It’s another fun day for Oh What Fun It Is To…
My friend, Molly, from Duchess of Fork is the hostess today. She is an incredible food blogger, an adorable person and a terrific mother with a darling new baby girl. If you’re not already reading her blog, you should definitely add it to your list.
I’m super excited about today’s topic because who doesn’t love food? Even if cooking isn’t your thing, you can find a great recipe and give it to someone else to make for you!
I wanted to share some of my favorite must-have recipes during the Christmas season.
Around this time every year, I start pulling out my favorite cookbooks and making my grocery lists and planning the meals. Most of the time we keep the meals the same, but we may throw in a curve ball with a side dish or try a new dessert.
My favorite cookbooks out there are the Junior League cookbooks. I have about 20 different cookbooks from various Junior Leagues across the country. These recipes have been tested by many. They come from homes like ours. They’re amazing!
The ones I use the most are Talk About Good, River Road Recipes, Cotton Country Cookbook, and Charleston Receipts. I also use my recipe binder that has lots of tear out and print-outs from different magazines and websites.
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Some of my favorite recipes for this year’s menu are available here for you! Please share them with your friends and family this year!
My mom found these sausage balls on Pinterest and shared them with me. These cream cheese sausage balls from Plain Chicken are a new hit and I am so excited about just having them around the house this year!
Every year, on Christmas Eve, we eat gumbo. TC’s mom is allergic to shellfish, so we usually have a seafood gumbo and a chicken and sausage gumbo. I think this year we may just have chicken and sausage. It is so delicious. Get a little green salad and some French bread and you’re set!
On Christmas morning, we pop a breakfast casserole in the oven (that we made ahead of time) and in 30 minutes it’s ready and we can eat! We’ve been eating this casserole for years. It tastes like Christmas morning to me!
For Christmas dinner, we usually have beef tenderloin (and sometimes pork tenderloin) with roasted vegetables and mashed potatoes. This year, we’re also going to have one of my favorites, Spinach Madeline. Yum!
Can’t wait to see what all of you are sharing from your kitchens today! Don’t forget to link up with Molly at Duchess of Fork!
We make the very same breakfast casserole and love it! Some of my favorite recipes come from collaborated cookbooks as well. I need to try some of those you mentioned! Thanks for sharing the site.
I made these for one of our Averitt Family Christmas gatherings last weekend and not one was left. I told my sis that I would never make a sausage ball without cream cheese again. LOL They’re quite tasty!
Those recipes all look SO good. The spinach dish? YUM! I’ve never had anything like it, will be trying it though soon.
We have eaten the exact same breakfast casserole every Christmas morning for as long as I can remember. Sometimes we change it up and use ham instead of sausage. So yummy!!
Cream cheese and sausage? Yes please! I just joined the Junior League in my town and need to get my hands on some of their cookbooks.
YUM! Can’t wait to try the spinach dish. Quick question though, what size package of frozen spinach? I am guessing the small 10oz. box?? And also, you suggested adding the bread crumbs and refrigerating overnight, I am assuming you warm it back up before serving? Do you know at what temp or for how long? Thanks!
i LOVE LOVE LOVE the charleston reciepts cookbook. a hand-me-down from my grandmother (original printing)…it is THE BEST!
We do the breakfast sausage casserole too! Love it!
We have eaten the same breakfast casserole on Chrisymas morning for as long as I can remember! And we have beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner too. We started doing it a couple of years ago and love it!
Those sausage balls sound yummy! Last year we started having Christmas breakfast and we do a similar casserole.
Junior League and old school cookbooks are the best!
I love Shrimp Gumbo. I’ve been eating and making it for years. Unfortunately, it turns out that I may have developed an allergy to shellfish (I hope not) so it may be chicken for me here pretty soon.
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo is one of my absolute favorites. My Granny makes the best…I used to request it every year for my birthday!
My husband and I love a big tube steak sandwich on Christmas Eve! That is our favorite holiday food tradition!
We eat the EXACT same casserole Christmas morning!!!
I just emailed the link to those sausage balls!! They look amazing!
Holy hunger!! Not a good thing to read while prego and hungry 🙂 Forget Christmas dinner, I’m ready to cook tonight!
We do gumbo on Christmas Eve, too! I thought we were the only ones. 🙂 My mom’s family is from Shreveport, so we have to include a bit of Louisiana in our Texas Christmas.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipes as well as making them look so CUTE! That was really nice of you! Awesome post!
Can the breakfast casserole be made the night before? This looks similar to strata, and i know strata dishes require to be made and refrigerated overnight.