A friend for dinner in January

We wanted to spend an evening with a good friend so I prepared Harter House pork chops with medium thickness, grilled asparagus and a wonderful recipe from the January Food and Wine for Warm Quinoa Salad with carrots:

Christmas Day 2011

We were excited to have out of town family at our Christmas table at my sisters.  My contributions were Marie and Cleo's Cranberry Salad, Spinach and Artichoke casserole and my famous Libby's recipe pumpkin pie:

Christmas 2011

Christmas is a time for being with family and friends.  We did some(alot) entertaining Christmas weekend but no one requested anything from the BGE.  Here are a few pics of our cooking along with a lovely host/hostess gift from a lovely blogger and entertained Hospitability Yours- Stephanie Madsen: