A little French Christmas Eve

This year is one of the first times we've spent the Christmas holidays here in DC together. Since we couldn't be in Pensacola or KC, we really wanted to make the two days nice. Unfortunately, since I have also been pretty sick, that has limited our plans to inside our apartment.

For Christmas Eve I cooked a little French inspired dinner. We started out with gougeres. They are light cheese puffs that Chris recently found out I could make and then was very upset that I've never made them for him. He will say "Did you know that Lelaine could make those? Can you believe she hasn't made them for us?"

For dinner we had roasted potatoes, green beans and standing rib roast. Despite a faulty thermometer it turned out perfectly tender and the roasted garlic rosemary crust was delicious. We both had seconds.

My favorite part of the evening was dessert. Chocolate souffle! My first time making a souffle and it turned out very well. I was intimidated at first since I used a James Beard recipe. It does use several bowls so I feel bad for Chris's clean-up this evening. I've always wanted to try making it because the first time I had it was the night we got engaged and I've been dreaming about it ever since.

We are enjoying the rest of the evening by rewatching the Christmas episode of Downtown Abbey. Indeed!