For some odd reason I’ve been thinking it was 2017 for a while now. But now it’s officially here. It wasn’t the most dramatic new year weekend, but it was a solid one full of champagne and black eyed peas ; )
My favorite wine club now offers bubbly, and the bottle above, which I opened during cocktail hour, was fantastic.
Saturday morning I had a cinnamon raisin bagel from Bodos with cream cheese, and pear. The bagel was delicious! It also kept me full through early afternoon (although I did eat a later breakfast).
Mid-afternoon after a trip to the gym, I had a chocolate Vega smoothie made with banana, peanut butter, spinach and milk. We had early dinner plans, and I wanted to save up my appetite!
After hosting some friends with bubbly at home, I joined a party of five for dinner at Maya. Maya does southern food just right. You can’t go without getting the pimento cheese fritters with red pepper jelly! I also had some cornmeal-fried oysters and a kale salad to start, plus a glass of red.
For my main course I ordered catfish, one of my favorites, with the BEST cheese grits and collard greens.
We shared some Mississippi Mud pie for dessert and headed home to ring in the new year from the couch. No fancy parties this year, as Mazen was sleeping at home and I had a 10:00 curfew : )
Luckily that mean no hangovers, and a fresh start to the new year! I made this big brunch of eggs, bacon, grapefruit and an extra bagel half.
We spent a lot out time outside in temps near 60 degrees!
Including a nice little 5K run.
We headed to a friend’s house for New Year’s Day dinner and enjoyed appetizers and a full good-luck dinner of black eyed peas, bacon collards, pork, and cornbread.
I had the BEST peanut butter buckeyes for dessert, and I must find the recipe! They had rice crispies inside and were lighter than some of the other buckeyes I’ve had.
Hope you guys had a wonderful weekend. Tomorrow I am sharing a post with my 2017 Word of the Year. Stay tuned!
Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog says
Oh my God, all the food pictures are making me hungry again – but I just had dinner an hour ago!
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Sandie says
My husband’s boss makes those kind of buckeyes, she calls them peanut butter bonbons- that might help in your recipe search!
Kelly says
Happy new year!! Yum – here is the buckeye recipe:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/rice-krispie-buckeyes-1267984
I think I will try to make them!
KathEats says
Awesome – I might be able to swap a few ingredients (like the shortening) for coconut. Going to have to make these sometime!
Kelli @ Hungry Hobby says
looks like a fun time! I’ve been missing exercise, I strained something in my back, it’s a weird time of the year to not be able to exercise!
polly says
sounds like a great weekend Kath! I love all the Mazen and Gus pics. I can’t wait to hear your word of the year! I have a few guesses so I will see if I am right! 🙂 XOXO
Brenda says
The cornbread looks so delicious! Normally I would not ask for the recipe, but if you know it, could you share? It would be greatly appreciated. =)
KathEats says
She said it was a mix from Wegman’s – stone ground! If you haven’t ever had the Trader Joe’s cornbread mix, that’s a winner too : )
Brenda says
Awesome! Thank you so much!
Faith says
The Finke’s Widow wine is one that I am sure I would like! I will have to try it.
Those peanut butter buckeyes sound great!
Robin says
Love southern cooking. It’s what we were raised on.
Katie says
Looks like a fun weekend. What shoes are you wearing in your running picture?
KathEats says
They’re Brooks PureFlow 5’s. I got them this fall and love them. So light weight and cushy but also very supportive. Good for cross training!
Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca) says
Southern food is my favourite! My husband and I cook SO much southern food. We’ll spend an entire weekend staying in and cooking Southern all weekend, different dishes for each meal. Yum, yum, yum!!