our christmas meal.

after we ate all morning & all afternoon long on christmas, it was time for our christmas dinner! 

 {since it is christmas, after all,

i went all out & we drank the best - 

kendall jackson grand reserve.

good wine is so good.}

we started a christmas tradition last year of eating cornish hen - blakey was certain the "traditional" christmas meal is a christmas bird.  {i'm pretty sure he got this theory from a christmas story...}  since i was positive i didn't want to cook a huge bird for just the two of us, i decided cornish hens! 

they are cute little things.  one bird a piece would be perfect if you hadn't eaten all day long.  we had.  so we each hardly ate half of our bird.  maybe next year we will share a tiny bird :)

{hen recipe HERE}

i found a delicious looking semi-healthy version of french fries on pinterest, so i decided to try them.  i love french fries.  all potatoes, really.  oven baked garlic parmesan fries.  pretty darn good. 

{baked fries recipe HERE}

for a little piece of home for blakey, i finally made his aunt susan's famous caesar salad.  it was delicious!  i added a little red onion & accidentally used all of the parmesan on the above potatoes, so we went with asiago.  so good!  thank you thank you, aunt susan!

& for christmas dessert, i continued with our traditional christmas rum cake.  it's so darn good.  {& if you'll keep a secret, it is quite fabulous with coffee for post-christmas breakfast :) }

{pioneer woman rum cake recipe HERE}

{love our family}

merry christmas!!

love, the porters.