Christmas Eve dinner out our house always needs to be special and tasty but simple. There's always the hustle and bustle of guests, gift wrapping, final preparations, etc. so we're too busy for a grand affair, but everyone has come to love our special finger food night with lots of
goodies to boot.
The center piece of the meal is a crockpot full of MeMe's chili. The cracker plate is adorned crispy saltines and always Ritz holiday crackers. A side of cheeses includes simple squares with holiday colored toothpicks, shredded cheddar and mozzarella and Kraft spray cheese for the kids at heart.
The finger food counter is adorned with Holiday garlic cream cheese rolls, a batch of bbq smokies with toothpicks for easy snatching, orange marmalade cream cheese with club crackers and chips with dip (usually French onion and ranch).
The goodie table is adorned quite nicely with at least one of everyone's favorites at hand. Everyone comes sweet and leaves even sweeer with all these tasty treats to choose from: butterscotch cookies, haystacks, gingerbread men and women complete with cinnamon dots and Dede kisses (this is what my grand kids call my family recipe for peanut butter candy).
Below you will find recipes and/or descriptions of the necessaries to have on hand to make all of this come to your family gathering on Christmas Eve. So happy shopping, yummy eating and Happy Holidays to all of you and yours.
The center piece of the meal is a crockpot full of MeMe's chili. The cracker plate is adorned crispy saltines and always Ritz holiday crackers. A side of cheeses includes simple squares with holiday colored toothpicks, shredded cheddar and mozzarella and Kraft spray cheese for the kids at heart.
The finger food counter is adorned with Holiday garlic cream cheese rolls, a batch of bbq smokies with toothpicks for easy snatching, orange marmalade cream cheese with club crackers and chips with dip (usually French onion and ranch).
The goodie table is adorned quite nicely with at least one of everyone's favorites at hand. Everyone comes sweet and leaves even sweeer with all these tasty treats to choose from: butterscotch cookies, haystacks, gingerbread men and women complete with cinnamon dots and Dede kisses (this is what my grand kids call my family recipe for peanut butter candy).
Below you will find recipes and/or descriptions of the necessaries to have on hand to make all of this come to your family gathering on Christmas Eve. So happy shopping, yummy eating and Happy Holidays to all of you and yours.
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