I tried really hard to make this dish look pretty but it just wasn’t happening. I honestly considered not even posting the recipe since the photos make it look like a big bowl of mush. But we all know that looks can be deceiving and that’s definitely the case with this one.
Happy New Year!!!
I hope the first few days of 2017 have been great to you so far! If you read my last post I talked a little bit about our NYE plans. Well if you’re wondering, the fried turkey was a success! And oh the relief we felt. We were pretty nervous about it because it was our first time cooking a whole turkey (which is always intimidating) and also because it was our first time using the infrared fryer we bought. I have to say it’s a bit risky to decide to throw a dinner party where you’re cooking something you’ve never cooked before using a piece of equipment you’ve never used before to cook it.. but I had full faith in us and we pulled through! I also made the traditional New Year’s sides like collards, black eyed peas (with brown rice), cornbread and I also added in mashed potatoes. A true southern feast! I think this might be a new tradition. Bringing in the new year with really good friends eating really good food and having a really good time.. nothing beats that.
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Well, the holidays are officially over and it’s time to start cleaning up the diet again. Every single year I tell myself this will be the Christmas where I turn down sweets all together. It never happens, not even close. I said this in my prior post but I’ll emphasize again just how much of a sweets person I am. You can give me salads for dinner every single night if that means I’m getting a piece of chocolate after. So with the holidays it’s not really the meals that get me in trouble as much as it is the delicious baked cookies and cakes that are always available and ready to be eaten. My mom actually packed us up a box full of different cookies to take back home with us and we just decided tonight to throw them away because both my husband and I know that we don’t have the best self control when it comes to that stuff. So our strategy to not eating sweets and other bad things is to not buy it and not have it around the house. It’s worked pretty well for us so far! Until I get an undeniable chocolate chip cookie craving.. and all bets are off. But luckily that doesn’t happen too often.