Merry Christmas 2011
Andrew and Isaac with Kyla making cut-out Christmas cookies.
Ahhhhhh! It feels good to sit down at the computer. For days, I have been running around here like a chicken with its head cut off. My home has transformed into Santa’s Workshop and Christmas Factory. My hands have been busy creating, making, and baking.
God sure did bless with me with such a wonderful daughter. She is such a help with the work, with the boys, and with the baking. She loves to bake and we love it when she does because she is so good at it.
Today we made Christmas Cookies from Heather on SCD Recipe. Kyla made almond butter brownies from Texas Homesteader’s Wheat-Free Cookbook. She just substituted the sugar with honey in equal parts. And, we are making Holiday Cookies from Elana Amsterdam’s book, The Almond Flour Cookbook. Christmas just is not Christmas without baking and decorating cut-out cookies.
From the emails I have been receiving, I know that I am not the only one busy making gifts. Most emails have concerned my Blue Ribbon Jalapeno Jelly recipe. There are going to be some really happy recipients of this delicious jelly all over the country.
We are in the process of curing our own fresh ham and smoking it for Christmas dinner along with a turkey. We are also roasting a nice wild duck. In addition, I am mashing cauliflower with gravy and roasted butternut squash separately. I love the latter; it is almost like eating sweet potatoes. Kyla is making green beans with bacon (legal on SCD, of course). We are having fruit salad and biscuits.
For dessert, we will have pecan pie cupcakes with Incredible Icing, our variety of cookies, and lemon bars. My mom is making pumpkin pie with legal whipped cream. In fact you can see my yogurt maker on the counter by Isaac in the photograph. You make it like yogurt with a yogurt culture and cook it for 24 hours to make French Cream. Then you add a dash of vanilla and some honey to your taste and whip it up. Yummy!! I am going to have to roll away from the table.
Anyone who says you cannot possible enjoy eating on Christmas or any other special occasion on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet needs to learn how to cook. You are your own obstacle in that regard. We are eating like kings.
I also write for another blog, Welcome To The Ranch! Last night I was inspired to write my own version of Clement C. Moore’s classic, The Night Before Christmas. If you want to see what I came up with, read “Twas the Night Before Christmas“.
I just wanted to sit down and take a moment out of my hectic day to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas. It will probably be after the New Year before I write again. Therefore, Happy New Year, too! Have a safe and fun time with your family. Merry Christmas, again!
Merry Christmas, Lara! I want to let you know that I posted your poem on my blog as well. Can’t wait to try all those goodies you are making! YUM!
Your Christmas menu sounds wonderful! I will definitely have to try mashed cauliflower. Merry Christmas and a blessed–and WET–2012.