Gorgeous & Beautifully Festive! food to glow I love Christmas dinner as much as anyone. After all, I pretty much get to make the menu, cook it and serve it. Just today my daughter Rachel and I have donned felt antlers to make up some venison sausage rolls, cranberry sauce and start fermenting blini batter for smoked…
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Fruitcake icebox cookies for a traveling holiday — Gourmandistan
Gourmandistan will be on the move for the upcoming holiday season. With stops planned in Madisonville, Memphis and Jackson before pushing on to New Orleans, Michelle wanted some sweets that could survive the trip, were good enough to gift, and non-messy enough for snacks on the road. Along with a few other selections (do not…
My Mother’s Luxurious Christmas Cake — Toni Brancatisano
This is probably one of my most cherished recipes. If I close my eyes and inhale the aromas exuding from this cake, I can take myself back in time and imagine my mother lovingly unwrapping her Christmas Cake to feed it with brandy in the lead up to Christmas. I made an easier and smaller…
Delicious Chunky Spiced chocolate snowball cookies — IcedRainbow
It’s that time of year again, festive fun themed baking to gift shopping & spreading a little joy and happiness with family and friends. This year I decided to bake some fabulous crisp crumbly winter warming cookies. I halfed my recipe to make around (12 cookies) Ingredients 40g of cocoa powder 125g of plain […] via…
Holiday Biscotti & Christmas Baking
Originally posted on FOODMEANDERINGS.COM:
I love Christmas baking and can’t wait to get going on it the minute Halloween is over! This Holiday Biscotti recipe is one of my favourite Christmas baking recipes and always one of the first things I make. And because I only make it once a year, I make a…
Christmas; Eat Drink & Be Merry! Holiday Fare & Drink of Film & Song; Homemade Marshmallows!
“It’s a marshmallow world in the winter When the snow comes to cover the ground It’s the time for play, it’s a whipped cream day I wait for it the whole year round.” Homemade marshmallows? Yes! Are they worth the effort? Absolutely! Plus, they’re really not difficult to make—it’s not rocket science! The spongy, sweet…
Brie en Croute Featuring Rosemary Cherries Apricots & Toasted Pecans
Brie en Croute is a round of brie wrapped in puff pastry then baked to a beautiful golden brown. This recipe is filled with tart, yet sweet cherries, astringent apricots, fresh rosemary and slightly salty, crisp toasted pecans. It requires very little work but always proves to be a very impressive appetizer. Start with…
Holiday Fare of Film & Song! “Chestnuts” from “The Christmas Song” & for Chocolate Chestnut Truffle Cake
For me, Christmas would not be complete nor begin without listening to Nat King Cole croon his beloved popular “Christmas Song.” As a young girl I eagerly watched mama’s hand place the needle on the round, black vinyl and knew Mr. Cole’s tender, tenor voice would soon begin singing our favorite holiday tune. “Chestnuts…
Christmas! Eat, Drink & Be Merry! Holiday Fare & Drink of Film & Song “Traditional Wassail”
“Love and joy come to you, and to you your wassail too…” This traditional wassail recipe features hard cider, sugar-roasted apples, brandy and sweet spices. It is a simple, old-fashioned recipe made in the tradition of the season. “Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green, Here we come a-wand’ring So fair to be seen. Love…
Christmas; Eat, Drink & Be Merry! Holiday Fare & Drink of Film & Song
“Marshmallow World” by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin “It’s a marshmallow world in the winter When the snow comes to cover the ground It’s the time for play, it’s a whipped cream day I wait for it the whole year round.” Homemade marshmallows? Yes! Are they worth the effort? Absolutely! Plus, they’re really not difficult…
Once Upon a Spice 