It's my first Christmas away from home and family. It's a little bit sad, but on the other hand I hear Chicago O'Hare is having its annual xmas cluster f&*(ck so I'm thankful we're not traveling that direction this year! I can't help but feel a bit guilty that we're not home for Christmas, running all around Iowa seeing family, visiting grandmas, etc. We'll be with family next year ... it just wasn't practical this year. Sorry Mom & Dad :(

So anyway, Mari and I are celebrating our first Christmas alone. We didn't have many decorations or festive things this year besides a little Egg Nog + Maker's Mark, but we did treat ourselves to making a little dinner together and a bottle of wine. So I present, the Christmas Vegetable Pot Pie.

It's an Ina Garten recipe and it was buttery goodness.