Today was a delicious day! Yes, I’m not kidding. The entire day was centred around food.
My brother and his entire family came down with the flu overnight, so they opted out of appetizer supper. It was a bit sad to see the plan with the whole family go down the tubes, but we are the most compassionate people when it comes to illness :/ It is HARD to be sick over holidays. So my parents brought them some chicken broth and sickie staples, and we changed our plans around a little bit.
Instead of an early appetizer supper, we fed the kids their special supper of pigs in a blanket, and brought out some pre-appy appetizers for us adults. Yes, those are a thing. We took out a cucumber salad, some leftover broccoli salad from yesterday (don’t judge), a shrimp ring with seafood sauce, and a little garlic parmesan pull apart bread I made earlier. It was all SO delicious!
After the kids supper, my parents read them story after story after story. They were so happy. And when it was time to hit the sack, no one whined or put up a fuss. They all headed to the bathroom to brush up and get ready, came back out for goodnight hugs, and then went back to their room where Brady tucked them in. Meanwhile, I fed Solly, who drank a whole bottle once again! Maybe you guys get sick of hearing about it, but man its a relief to see him drinking better these days.
Once all of the littles were tucked away, the real fun food began! Brady and I had written out temperatures and times earlier of all of our treats, so the four of us sat around the island while things cooked away very smoothly. We came out with a pan of mozza sticks, battered pickles, wings, and a margherita pizza, aka poor mans bruschetta. Haha! I was trying SO hard to be diligent with food pictures, but I forgot again, so this is the best you’re getting.
It all turned out to be SO delicious. I was very happy with how it came together. Best of all, I don’t think any of us super over ate, and we were able to sit in the living together afterwards with hot drinks and a few sweets to finish the evening out.
No, we definitely didn’t stay together until midnight. We’re too old for things like that 😉 But we still had a really nice time, and even took a poor quality selfie to prove it!
Happy new year, everyone. I hope 2017 rocks your socks off. Seriously. But until then, finish off 2016 well. Make good choices, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do 😉
Can I get your broccoli salad recipe, Hailey?? It looks delicious!
I can text it to you Nikki! I’ll warn you tho, its a horrible “recipe.” Very much “eyeball this” and “eyeball that.” But I’ll send you something anyway, hahaha!