Matt and I were very excited to spend our first Christmas together as husband and wife. Our first order of business was Christmas cards. With the help of Suzanne, our favorite stationary maven, we put together a pretty cool card with pictures from our honeymoon. And of course we had to throw a couple of hedgehogs on the envelopes!
Kissing hedgehogs under the mistletoe, how cute is that?
Second order of business: Christmas dinner. Matt and Mike decided that they wanted to organize a traditional Polish Christmas meal. We decided to split all the cooking between us kids since we were going to be making 12 dishes plus desserts.
Matt and I were in charge of making stuffed cabbage, Bigos Stew, mushroom barley soup, and biscuits in poppy seed milk. Gus & Violet were very excited to hang out in the kitchen with us all morning.
Matt's Bigos Stew takes 3 days to make. He adds a few ingredients each night, cooks it on the stove for a while, and then puts it in the fridge to let all the flavors mix together. He actually makes this every winter for us, so he was pretty excited to share it with the rest of the family.
We've made stuffed cabbage before but we decided to mix it up a little for this dinner. Instead of just using ground beef we mixed ground pork and ground lamb. It was delicious!
14 little cabbage rolls
The biscuits & poppyseed milk cooked up pretty quick and the most challenging thing about making the mushroom-barley soup was tracking down the barley. So once we were done we had to package everything up and drive it over to Bob & Betsy's. Matt came up with a genius way to keep the stew and soup from spilling in the car on the way over.
The biscuits & poppyseed milk cooked up pretty quick and the most challenging thing about making the mushroom-barley soup was tracking down the barley. So once we were done we had to package everything up and drive it over to Bob & Betsy's. Matt came up with a genius way to keep the stew and soup from spilling in the car on the way over.
Polish Tupperware
Because this was a Lisowski Polish event, we had to put together a little grouping of holiday hedgehogs.
Because this was a Lisowski Polish event, we had to put together a little grouping of holiday hedgehogs.
Hedgehog made from pinecones, hedgehog ornaments, and our hedgehog nativity.
We started the night with some horseradish vodka made by Joe, polish pickles, and rye bread. Then it was on to the main event.
We started the night with some horseradish vodka made by Joe, polish pickles, and rye bread. Then it was on to the main event.
made by
Matt & I
&
Stuffed Eggs
made by
Mike
Mike
made by
Mike
made by
Matt & I
made by
Mike
made by
Mike
Every year our family friend Cookie and her daughter-in-law Maryanne get together the first or second weekend of December and make pierogi from scratch. They invited me to help last Christmas and the three of us made 460 pierogi. This year I invited Chrissie and Sherri along and after a full day and a couple bottles of wine, we made 840 pierogi!
made by
Chrissie, Sherri and I
made by
Chrissie, Sherri, and I
made by Mike
Since 2010 brought us so many weddings and 2011 will be bringing more, we decided to forgo Christmas presents for everyone this year and just get things for Sherri's son Doug.
Here is the video of his reaction
This jeep has seatbelts, an AM/FM radio and an iPod dock.
While the jeep was a pretty cool present, the gifts that Doug could not stop talking about his new cowboy boots and belt from Pat & Janice.
Since 2010 brought us so many weddings and 2011 will be bringing more, we decided to forgo Christmas presents for everyone this year and just get things for Sherri's son Doug.
from
Mike
from
Matt and I
We all stuck to getting him clothes, books, shoes, and a pretty cool Spiderman watch (from Joe and Chrissie), because Doug had a big present waiting for him in the garage. When Doug finished opening what he thought were all his presents, Sherri took him to wash up for dessert. The rest of us snuck out to the garage and waited for him to find us.
We all stuck to getting him clothes, books, shoes, and a pretty cool Spiderman watch (from Joe and Chrissie), because Doug had a big present waiting for him in the garage. When Doug finished opening what he thought were all his presents, Sherri took him to wash up for dessert. The rest of us snuck out to the garage and waited for him to find us.
Here is the video of his reaction
This jeep has seatbelts, an AM/FM radio and an iPod dock.
Out of control.
While the jeep was a pretty cool present, the gifts that Doug could not stop talking about his new cowboy boots and belt from Pat & Janice.
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