Food a Plenty

Wow, only two days until Christmas. Where did December go?!?! I am now done baking cookies, not only have I completed all of the batches but mentally I am done as well. On to bigger and better things...mainly Christmas Eve and Day meals. Last night, we (Mom and I) planned the shopping list to support the recipes we will prepare. It seems like enough food to feed an army, but we are only 8 total. You know, we're Italian so we like to be prepared :) And it is so much fun to make new and different things. There are some recipes I only use on holidays and I get re-energized when I think about making them for that special event. Our menu goes something like this: On Christmas Eve, we are having tapas (a fancy word for appetizers). We will be making a couple of things from my new Giada cookbook -- parmesan linguine frittatas and mozzarella prosciutto pinwheels. My mom is going to make a turkey rollup thing, and we are also having shrimp cocktail, bruschetta, and cocktail franks (mostly for the kids). Christmas morning we have scrambled eggs, English muffins, bacon and sausage. Christmas dinner will be filet mignon with a spicy parsely tomato sauce, crab cakes with lemon vinaigrette, broiled zucchini and new potatoes, and butternut squash. Possibly homemade rolls also if I get adventurous or bored :) Desserts will be apple puff pastry (like a flat apple pie) and bread pudding with whiskey sauce. Wow, when I type it all up it seems like a lot of food and I am sure I forgot something so the list may be even longer. And I promise, we really are only feeding 8 people!