Flavagivmas

Every year for what has to be the last decade, Kris and Erica have hosted a Thanksgiving party at their house for all of crew, AKA Flavagiving.  This year, I think time just got away from everyone and there was just so much going on.  So, Teddy and I offered to host this year after Christmas.  Thus, Flavagivmas was born. 

I made beer ham, twice baked potatoes, a salad and Heather brought a pea casserole.  I also had cupcakes for dessert, and Erica brought all the yummy goodies left over from Christmas at her house.  Mostly, we had a great time catching up and playing some games.

Here's almost everyone finishing up dinner.  We lost a few attendees due to the flu, but we all partied on in their absence. 

Jon finally joined the party

Then it was time to break out the games.  I had quite the stack from Christmas.  We ended up playing Pictionary Man, Apples to Apples and Battle of the Sexes.  I have to say that Pictionary Man was a big hit.  It was a great twist on the classic game.

Here's the Lach girls with Kris getting ready to play some games.

I didn't get any other pictures of the night since I was too focused on fun, but I know others took some.  So if you have pictures, please post them on facebook so I can update this post with more pics!

We ended the night with some Lego Rockband and Mario Cart game playing.  I think I ended up going to bed around 4am.  That has to be some sort of record for me at least in a LONG while.  It was great to catch up with friends around the holidays! 

Also, I got a lot of questions on how I made my ham, so here is the recipe for beer ham.

Ingredients:

A Ham (not the spiral cut kind)

A beer

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  Put the Ham in a roasting pan on a rack.  Pour the beer over the top.  Seal it up with foil and bake in the oven 20 minutes for each pound.    For the last 15 minutes take off the foil. 

That's all there is to it!  You'll get a juicy, delicious ham that isn't very salty.  The alcohol in the beer pulls the salt out of the ham.  I also recommend getting the butt vs. the shank.  I bought the shank this time and I found it to be more fatty and to have more connective tissue than the butt portions I've bought in the past.  It's super easy and yummy every time.