We already got quite a bit of snow so far, but it helps put me more into the Christmas spirit. My friend and I got together Friday night to get started on some Christmas cooking.
Friday we picked up the groceries we would need and went to her place to get our dough ready, and stored them in the fridge. The next morning we were set to get started. We got our meat and potatoes cooked up, and while they were cooling down we got busy with rolling our dough
Made a mess but we did pretty good with cleaning after. The below are our potato pies, the two closest are mine and hers are the two further ones. She adds a bit of the juice from the meat to hers, but I kept mine like my mom makes it, mashed potatoes into a pie
These two are our tourtière (meat pies). We did 2 each, although would have been nice to have one more of each, but we got more time to do some desserts as well.
We made an apple pie each, and one apple crumble each. Then we of course
had to make some pet de soeur, which I forgot to take a picture of these. At work we are doing a cookie exchange again and last year I made my mom's famous oh henry bars. The bad part with that is I had to make 2 batches and the mixture is thick, so I had to do it by hand and it's hard to mix so my arm was dead at the end of that. Plus once the melted chocolate cools and it's time to cut, that to is hard to do so I want to make things easier on me this time around. I found another one of my mom's recipes that simple and delicious, but since I haven't attempted to make it before I brought the recipe with me and I made it to try it out. It was simple to make and turned out really great so buttertart squares is what I'll be making for the cookie exchange.
Everything is nicely stored in my freezer now except the buttertart square which is now in my fridge. I'm thinking it's freezable but my freezers are on the full side at the moment. So it will be a yummy dessert for us to have. I'm thinking to maybe bring some at work to cause it's a lot for just the two of us. My friend wasn't interested in keeping some but we did split on everything else that we made.
It was so much fun, but we were both very tired by the end of the day. Glad those are ready though! Now time to figure out when we will celebrate Christmas here before we are off to Sudbury. Although first I really need to get started on Christmas shopping. Well I bought 2 things so far, but still so much more shopping to do!
