Hello, friends! It's been a few weeks, but I have to say I really enjoyed my long holiday hiatus from blogging (and my laptop in general — I think I've opened it twice since Christmas).
Gemma was on break from preschool, which kind of forced me to take a break from work as well. We built a sled hill in our backyard after storms brought a few inches of snow in town. We cleaned out closets, donated boxes of clothes, and generally just tidied up for the New Year.
I cooked through the holidays, and found joy in the kitchen again after a hectic season of writing my cookbook. (Not that writing a book isn't fun… but it's full of pressure to meet deadlines and get things just right, when my usual mode of cooking is freestyling a meal from ingredients I already have around.)
We hosted a Friendsmas dinner party last month that was one of our most enjoyable evenings all year. To be able to get a group of much-adored friends together, a year after moving to a new town, was the best gift our family could hope for and it just made our holidays that much sweeter.
We smoked a rib roast on the kamado grill, served seared scallops with ginger-lime butter as an amuse-bouche (a recipe from my forthcoming cookbook), and put out a buffet of pumpkin mac 'n cheese, Southern-style collard greens, butternut squash gratin, roasted garlic-butter mushrooms, and roasted honey-butter carrots for 14 guests (plus a handful of toddlers).
We happily ate leftovers for the next two days. After...
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