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We had a Chinese carryout meal for > at my house. It was just the three of us so; I decided a fun meal that required no more than mom ordering food and taking it out of little takeout boxes would be wonderful. My guys both agreed a restaurant meal would be a perfect way to welcome the New Year.
We ordered shrimp with broccoli, sweet and sour pork, and pork fried rice that came with fortune cookies. (I love pork. Can you tell?) It was all really wonderful and we loved feasting on it. Oh! JDaniel also had a New Year’s cracker with chocolate bits in it.
JDaniel have a few opinions about the meal that he shared with my husband and I. He didn’t think the sauce on the shrimp and broccoli was good in fact he announced it wasn’t a favorite. He usually loves shrimp but commented on how the sauce made it not good. He loved the restaurant nuggets. Most of the world would call it sweet and sour pork JDaniel renamed the dish restaurant nuggets. The dipping sauce that came with the restaurant nuggets was very much loved. He dipped everything in it including the fortune cookie.
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! This is probably the first Christmas JDaniel will remember and was totally aware of. It was so much fun.
The night before Christmas we did some prep work for the arrival of Jesus’ birthday and Santa’s arrival. Baby Jesus arrived in the crèche after having his manger bed empty for most of the month of December. We also put a NewTree chocolate bar out for Santa. Santa gets so many cookies we decided to leave him a treat that he won’t get anywhere else.
Christmas morning JDaniel’s first words were to ask if Santa had come. He was so happy to hear that Santa had come and brought presents. When we came downstairs to see what Santa had brought, we found presents along with a partially eaten candy bar. It was decided that candy bar needed to be part of JDaniel’s Christmas breakfast tin.
Along with the remains of Santa’s chocolate JDaniel had a fruit salad, yogurt with Christmas sprinkles, syrup, and pancakes with sprinkles. The sprinkles didn’t remain visible in the pancakes once they were cooked. They looked pretty sitting in the muffin mix.
>The reindeer had a bale of hay made of tater totes and some carrots.
Santa got to dine on cookies of two different kinds. He was also given a chance to take a dip in some catsup. Santa is made of a turkey burger, a Swiss cheese beard and trimmings for his hat, a cheery tomato for his nose, a large tomato for his hat, and sprinkle eyes.
JDaniel loved this meal so much we had it two days in a row. He loved the Santa burger. I have a feeling I have many Santa burgers in my future.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a Swiss Cheese mouse;
The red apple stocking was hung without notice or care. (The mouse had not seen that it had way too much worn.)
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children have nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window, I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow that was really a flake made of sugar cookie dough.
He was glad mom hadn’t tried to feed him a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he finished his last bite,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”
In honor of the first week of Advent JDaniel’s muffin tin is filled with a variety of wreaths.
There are the following wreaths:
Broccoli and tomato
Bread and butter pickle with carved edges and cranberries
Crescent roll with cheese ribbon
Green and red jello
Red grapes with golden raisins
Bananas with an apple peel ribbon
JDaniel loved using the bottle cap I used in the center of the jello as a scoop for all the foods. He did not love the broccoli. “I don’t like broccoli,” he informed me. “You ate it last night,” I informed him.
This week I am presenting you with just a simple traditional Thanksgiving meal. There are no Pilgrim sandwiches or cornucopias of food salad. I am sorry. I just made a basic muffin tin this week.
If you click on the Muffin Tin Monday icon, below you will be transported via the internet to displays of wonderfully decorated meals. After leaving me a kind comment, please take a moment to view the other mom’s amazing culinary food displays.
JDaniel loved his peas, cornbread stuffing with cranberries, turkey, black currant bread, and grapes. I hope that no matter what you feast on during your Thanksgiving meal you enjoy it as much as JDaniel did inhaling his pre-Thanksgiving muffin tin meal.
In honor of Veteran’s Day on Thursday JDaniel had an American flag lunch. I guess it should be called a silicone tray lunch this week rather than a muffin tin.
The tray contained a breadstick cut into fourths, the tops, and bottoms of meatballs (The centerpieces were removed and used in my lunch.), daps of tomato sauce for dipping, and apple stars. I usually do a better job of balancing JDaniel’s lunches with veggies and much less meat. After the fact, I thought cherry tomatoes or grapes would have been better than so many meatballs.
I will do better next week when the theme is the food pyramid.
