These valentines from Lily Jane Stationary are THE cutest. Found on Oh So Beautiful Paper.
I Heart Ewe Valentines Set, Set of 8 $4.00
My cutest neighbor, Jordan, started her own etsy shop called Little Town Boutique. It is filled with the sweetest little headbands, necklaces, jewelry, pins and more. Everything is so pretty & girly! I bought two right away and love wearing both pieces. She really does a great job and has impeccable taste. Visit her shop have a look!
Four Rosettes Headband $7.50
Here I am…finally back to bloggin! And starting back up with these adorable DIY Valentine Bags from Twig & Thistle. Just think of the possibilities for things to stuff in these cuties!
And finally, the food! We wanted to serve, warm, comfort food for the upcoming winter months. This is what we served. All of these recipes and where we found them can be found on SLCGourmetGals.blogspot.com
Sausage Skewers - a super easy, pretty and yummy appetizer. They can be served plain, or with a balsamic dressing over the top and fresh Parmesan cheese.
Marinated Lemon Chicken in two kinds of BBQ Sauce. One of the sauces is a balsamic BBQ and one is a down home BBQ sauce. Both delicious.
Jalapeno Jelly over cream cheese & crackers. I don’t even like jalapenos, and I love this jelly. It is REALLY good.
Homemade Mac N Cheese - if you want an easy dinner that your kids will eat, but is grown up enough for adults, make this. The gruyere cheese and cayenne pepper make it sophisticated, while the noodles and cheese are just what the kids ordered. It’s so easy, it takes about 2 more minute then Kraft.
Homemade Cream Soda - yum! And so easy. You can add any flavoring to soda & cream. They sell bottles of flavoring at Orson Gigi in any flavor you can think of. You can’t see this cream soda, but it is white and fluffy and beautiful after you make it. We were tempted to serve it in clear glasses, but stuck with the root beer bottles!
Appetizers anyone!?
The salad was a Roasted Corn Salad with a creamy homemade dressing that has a sour cream base. The star puffs are just puff pastry with fresh parm on top, a really easy roll and if something is cut into a shape, your kids with love it!
My mom has made this chili for years and it is goooood. Not a huge chili fan, but this has the perfect blend of sweet and spicy. We cooked the Buttermilk Corn Bread in little tomato paste cans, but you can bake it any way you wish. And the star on top is homemade honey butter.
The main course was Rolled Flank Steak, Gruyere Green Beans with frizzled proscuitto and fluffy new potatoes. I have always been a meat and potatoes kinda gal. These beans don’t look very good in this picture, but they are delicious. They are a little pricy with the gruyere and proscuitto, but worth the expense if you want a dish to impress the in-laws. They work best with fresh green beans and prepared right before you serve them.
You know those orange sticks they sell around the holidays? This dessert is one giant orange stick. It is delicious! We served it with a warm cranberry drink. You can make it as one large bundt if you don’t have the mini’s, but the mini’s are really cute!!!
We also served a fresh mint lemonade with dinner that is on the recipe list.
While Gourmet Club is all about the food, my 2nd favorite part is all of the details and decorations. Here is what we did…
It was my turn to host Gourmet Club at the first of December. I am finally getting to posting what we did for it. My partner, Heather, and I wanted to serve down home, hearty recipes, so we went with a Cowboy Christmas theme. It was a super fun theme to work with, we had a lot of fun planning it!
I lost the Save the Date invitation pictures, so these are a little rough, but the Save the Dates included the invitation, a gun, a badge, bandanna, and a little packet that said, see ya’ll for S’more fun!
The invitations had each girl invited as the Wanted poster on the front.
WHERE did December go!? I can’t believe the last time I blogged was on December 1st!!!
Well, just in case you need a couple last minute gift ideas, this is what I did this year for a few friends and the tags were my neighbor gifts. Both, super easy! Sorry the photos aren’t the best quality. If you want the Santa tag pdf’s, I will email them to you. And MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Drink & Be Merry! Silver ice bin found at Target.
Neighbor Gift - Santa Tags with bakers twine (dowels found at Hobby Lobby)
More from Ruby Jayne…
Pink/Gold Decorative Mirror $18.00
Girly Lamp $25.00
Little Brown Chair $12.00
Grayish-black side table $35.00
White with mint accents dresser $35.00 (drawers need new tracks)
I am really crushing on the beautiful and unique necklaces at Freshly Fig. (Cutest name!) I don’t know if I could every pick just one. Found on Oh Hello Friend.
Carved Blue Birdie $30.00
I am pretty sure I love every single item at Rifle Paper Shop. I am pretty sure you will too. How is Hallmark even in business with cards like these out there? (No offense Hallmark) Found on Mint.
Holiday Postcards $10.00
Frances Thank You Card $4.00
Blue Floral Recipe Cards $8.00
Circus Birthday Card $4.00
Screened Congrats card $4.50
Botanical Card Set $16.00
