My mom always makes shrimp for Christmas eve, so we started with that. Knowing that we would go over there for Christmas in a few days, we didn't want to have the same Christmas dinner she would make. So, we opted for turkey. A quick check of the pantry, a list for a couple of grocery stores and Sam's and we were ready to go!
First, we had to check on where Santa was in his deliveries.
Karsten decided he would play Santa and load up their toys to deliver to 'the little children'.
What this meant was that each load of toys got dumped on the floor in the dining room.
And another check to see where Santa is now.
An essential part of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners is a pie. I refused to pick up one of the ready made crusts at the store with the assumption that we could use my mom's recipe and make our own. Scott tried to reason with me that we should get one...'just in case' but I refused. Surely we could make a pie crust.
Does this look any pie crust you've ever seen? It sure didn't look like my mom's pie crust! We rolled it out the first time and I though we were doing great - the dough was a bit sticky but we used lots of flour so it wasn't sticking to the rolling pin. We ran into problems when we tried to pick up the crust and put it in the pie tin - it was stuck to the counter. SO, we balled it up again and stuck it back in the fridge for 20 minutes to cool down again. After rolling it out the second time, this is what we got...now the dough was too dry. SIGH.
At this point, I called it. We both needed to start getting ready for church and this crust had no plans to cooperate with us. We still had pseudo pie for dinner - we just called it pie without crust, or cobbler.
Despite its lack of crust, our apple cobbler turned out pretty tasty.
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