Family Christmas Party

Every year in December we have a family Christmas Party on my Granmmie's side of the family (Henderson's). I think it was up to 60 people this year! We rent a hall, all bring a bunch of different food. It's mostly traditional Christmas Foods but I like to punch it up where I can. This year I was responsible for the Corn, Carrots and a Potato dish. I made normal corn, normal sliced carrots and I had thought about glazing the carrots with some brown sugar but I didn't have all my supplies with me (lame excuse). For the Potatoes I made two batches of Roasted Potatoes. One plain and one with all my spices, onions, peppers, mushrooms, garlic and topped with Cheese! My Roasted Potatoes are really good :)

I've update this post (2013/12/08) to include what I used to make the Roasted Potatoes but I don't remember the portions. If I'm making something I generally just wing it and go but what I think looks right.

Ingredients:
Rustic and Yellow Potatoes
Onion
Mushrooms
Orange Pepper
Garlic and Herb Seasoning
Olive Oil
Old Cheddar Cheese
Grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:
Peeled and chopped potatoes. Put the potatoes in a big roasting pan. This took the longest as there were so many potatoes! Though I think it felt like it took so long as I just before this I had to peel and choppy 2 bags of carrots.

Chop up Onion, Mushroom and Orange Pepper. heat a pan to medium heat with a little Olive Oil and then add the onion, mushroom and orange pepper, stirring occasionally until onions start to get translucent.

Combined onion, mushroom and orange pepper mixture with potatoes in the roasting pan, mix together with just a little bit more olive oil and then sprinkle with a generous amount of the Garlic and Herb Seasoning. Cover and then cook in the oven at 400 F for 40 - 60 minutes.

Stir everything up every 15 minutes so so to make sure that nothing sticks to the sides of the roasting pan and when the potatoes are cooked, put it out of the oven. Sprinkle the Cheddar and Parmesan on top, put the lid back on for another 5 - 10 minutes to allow the cheese to melt and then you are read to serve!

Here are some of the other photos of the food that I took as it was being put out.

(Buns, Condiments, Cranberries and my Home made Pickled Beets!) 

(Cheese Platter, Fruit Platter) 

(Deviled Eggs, Turkey) 

(Turkey, Potato Stuffing, Scalloped Potatoes)

(Ham) 

(Regular Roasted Potatoes, Stuffing) 

(Home made Perogies) 

(Corn, Carrots, My Roasted Potatoes, Lazy Cabbage Rolls) 

(Mashed Potatoes) 

(Stuffing) 

(Veggie Trays with different Dips) 

(Apple Juice, Tomato Juice, Chocolate Milk!) 

(Desserts) 

(Desserts) 

(Desserts)