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Hi Monte... Your snack sounds like something to enjoy while watching "It's a Wonderful Life". When I was young, raised in a Catholic home, we would go to Midnight Mass. (I always remember the smell of liquor fumes in the congregation) There are 7 children in my family and after we got around to marrying and making babies, my immediate family now contains 45...at last count. Another baby is due in January. Anyhow, we would go back to Mom's house. She made real bread, and a big ham, potato salad, pickled eggs and beets, and Christmas cookies. (Mom made her cookies just after Thanksgiving and kept them in tins "Get out of there!!!" By Christmas they would be a little stale but we ate 'em anyway. She also made fruitcake but you know how that is...) We would have ham sandwiches on homemade bread with Lorraine swiss cheese, lettuce, etc. Man the bread was so crusty it ripped up the roof of your mouth! I would give anything to be in that hectic house with my dad alive and my mom healthy, my kids little terrors running around. But you can't go home again...only in your memories. My tradition now is that we go to the early children's service at church, come back home, (looking at christmas lights and luminaries along the way) and have chilled shrimp with cocktail sauce, spinach dip, and my christmas cookies with eggnog. I can usually get the littlest kid into bed by 10pm...then it's Santa time! Happy Holidays! JILL
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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For a cold snowy night, there's nothing quite like a hot Irish whiskey: 1 oz or so Irish whiskey (Paddy's, Jamesons, what have you) Spoonfull of sugar Lemon slices and cloves.
Put whiskey and sugar in mug. Fill with boiling water. Stick the lemon slice full of cloves, put in mug. Sip. Sure an' it'll warm the cockles of yer heart.
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I nice hot apple cider Wassail with just a small shot of spiced wine in there and those peanut butter/Hershey kiss cookies!.....AAAHHHH!!!
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Christmas Eve is our one sacred time of the year when neither one of us is working. My husband will have to be at work by 5am on Christmas morning.
He should be home by 5pm on Christmas Eve as a special favor to me. We will have a few of our close friends over for a Christmas cocktail and hors d'oeuvres and then we will sometimes head out for a half hour to drive around and look at Christmas lights (don't worry, I'm the designated driver).
When we get back, we will make a couple of trays of special canapés, usually smoked salmon, dungeness crab, shrimp - of course on our good silver trays. With that we always have a bottle of very good special champagne - this year Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin. Clay will have to work on New Years Eve (like every year) so this is kind of our New Years Eve and Christmas rolled into one.
Then we sit on the floor next to the tree and the fireplace and open our presents. Clay and I, Samantha (our 6 year old), Dusty and Tigger (our dog and cat).
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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A little Bailey's in my dad's home made egg nog, with a little cinnamon added in.. oh yeah, that's the stuff.
Cannoli, cannoli and more cannoli!
One of my faves, "Buckeyes".. These are balls made of peanut butter mixed with rice krispies, powdered sugar and a few other items I forget right now without my recipe in front of me, rolled up and dipped in melted dark chocolate then allowed to cool.
Sesame seed cookies - wouldn't be Christmas without these, a true holiday staple of my sicilian family. If you've never had one before it's kinda like a sugar cookie or shortbread cookie, rolled to the size of a finger or so, then rolled in sesame seeds and baked until they're very crunchy. Gotta be crunchy, soft and chewy just will not make the cut with an Italian.
Beanulatta - this is what my grandma calls it, another Italian treat, however a search for other recipes online brings up drastically different food items. It's dough thats rolled into long skinny strands, chopped into short lengths, then deep fried. These fried dough nuggets then get mixed up with honey, cinnamon, slivered almonds and more stuff I cannot remember right now.. piled up on a plate then covered with powdered sugar. When it cools the honey hardens and it becomes something like peanut brittle only slightly gooey - or one pile of super sweet stuff that's really tough to crack!
Biscotti - gotta have it - my grandma makes the best!
Candied Almonds! - Almonds that are coated in a really solid candy shell - yet another popular Italian treat - the candy coating on these things is traditionally so hard (some sort of sweetened space age candy superpolymer, hehe) you'd have to be an idiot to try and bite through it.
Ribbon candy - love this stuff.
Then there's the usual Chocolate Chip cookies.. sugar cookies..
Oh! I JUST remembered these.. back when I was younger, my mom used to make soft-baked pretzels around the holidays.. haven't had one of those in years cause she says they're a pain to make, especially since the dough needs to be dipped in lye to make it turn out right (golden brown tough outside, soft and chewy inside). I just might attempt this.
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Heya Monte...Me Again. Here's a recipe that should make any Christmas "cheerful"...we have been drinking this at baby/bridal showers since the late 1960s!
CONNIE'S PUNCH 2 cups whiskey, gin, & vodka (mix together) Then add: 1 can chunk pineapple, 1 jar maraschino cherries, and 1 can mandarin oranges, all drained. Soak fruit for a few hours. Then add: 1 (48-oz.) OJ 1 liter grapefruit pop (4%, Squirt, etc.) It fills a small punchbowl...for a bigger party double the recipe. To be "fancy" freeze more OJ in a ring mold & add to the bowl. You really just need to eat the fruit and your day will be merry & bright!
JILL
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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quote: Buckeyes".. These are balls made of peanut butter mixed with rice krispies, powdered sugar and a few other items I forget right now without my recipe in front of me, rolled up and dipped in melted dark chocolate then allowed to cool.
with rice krispies.
Can you send me the recipe when you get time or post it?
Thanks!,
Debbie
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Mark, you can't go to Joey's for Christmas. He won't have boudin, hog head cheese, oyster patties, crawfish boulettes, shrimp mold, or a pirogue full of iced down beer! You'll get homesick.
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Old enough to know better...Too young to resist. Posts: 1891 | From: Ponchatoula, LA | Registered: Nov 2000
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