I was so sad thinking that no one was answering my plea for tasty ideas, when I noticed all of the comments had gone to the spam folder.  Mmmmmm, so many good ideas.

A couple of people have asked about the food allergies, and to be honest on the holidays I cook allergen filled food for everyone else.  Sometimes I try to adapt the recipes, but then there are some that can not be adapted and that is fine.  I can’t expect everyone else to eat cardboard.

Although, I am thinking that if I served cardboard meals for a couple Christmases in a row that maybe people wouldn’t come over anymore and I would not longer have to cook huge dinners.  Oh, I kid.

My husband’s family is bringing over food, which I am trying to look at as a blessing.  So nice!  So helpful!  Except that it isn’t.  We lost one of our wall ovens to a fire earlier this year, so I am doing this holiday with only one oven.  We had hoped our kitchen remodel would be done in time for Christmas, but it hasn’t even really begun.  So I told everyone this year to please bring things that did not require going into the oven, but they really did not have to bring anything.

I found out that my mother-in-law is bringing some baked fish dish dish.  And her countertop convection oven.

Did your jaw just drop open and you say, “Huh,” also?  Yeah.