Merry Christmas! I love this time of year when we gather together to celebrate our Savior's birth. It's so much fun to shop for family and friends, to go to church for special services and for the regular ones, and to eat. I've been making fudge like there's no tomorrow this Christmas season. My aim is to make everyone fat for Christmas. I think I may succeed! But the thing that I really hoped to master this year is my mother-in-law's cornbread dressing. She always made the best dressing and we all love it. I've tried in the past, but it just didn't measure up to hers.
Since the kids will be home for Christmas this year and I'm doing the cooking, the dressing is a necessary part of the menu. Mim, my MIL, isn't able to stand in the kitchen and cook for long periods of time, so she told me how to make it the other day. I wrote down the instructions and gathered all the ingredients and decided that today was the day. As she said, it will be better after being refrigerated for a couple of days to let the flavors marry. Also, it gave me an extra day in case I really messed things up.
This morning I woke up early and laid in bed thinking about what was on my to-do list today. That's when I remembered the dressing, and then I remembered the cornbread. I had to get that cornbread made so it could cool! I got up and made three pans of cornbread and let them cool. After Frank woke up I boiled my chicken breasts to make broth. I waited until he was up so that he wouldn't smell boiled chicken first thing in the morning. That wouldn't be fun. Then, I got out my other ingredients and the instructions from Mim, and prayed.
Guess what! It turned out good! Frank did an official taste test and pronounced it not only edible, but quite tasty. I was so excited that I called Mim and told her that I had done it! She was proud of me. Now we'll see how the rest of the family likes it on Christmas day. That will be the test. Frank already has plans of me making it with a roasted chicken sometime that's not a holiday. If he wants me to make it again, that's confirmation that he really does like it.
I can't wait to have some dressing with a huge dollop of cranberry sauce, with some turkey, peas, kale, and sweet potato casserole on the side. And let's not forget the rolls.
I'm going to try my hand at a coconut cake for dessert. This will be Jesus' birthday cake. Y'all pray, because I'm not a baker. But, since I've done the dressing I'm feeling brave.
May God bless you and yours with the merriest of Christmases ever, and may we all remember that Jesus is the reason we celebrate.
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