A delish egg strata which we prep the nite before, chill in the fridge overnite and serve warm and puffy right out of the over after we've opened our stockings. And as if the eggs, ham, bread and cheese and other dairy in that aren't enough, we'll have eggnog with it, along with OJ, cocoa/coffee/tea and tangelos! Yummmmmm....
pretzel nuggets and a cold beer...and sometimes a bologna sandwich. Carrots for the reindeer. For some reason Santa didn't eat cookies at our house!
Leftover holiday ham (with a really good crispy glaze around the edges), my very "best" mayo, the grainiest mustard I can find (or if i don't have that...Colemans hot mustard made from the powder) ...on toasted sourdough or rye bread...with a cold beer to wash it all down. No pickles, but chips on the side always add to the experience!
Russian teacakes, gingerbread penguins, sugar penguin cookies, and miniature chocolate chip cookies
http://threepotato.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-carnage-cookies.html
Snazzy Snowballs http://threepotato.blogspot.com/2007/12/snazzy-snowballs.html
Santa Baby Biscotti
http://threepotato.blogspot.com/2007/12/santa-baby-biscotti.html
I also made miniature pies (but I'm keeping mum for now). :)
Glitter ..for flying...okay, if kids believed it, I will too! I have always avoided those silver thingies for fear of broken teeth--ha--besides, those just don't seem like something edible :(
Oh, no. Not for that.
Reindeer do not need to see because they have big noses to smell with.
Glitter is added to the recipe for the magical super-energy needed to keep on flying around in the cold dark sky all night long.
(One has to remind any unaware readers that this will not work with humans. Or at least it hasn't yet.)
Besides, can there ever be too much glitter at Christmas-time?
I doubt it.
(Which reminds me of those cookies decorated with silver dragees. They aren't around as much as they used to be. They were cool, fascinating and a bit scary all at the same time.)
Karen--what smiles you are bringing today--thanks! Hey, I'm curious---glitter? Is this so the reindeer could see the oats & seeds in the snow?
Sometimes he even likes beer with the chips and dip, JEP.
Though in front of the kids I put out soda for him.
Goodness knows they do not need to know of Santa's beer-guzzling ways.
(Though undoubtedly if one has to go "ho ho ho" all night long perhaps the beer does help?)
Karen---great idea to leave Santa chips & dip! Something salty probably is a welcome change from the sugar overload!
Tonight we will leave Santa Lay's Wavy Potato Chips with Kraft Onion Dip.
Apparently it is what he likes for it is always gone in the morning.
We rarely have it in the house so it is very special to get this for Santa.
His reindeer prefer a mixture of oats and seeds mixed with silver glitter. They don't eat all of it every year as it sits on the lawn, but I've never managed to catch them to ask them what they would prefer.
Remember, tonight is the night that the animals can talk.
If you manage to catch up with one of Santa's reindeers for some conversation, please do ask them what they really do like to eat for me?
When I was a kid, it was oj and warm pastries from Dianda's in San Francisco (pre-Tartine days, obviously.) Now that I'm a grownup, it's a cappuccino with toasted panettone.
this year it's just me and my beloved partner. i'm fixing her favourite breakfast -- banana cornmeal pancakes with warmed maple syrup and toasted pecans, crispy streaky bacon, and lots of hot coffee (spicy eggnog flavour from green mountain coffee).
My wife has picked up on my mom's tradition of a breakfast casserole in the morning. A more appetizing name for it would be a savory breakfast bread pudding I suppose. Toasted wheat bread, a nice sharp cheddar, and your favorite breakfast sausage layered in a dish with an egg/milk mixture poured on top.
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