My friend Cupcake Julie had her Christmas party this past weekend.
You may remember her gorgeous sugar-themed decorations.
Stuff like this.
(Here’s the post from last year if you want to see visions of sugar plums dancing in your head for the next few days. Make sure you check out the kids play bakery, too. It’s incredible.)
It’s hard to imagine, but this year was even more beautiful than last.
Colonel Cupcake was there again this year.
And so was this guy.
And this one.
And this little one. These guys were all over the place.
You may also remember seeing them from the Toronto Book Signing Post.
Teatro Verde is the only store I’ve actually seen them sold in. It made me happy to see them on display.
Anyway, I love ’em. So festive and sweet.
As a surprise for Julie, I made a few cake pops inspired by them to bring to the party.
Wanna see?
Cupcake Nutcracker guys.
She squealed. I smiled.
They’re double decker cake pops, too. Tricky and a little over the top, but I couldn’t resist.
I also made some Christmas Tree cake pops.
Much easier. But instead of doing them in green, I kept them in her holiday color scheme.
I really like them like this.
Speaking of trees, Julie’s party decorations this year also included two new ones.
This cheerful pink one covered in snowmen.
And this whimsical upside down tree.
Amazing, huh.
But that’s Julie.
Here’s her dessert table. Filled with tons of treats.
Cookies and candy.
Cake Pops, of course.
Mini cupcakes from Crumb in New York.
Macarons and much, much more.
Completely lovely. I wish you could have been there with me.
But since you weren’t … how about a couple of cute guys to keep you company?
I just so happen to know of two that are about ten inches tall.
I thought I’d part with these to share them with one of you.
Enter for a chance to win these two sweet soldiers.
- Simply leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite thing to eat on Christmas. Real food this time. Something non-sweet. I was on sugar overload this weekend and I need some ideas. I know you guys will have some great ones.
- Deadline to enter is Tuesday, December 21 at 7:00 pm ET. TIME’S UP. Winner announced below.
- One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
P.S. – If you know another store that sells them too, I’d love to hear.
Good Luck!
And the winner is………
YAY Amanda V! Hope you will enjoy them.
My fav. thing to eat on Christmas would be Ham with my grandma’s raisin sauce :)
Thank you for sharing. I spent my entire weekend making memories with my girls..Loved making the cake pops -Christmas tree, santa hats and rudolphs from last year.
You make my heart happy… Mimi4dagirls.
We always have monkey bread for breakfast!! Its my favorite tradition!
Turkey w/mashed potatoes and gravy!!!! I can never get enough!!! Merry Christmas Bakerella!!!!
Our Christmas dinner starts with Scandinavian style fish apetizers: different pickled herrings and cold smoked salmon with steaming hot gourmet potatoes boiled with fresh dill. I love salmon and I can’t get enough of mustard pickled herring (IKEA sells it).
Thanks for sharing these pictures from the party, I love holiday parties and this one had such wonderful decorations and treats. My favorite thing to eat during the holidays is ciopino, I’m Italian and my family makes this wonderful Italian seafood soup only on Christmas.
For Christmas it is definitely breakfast casserole. We normally aren’t morning people so I really go all out for Christmas and make a big deal of breakfast! My whole family always looks forward to it.
I really love having soups for Christmas. Something warm and easy to put together so I can spend more time with my family!
it’s too hot in aus this year (38 degrees c) so i would say icypoles but since u want not so sweet how about a treat of scrolls filled with all things good like turkey and cranberries or chiken and bacon with cheese and leek. best things u’ll taste all week!!
That party looks like so much fun!
During the holidays I can’t resist mashed potatoes and gravy!
My Mom fixes a beef tenderloin every year at Christmas that is heavenly. She marinates it overnight in the following:
2 c soy sauce
1 c bourbon(we use Crown Royal)
2 tbsp horseradish
1 onion
1 green pepper
Rub meat in salt, pepper and garlic powder
Our favorite things we like to eat on Christmas Eve is Tamales, Buros, bean dip, and Salas. Then on Christmas we have ham, green beans, and potatos. For the week after leftovers.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
How does one go about suspending a tree for an upside down christmas tree? I’m totally intrigued.
Who doesn’t love Christmas Cookies? I could eat dozens by myself!
Thank you for sharing. I spent my entie weekend making memories with my girls..Loved making the cake pops -Christmas tree, santa hats and rudophs from last year.
You make my heart happy… Mimi4dagirls.
Norweigian Lefse. We only make it during the holidays and it gets eaten fast.
I love eating my sister’s mac-n-cheese!
We always do mexican food on Christmas Eve and it is SO yummy!
My favorite things to eat around Christmas are just appetizers. People have incredible ones stacked everywhere around the holidays. Cheeseballs, spinach dip, cheese dip, sourkraut balls, etc. :)
My favorite meal to eat at Christmas is actually the appetizer. I love to eat Tostones. (they are fried bananas) They are so delicious.
Every year, my grandma and my aunt get together and make a whole bunch of home made ravioli for Christmas dinner. I look forward to them every year!!
Oh Yummy thoughts!!! Hashbrown Casserole is always a favorite. So many ways to spice it up and make it your own too! You can add some extra onion, sausage, all kinds of yummy things!
My favourite thing to eat is My mom’s famous dressing (stuffing). Every year it is more delicious than the last! Even in my 30’s I can’t seem to get it right. Yum!
We don’t do anything special food-wise for Christmas. I’m going to search through your comments to get ideas!
A family favorite of ours is the deliciously yummy brown sugar baked spiral ham..! We eat it all day long.!
My favorite non-sweet thing is mashed potatoes. Mmmm, mashed potatoes. We go all out for Thanksgiving & Christmas, and the mashed potatoes are made with real butter, sour cream, and cream cheese.
My favorite things are these sausage balls my mom makes every Christmas morning. They are so simple, but so delicious!
Non-sweet??! At Christmas?!?!?!
If I had to pick one, I would say it’s our family’s Mac & Cheese. It’s the BEST – we all have the recipe, and everybody has made it at some point…and it is always fantastic!!
My absolute favorite though IS sweet, but not a dessert…it’s my Grammy’s cranberry. Even though she is no longer with us, we make it every year, and it is like she is here. It is SO yummy, with apples, orange, and cranberry…yum!
Zippy Egg Casserole for breakfast and Lasagna for lunch. YUM!
Ham and mashed potatoes… that is seriously the only real food that I eat…. i just can’t fight those darn sweets!
My favorite Christmas food is MEATBALLS!!! Mmmmm
Those are adorable! I look forward to TURKEY all year! Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, it’s turkey hands down! And the homemade stuffing!
My favorite is homemade mashed potatoes!
I adore ham cooked in coca-cola at Christmas meals! Yummy! xx
My grandma’s homemade noodles!
I love making this hash brown casserole on Christmas day…so good with the ham I also make. Potatoes with sour cream, cheese, and butter, with a crumb topping, it’s to die for.
I hope I win! I would love to give one of the soldiers to my MIL!
This is so beautifull… I really LOVE x-mas
Is the best date on the year :D
Merry x-mas to everyone in the world!!!
I have to say my favorite Christmas food is oven roasted root veggies that are coated in powdered ranch dressing mix and a touch of olive oil – nothing tastes more like the holidays for me than this dish!
Hope your holidays are joyful and brings along lots of inspiration!
I can’t say Christmas cookies??? Hmmm…ham loaf!
Christmas is the last time until next Thanksgiving that we are able to rejoice in my Mom’s famous dressing. One of my favorite things EVER.
What could be better than ham on Christmas – yum!!
I actually always looked forward to the relish trays we ate while watching the Christmas parade (we had them at Thanksgiving and New Years) while waiting for the big meal. It always had cheese, crackers, pepperoni, and pickles and probably a few other things, but those were my favorites. We would always just make little sandwiches with the crackers as the bread. I haven’t made a relish tray for my family yet, but I think I’ll do our first one this Christmas.
My new favorite non-sweet dish is corn and crab bisque…I started making it last year and can’t wait to have it this Christmas along with the turkey and other coodies!
I love a nice Crown Roast of pork with yummy stuffing and a port wine sauce….
I did a little searching and found the creator of your Colonel Cupcake. He is in Tennessee. You two should definitely meet each other. Here is a link to his blog http://web.me.com/glitterville/Stephen_Browns_Glitterville_Blog/Blog/Blog.html
My mom always used to make this VERY scrumptious breakfast casserole every Christmas morning. It’s comprised of eggs, sausage, and hashbrowns (plus a few other ingredients) baked in a 9×13 pan, and is a nice change from the pounds of sugar we’ve otherwise been known to consume. I’m making it this year, for sure – my first Christmas away from home.
My favorite things to eat during the holidays are squash casserole and sausage balls, mmmmmm!
Shrimp in cocktail sauce. Oh, heaven!
The first year I went with my boyfriend to his families his grandmother made cabbage rolls. I loved them sooo much that the next year she froze some so I could take them home with me!
On Christmas Eve I make a Happy Birthday Jesus cake for us to enjoy and remind us again what this holiday is all about.
We have a party every year on Christmas Eve & instead of a big dinner we just have tons of appetizers/dips (& yes, desserts!). So Christmas day is all about leftovers!
My grandpa’s recipe, made by my mom, for a rotisserie marinated pork tenderloin. (It is the only reason she still uses a Ronco Ron!)
Fondue, we always fondue on Christmas Eve. Broth, hot oil, cheese, well and then we end the feast with chocolate, of course.
Thanks for sharing the pics of this party again this year. Totally out of control….amazing!
Well they are sweet, but we do cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning and this year Im going to make PW’s. After that it would be ham and the fixins.
Anything my mother makes and… my brother in law’s oyster stew!!!!
I make a prime rib with a big pan of oven roasted root vegetables…yum!
Happy Christmas to you and your family . I hope the coming year is just as amazing for you as 2010…full of lots of great surprises.
Last year we made lobster mac and cheese, perfection!
Our favorite Christmas tradition on Christmas eve is a meat and cheese fondue. My kids look forward to it every year.
I absolutley love sausage balls. Homemade wassil as well. Its a german thing :) Happy holidays!!!
I LOVE to eat marinated vegetables! My great aunt fixes them every year. It’s a HUGE bowl full of baby carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, black and green olives, and mushrooms that marinates in Italian dressing overnight! So yummy!! And when I started going to college she made extra huge batches when I came home…and said they were just for me!! Her way of saying she loved and missed me! Now 6 years later…they are still MY veggies!!
Breakfast casserole! I love to hang around with my husband and kids on Christmas morning and make our favorite sunshine breakfast casserole!
Butternut Squash
One of our family favorites is country ham….mmmm…salty goodness to balance out all the sweets!
Love the 7 fishes
sweet potatoes! (loaded of course!) :-)
It makes me want to get in the kitchen and start baking!
One of my favorite non sweet holiday foods is my gramdmother’s home made cornbread dressing. Nothing quite like it:)
Merry Christmas!
Cornbread dressing with lots of gravy and cranberry sauce. YUM!
I love love love love gingerbread, but since you said non-sweet… thats hard… I like this soup that my mom makes with ginger. It’s wonderful!
I would have to say I love the perogies and cabbage rolls.
your friend seriously has the best party EVER!!! my favorite non-dessert food for christmas is my grandmoms stuffing!!!! yum, yum, yummmmmmm!!!!!
xo
Christine
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Tamales and ceviche
Im from the UK and my favourite savory food for christmas is christmas pasties. Filled with Turkey and stuffing. Its a pastry casing stuffed to the brim! Im gluten intolerant so I have to make my own now with gluten free pastry!
I love all your recipes by the way and try my hand at them all – All I do is substitute for gluten free ingridiants such as flour etc and they turn out just great!!
My favorite is always the ham. Which, is kind of sweet, but not a dessert so I think it still counts for what you’re wanting :)
My mother’s biscuits are by far my favorite.
I love to eat my Mom’s special recipe called “Those Potatoes.”
Tortiere, my Grandmother always made them this time of year and they still make me feel all cozy inside when I eat them now!
sausage balls! My dad and I make them on Christmas eve every year and it’s the only time all year that I make them! They are so yummy!
My favorite is a dip called “Flinstone Dip” that my grandmother made every Christmas Eve. It’s the only recipe I’ve ever seen (so far) that calls for Beau Monde Seasoning. We still make it every Christmas Eve, it’s the only time of year we do!
Nothing says Christmas morning than the smell of breakfast at my parent’s house. My mom cooks up this homemade sagey breakfast sausage and the aroma just fills the house with love. It’s truly the best.
Home made green bean casserole from fresh green beans!!! YUM!!! I am the only one in my family that will take the time to make it right but they all love it and devour it!! Those nutcrackers are adorable and I want them sooooooo bad!!!!
Here in Southeast Louisiana, it would not be Christmas without a good cajun chicken and sausage gumbo.
I look foreward to all the appetizers – my fave being little weinies wrapped in bacon with just a pinch of brown sugar on them. Mmmm!
My favorite food on Christmas is Prime Rib! Yum but close seconds are my moms stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy…can’t wait.
My favorite thing is mashed potatoes with lots of butter and some salt. Simple, but my all-time favorite, especially with a side of corn and turkey. yummmmmmy!
On Christmas day we always have a Seafood Shabu Shabu. In the past, it kept the kids at the table longer, but as we’ve all matured, it’s a great way to catch up and enjoy each other’s company!
We do Christmas breakfast every year and I ALWAYS make my hashbrown casserole. I got the recipe from a homestyle restaurant called The Cracker Barrell. It’s delicious!
I love love love those cupcake soldiers! So sweet! My favorite Christmas dish is sourdough and sausage stuffing! Yum!
Mashed potatoes and gravy!
Christmas dinner is different every year but this year the theme is Italian-American. I can’t wait to eat some fresh warm from the oven crusty bread with some meatballs and red sauce. Can we fast forward to Saturday? Pretty please?
my mom’s twice baked potatoes!
My favorite non sweet dish is my mom’s stuffing. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas because I know she will make it.
Our Kansas Family does themes each year one is mexican and then italian so it just depends on the year, but i really love the cream cheese crock pot corn that is made or the classic green bean cassaroll.
If you find a store i would really love to buy some of these. they are the cuttest things ever!
Ham! I usually am not a big ham fan as it is too salty. But my hubby cooks the best ham on the pit! IDK what he does but last weekend he cooked for a large group. A 60ish woman came up to him and told him that was the best ham she ever had. So its my obsession this year. I was so excited when I saw it on the menu for this Christmas!!!
Can you tell us how many strings of lights it takes to make a tree glow? stunning!
My favorite Christmas food has to be my grandmother’s scrambled egg casserole. It’s a recipe in her Betty Crocker cookbook (circa 1952!), and even though I have the recipe, it’s never as good when I make it.
Dips…dips of any kind!
Sorry we can’t consider my White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake so will have to choose my aunt’s fruit salad. It is a must for Christmas every year.
I’m making and eating a favorite herbed cheeseball with cream cheese, goat cheese, herbs and then rolled in chopped walnuts. Just mentioning it makes me want it NOW.
LOVVVEEEE the nutcrackers–one of my fave decorations at this time of year–and these guys are over the top!
We have all the people we know that can’t get home for Christmas to come for beef filet with horseradish sauce, a christmas-y califlower, broccoli, grape tomato salad, mushrooms in butter sauce, roasted potatoes and whatever dessert is left over from Christmas Eve.
Hello!
So lovely to see those decorations this year again! I was amazed by it last year! Because i am from the netherlands and i love to follow your blog! It amazes me how you all are so extreme with christmas! I wish i had that in my countrey;).
And what we have for dinner on christmas. We have all kind of diverent meat and we cook it with little pan’s on the table. In dutch we say Gourmetten, but i don’t know how to say it in English. It’s very fun to do. We have a sorts of meat and salades and bread. Your really stuffed at the end of the evening ;).
Love to win those little guys, but i don’t know if you send to another countrey;)
And sorry for the bad English
For Christmas Eve chili is our food of choice. Christmas day we will be making enchiladas. Normally it is lasagna, but this year we decided to change things up a little. Just to be with family is more important than anything.
my favorite thing to eat is the classic cheeseball that my family makes every year for Thanksgiving, and then again at Christmas, it’s the best!
Great giveaway. These guys are soooo cute! My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is chips and salsa from Chili’s. I know it crazy but we go there every year for Christmas Eve and the chips are so good!
On Christmas, I love to eat turkey breast roast, I try a new recipe each year. And Gratin dauphinois !
Ham w/ raisin sauce…. Delish!
Summer sausage on Christmas morning. I never ate it until I got married and its a tradtition from my husbands family. Those soldiers are so cute. I love them. Hope I win.
We usually have Christmas brunch with my family and my mom makes a yummy green chili and cheese egg casserole. Quick, no-fuss, but really good – perfect when trying to enjoy the wonder of the day with the kiddos.
I love BREAD! Rolls, homemade, topped with something… it doesn’t matter. Bread is my favorite!
My favorite holiday foods? Veal Parmesan on Christmas Eve (we go out to dinner at a nice Italian restaurant), and then a big plate of juicy ham and homemade yeast rolls on Christmas Day. Yummm…I’m hungry just thinking about it!!
I love making beef and potato filled empanadillas!
My favorite thing to eat around the holidays is ham and a delicious homemade cranberry brownsugar sauce. I’m hoping this is the year Mom finally gives out that recipe!
my favorite thing to eat is honey baked ham!!!
Prime Rib on Christmas Eve – Yum!
My mom makes prime rib each year for Christmas, so I always look forward to that!
anything peppermint! tis the season!!
Love the pops!
We always get a Honeybaked ham, which reduces stress for me in the kitchen and tastes GREAT!
My favorite non-sweet thing is a Prime Rib Roast on Christmas Eve. Just something so formal – yet really so simple to prepare! We all eat Christmas Eve dinner together in our fancy clothes, then adjourn to the den and the tree to open some of our presents. The ‘sweet’ version of Christmas happens Christmas morning with cinnamon rolls sent to us by an aunt in Nashville, casual clothes, and opening our presents from Santa and the grandparents! Thanks for sharing your AMAZING pictures from Cupcake Julie! You ladies are inspiring!
Sweet Potatoes!
I love combo bites! and by this I mean, a little mashed potato, a little gravy, a small bite of turkey and (if you’re feeling really crazy) some green bean casserole too!
My favorite thing is my Grandma’s potato salad. Nobody makes it like she does…nobody!
My favorite thing is breakfast casserole. I was introduced to it the first Christmas I spent with my husband’s family.
My favorite holiday food is ham and pineapple but my mother makes the most amazing sweet potato casserole, not dessert but it tastes like it should be. It has a wonderful crunchy brown sugary, walnuty topping. YUM!
My new favorite is Scalloped Sweet Potatoes from The Pioneer Woman’s Tasty Kitchen website!
My favorite thing in our finger-food Christmas extravaganza is the ham roll-ups. A lot of the time I’ve snuck a good chunk off the plate before anyone gets there! Sadly, this year I’ll have to pass since I’m pregnant!
roast pork loin and risotto. i make it all the time but if i’m at inlaws house and i make xmas dinner this is what i make.
A Holiday favorite for many friends and family is my yummy cold crab dip that i make. Super yummy, easy to make and it is gone in min.
Merry Christmas to you and your family !!!
Love the decorations. All of my favorite things to eat at Christmas are sweet:)! But I also love the lasagna. Thanks for the chance to win. Happy holidays!
Our traditional strawberry jello. It’s jello, frozen strawberries, cream cheese balls rolled in pecan meal. Sounds strange, but it is OH so good!!
My favorite food is the fondue our family eats on Christmas eve. I make both chicken and beef, and a cheese fondue. Of course the best part is the fun of my family sitting around the table eating together – that’s what Christmas is all about!
It isn’t Christmas without the delicious German dish of rouladen! Beef, bacon, onion, pickles and mustard all rolled up into a Christmas delite!
My all time favorite thing to eat during Christmas is the stuffing! It’s this awesome cornbread and turkey stuffing and paired with some yummy green spaghetti! :-)
Pork loin or beef brisket… YUM!!
I LOVE breakfast casserole!! Christmas is the only day of the year I get to eat it because my husband hates eggs. I cannot wait to eat the casserole this year!
My favorite dish is broccoli casserole. My mom makes it every year for me.
mmm… my favorite thing to eat at christmas is homemade pizza!
The one must-have dish is my Mom’s Corn Souffle. One year she served something else in its place and there was a family-wide mutiny! Our other favorite is a citrus and avocado salad with homemade Poppyseed Dressing. YUM! But, you know, it doesn’t really matter what is served as long as we are all together, relaxed and enjoy the spirit of the holiday. A new addition joins our table this year — our grandson who is 7 months old! Have a wonderful holiday, Bakerella and thanks for sharing your wonderful creativity and talent with all of us!
My family goes out for chinese food on Christmas day. We do the big holiday meal with my grandparents on Christmas Eve. So I’m looking forward to some fried rice and scallion pancakes :)
I love these!! On Christmas Eve my dad always makes homemade pizza. My grandfather immigrated from Sicily when he was just 16 years old, and my 82-year-old dad continues the pizza tradition on Christmas Eve to this day. I am already looking forward to having some this week. My 11-year-old daughter dances in the Kansas City Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker, and I love these soldiers!! I love your work, too.
My family always has Chinese food on Christmas. Yum!!
It is a tie between sausage balls and homemade sweet pickles. Not at the same time, of course, lol.
We make “Over the Rainbow” macaroni and cheese every Christmas eve. It is the best mac and cheese EVER! It is so amazingly fattening that I only make this recipe once a year :0)
turkey with cranberry sauce, of course! :)
My mom’s dressing with her turkey! mmmmmmm
Our Christmas Eve tradition is eating seafood chowder and warm, crusty bread when we get home from Church services. Merry Christmas and thank you for sharing!
Our odd holiday tradition is to start Christmas dinner off with a bauna cauda – literally meaning “hot bath” in Italian. It’s like a warm anchovy oil that you dip vegetables into. You let them sit a minute and they cook slightly. My favorite thing to dip are endives. Endives and anchovies – that has to be the opposite of sweet.
Breakfast pizza, with eggs, bacon and several cheeses:)
mmm, ham!
My aunt always makes these bacon wrapped little smokies that are soooooo good. You wrap the little sausages in bacon and then cook them in brown sugar, they are super good and christmas is about the only time we get to enjoy them.
These little guys are so “sweet”! My favourite thing at Christmas is the stuffing, mmm mmmm – can’t wait. Merry Christmas to you!
Chex Party mix…my way
I would have to say the taco dip my mother in law makes! Its easy to make and SO delicious, everyone loves it!
my grammy’s prune cake!
i love lasagna!! mash potatoes n pasta with meat ball..yummy.. ;D
Steak…we don’t get it very often so at Christmas it is super special! We even grill it outside on the deck with snow all around us, it’s beautiful :)
We always have Green Bean Casserole and Creamed Spinach. Cheese & me don’t get along so I found this great recipe without cheese and just a cup of whipping cream. It’s so good!
We don’t have big meals, or any MEALS really, on Christmas, just sweets and appetizers, but I absolutely MUST have sausage balls!
I love grilled asparagus with roasted garlic salt and steamed lobster.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE green bean casserole. We have to have it every year, however this year we are going with an italian theme dinner-so Lasagne and garlic-cheese pockets and salad.
Have a very Merry Christmas!
‘Hashbrown’ casserole! Tatertots, sour cream, melted butter, onion, shredded cheese & cream of chicken soup. Mix together and bak until bubbly and browned a little. Major YUM factor! :)
Southwest eggs benedict for Christmas breakfast. Cornbread, big thick pieces of bacon, scrambled eggs & an awesome spicy “hollandaise” w/lots of red chili pepper. Found it in Sunset magazine years ago & it’s soooo good.
Stuffed celery….celery with cream cheese, olives, and pecans stuffed all in it. Yummmmmmm!!!
My favourite thing to eat on Christmas is homemade pasta! Anykind…ravioli, lasagna, gnocchi, fettuccini and or spaghetti! We almost always have two types on xmas eve. YUM!!
I LOVE eating my mom’s homemade giblet gravy (recipe passed down from my great grandmother) on Christmas. I will drown my whole plate with it! ~~ YUM~~ I could eat it like soup! :)
I love my green beans. They are made with butter, garlic powder and soy sauce. And to top it off I ad cooked bacon. There is never any left. Man, I want some now!!
Chinese :) I’m Jewish…and its our tradition :)
Every Christmas Eve my husband I drive the kids around looking at Christmas lights. When we get home we put “runway” lights along our street and up our sidewalk to guide the reindeer in, sprinkle reindeer food on the yard, we track Santa on Norad, and then FINALLY put the kids to bed. Then it’s SHRIMP time!! I make Emeril’s hot buttered shrimp every year for my husband and I. Has a TON of butter in it, but once a year it is the best.
Cheese potatoes! So tasty along side the honey ham :)
At my mother-in-laws we have a brunch themed meal and it changes each year. My husband and I then go to my mom’s and have the traditional ham and multiple casserole dishes – I love Christmas because the food is so different at both houses I don’t have to worry about getting full on the same type of food at both houses.
I love all her decorations!
One of my favorite things to eat in green beans! I know they aren’t fancy but I love them, especially ones that my grandmother or mom has canned. When I was little I would help pick them from my grandma’s garden then help can them. Eating them especially around Christmas just takes me back to all those great memories.
Merry Christmas!
My grandma Koontz’s fried turkey and my Grandma Cook’s cucumber salad. Both of these wonderful ladies helped teach me and my mom how to cook. Sadly they are no longer with us, but left us with some beautiful memories and some delicious recipes.
Stunning!
hmm….something not sweet! That’s a tough one for me! I have a terrible sweet tooth!! I’d have to probably go with garlic mashed potatoes! :)
My favorite thing to eat for christmas dinner is my Italian grandma’s fancy lasagna. I’m making it for my in-laws this year. Fingers crossed!
My favorite savory Christmas food is sausage balls! My mom makes them every year and I could eat a whole batch myself!!!!
I love these nutcrackers! They are so cute! :)
Merry Christmas Bakerella.
Prime rib with horseradish, oh and twice baked potatoes!
My favorite christmas dish is broccoli rice casserole.
Beautiful shindig!
My favorite Christmas food would be my Mom’s recipe for cornbread dressing (plus ham & all the fixins).
Merry Christmas!
I love a really good spiral sliced honey backed ham. Yummm…
my favorite thing to eat on Christmas is everything!! my family has an Italian background so you can imagine all the wonderful dishes that are served. If pressed, I think I could say that the cold eggplant is my favorite.
Christmas Ham! all the way!
Stuffing! My mom’s is the best and since I didn’t have it on Thanksgiving, I’m REALLY looking forward to it this year :-)
Mashed potatoes! We fight over who gets to finish the bowl :)
We usually spend Christmas as my parents’ mountain house. On Christmas day we eat at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. They have the most unbelievable Christmas buffet. The food AND the presentation are amazing – ice sculptures, huge butter sculptures (a dragon one year), etc. I rarely make it to the dessert tables because the food is so incredible. My favorite things ever were crab bisque one year and vegetable lasagna with some kind of smoky cheese. Unreal.
to be quite specific, I could eat cranberry sauce year-round… it is by far the thing I look forward to this time of year! :-)
great photos! thanks for sharing!!
Prime rib & red potatoes!
I don’t know of a store, but I know I’ll be looking!
Those are so incredibly cute!
My favorite non-sweet thing for Christmas is ham and mashed potatoes!
Ham and hashbrown casserole! Yummy!
Oyster Soup! We had it every year at my Great-grandmother’s Christmas family reunion! When I was little I would pick out the oysters but I loved the rest! Now that I’m all grown up, we still make it at Christmastime (and I even eat the oysters!).
I MAKE HAM POT PIE! NOT THE KIND IN THE PIE CRUST BUT THE SOUP VERSION WITH DOUGH IN!MMM GOOD WITH A SIDE OF MASHED POTATOES AND HOT ROLLS!
Tamales and mexican hot chocolate
Hmmm, I always like green bean casserole because it just says holidays to me.
When my husbands mother was alive he told me that every christmas morning she would make orange rolls so I have decided to carry on that tradition even if it was 10 years ago that she died…This year for our non sweet dinner I have decided to go the prime rib route considering I dont ever get to eat it through the year, Last year it was leg of lamb LOL
Non-sweet is a much harder choice lol! But being Greek, my family usually does without traditional Christmas main courses and has roasted lamb, which is actually rare for my family. We only have it twice a year, and it’s a big deal when we do, so that’s my pick. ^^
Happy Holidays! ^___^
Fried pork tenderloin with homemade biscuits Christmas morning. Fills you up for the day — or at least until lunch!!
My favorite thing is my mom’s dressing and gravy. I’ll miss it this year though because we’ll be at Disney!
Well I like to make Carrot Souffle. It doesn’t quite pass the nonsweet test, but it is a serving of vegetables!!
My grandma’s homemade noodles.
The thing I look forward to the most is the endless cocktail shrimp. This year I am making some marinated shrimp with mushrooms and artichokes…new recipe.
I would have to say my favorite Christmas food would have to be homemade Lefsa. I was shown 2 years ago how to make it and now seems can’t make enough. But for non sweat I would have to say ham and shrimp (we usually make between 15 and 20 lbs of shrimp) just sorry I’ll miss it this year.
We have our big celebration Christmas Eve, for Christmas we keep it simple and start our morning off with Eggs Benedict, would have to say that is one of my favorites on Christmas.
Merry Christmas and Thank you so much for all your great tips and ideas. Looking forward to many more in 2011. Have a blessed New Year!!
We eat biscuits and sausage gravy every year for Christmas breakfast.
My traditional Christmas dinner is prime rib, twice baked potatoes, green bean casserole, cherries jubilee with Christmas cookies.
We have this breakfast casserole thing on Christmas morning that it fantastic! Bread, sausage, eggs, and mustard powder. YUMMY!!!