Our Christmas eve dinner!

This is our traditional Christmas eve dinner
Orange Glazed Salmon Salad
this will take approximately 30 minutes

Baked Salmon (bake at 350 20-25 min) with a bit of butter and lemon pepper

Grilled Pineapple (make sure you get nice grill marks)

Fresh Spinach

tomatoes or cherry tomatoes

bleu cheese crumbles with craisins

(and usually I would put a fan of avacadoes but they were too hard)

Glaze:( to taste)

pineapple juice 

orange juice

honey 

Ginger

soy sauce

brown sugar

corn starch (to thicken)

Crunchy chocolate covered caramel popcorn!

Here is my sisters recipe of caramel popcorn, I just tweeked it a bit!

3/4 C popcorn unpopped

1 cube butter

1C brown sugar

1/4 C Carro syrup

a few dashes of salt

sweet caramel sprinkles (pampered chef) (optional)

large brown paper bag

pop the popcorn and put in bag

mix ingredients in a microwaveable bowl

microwave 1 1/2 min..stir

repeat 2 min...stir

add 1 tsp baking soda...stir

pour over the popped popcorn

stir with wooden spoon

put entire bag into microwave 2 mins

take out....shake 

pour over two large strips of wax paper or foil on counter

cools in minutes..

drizzle melted chocolate over top

(Nestles semi sweet)

place in fridge for 15 minutes

I was inspired

I saw this idea on pinterest and I loved it, here is my version...Hot Chocolate Bar, hope you like it!