Archive for the ‘Holiday Food’ Category

Christmas Resources – Hot Spiced Cranberry Cider Recipe

Monday, July 4th, 2011

This hot cranberry cider drink is a perfect choice for warming up on cold holiday nights or at your next Christmas party. The recipe calls for apple cider, cranberry juice, and brown sugar, heated with spices like cinnamon stick and whole cloves. The cranberry/apple combination will make this a hot drink to remember during the [...]

Christmas Resources – Chocolate Mint Cookie Recipe

Monday, June 20th, 2011

This chocolate mint cookie recipe is easy and delicious. The yummy cookie recipe calls for dark brown sugar, semisweet chocolate chips, and green mint wafers. If you’d like, use the added recipe to make your own peppermint chocolate for these cookies. Try melting the chocolate on low in short spurts in the microwave to speed [...]

Christmas Resources – Easy Creamed Peas Recipe

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Creamed peas are an easy and elegant recipe for your Christmas meal. The recipe calls for sliced onion rings and peas cooked together to soften, and the addition of nutmeg and heavy cream, mixed into a creamy bechamel sauce. Everything comes together fast to have this dish ready in less than 30 minutes, piping hot [...]

Christmas Resources – Candy Cane Chicken Recipe

Monday, May 16th, 2011

This colorful, flavorful chicken recipe is a great one to pull out during the Christmas holiday season. The recipe calls for chicken breasts sliced in half and pounded flat, then filled with feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, crimini mushrooms, red bell peppers, basil, and fresh baby spinach, then baked until all the flavors meld in the [...]

Christmas Resources – Cranberry Cookies Recipe

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Cranberries are the fruit of the holiday season. This cranberry based cookie is an easy drop cookie using fresh, frozen or dried cranberries, brown sugar, along with your favorite walnuts or pecans, and orange juice or orange liqueur. The flavor in these cookies scream Christmas season, perfect as a homemade Christmas gift or saved as [...]

Christmas Resources – Budget Friendly Cookie Swap

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Looking for an easy to run Christmas party that is good on your budget and fun too? This cookie swap idea allows you to make some sweets to share and a batch of cookies for your guests. Everyone shares specially made Christmas cookies from each other, giving you and your guests some sweet treats to [...]

Christmas Resources – Cranberry Swirl Cheesecake Recipe

Monday, March 21st, 2011

The Joy Of Baking site has some fantasic looking desserts ideal for your Christmas meal. This cranberry cheesecake is beautiful to look at and a great choice to highlight the delicious and seasonal cranberry. The recipe calls for an entire bag of fresh or frozen cranberries (yum!) and the typical cheesecake ingredients of cream cheese, [...]

Christmas Resources – Peppermint Fudge Recipe

Monday, February 14th, 2011

This recipe is very similar to the old favorite Fantasy Fudge recipe, except you use crushed peppermints, butter, and honey along with the melted marshmallow creme and sugar. Try this recipe out for a colorful and minty version of your favorite Fantasy Fudge recipe for the holidays. Peppermint Fudge Recipe

Christmas Resources – Butterball Turkey Help Line

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Are you having turkey for Christmas too? If you need help or answers to basic questions on cooking up the big bird, Butterball’s website gives you all the help you need to produce a juicy, browned turkey for your holiday meal. A phone number and an email address are available on the site for residents [...]

Christmas Resources – Rocky Road Candy and Peanut Bark Recipes

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Making chocolate bark isn’t as hard as you think. It takes a lot of melted chocolate, something chewy or crunchy and let it harden, break into bits and enjoy. The rocky road candy is another easy recipe that uses melted chocolate, marshmallows, and nuts, basically melt, mix and refridgerate. The peanut bark recipe uses two [...]

Christmas Resources – Chocolate-Dipped Almond Rolls Recipe

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

This is a delicious cookie recipe that takes a little time to create but is well worth it. The cookie recipe starts with butter, brown sugar and corn syrup brought to a full boil, then almonds, flour and vanilla are combined with the hot mix. Be careful with the hot sugar mixture when adding the [...]

Christmas Resources – Christmas Gifts Cheesecake Offer

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Looking for a last minute gift for Christmas? Our friends at Cheesecake.com have a special deal for our website visitors: First time customers can use the code Save10 when you buy cheesecake, use this code and you will get $10 off of any order! PS: They have a variety pack of mini cheesecakes too, yum! [...]