Well, life doesn’t always go as planned. Allistair and I had hoped to make it to Eastern Washington to be with his parents and sister for the holiday but the whole not having a job yet thing just kept getting in the way. Instead, we spent Christmas Eve with my bff’s family which is our surrogate family up here. It was a wonderful evening with great food. I was recovering from a sinus infection and my bff was a little under the weather as well but we all had a night of fun and talk.

On Christmas day we cooked up food and headed to see Sherlock Holmes. What did we cook, you ask? Great question. Two days before the day, I came home to Styrofoam box at our door. A note indicated that it was a gift for us from Allistair’s father. I nearly opened it without him but realized that might be rude. We excitedly opened the box and found a fully frozen smoked turkey from Hilshire Farms! What a great, great gift! Allistair’s father wanted to be sure we ‘didn’t starve’ on the holiday since we couldn’t be with them. It was thoughtful and hilarious all at the same time.

So, we set about cooking up: the turkey, cornbread and sausage stuffing made with homemade cornbread, gravy, honey-nutmeg-cinnamon mashed potatoes, yellow cake with chocolate frosting and wondered how long we would be eating this feast. After all, we were just two adults and the turkey itself was for 16-20 people! (An updated report on leftovers: We made through a good portion this past week. We only had to throw out a little bit!)

Xmas eve with friends and family

Big chins anyone?

The bff and and the bf

I’m gift enough. Don’t you think?

The easiest, tastiest turkey that I never did made!

Go stuff it!

I seem to think that I need to cook for any army. It’s a Mexican thing.

So, this was the only thing we didn’t have to toss any leftovers of!