Festive Foods and Bread Blunders

Happy Christmas. It's snowy today in the city of Salt Lake and it's bringing out the festive in me. Coincidentally it's also bringing out the photography in me. Something about how all holidays must be documented for the world, I think... Anyway, this past Sunday I decided the holiday/festive/awesome thing to do would be to invite the family over for Sunday Dinner at my house. (also, it's a good opportunity to show off the CUTENESS of our adorable Christmas House.)




This is our adorable mantle. Please note my Christmas Frogs. Christmas Frogs are my favorite. I don't know what about frogs = Christmas to me... but they do.






This is our Christmas house. Cute, Cute and CUTE. (there are no other options, so you must accept "Cute" to be your answer.)

SO for dinner I made Lasagna. It didn't turn out horribly. Alright, it was a little bit slanty because I didn't make sure to keep the whole thing level. But I think for a first-try it was all the way up to AWESOME. (I took no pictures of it... tragically). However, what I did take pictures of was my horrible bread-making fiasco. What is it about bread that self-destructs around me? In good news, this was the first yeast that has actually risen... so I was so excited about the bread turning out. It rose, I cut it into halves, molded it like french bread, cut slits in the top and put an egg-wash ontop so it would come out looking like THIS:



Yummy, right? Yeah, instead my bread looked like THIS:






See? Self-destructed bread. LAME. Luckily, it tasted pretty okay. Once again, I'm going to have to give it a second (or twelfth in the case of bread) go-round before I pass-judgement.

In other food news, why is it that ONE bite of this cheeseball at my office makes my breath bad enough to knock someone over? I know how to make cheeseballs. I know what is inside them... But what inside this cheeseball is THIS toxic? I mean, it was tasty... but ONE bite was enough to make me not talk to anyone for the rest of the work day.

And finally, on this post of food and festivities... this cookie looks pretty wholesome, right? I mean, you would agree with me that this looks healthy enough to be breakfast... right?