December gourmet

Ben and I hosted this years December gourmet. We chose a 'Feliz navidad' theme that turned out to be super fun and really yummy!

Charlie was our appetizer man, he and Liz provided a wonderful shrimp with chipolte and mustard sauce...

Ben and I chose for the main course Chili Rellenos, this is them before being battered and fried...

The 'fry station'...

Enjoying appetizers and strawberry liquados...

Ben and I hard at work getting the rellenos all fried...

Fry, fry, fry...

Our Feliz Navidad table...

Enjoying each others company and great food!

We are so blessed to have these couples in our lives, what awesome people to do life with!

Above: Charlie and Liz, Brent and Sarah/Below: Len and Miki

At the December gourmet we always do an ornament exchange, the only rule is that the ornament has to in some way represent one of the gourmets from the year. Ben opened a hat that was to represent this gourmet...

Charlie's was a tea pot that was from an 'extra' gourmet where we all had to cook with a 'secret' ingredient, that ingredient just happened to be tea...

I opened a beautiful pear that was from the November gourmet, sadly, this ornament was stolen from me as we play the way one would play 'white elephant gifts'...

Liz opened a red, white and blue santa that represented the September gourmet (it was on labor day)...

Sarah got a beautiful leaf from the November gourmet...

After gifts we ended with Spiced Bananas with the most wonderful rum sauce...good job everyone!