Planning

We have Christmas with our boys and their families every Christmas Eve.  We will have a big meal as part of that.  We are struggling this year for ideas of what to have for the meal.  We have one person that eats no beef so we have to have something that they can eat or at least something additional.  It makes it a little more difficult since I do a lot of the cooking and beef is my go to.  In the past (just a couple years this has been going on) we would either have some sort of chicken or pork.  Well my well has run dry on that.  This year my idea was enchiladas.  I had come across and good way to make them on youtube.  However it takes a lot more work than anything else.  Of course it is a recipe for beef enchiladas.  We will have to have a separate pan for just cheese.  But the beef has the sauce you need to make them taste better than solely cheese.  So we keep going back and forth.  Plus as easy as it sounds, everything except the tortillas is scratch.  No canned sauce, blech.  Plus I make the Mexican Rice and then there are the beans and any add ons that generally get thrown in.  Trying to get it all thrown together at the same time will be very tough on this cook.  My oven will be squeezed for 30 enchiladas. Not real sure where we will end up.  We may poll the others just to get some ideas.

We had the youngest Granddaughter this past week.  We took her for a drive around our neighborhood to look at Christmas lights.  This neighborhood does it better than most and it is really big.  We spent an hour and covered only a small portion.  Here are a couple pics of the biggest display.  You can even get out and walk around amongst the display.  Oh, they live on a corner so the back yard is even bigger.  I just wonder how long it takes for them to set all this up not to mention storage.  It's huge.

Ya gotta click on each pic to get the full effect.

Maybe a little over the top but the kids love it.  No I didn't get the back yard.

Happy Trails