Holiday Recipes Post here!

[contemplative]

Bruschetta is a simple and delicious treat.
Slice fresh Italian bread.
Spread on parchement lined cookie sheet.
Heat olive oil and fresh minced garlic together. Do not scorch garlic…you want to infuse garlic flavor into oil…that is all.
Brush oil onto one side of bread and toast lightly in oven.
While bread is toasting…cut up fresh ripe tomatoes with freshly chopped parsley and basil.
Spoon tomatoe blend onto bread and sprinkle with mozzeralla and parmesan cheese. Bake until cheese is softly melted but not brown. Eat immediately!
This photo is from my kitchen.

 

[april_hosen]

Did someone already do Candied Yams? I gotta say those are my favorite part about the Holidays…other than the messages and morals of course!

Candied Yams! Yield: 6

Ingredients:

• 6 medium yams cooked and halfed lengthwise
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup dark corn syrup
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Arrange yams in cook-and-serve baking dish. In small sauce pan over medium heat,combine brown sugar, corn syrup and butter or margarine; heat mixture to boiling; reduce heat mixture to low and simmer, stirring ocasional, 5 minutes. Pour mixture over yams. Bake 20 minutes or until yams are very well glazed, basten often. To serve spoon syrup over yams.

 

[Marquette]

puzzleannie:

for luncheon at our srs park, does anybody have recipes for the jello/coolwhip + fruit/nut salads that are sugar free and fat free? what all goes in them, in what proportions. SIL always made these I never have. She has a good cranberry-nut thing that would be good, but we are all on restricted diets and I am trying to be nutritionally correct.

This is my favorite jello/fruit/nut recipe:

1 carton fat free cottage cheese (the smaller size one)
1 package jello (strawberry or lime–and could be sugar free)
1 large can pineapple tidbits or crushed-- well drained
1 small container (8 oz?) fat free Cool Whip
3/4 cup chopped nuts

Mix well and let set overnight in fridge.

 

[RyanL]

Navidad Recipe!!!

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** Natias**
(It’s a type of pudding)

6 cups milk
2 egg yolks
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour/corn starch
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2 egg whites
1 teaspoon sugar

Put into blender milk, egg yolks, flour, and sugar and blend for
about 30 seconds or until well mixed.

Pour mixture into 4 qt pot and bring to a boil over high heat,
stirring constantly, being careful not to scorch. Immediately
lower heat and let mixture boil slowly, still stirring constantly,
for 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add nutmeg and cinnamon. Pour into large bowl.

Beat egg whites until stiff. Add 1 teaspoon sugar and mix well.
Pour into milk pudding and slowly blend meringue into it. You may wish to sprinkle more cinnamon on top. Refrigerate until cold.
Serve.

 

[Princess_Abby]

puzzleannie:

one of our catechists makes every year:

she mixes it in that huge tupperware container that holds 8-10 quarts.

buttered or butter-flavored popcorn, already prepared in big bags or pop your own, fill the container about half full.
mix together in a quantity equal to the amount of popcorn you have, (proportion is that half the mixture will be popcorn) any or all of:
goldfish crackers–cheese, pretzels, colored
m-n-ms, plain, all colored or red-green
mini-marshmellows, colored is best
peanuts (we never use anything with nuts in CCD because of allergy possibilties, it is easy to avoid chocolate but not nuts)
chocolate, butterscotch, or colored baking chips
(again if you are making it for home you could use anything with peanut butter or nuts)

mix it all together, put out dixie cups for people to serve themselves. teenagers descend on this like locusts and I could eat it for 3 meals a day

This reminds me of every teenage retreat I ever went to.

You can also put dried fruit in it!

 

[puzzleannie]

Marquette:

This is my favorite jello/fruit/nut recipe:

thanks this is exactly what I need, I did not know about the cottage cheese, this will be perfect

 

[puzzleannie]

Princess_Abby:

This reminds me of every teenage retreat I ever went to.

You can also put dried fruit in it!

I don’t know how I got thru 14 years as a girl scout leader without finding out about this popcorn mix. we made GORP with various ingredients, but this was new to me.

 

[contemplative]

Fried Calamari

Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
1 pound clean squid with tentacles, bodies cut into 1/3- to 1/2-inch-thick rings
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons dried parsley
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup marinara sauce, warmed

Pour enough oil into a heavy large saucepan to reach the depth of 3 inches. Heat over medium heat to 350 degrees F. Mix the flour, parsley, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Working in small batches, toss the squid into the flour mixture to coat. Carefully add the squid to the oil and fry until crisp and very pale golden, about 1 minute per batch. Using tongs or a slotted spoon, transfer the fried calamari to a paper-towel lined plate to drain.
Serve immediately with warmed marinara sauce.

 

[puzzleannie]

can’t beat Mark’s punch recipe, except I would use Bushmills, but here is a holiday punch I learned when I was selling tupperware (the idea is you freeze it in the tupperware) but I sure got a lot of sales when I used it. to make it red, substitute frozen canberry juice for one of the other juices.

this goes in one of those round flat tupperware about 4-6" high, with the pleated tops, they were sold in sets of 3 each a different color.

1 qt vodka, one small can each frozen lemonade, limeade, orangejuice. mix it all together and freeze. scoop it out into cooler glasses, top with sprite or ginger ale. garnish with lime or lemon slices or sprigs of mint.