The perfect salad for Christmas Dinner

No matter what your entree is for Christmas dinner, I’m willing to be that this Christmas Salad will go with it.

It’s a combination of peppery arugula and crisp radicchio, topped with juicy oranges, creamy goat cheese, cinnamon roasted almonds and beautiful pomegranate seeds.

But the thing that sets this salad apart is the zesty orange dressing. It’s creamy but not too creamy, filled with the flavor of fresh orange juice, sweetened with a bit of honey, and made a bit tangy by white wine vinegar and Dijon mustard.

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I think it’s funny how sliders have become one of the most popular tailgating and game day foods. Nothing like watching huge men tackle each other while eating tiny little sandwiches, right?

I guess it makes sense, though, because you can be eating a slider in one hand while you have a foam finger on the other hand?

But I think the best thing about sliders is that you can enjoy a few bites of a delicious sandwich, but it doesn’t have to be your entire meal. You won’t be so full that you can’t also enjoy some of the football charcuterie board and healthy buffalo chicken dip.

These Ham and Turkey Sliders with honey caramelized onions are perfect for game day or when you have leftover maple bourbon turkey or pineapple ham that you want to use up! I also love them served alongside soup, like my Irish colcannon soup.

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If you’re anything like me, you might have a hard time wanting to eat anything other than comfort food during the winter.

I mean, when I trek outside in five degree windchill to do errands, then come home, I don’t generally want a big salad for dinner.

I want creamy salmon pasta or lamb bolognese. Or a big plate of nachos. Or my mom’s slow cooker beef vegetable soup.

But I believe that there can be a balance between something really comforting and something super fresh and healthy.

This almond crusted chicken with couscous, grapefruit and arugula is one of my favorite winter meals. And just like my chicken sloppy joes and Instant Pot sweet and sour chicken, it’s a healthy meal masquerading as comfort food.

See below for all the details. And if you’d rather use pistachios instead of almonds, please see my pistachio crusted chicken post.

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It’s totally unplanned, but apparently I post a new baked brie recipe every other December on this blog! In 2015, it was my holiday baked brie recipe with mushrooms, pomegranate seeds, and honey. In 2017, it was my baked brie with grapefruit & pistachios.

Since it’s December 2019, it looks like I owe you a new version of baked brie to go along with the rest of your New Year’s Eve finger foods, like individual charcuterie cups and my smoked salmon platter.

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One of my favorite summer meals is homemade grilled pizza. It’s my favorite because 1.) it’s delicious and adaptable to whatever I happen to have in the fridge, and 2.) it’s my husband’s specialty, so I can sit back and relax while he makes dinner.

While ideally, I would eat homemade pizza two or three nights a week, it’s not always possible. As grilled pizza season coincides with golf season, Jeff golfs after work a lot in the summer, meaning he’s not home to make me pizza!

While I would love to have his pizza dough stretching and shaping and grilling skills, sadly, I do not. My grilled chicken pizzas are more mess than masterpiece.

My secret for those nights when I still want grilled pizza but don’t want to mess with the dough? Either a small crostini pizza bar for one, or pre-made naan bread from the store. It’s a really great substitute for traditional pizza crust, and even the most novice griller couldn’t mess it up.

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If you watched the most recent season of Top Chef, you’ll know that one running gag throughout the show was that one contestant (Carrie) continually made “fancy toast,” and kept winning challenges with it!

The other contestants (mostly older, mostly male) relentless complained about it because they couldn’t beat her fancy toast with their more complicated, more sophisticated culinary creations.

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The year is finally starting to wind down, and I am R-E-A-D-Y for that break from work between Christmas and New Year’s. That glorious week where I can stay in my pajamas as long as I want, watch movies, eat snacks and pretend they’re meals, read books, do puzzles, and generally just unwind and do nothing.

I especially look forward to this time because as a small-business owner, December is one of my busiest months. Lots of clients requesting lots of projects, as well as gearing up for 2018.

December is a time where complicated dinners are just not possible. I have neither the time nor the mental energy to figure that out.

This One Pan Sausage & Tortellini (as well as my Sausage Pasta Skillet and salmon spinach pasta) is a meal I turn to time and again in busy seasons of life.

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Big news – my town finally has a butcher shop! This was all kinds of exciting to me, because being able to call them up and order exactly the cut of meat I’d like is ever so much more exciting than relying on the local grocery store to just sell me whatever happens to be available.

One of my very first special orders at the new butcher shop was five pounds of pork belly. That big ol’ hunk of beautiful meat was destined for these Pork Belly & Tomato Jam Sliders.

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Let me just tell you about the greatest sandwich in all the world. It’s at this little deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Just kidding – it’s not little.

It’s world famous, and if you’re familiar with Ann Arbor, you know which deli I’m talking about. Anyway, they have this sandwich. It’s a relatively new addition to the menu and it basically makes my taste buds do a ridiculous happy dance.

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You guys, I’ll get to the recipe in a hot second, but let’s just take a moment to process what’s going on under the bowls.

I think I’m developing a reputation in the city-wide Facebook buy/sell/trade group I’m in as that woman that keeps buying rickety old tables.

This isn’t the first rickety old table I’ve purchased, but it’s the best. It’s actually more of a rolling cart than a table, really – you can see the full thing on Instagram.

The previous owners had found it at an antique store. They didn’t know much history about it other than that it’s about one hundred years old, and was used in a factory at some point.

It didn’t fit in with the current decorating scheme of their home, so I basically (safely) sped my car over to their house, cash in hand, loaded it lovingly into my trunk, and brought it home to be with it’s new family.

It’s dirty and rustic and weathered and I’m in love.

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