The Great Pumpkin

Who knew there were so many holiday flavored foods?  The pumpkin bagels are awesome, but the marshmallows are a little . . . gross.  I'm going to put the cranberry jello in the Christmas stocking of a friend of mine.

Bagels

Cream Cheese

Waffles

Marshmallows

Jello?

The real deal.

Cranberry relish is the first holiday dish I make every year.  

It gives me an opportunity to fire-up the food processor that I purchased with my uncle's Whirlpool Kitchen-Aid employee discount and break out the red bowls I bought at the Crate and Barrel in Oakbrook.  I also wear my blue U of M Football sweatshirt to hide the cranberry stains.  I like to joke that the main reason my mom got divorced was to ensure that I would go to CU-Boulder.  Growing up in the Chicagoland area, I dreamed of attending either Northwestern (a bad football team) or the University of Michigan (an awesome football team).  My cousins bought me the sweatshirt when I was in Ann Arbor a couple of Christmases ago.