was shrimp and prime rib...  

I'll make room!  and oh yes I did.  I weighed myself on Sunday morning and I'd gained 5 pounds.  I'm down to NEAR normal now tho.  That was a whole 24 hours ago...

I thought I'd taken a picture of the party room at the country club, but I guess I must have gotten distracted.  hmm.  It was gorgeous.

Went to a children's theater production on Sunday afternoon with Meri.  A HOOT!  The younger sister of one of her best friends played a fantastic snarky grandmother.  And then more goodies.

I think I've just named this post...