And the weekends is all about catching up with housework, laundry and finish work I brought home to work on. See a pattern? But I am still looking forward to the holidays. So I have to come up or have compiled great ideas to save time yet not skimp on great food.
Holiday season starts with Halloween for me. I have a ball giving out candy to the kids. I decorate the front of my house with spider webs. I have a cape in spiderweb motif. I don't like the scary part of Halloween, I like the fun dress up part of it. And we play music. Techno, electronic, dance kind of stuff that my son comes up with. We have played music for several years now, and each year when my neighbors see me setting up they ask if I am going to play the music. I think the parents enjoy it more.
Thanksgiving Day is my all time favorite. It is the only true blue American holiday. No one else in the world celebrates Thanksgiving the way we do. It is the one time of the year that our focus shifts to being with each other and being grateful. People go to extreme lengths to get home. I love cooking Thanksgiving dinner. One year my sister wanted to cook the turkey and have dinner at her house instead of mine. I remember waking up that morning and feeling lost. I usually have an affair with the turkey. By noon the smells should be permeating my house. And it wasn't happening. But the worse was the next day and not a leftover in sight. Terrible. So this year I AM COOKING A TURKEY. My other favorite part of Thanksgiving Day is breakfast. We have a hardy breakfast and then dinner. No lunch. And by dinner I mean an evening meal. Sometimes they say dinner in the south, but they really mean lunch. Dinner for this northern girl is in the evening.
Breakfast on Thanksgiving morning is a wonderful time. The comfort of having your family safe at home, the soothing feeling of a warm cup of coffee and breakfast. I had seen this time saving idea on TV done by Paula Deen. But the other day I received an e-mail by a great lady named Carol and I was reminded about it and I am so excited to share this with you. I have integrated both methods into one.
There are so many challenges when feeding a crowd.
1) Picky eaters
2) Timing, so that you can sit together and eat.
3) Budget.
Omelets In A Baggie, that's right in a baggie.
And you can make it interactive. What a fun way to start the day. Even the ones that are not morning folks might brighten up with this.
Have a variety of ingredients in small bowls all chopped up for choosing. Here are a few suggestions. Diced ham, chopped cooked bacon, chopped onions or green peppers. Sliced mushrooms, chopped tomato, cooked hash browns and salsa. Salt and pepper. You take one plastic baggie per person. Make sure they are zip lock baggies. Open it up and spray cooking spray in each one. Set them aside. Get a big pot and fill it 3/4 of the way with water. Heat up the water to a low rolling boil. Have 2 eggs per person. Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them. Hand it to each person. Have them add the ingredients that they like, a little seasoning. Mix up the ingredients gently in the baggie. Make sure to get the air out of the baggie and zip it up and gently put the baggie in the hot water. You can have at least 6 omelets cooking at the same time. Cook for 13 to 15 minutes. While they are cooking toast some bread. Once the omelets are cooked, use a tong to remove from the hot water and transfer to a kitchen towel. Cut the baggie open and slide it on to each individual serving plate. Place a couple of pieces of toast on each plate, sit and eat. Easy and fun. And you are all together.
DON'T FORGET TO SAY GRACE!!
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