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Holiday Home Tour: Part 2

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Today weโ€™re covering those places where youโ€™ll find all the good holiday food: the kitchen and the dining room!

Kitchen

And then comes my absolute favorite part - the coffee bar! Iโ€™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 wouldnโ€™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 havenโ€™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 donโ€™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 yourโ€™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 weโ€™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 donโ€™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, Iโ€™m sharing my Christmas crock pot grits with you! Enjoy!

Jamieโ€™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!

Weโ€™ll see you tomorrow for Part 3 of our Holiday Home Tour!

Cheers!

 

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