It was delicious!! Originally I was planning on whipping up something scrumptious from Ina\u2019s Paris cookbook<\/a> in the spirit of the event, but got home late and consequently was tired, so instead we came up with my new favorite snack. Ever. We had sour cream with dill (lots of dill) with smoked salmon and kettle chips. I have now had this \u2018snack\u2019 for dinner on 3 separate occasions. And that right there is another reason the Y is calling my name. <\/p>\n Therefore, instead of turkey photos to show, I have this \u2026 <\/p>\n Mur decided we might as well start a glutinous day off with a huge breakfast. \u2026 Yeah, ok \u2013 I\u2019m game. <\/p>\n He asked what I wanted to eat and I did say something \u2018different\u2019 which I would say fits with this! He cooked up bacon, lined a muffin pan with this bacon, cracked eggs into each cup and baked them. Yeah \u2013 mmmmmm is what I thought too! <\/p>\n After this we scooted over to dad\u2019s to help get all of our different dishes ready to go while all sharing one oven. Note to self: next year we really need to plan out a crock pot Thanksgiving! With 5 crock pots in the family we would be set. <\/p>\n And for dessert we had these scrumptious cupcakes my cousin baked. They were so good even a week later when they resurfaced from the back of my fridge. What a delightful breakfast!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Third, is the feast that is called New Years! For the last several years I have ventured down to Iowa for New Years celebrations. Usually it\u2019s pretty wild and crazy \u2013 2 years ago we stayed up hanging out and celebrating until 1 or so before crashing and if I recall correctly, last year we saw the ball drop on TV and by 12:05 I was in bed. Party animal. So the festivities do vary from year to year. This year we celebrated the East Coast ball drop (ie: 11pm CST) and then by 12 we were all so tired we didn\u2019t even recognize it was 12. Again \u2013 another raucous New Years!<\/p>\n Somehow it didn\u2019t dawn on me to take photos until we were all very stuffed and the remains of all our snacks was all that was left. Oh well \u2013 there will always be another year of New Years festivities in Iowa to capture! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So in conclusion, I hope your New Year leads you to skip the resolutions and appreciate all the AMAZING food, drink and company we have all year! Happy {belated} New Years!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the end of the year always being a marathon eating contest, I have come to several conclusions. First, I am seriously thinking about joining the Y this year. And second, there are countless photo ops! For a while now I have thought food photography and\/or food styling would be an amazing profession. Meh \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,15,3],"tags":[456,42,460,143,138,53],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-seasonal","category-stray-stories","tag-choco-moose","tag-christmas","tag-food","tag-new-years","tag-thanksgiving","tag-wine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bqtn-xs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/taketwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_4308](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chocolatemooseimages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4308-copy.jpg\" "\\"IMG_4308")
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<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> Second, there was Thanksgiving. This year we decided to give deep frying a turkey a try. Mur was in charge of that part of dinner (no pressure, hun) and in the end it seemed like a big hit! Now if you combine hot oil, a turkey and night time, you do not get a good recipe for photos. Ha. Get it? Recipe? Thanksgiving? Deep fried turkey? Meh\u2026. <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n