A Most Thoughtful Gift

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I am happy to say that I did. I have so many lovely friends and family that I was blessed to spend my holidays with, and I received so many thoughtful gifts- many of them food related. Cook books, butchery books, pork jowls, small appliances, knives... even bacon-related clothing! There's one gift in particular I wanted to share with you all though, and when you see the picture you'll know why.

First though, I have to share a couple other photos with you. This year for Christmas dinner my dad decided to try his hand at Prime rib...

Is this not the most beautiful hunk of
meat ever? Well done, dad!

The apple didn't fall far from the tree!

There was so much delicious food this weekend. My mom did an insane amount of baking. There were meats, cheeses, shrimp, dips, roasted chestnuts, several colors of potatoes, eggnog... oh my... so much food.

So about that Most Thoughtful Gift... my Lil Sis has really outdone herself and got me this, a custom leather recipe book, in a beautiful bag, with "Wilderness Childe" branded into the cover. Isn't it absolutely gorgeous!?

I couldn't wait to start adding recipes!

I did realize that many of my recipes are much longer than will fit on the cards, which means getting a little creative (and learning to be more concise) in my instructions. This is something that I'm very much looking forward to passing down someday.

Thank you Sis, for such a thoughtful gift.<3

My silly Lil Sis, looking like the Grand Poobah.