For my birthday Casey and I went to this restaurant called Cap City Diner. It is advertised as a gourmet spin on traditional diner fare. Their most popular dishes are their meatloaf and their pork chops. It was phenomenal. We stopped talking for the first five minutes after our meals arrived we were enjoying it so much. I found a copycat recipe online and decided to try to replicate it. It's a meatloaf with porcini mushrooms and fresh herbs served on Texas toast topped with buttermilk mashed potatoes and a BBQ gravy, garnished with some crispy fried onions. Our verdict was that we will probably continue serving our meatloaf in that way, but will stick with our old meatloaf recipe as this one was a little greasy. Here's the recipe if you're interested.
For a special December date Casey took me to Ballet Met's The Nutcracker. It was such a fun night.
Two of our Christmas traditions are making and decorating Mamma May cookies (a sugar cookie recipe from Casey's family) and going caroling at a nursing home. We combined those into one night this year and invited some friends to join us. Owen LOVED all aspects of preparing the cookies: mixing, rolling out, cutting, eating (probably way too much dough). We had such a fun time baking together, and look forward to many more Christmas baking memories.
Lastly, since we were flying to Utah for Christmas and didn't want to check more than one bag, we decided to have "fake Christmas" before we left. We woke up, opened presents, went to church, and then had a big Christmas dinner. We didn't get many pictures, but here's Owen opening a present!
Happy December! (Christmas post forthcoming.)
Katalyn, it looks like so much fun! Owen is so big! Anyway, you're wonderful.
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