Merry Christmas!

Ok - So I'm a few days late with the Christmas greetings! I had a wonderful holiday and hope you all did too - no matter what holiday you celebrate.

I did fondue for Christmas this year - an oil fondue - and it was SO MUCH FUN! Everyone really enjoyed it and it kept everyone talking and laughing and moving around - it was much more informal than a sit down dinner. There were a few that have never done a fondue before, so that made it all the more fun. I wish I'd taken pictures of all that I made, but once again I was bad with the picture taking part of my cooking. I swear I will try to get better, so you all can see what the heck I'm doing!

I did cubes of beef and chicken, plus shrimp and sea scallops (I cubed the scallops too - they were pretty big). Then I had a big tray of chunks of onion and bell peppers, steamed Brussels sprouts, portabella mushrooms (my step-dads favorite!) plus broccoli and cauliflower.

We had two fondue pots going, so everyone had room to cook...it was really a blast.

I also made gravlax (my mans favorite) and the new pate', of course. Plus I did an olive tray with olives (obviously), grapes, and stuffed hot cherry peppers.

For New Years Eve we are doing our traditional steamed whole lobsters and I'm thinking of ordering some cherrystone clams to make clams casino - I'll let you know later if I tackled that or not! lol!