Christmas Week Menu ~ 2022

 Today I am sharing my Christmas menu, along with a few other random goodies we are eating this week.  I have so many recipes I want to try and I hope to cook a lot of desserts this week and next too. I do work 3 days this week, so we will see how much of this I actually do!  If not, I will cook some of this between Christmas and New Years. 

I'm not sure of exactly which day/order I will cook these items.  One night, I hope we can go out to eat as a family then go look at Christmas lights and I have plans one night, so the family will probably eat grilled cheese, which is always a crowd pleaser.  

I plan on trying this new recipe for a pork loin with potatoes.  

Along side the pork and potatoes, I will cook black eyed peas (which neither of my girls eat, but it is what is in the freezer), and these Rosemary dinner rolls, which look good and sound pretty easy to make. 

The next recipe I hope to try is this festive Cranberry Chicken.  Doesn't it look pretty?

With that, I am going to make a macaroni and cheese kit I bought at Williams & Sonoma and serve this with a salad.

One night, we will plan on an easy breakfast for dinner meal, including pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs and fruit.

Christmas Eve, I will bring some veggies and a dessert to our family gathering.  I am not sure what we will do for dinner that night.  Last year, we went to a Christmas Eve service and realized when that is over, it is hard to find food anywhere so this year I need to plan ahead.  I am thinking of possibly just having some chips and our favorite queso and guacamole along with some other snacks.

Christmas Day night, I always make spaghetti while we watch our Christmas movie.  This year, I may switch it up a little bit and keeping with the pasta theme, but changing it to chicken pesto pasta & this bread.

Now on to desserts!

Last weekend, I was craving sweets (just a normal day for me) & made these brownies.

I used a sugar free brownie mix, but then I added in about a cup of these chocolate chips with cream cheese flavor and a cup and a half of Christmas M&M's.  They tasted delicious!

I have been wanting to make this recipe for a Chocolate Pecan Chess Pie and plan to bring this to our Christmas Eve lunch.  

For Christmas morning, I will bring these Red Velvet cookies to our brunch.  I will add a cup of those Hershey's white chocolate chips with cream cheese to the cookies. That powdered sugar sure adds a pretty look!

I am thinking of making these Pretzel/Rolo/M&M's favorite for Christmas morning brunch too. I may not add the sprinkles like is pictured below...depends on what I have on hand!

If I am not too desserted out at this point, I would like to try this Keto Cheesecake. Maybe I will do this for New Years.

For our Christmas brunch, I am thinking of bringing these two things, along with my desserts:

Cinnamon Roll Muffins

Bacon Rotel Cups

Last random thing to share...a few weeks ago I went to Trader Joe's and bought the Jingle Jangle.  Let me just say, it is delicious.  I am glad it is seasonal, becuase this would not be good for me to have this in my house year round!  If you haven't tried it though, it is worth the hype.

How is your menu different these next few weeks of holidays?