Chicken Wild Rice Casserole

I based mine on the recipe here though I really made it my own and only used it as an initial guideline.  I was having company tonight and wanted to put together something easy but worthy of serving.  What I used:

Mandarin Orange Chocolate Lava Cakes for Two

For Christmas day, I wanted to make dessert for the two others that were here.  I wanted something easy and I found it here.  I halved the recipe and substituted a mandarin orange for the clementine.

Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters with Sea Salt

I forgot to buy my son dark chocolates for Christmas and I always do that for him.  However, I do know that the nut ones are always his favorite.  I came across this and based what I did from her recipe.  It was pretty easy, just almonds, pecans and walnuts.  I happened to have all three (from Costco) in my fridge too!  Dip them in melted dark chocolate, stack and when almost cool, sprinkle with Maldon sea salt.

Eggplant Curry

My co-worker brought me some of this to try at work.  It was delicious!!  He said his mom made this for him growing up and his wife requests it all the time from him.  He asked me if I would like some as I'm always after his tips for cooking Indian food.  I decided the next time I saw good looking eggplants at the market I was going to try it.  (Below, the picture is from another dish I made, but I used it as I forgot to take one of the eggplants, but they looked like this).

Candy Cane Christmas Sleighs

One year on "facebook", I saw a friend make these with Moritz Icy Squares.  I was fascinated by them.  I thought they were adorable.  Tis the season, and I saw them at Costco so picked them up.  I googled and it said there should be 90 squares in the container, so that gave me 7 to use per sleigh, though I only used 6.