Christmas Movie Month

It’s officially that time of year, and if you’re like my husband and me, then you love a good holiday tradition.  One of ours is watching one holiday movie a night starting Dec 1 and going through Christmas.  So far, we have made it work, and we are looking forward to a little White Christmas tonight (because let’s be honest, who doesn’t love that movie!?)

What we love about this tradition is it allows us to watch a unique movie each day and not be at the whim and mercy of the Freeform movie repeats.

Movies we have seen so far:
Muppets Christmas Carol
Santa Clause 1, 2, and 3
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated and live action)
A Garfield Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Home Alone 1 and 2
Elf
Polar Express
The Holiday
Love Actually
Christmas with the Kranks
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
How To Train Your Dragon Christmas (Snoggletog)
Klaus
Four Christmases
A Mickey’s Christmas

Other possibly less common Christmas movies:
Die Hard (yes that is a Christmas movie!)
Harry Potter series (especially the first one because of all the Magic)

Ones I know are popular but I don’t like:
Jingle All the Way
A Christmas Story (though it’s on in the background all Christmas Day)
Any other “A Christmas Carol”
A Richie Rich Christmas
Nightmare Before Christmas
It’s a Wonderful Life

So here is a cheer to all your holiday traditions, including the ones that help make the whole month magical.  Happy Holidays to you and your families!

Stuffing to Quiche Transformation

If you’re like me, then it may be that you actually and genuinely enjoy leftovers...and as they were eaten originally.  So you can imagine how happy I was to have Thanksgiving leftovers!  After putting in all that work to make the meal and all the desserts, it’s nice to be rewarded with days and nights where you have food already prepped and don’t have to cook.

Unfortunately, this year I didn’t much care for the stuffing mix I made.  It was a pre-made / boxed stuffing (and I know at this point some of you are cringing!  Eek! You don’t make your own stuffing!?  Alas, I do not.). And because I didn’t much like the stuffing, when I realized we had a bundle leftover, I wondered what on earth I would do with it so it wouldn’t go to waste.

Enter Holiday Baking shows.

One of the contestants on the Holiday Baking Championship used box cake mix for a pastry crust.  This morning I turned to my stuffing and thought...Quiche crust! Voila!  So I added some melted butter, made the quiche filling, and 45-60 minutes later we had food, reimagined and delicious!

What I used:

Crust
2 cups leftover stuffing
2-3 tbsp butter, melted
(Mix together and push into bottom of pie pan.  If you have more stuffing about 3 cups would give a decent side crust too)

Filling
10 eggs, beaten tans then poured into pie shell.
Whatever else you want.  I put grated cheese directly on the pie crust and poured the eggs overtop, but feel free to get creative!  Just know if you’re going to add in any meat it needs to be pre-cooked.

Bake @ 350 for 45-60 min til the center is cooked.

Enjoy! And happy holidays!