Chasin' Mason: Friend Christmas Dinner and Recipe Share

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Every year our friends have a get together around the holidays. The past couple of years we have done a friends-giving and a Christmas dinner but this year because of how busy we all were, we decided to just have a friends Christmas dinner. With the help of our good friend Vickie, Seth and I hosted the dinner at our condo. If you've ever been to our condo, you know it's not very big, but we had 11 people here and it was perfect. Seth's mom watched Mason so it could be an adult only party and we moved all of Mason's big toys upstairs and organized the rest of the toys so they were off the floor. I never knew how much room we had! The toys take up quite a lot of room on the floor and though it doesn't seem cramped, it is crowded.

Vickie, Seth, and I started cooking around 9:30am. Vickie and I started by making our desserts - Vickie made an apple pie (from scratch!) and I made mini pumpkin pies. Pumpkin pie is one of my favorite desserts (Costco seriously has THE BEST pumpkin pie!) and I thought it would be fun to make individual, mini ones. (Recipe below). After we made our desserts, I'll be honest, Vickie pretty much did a whole ton of cooking. She is amazing at cooking so she took the lead. We started prepping appetizers and went to pick up the ham. And then at 3:30pm all of our friends came over! It was a really fun night!

The menu included :

Appetizers

Pepperoni Bread

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Onion Dip and Chips

Cheese and Crackers

Main Course

Prime Rib

Honey Baked Ham

Mashed Potatoes

Sweet Potato Souffle

Macaroni Pie