Today we’re covering those places where you’ll find all the good holiday food: the kitchen and the dining room!

Kitchen

And then comes my absolute favorite part - the coffee bar! I’ve always dreamed of having a legit, standalone coffee bar area in my kitchen where I could decorate all the things and the coffee maker wouldn’t take up precious counter space. So I was giddy to find this blank wall in my kitchen to make that happen!

We just literally got the shelves up about a day ago, so I haven’t even stained the wood yet, but I wanted to include it in this post anyway because it was so fun to style for Christmas! This space is so functional, as well - I bought the dresser years ago from an antique store and chalk painted it white. Because we don’t have a ton of upper cabinets in our kitchen, this serves as valuable storage for lots of my containers and cooking dishes. It also made a great space to store all of the k-cups for our Keurig machine to keep the top clutter free.

If your’re OCD about your k-cups like I am, you need to get you one of these foam organizers. My drawer is super shallow and it fit perfectly and helped me not twitch every time I opened it and saw a jumbled mess! Get your own HERE.

Finally we’ll wrap our tour today with the Dining Room! Even though this table has been empty for most of the year (thanks global pandemic), at least I got to dress it up for the holidays!

Dining Room

I don’t know about you, but my favorite holiday meal is Christmas breakfast. The bacon. the biscuits. The grits. The GRITS. I am a southern girl through and through, so late at night every Christmas eve I put my grits on in the crock pot and when we wake up Christmas morning the kitchen smells heavenly and they are ready to devour. Today, as a bonus, I’m sharing my Christmas crock pot grits with you! Enjoy!

Jamie’s Christmas Crock Pot Grits

INGREDIENTS:
3 cups traditional grits (not the quick kind)
12 cups water
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 stick of butter
6 teaspoons salt
1 block cream cheese
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese (optional)

DIRECTIONS:
Soften the butter.
Lightly spray your crock pot with cooking spray, or add a crock pot liner for easy clean up.
Combine all ingredients into the crock pot minus the shredded cheese.
Cook on low in the crock pot for 6-8 hours stirring occasionally.
About 15 minutes before serving stir in shredded cheese if desired.
Enjoy!

We’ll see you tomorrow for Part 3 of our Holiday Home Tour!

Cheers!

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