I have found a bunch of presents for YOU! I will be picking names from my comments section, so you need to leave me a comment …I would love it if you would give me your favorite Christmas Recipe…cookies, salads, main courses whatever…and you can win one of these prizes! Names will be randomly picked…names will be put in and stay in the drawing throughout the whole week…Wishing you many Christmas Blessings and a Great New Year! LB
228 responses to “Gifts from me to you!”
Thank you for the opportunity to win. Happy Holidays!
Sherrie
I love the changes to the blog….making it seem like it is snowing….very nice touch!
Your opportunity to obtain gifts during a drawing is very kind of you. Any gift from Primitive Gatherings would be well received.
Obtain some Bailey’s Irish cream for a nice touch after dinner……
My Favorite recipe for Christmas is just to mix all my family together in one home together.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Lisa. Here is a great bean dip recipe for you.
2 large cans of Bush’s baked beans
1 or 2 cans of Hormel hot Chile w/beans (soup can size or so)
1 pint jar of Mrs. Renfroe’s Jalapeños (I used mild but feel free to punch it up a bit with hot ones)
1 block of hot pepper jack cheese, add half the block in & check consistency then add the rest as needed. Make sure you cut in small pieces before you add it, some pepper jack does not melt very easily.
Put all in a slow cooker on high until it starts to bubble up, then turn to low & let simmer for a couple of hours or more.
An hour or so before serving, add in 1 or 2 packages shredded cheddar cheese and some bacon bits, the final results should be a dip that will hold a chip upright and has a great taste with a bit of heat.
Enjoy your time with family and friends.
Sue
Evne if there weren’t wonderful gifts, I am happy to share a tried and true recipe for the holidays. Make it ahead and heat before serving. YUMMO! Marry Christmas!
Pierogi Casserole
3 cups prepared instant mashed potatoes
16 oz grated cheddar cheese
1 ½ sticks butter (use parts of 1 1/2 sticks to make mashed potatoes, sauté onions, and grease 9×13” pan)
2 cups chopped onions
1 box lasagna noodles
Preheat oven to 350.
Cook lasagna noodles, drain and set aside.
Melt ½ stick stick butter and sauté onions.
Mix onions with prepared mashed potatoes.
Put a layer of noodles in the greased pan.
Spread a layer of mashed potatoes.
Sprinkle with part of the grated cheddar cheese.
Continue until you have at least 3 layers.
End with cheese on top.
Cover pan with foil and bakd 30-40 minutes.
Cut into squares and serve.
Enjoy!
Kathy Jones
Fun!! How wonderful of you!
Merry Christmas to you, your family and your staff and their families!!
Rosemary
I LOVE your blog! I read it every day! Here is my recipe:
Cranberry Bread
2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. soda
1 c. sugar
1 beaten egg
2 tbsp. melted butter
1/2 c. orange juice
2 tbsp. hot water
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 c. uncooked cranberries
1 tbsp. grated orange rind
Sift dry ingredients together. Add egg, butter, and orange juice. Mix til dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in nuts, cranberries, and rind. Pour into a 9×4-1/2×2 loaf pan. Bake 1 hour at 325.
What a great idea, and you are so generous. My favorite Christmas recipe is for the peanut blossom cookies with the hershey kisses. The kids love to pick off the chocolate first and the adults try to eat a little chocolate with each bite. In any event, they are good and it’s a bit entertaining to watch everyone enjoy them. I like to try the different flavors of kisses but usually stick with the chocolate. Merry Christmas to you!
My family likes Oreo Cookie Balls. 1 pkg oreo cookies ground in food processor. Mix in 1 lg cream cheese. Form into balls then dip in white chocolate or milk chocolate and sprinkle with sprinkles right away. Fast n easy,
Dear Lisa, I have the BEST recipe and it just happens to be the easiest also… Chocolate Covered Peanuts ~ 2 bags of Chocolate Chips (I like the dark chocolate), 1 bag of butterscotch chips and 28 oz of peanuts (I like the dry roasted best). Melt all the chips in a bowl in the microwave on high for 1 minute and then stir, keep microwaving for 30 seconds more and stirring each time until the chips are melted. Be careful not to over heat the chips. Pour in the peanuts and stir until they are coated, using 2 spoons one for dropping and one pushing them off the other spoon place onto a waxed paper sheet or into candy cups. Let cook and enjoy. Merry Christmas
My kids favorite cookie receipe is Magic cookies bars
1 1/2 cups Graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter oe margarine melted
Q (14-oz) can eagle sweetened condensed milk
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (but any chips or M&M’s)
1 1/3 cups flakes coconut
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)
I melt butter in 13 X 9 pan in oven while it is warming up. Then sprinkle the Graham cracker over melted butter in pan and press down with spoon to even out the crumbs.
Pouring sweetened condensed milk over cracker crumbs.
Layer other remaining ingredients and press down with spoon.
Bake at 350 degree for 25 minutes.
Cool before cutting and store at room temperature.
One of my favorite salads to make and bring to gatherings during the holiday season is a Cranberry Jello Salad. It is festive, and easy to make the day before. Merry Christmas to everyone at Primitive Gatherings!
Cranberry Jello Salad
2 – 3 oz. packages Raspberry Jello
1-3/4 cups boiling water
1 – 20 oz. can crushed pineapple
1 – 14 or 16 oz. can whole cranberry sauce
8 oz. sour cream
Dissolve Jello in boiling water. While water is still hot, stir in the undrained crushed pineapple and cranberry sauce.
Chill Jello mixture until partially set. Use a small amount of Canola Oil to grease the inside of a ring set, then spoon half of the mixture into the ring set and chill until set. Keep remainder of mixture out at room temperature.
Stir sour cream and spread on top of set Jello in the ring. Spoon remainder of Jello mixture on top of sour cream layer.
Chill overnight.
Happy Holidays to Lisa and the staff at Primitive Gatherings!
Love your beautiful online website and enjoy your blog (even signed my 80 year old Mom up to follow your blog). Starting to lay plans for a trip to your shop next summer (Wisconsin trip with my sister’s – me from Tempe, AZ, Bess from Dubuque, IA, and Julie from Palo Alto, CA) – we love your wool projects! Baked these cookies yesterday – AZ neighbors all love them …
Frosted Cashew Cookies (400 degree oven/9 minutes)
Cream the first 5 ingredients …
1/2 c softened butter (yes butter, none of that other fake stuff)
1 c brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 c sour cream
1/2 t vanilla
Blend in next 3 items …
2 c flour (use Cake Flour)
3/4 t baking powder
3/4 t baking soda
Mix in by hand …
1 1/2 c chopped cashews
Frosting:
1/2 c butter (real thing please)
3 Tablespoons canned milk
1/4 t vanilla
2 c powdered sugar
Recommend you double the batch – these are tasty! Grandma E use to make when we were little. AZ friend entered them in a cookie contest and won first prize.
Happy Holidays!
Pat
Lisa-Merry Christmas to you and your family, thanks for sharing.
Hi Lisa!!
Love your give away!! This is a recipe that will WOW your guests!! And SO easy!!
Grasshopper Pie
1 package of chocolate wafers (crushed into crumbs)
2 tbsp of butter melted
Mix and press into a spring form pan or cake pan. Save some crumbs to sprinkle on top.
30 large marshmallows
3/4 C. milk
1/2 pint of whip cream
2 oz. (or more!) Creme de Mente Liquor
(I always double this because I want LOTS for seconds!!)
Melt marshmallows with milk in microwave. Cool. Whip cream till stiff. Whip marshmallow mixture and add cream de mente. Fold into whipped cream. Spread over Chocolate crust and sprinkle with reserved crumbs. I like to drizzle Smuckers hot sundae sauce on top just before serving…just because I can!! :o) Put in fridge until set (you can freeze until ready to use…thaw) You’re guests are going to love it!!
Thanks for the chance to win your give away!! Take care and have a wonderful Christmas…and I will be seeing you in the New Year at the Road to California!! Can’t wait!
Paulette
Love your blog and all your projects. Just wish I had time to do more of your patterns.
Have a lovely Christmas with your family.
Sherrie
Have really enjoyed your weblog just about everyday and all your pictures. Sure wish we lived closer to your store. An easy cookie recipe that you can do lots of different things with.
1,2,4 Cookies
1 cup sugar
2 cups Imperial margarine
4 cups flour
Combine together and then form balls and roll in sugar or sprinkles and bake. Form logs and dip an end in chocolate after baking, Form balls and then put thumbprint in middle to put jam, jelly or colored frosting in indention after baking. The list goes on and on. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.
Absolutely love your shop. Unfortunately, I live pretty far away (East Troy) but make at least 2 trips a year to visit and never go home empty handed. I will miss the Rosemont Quilt show but will get to see you at Madison. Thank goodness for your website, which I visit daily.
Christmas Blessings to you and your family!
Lori
Kit Kat Bars
1 box Club Crackers
2 Cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Milk
Combine lines 2 – 6, boil for 5 minutes stirring constantly. In a 9 x 13 greased pan, place 1 layer of Club crackers. Pour 1/2 of mixture on top of crackers, cover with a 2nd layer of crackers. Pour the rest of the mixture on top, and finish off with a layer of Club Crackers
Frosting: Melt
1/2 Cup butterscotch chips
1/2 Cup chocolate Chips
2/3 Cup Chunky Peanut Butter
Spread it on top, hardens quickly.
Love your Weblog! We are coming to The Gathering in February, looking forward to it.
Merry Christmas.
Well, Lisa, what a nice, Christmasy thing to do !
I’d love to enter your giveaway…. and here is my favorite cookie recipe ( for Christmas and any other time of the year !!!)
Mom’s Mint Surprise Cookies
Sift together :
½ tsp. salt
3 cups flour
1 tsp soda
Cream together :
1 cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 cup margarine
2 eggs
1tsp. Vanilla
Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Refrigerate overnite.
Take a teaspoon of dough, insert a chocolate mint wafer in the middle, and cover up with dough. Place a pecan half on top, put on a greased cookie sheet, bake 10 – 12 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
If you can’t find a chocolate mint wafer, you can use an Andes chocolate mint….
Makes about 50 cookies
Sugar Cookies (for decorating, or fine plain)
Cream:
1/2 cup butter
Beat in:
3/4 c. sugar
Add:
1 egg or 2 yolks
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 tablespoon cream
Sift in:
1 1/4 c. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking powder
Incorporate into butter batter.
Roll out to desired thinness and bake at 375 degrees. Can add extra yolk or nutmeg as variation.
LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!!!
Oh I’d love to win a prize! Our favorite cookies are the Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookies. Just google them and you’ll find the recipe. They’re wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win!
Hi Lisa. Happy Holiday’s!! My favorite no frills recipe is for Raindeer poop. Round pretzels, topped with a chocolate kiss, heated in 225 degree oven for 2-3 minutes and removed from oven. Top with a plain m&m and pressed down. Adjust time in oven as necessary. Fun to do with grandkids!! The tough part can be finding the round pretzels?
What great goodies you’re giving away! Thanks for the chance to win one of them! If you visit my blog you’ll find four fudge recipes we make every year at Christmas. Three of them were made by my husband’s grandmother before I ever met him. So they’re definitely a family tradition for us at Christmas! You’re welcome to try them out of you like! :0)
Lisa, love seeing and shopping your booth in Houston every year.
A really quick and cute dessert is lollypop pies. You can Google them, but basically you use a cookie cutter to cut circles from homemade or ready made pie crust. Place one circledown on a cookie sheet (you can flour it or your hands!) and spoon your fav pie filling in the center, leavine room to crimp the edges. Put a lollypop stick inside and cover with another pie cirle, and crimp the edges. Brush with egg white only. Bake according to your oven’s mood, as mine in tempermental lol. Keep checking, as with cookies!
OMGosh! It definitely feels like Christmas now. I saw all those goodies and felt a little faint…….grin.
Here’s my favorite recipe from my Mom who just turned 90 today….enjoy.
Peanut Butter Fudge
2 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Peanut Butter (I like Jiffy smooth)
2 Tablespoons of White Karo syrup
2/3 Cup of Whole Milk
1 Teaspoon Butter
1/2 Teaspoon of Vanilla (optional)
Pinch of salt
Combine sugar, peanut butter, karo, and milk in sauce pan and Mix.
Bring to fast boil and stir. Turn burner down until the fudge is
barely boiling.
Stir while cooking. Cook until the fudge makes a soft ball in cold
water.
Remove from fire. Beat until the fudge is about 1/2 done (about 10
minutes)
and add butter and vanilla.
After the fudge looses its gloss and is hard to beat, it is ready
(about 20 minutes if your lucky).
Turn out on a buttered plate, cool, cut, and eat it ALLLLL!
Billie in TX
I cook pretty plain and simple. Ham/Turkey etc. Baking is pretty much the same. I use an apple cook book but I think it is out of print. I enjoy baking snickerdoodles and millionaire shortbread. Both are easy and well loved. Have a Merry Christmas with your family.
Your blog is one of my favorites! I visited Primitive Gatherings about six years ago on a bus trip with my guild. You were so generous, we all got a wool snowman pin cushion kit. Wish you were closer. Jennifer NW Indiana.
Here is an easy cookie recipe.
FRENCH COOKIES
2 Cups of crushed graham crackers
2 Cups-chopped walnuts
1-pkg. 12 ounce chocolate morsels
1 Stick butter (melted)
1-Cup brown sugar
1-Cup of half & half
Mix together and put in paper lined miniature tin cups.
Bake at 375 degrees 15-20 minutes
I love receiving your weblog and I adore your store. You have the best of everything!
I live in Milwaukee, but manage to get to the store 3-4 times a year. I also like to
order from the website and see your booth at the shows.
I see your wool kits all over the place at other stores, they seem to be really popular!!
Thanks for having an enjoyable, quality shop.
Joanne Toetz
I just made a second batch of pineapple fudge, one of four kinds of fudge this year. The pineapple is different from all the chocolate; it’s white. I’ll send the recipe if you want!
My favorite Christmas cookie are Spritz!! I love spiral ham!! I love all the appetizers that my family puts out!! I love your website and your blog!! I look at your blog every day and cannot wait to start using my coupon book January 1st! Merry Christmas Lisa!!
I love making spritz cookies with my Mom’s (now antique) cookie gun and decorating them with colored sugar. One of my favorite childhood memories is of Mom making Divinity candy. Had to be a cold dry day and she’d stir it on the stove til it got to the right temperature, then run outside and beat it by hand until it was the right texture. Then back in the house for us to help spoon it out onto waxed paper as quick as we could! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
This is a family Christmas favorite:
Sugared Nuts
2 egg whites
1C sugar
3C pecan halves
1 stick butter
In a 9 x 13 pan melt butter in a 325 degree oven. Beat egg whites til frothy and add sugar slowly til thick. Remove pan from oven and toss nuts in egg mixture. Put in pan and flatten with spatula and bake 10 min. Toss nuts and bake 10 more min. and repeat for a total cooking time of 30 min. Cool, toss and loosen from pan and enjoy!
Love your patterns and website! Wishing you many Christmas blessings!
C
Love reading your blog and seeing pics of the quilts you make. Recently made two small quilts using your primitive pinwheel ruler. Can’t wait to get my hands on the smaller one you are designing or maybe it is already out. Below is a recipe that I had at my bees Christmas luncheon. It was so yummy, taste like a dessert. Enjoy! Thanks for the great giveaways!
Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball
8oz Cream Cheese
1 stick Butter
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
3 Tbsp Brown Sugar
12 oz mini Chocolate Chips (use about 2/3 package)
Chopped Pecans
Cream the cheese, butter and vanilla together.
Add the sugars and cream again.
Fold in the Chocolate Chips.
Refrigerate until firm.
May want to divide into two balls before rolling in chopped pecans.
Serve with graham crackers.
Lisa…I’m one of your faithful followers and I wanted to share this easy and quick recipe for Truffles. They are dark, rich and chocolaty! I always make these for Christmas and everyone thinks I’m an expert candy maker!
Mocha Truffles
66 Servings Prep: 25 min. + chillingIngredients
2 packages (12 ounces each) Nestlé® Tollhouse® Semi-Sweet Morsels
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
3 tablespoons instant coffee granules
2 teaspoons water
1 pound dark chocolate candy coating, coarsely chopped
White candy coating, optional
Directions
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Add the cream cheese, coffee and water. Chill until firm enough to shape. Shape into 1-in. balls and place on waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Chill for 1-2 hours or until firm.
In a microwave, melt chocolate coating; stir until smooth. Dip balls in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set. Melt white coating and drizzle over truffles if desired. Yield: about 5-1/2 dozen.
Editor’s Note: Dark, white or milk chocolate confectionery coating is found in the baking section of most grocery stores. It is sometime labeled “almond bark” or “candy coating” and is often sold in bulk packages (1 to 1-1/2 pounds). It is the product used for dipping chocolate. A substitute for 6 ounces chocolate coating would be 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet, dark or white chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon shortening melted together. Truffles can be frozen for several months before dipping in chocolate. Thaw in the refrigerator before dipping.
Do not dip if the balls are cold as the coating will crack. This recipe is from Taste of Home.
I have too many favorite recipes, but here’s an oldie, but a goody I will share. My Mom made these chocolates every Christmas and I haven’t for awhile, but decided to this year and I’m so glad I did. Everyone seems to love them. I hope you and your readers do too!
Mary’s Mom’s Chocolates
1 stick butter or margarine, softened to room temp
1 7 oz package flaked coconut
3 cups finely chopped walnuts or pecans
1 can sweetened Condensed Milk (Eagle Brand or store version)
1 pound powdered sugar
2 bags Wilton dark cocoa candy melts
Mix together butter, coconut, nuts and Condensed milk, then mix in powdered sugar. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Scoop or shape into 1 inch balls. (I use a 1″ diameter cookie scoop).
Place on parchment liked cookie sheets and place in the freezer until firm. (Overnight is fine.)
Melt candy melts in the microwave about a cup at a time in a shallow bowl. Dip chocolates using a fork and place on parchment until firm. (They firm up quickly.) Store in a closed container in a cool place. My garage is super cold, so I have a nice cupboard where I can keep the Christmas candies til serving or sharing with friends and neighbors.
Merry Christmas!
Lisa, I have to say my favorite cookies for Christmas have to be ones that have been made every year since I can remember. One is from my grandma on my dads side – sour cream cutout cookies. And the other is from my grandma on my moms side – Scottish shortbread. I did try your soft and chewy ginger cookie recipe that you shared during the Christmas blog hop. They were delicious! I enjoy following your blog, seeing you at quilt shows, and ordering from your website. I do not live close but hope to someday make it to your shop. 🙂
What a fun post!! (I actually grew up in East Troy, where Lori said that she lives!) I finally had a chance to visit your shop last fall when I was visiting for a few days. It’s a good thing that you aren’t in my backyard!!
My favorite cookies at Christmas are peanut butter blossoms. Unfortunately, I don’t have the recipe because my mom always makes a few for me! And those pecan shortbread balls, that are dusted in powdered sugar, only to show evidence on your black outfit, aren’t bad either!
Thanks so much.
Merry Christmas, Lisa!
this is the Christmas coffee cake that gets rave reviews everywhere it goes! It also freezes well without the glaze! Best if eaten the day after it is made as it needs time to mellow.
Enjoy and Happy Holidays!
Cranberry Swirl Coffee Cake
¼ pound stick margarine 2 cups flour
1 cup sugar 1 cup sour cream
2 eggs 1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp baking soda 1 (7 or 8 oz) can whole
berry cranberry sauce
½ tsp salt ½ cup chopped walnuts
glaze:
¾ cup confectioners sugar 1 T warm water ½ tsp almond
Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs singly, beating after each one. Mix dry ingredients and add alternately with sour cream. Add almond extract. Grease tube pan. Put layer of batter on bottom, then swirl in ½ can cranberry sauce. Sprinkle with a few nuts. Repeat. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake 350 degrees for 55 minutes. Cool 5 minutes and then turn out onto pan. Drizzle with glaze when well cooled.
I do a finger food buffet for Christmas Day. It is the tradition that was started a few years ago when my parents stopped having it at their home. My sons and families, both sets of parents, and other friends and family are welcome to stop by whenever they wish during the day and food is always available for them. Do a couple of hot dishes…the grape jelly and chili sauce meatballs, and my kielbasa recipe which is as follows…..
1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 tbsp. mustard, 2 tbsp. cornstarch, 1/2 cup white vinegar, 1/4 white karo syrup, 8 oz. cranberry sauce. Heat and stir til well blended and simmer for an hr; then add 2lbs. of slice kielbasa and place in a crockpot or slow cooker for a couple hrs.
Thank you for this lovely giveaway…I will take any of them!!
Merry Christmas
I love your website and blog. Will miss not seeing you at the Chicago quilt show.
My Christmas dinner will be spiral ham, cheesy potatoes, ribbon jello and whatever else I can think of.
I love the basic…toll house and chocolate krinkle cookies. But I look forward to trying some new recipes from the Home for the Holidays Blog Hop! Wish I was closer to visit your store (Chesapeake,VA), but for now will continue to enjoy you blog and shop on line. Merry Christmas!
Like others I have to visit your blog and see you at quilt shows since I live far away. But getting to your shop and to the Retreat is on the top of my “to-do” list. Favorite cookie is the pecan tassies.
Here is my recipe for an easy Cranberry side dish:
2 Cans whole cranberry cranberry sauce
1 can crushed pineapple
1 package frozen strawberries Frozen in juice
1 package fozen raspberries Frozen in juice
Drain the pineapple and mix all the fruits together. You can add chopped walnuts if you like.
My husband and kids eat this as a topping for ice cream, too.
Thanks for the gifts. Even if I don’t win, it’s gracious of you to have the draw!
Happy Holidays. Two great salad favorites to share with others. One is from a long time ago and still a family favorite and the other one somewhat new but still yummy!
Old Family Favorite:
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
2 1/2 cups crushed stick pretzels
3/4 cup melted butter
3 Tbsp sugar
Mix and pat into 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes and cool.
Mix together:
8 oz cream cheese and 1 cup sugar. Add 1 cup cool whip and spread over cooled crust.
Last layer:
2- 3 oz pkg strawberry jello
2 1/4 cups boiling water
2- 10 oz pkg frozen strawberries.
Mix all together and allow to cool and thicken slightly. Pour over other 2 layers and refrigerate. Enjoy!
New recipe and just as yummy!
Champagne Salad:
blend together 6 oz of cream chees and 3/4 cup sugar.
Add:
10 oz frozen strawberries and juice (or raspberries)
2 sliced bananas
1 large can pineapple (crushed) drained
1/2 cup chopped nuts
12 oz whipped topping
freeze in 9 x 13 pan. Take out of freezer 1/2 hour before serving!
My favorite Christmas cookie are Spritzs. Simple and always a hit. Merry Christmas!
Hi,
My favorite cookie recipe may sound a little odd but, is really yummy…
ROSEMARY SHORTBREAD COOKIES
makes 48 cookies
2/3 cup superfine sugar
2 ½ sticks unsalted butter
2 ½ cups flour
2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, finely minced
2 ½ tablespoons granulated sugar, for sprinkling
1.Preheat oven to 3000
2.In a food processor with the metal blade: put in the sugar and add the butter in small pieces and process until smooth and creamy. Scrape down sides of bowl; add rosemary four and process just until mixture turns to crumbly bits.
3.Scrape out of food processor bowl onto a lightly floured surface. Mash together into a ball. Knead until mixture holds together.
4.Divide dough into two equal parts. Pat each piece of dough into a flat disk; wrap it in plastic wrap tightly and chill for 1 to 2 hours.
5.Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to ¼ inch thickness. Cut out the cookies using plain round or fluted 2” cookie cutter and place on cookie sheets. Sprinkle tops of the cookies with granulated sugar.
6.Bake for 20-25 minutes or until cookies are pale gold in color. They should not burn –Remove from oven and transfer to wire racks to cool. Store completely cooled cookies in an airtight container.
Christmas morning egg dishes are the recipes that I have been collecting for a few years. I love this one because you prep it the day before and then stick it in the oven while opening gifts!
Salmon Goat cheese Frittata (adapted from a recipe found on glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com)
Extra virgin olive oil
8 gluten-free waffles, lightly toasted, but still soft and tearable
3 cups hand torn pieces of smoked salmon (lox would also work)
1 large bag chopped frozen spinach, thawed, drained (or two 10-oz boxes)
6 cloves of garlic, chopped
Sea salt and ground pepper, to taste
A pinch of nutmeg, to taste
1 15-oz jar organic red and yellow roasted peppers, drained, seeded, cut into strips
12 medium to large organic free-range eggs
1 cup Half and Half or light cream
Nutmeg or Old Bay Seasoning, to taste
8 oz. fresh goat cheese
2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan
Prepare a large lasagna-style baking pan- say, 12 x 15 inches- by schmearing it with extra virgin olive oil. Tear the cooled waffles into two or three pieces and line the bottom and sides of the oiled pan to make a crust.
Dump the thawed spinach into a hot skillet, add the garlic, season with sea salt and pepper. Stir and cook it down over medium to low heat until all the liquid is reduced, about ten minutes. Press with paper towels, if needed, to remove all the moisture. Remove from heat and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat the heck out of the dozen eggs and add the milk. Add a dash of nutmeg or Old Bay Seasoning, to taste.
Assemble the strata:
1. Scatter the smoked salmon all over the waffles.
2. Cut and layer the goat cheese evenly over the salmon.
3. Spread the garlicky spinach evenly over the goat cheese.
4. Press the spinach with a flat spatula [if there is any remaining liquid, blot it up with a clean paper towel].
5. Add a layer of red and yellow pepper strips. Pat gently with the spatula to flatten.
6. Slowly pour the egg custard all over the layers, and allow the mixture to seep in and around all the nooks and crannies, without disturbing the layers. You want the egg custard to reach the bottom crust and soak in.
7. Sprinkle some shredded Parmesan all over the top- but not too much- let the beautiful red and green colors of the spinach and peppers show through.
8. Cover the strata with plastic wrap and chill overnight (or at least eight hours).
Next Day:
Remove the strata from the fridge thirty minutes before baking. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Take off the plastic wrap and bake the strata in the center of the oven till set and slightly golden. For me, that was about 45 to 50 minutes. Just keep an eye on it. Test the center with a wooden pick to make sure it is cooked all the way through. Set the strata on a wire rack for ten minutes before slicing and serving.
Serves 6 hearty appetites or 8 as a light meal or side dish.
My favorite holiday recipe is for sugar cookies with frosting. I remember getting sugar cookies from a Sunday School teacher when I was really little and I asked her for the recipe and have used that one ever since. I think her name was Sis. Harris. 🙂 I wish I could tell her that I really did love the cookies that much! Merry Christmas!!
I received this link to a website for a recipe I would like to make and thought you might like to try it too: http://www.macheesmo.com/2009/06/brickle/ Looks yummy and easy and would make a great gift.
Thanks for the giveaway chance! Here is my family’s favorite holiday recipe.
Apricot Bread Recipe
2 cups dried apricots, diced
Warm water to cover apricots
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
4 Tbsp. butter or margarine
½ tsp. baking soda
½ cup water – from apricots
1 cup orange juice
4 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
1 cup nuts, chopped
Cover apricots with warm water and let set 30 minutes. Don’t skip this step or the bread will be really dry.
Drain apricots, reserving water. Mix sugar, eggs, and butter. Stir in ½ cup of apricot water and orange juice. Stir flour, baking powder, soda and salt together and add to creamed mix. Add apricots and nuts and mix. (I don’t know how long to mix – I just hand mix until everything is mixed together- won’t take long.)
Grease and flour pans. Pour into pans. Let stand 20 minutes. Bake 50-60 minutes at 350 degrees.
This makes seven little loaf pans, or you can make larger loaves if you want. Start checking after about 40 minutes – the little pans cook faster. I use a toothpick test to check for doneness. They will crack across the top when done.
These freeze well if you wrap them in foil. Enjoy!
I have made Night Before Christmas Clam Bisque for many years, my family looks forward to it every year. I would love to share the recipe with you:
1-10 3/4 oz can condensed cream of chicken soup
1-10 3/4 oz can condensed cream of celery soup
1 1/3 c. half and half or light cream
2-6 1/2 oz cans minced clams
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/4 c. dry vermouth or chicken broth
Butter
Paprika
Green onion tops or chives
In large saucepan, stir together soups and half and half. Cook over medium low heat, stirring occasionally, till the mixture simmers. Add clams with liquid and red pepper. Heat through, but don’t boil. Stir in vermouth, heat through. Ladle into mugs. Garnish with a pat of butter, a dash of paprika and snipped onions tops, if you like. Enjoy! Merry Christmas
I have cut back dramatically on my holiday cooking and baking but I still make my favorite –
Peanut Butter Cup Fudge
2 sticks butter
Heaping 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
1 lb.powdered sugar
14 oz chocolate (I use a blend of milk and dark)
Melt butter and pb in microwave. Add sugar. Spread in lined 9×13 pan. Melt chocolate and spread on top. Refrigerate. Return to room temp to cut. Store covered.
enjoy!
Sugar Cookies are a favorite of mine, but my family love my Fresh Coconut Cake and I can’t have Xmas without it. This year they are also asking for my Standing Rib Roast.
Lisa I wish you and yours a wonderful Christmas. I love your blog and sure hope 2011 brings me to your shop.
Linda
My favorite recipe is from an old family cook book for Date Nut Bread – it just wouldn’t be Christmas without it at my house! Mmmm……
Lisa-
New sugar cookie recipe I just received just last night and they are easy and good. Took them to work at the Post Office and everyone enjoyed them.
Sugar Cookies: 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup oil, 2 eggs, 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1 1/2 tsp. almond extract, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. cream of tartar, 4 3/4 cups of flour. Cream together sugars, butter, oil and eggs. Mix together dry ingrediants and mix all together and then add flavorings. Roll into ball and flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 375 for 9-10 min. It makes a big batch.
Frosting: 1- 2 lb. bag powdered sugar, 1 cup buttered flavored crisco, 3/4 cup of water
1 tsp. vanilla and 1 tsp. almond extract.
Enjoy!
Diane Smith- Ames, Ia 50014
Your blog is the only one I have on automatic notice when you write, so I can read it right away. I love all of your energy and many creative ideas. Just putting the last border on my BOM Hop To It. It has turned out great! Thanks for the inspirations! Kathy E
My favorite Christmas cookie are gingerbread men. We have a tradition in our family that started in 1988 when my oldest son was 2 years old. We take an afternoon and make, decorate and bake them. In fact my two sons,daughter-in-law, and I did this yesterday afternoon! (Of course you can imagine during the teenage years we had some kind of “obscene” decorating going on!) Anyway, love your website and thanks for all your inspiration. Wish I didn’t live so far!
Merry Christmas. I thought I did this once, but here goes again. My day starts by looking at your blog. I so enjoy the pictures and projects. Thanks for the chance to win a prize, and for keeping me inspired.
Peanut Brittle
1c sugar
1/2c light corn syrup
1 TB butter
2c peanuts
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
– spray baking sheet with cooking spray or grease it….set aside
-mix sugar and corn syrup in large microwaveable bown until moistened. microwave for 5min…..(owl will be hot…use pot holders).
-stir in butter and peanuts, microwave 4min until golden brown.
-add bakind soda and vanilla ( mix may foam) stir up and immediatly spread mix as thin as possible onto the baking sheet….pop in freezer to cool….break into pieces!!!!!!!!!!!
My family’s favorite cookie is a carmel ice box cookie that was a recipe from my Grandmother. It is a crisp cookie that has pecans. I would love to be able to visit your shop.
Carmel Ice Box Cookies
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup shortening
2 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 Tablespoon hot water
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
Cream brown sugar and shortening well, add eggs one at a time. Sift flour, cream of tarter, salt and soda together and add to the shortening mixture. Add nuts, water and vanilla, mix. Make into 3 rolls, wrap in wax paper and place in refrigerator until chilled, several hours or overnight. Slice and bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes or until slightly browned.
What a generous “Elf”. Merry Christmas.
Hi Lisa,
This should be fun. The treasures look wonderful.
My husband does not like bread stuffing so I make a wild rice dressing that can be put in the turkey or in a casserole dish. Can be served with other dishes than turkey also.
Wild Rice Dressing
2 6oz. packages of Uncle Ben’s Wild Rice mix
2 chicken bouillon cubes
2 TB butter
1 1/2 cups diced celery
1/2 cup chopped onion
8 oz. package of fresh mushrooms – sliced
Prepare rice according to package directions – adding 2 bouillon cubes to the cooking water. Meanwhile,saute celery and onion in butter and then add mushrooms. Add to cooked rice mixture. If cooking in casserole, place in preheated oven of 350 degrees for approximately 45 minutes.
Good warmed up or put in turkey soup.
Christmas blessings to you and your family.
Charlotte S.
My favorite Christmas recipes are for cookies. I cannot live without my Christmas cookies. I like Russian Tea cakes, sour cream sugar cookies with frosting, spritz, peanut blossoms, fudge, caramel corn. Some of those were not cookies were they!
What beautiful presents you are giving away. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. I try to make all of my kids favorite recipes. It is so much fun. One dessert that we love is called Moon Cake so I’ll give you that one. I hope your family enjoys it.
1 cup water and 1/2 cup butter – bring to a boil and make sure butter melts
Add 1 cup flour, then boil rapdily until mixture forms a ball (stirring constantly). Remove from heat and cool awhile. Beat in 4 eggs, 1 at a time; beating well.
Spread on ungreated cookie sheet, 11×15.
Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. It will rise and look like moon surface. Let cool.
Topping:
Mix 2 small boxes of vanilla instant pudding according to directions, beat in 8 oz cream cheese and then spread on crust.
Refrigerate for 20 minutes or longer.
Top with cool whip and drizzle with chocolate sauce and chopped nuts.
Here’s my all time favorite sugar cookie recipe..
Works great with cookie cutters – will hold it’s shape and very little spread. (I wish I could say that about me!) It also freezes well!
6 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract or desired flavoring (I like almond myself)
1 tsp. salt
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients and add a little at a time to butter mixture. Mix until flour is completely incorporated and the dough comes together.
Chill for 1 to 2 hours
Roll to desired thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 350
degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until just beginning to turn brown around the edges.
This recipe can make up to 5-dozen 3” cookies.
Enjoy!
Great site and online store! I am looking forward to details of the Sweet sixteen BOM coming later in December. A gift would be great too!
My easy-peasy recipe:
2 c. choc chips, 2 c. butterscotch chips. Melt together and add 2 c. peanuts, 2 cups chow mein noodles.
Mix until peanuts and noodles are coated. Drop onto wax paper (using 2 forks work well). Chill until firm. Enjoy …. if you are like me, they are hard to resist!!!
What a fun giveaway. My favorite Christmas dish is a cranberry/apple salad.
What a wonderful and Jolly idea. I LOVE a good recipe. Here is the one my son and I made today. Only 4 ingredients. EVERYONE loves them and it is so easy and no oven is necessary!
Seasoned Pretzels
12 oz. Orville Redenbacker Popping Oil
1 envelope Hidden Vally Ranch dressing
1-1/2 tsp. garlic powder
2 – 15 oz. bags of Pretzels (I use Old Dutch sticks and knots or mini pretzels)
Mix the oil, Hidden Valley Ranch dressing & garlic powder together in a large bowl. Pour in all pretzels. Stir every 15 minutes until the oil is absorbed. About 1 hour. Spread on a paper towel for about 30 mins. Store in an air tight container. Pretzels will NOT get soggy – promise! No cooking necessary. Make 2-3 days before you want to serve them as they taste better. ENJOY…Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Lisa,
I met you at Houston Quilt Festival. What a crowd your booth had! I am now hooked on Mini’s and loving it.
Coconut Cranberry Bars
1 1/2 C. graham cracker crumbs
1/2 c. butter or margarine, melted
1 1/2 c. white chocolate chips
1 1/2 c. dried cranberries
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 c. flaked coconut
1 c. chopped pecans
Combine cracker crumbs and butter. Press into a 13×9 inch baking dish. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Spread over the crust. Bake at 350 for 25-28 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool and cut into bars. Makes about 3 dozen
Wishing you the merriest!
Marian
Houston TX
After losing quite a bit of weight I really do not make a lot of recipes, but one of my favorites around the holidays is smoked turkey with mustard sauce!!
What a gorgeous array of gifts! That little doll is so adorable!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I visit your blog and website daily. It’s Christmas all year! I truly love the baby doll in the photo – she will steal your heart. I don’t really cook anything special, but I sure do love to eat. Thank you for being so kind and generous all year.
Merry Christmas!!!
I visited your shop & warehouse sale last summer–90 degrees & humid; I had a GREAT time and went home with lots of goodies. You will love these bars; they are nice on a Christmas cookie tray, or could be used for Valentine’s day; Geo. Washington’s B’day, and/or tasty dessert at the Gathering.
Cherry Coconut Bars
2 c. sifted flour
1 c. unsalted butter
6 Tab. conf. sugar
Mix together and spread in an ungreased 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 350 degrees until just faintly brown.
Filling:
4 eggs, slightly beaten
2 c. cugar
1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 c. coconut
1 c. quartered marchino cherries, well drained.
Stir the rest of the ingredients into the eggs. Spread filling on baked pastry. No need to cool pastry first. Bake about 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool, cut into bars and enjoy!
Dear Lisa,
Here are a few recipes you might enjoy!
Forgotten Cookies
2 egg whites 3/4 c. sugar 1/4 t. cream of tartar 1/2 t. vanilla 1 bag chocolate chips
Beat egg whites until foamy with cream of tartar. Gradually add sugar. Beat until stiff. Add chips and vanilla and drop by teaspoons on foil. Place cookies in 350 degree oven and turn oven off heat. Leave in overnight.
Bacon Chestnuts
2 – 7 oz. can whole chestnuts 10 strips bacon 1/4 c. brown sugar 2 T. soy sauce
Drain chestnuts and toss with brown sugar and soy sauce. Marinate 1-2 hours to overnight. Wrap each chestnut with a piece of bacon, secure with a toothpick. Bake 15 minutes at 425 degrees, or until bacon is crisp. Serve hot. Good with sour cream and horseradish dip.
Thank you for a wonderful year of beautiful projects.
I love your shop & website, I don’t live close (Chippewa Falls) but have been to the shop a couple of times and I always tell my friends and family about it. I’m very happy that I can order on-line and look forward to using the coupon book on-line for 2011. Currently working on the wool purse from a kit I ordered from you. Keep up the awesome work, looking forward to reading the newsletters. I don’t bake a whole lot for the holidays but I do enjoy making Cut out Sugar Cookies. I wish you,your staff, and your family a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2011.
Hi Lisa… Just finished reading your newsletter too. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas. I have quite a collection of your patterns. Here is one of my favorite holiday recipes to make and give away:
Saltine Cracker Toffee
Preheat oven to 375. Line a cookie sheet with foil (a bit extra foil so you can use it to lift from the pan.) Butter or spray the foil with Pam. Fill the cookie sheet with saltine crackers in single layer. In saucepan, combine 1 cup butter and 1 cup dk brown sugar (or light brown as you wish). Bring to a boil and boil for a full three minutes. You can stir in a teaspoon of vanilla at this point. Immediately pour over the crackers and spread to cover crackers completely. Bake for about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle either 2 cups of semisweet choc chips or a large Hershey’s Symphony Bar that has been chopped into small chip sized pieces. Add chopped almonds or pecans if desired. You can also use graham crackers on the bottom but I like saltines better. When it has completely cooled, peel the candy off the foil and break into pieces.
ENJOY.
Hey Lisa, Happy Holidays to you and your family!!!We have Christmas Eve at our house every year and this is a must. I actually wasn’t going to make them this year, but one of the boys asked if I was making them, so you know how that goes. Anything to please the boys.
Appetizer Mushrooms
4- 12oz.cantainers mushrooms
1 cup butter
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 tablespoons of minced onions or chives
2 tablespoons marjoram (spice)
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
3/4 cup oil
Wash mushrooms and place on 2 cookie sheets. Place the rest of the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Pour evenly over the mushrooms and place in oven at 300 degrees for 1 hour. I then put them in a slow cooker to keep warm. I usually serve with our main meal. Enjoy!!!
Please enter my name in the drawings for the gifts! Thank you.
What generous gifts you are giving away. My favorite christmas cookies are sugar cookies and peanut butter blossoms (the ones with the hershey kisses in the middle). I think it’s because I only make these two cookies at this time of year that they just scream Christmas to me. Another favorite is caramel corn. Instead of using real popcorn, buy the Old Dutch Puffcorn. On the back is the recipe for caramel corn using the Puffcorn. I don’t have a bag right now or I would copy the recipe here, but it’s always on the back of the bag. It’s super rich and buttery and you don’t get any hulls or old maids. Yummy!
South Louisiana Lagnippe Potatoes
5 lb bag russet potatoes
8 oz fresh muishrooms, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
1 1/2 sticks butter (not margarine)
16 oz container sour cream
Minced garlic
Milk
Peel and boil the potatoes. In a seperate pot cook the onions and mushrooms in the butter and garlic (we use a heaping tablespoon – we like garlic!) and salt and pepper.
Mash the potatoes with sour cream and a little milk – you want the potatoes to be stiff. Fold in the butter/onion/mushroom mix. Add a little milk if needed for consistency along with extra salt and pepper if needed. Place in a LARGE casserole dish, sprinkle with paprika and bake covered for an hour at 350 degrees.
Makes you wanna slap ya mama, sha!
Lisa love your patterns and blog…I love making and eating frosted sugar cookies.. the recipes you are getting!!YUM Have a Happy Holiday..great giveaways ..would love to receive one..Beth
Lisa Merry Christmas to you and your family. I have enjoyed your website and all that you do. I just found a coarse breadcrumb mix by Progresso. Panko comes in lemon pepper, plain and italian style. I dipped boneless chicken breasts in egg/ milk and then dredged thru panko. I baked in the oven for an hr or a bit more along with sweet potatoes. so easy and delicious.
Thanks for the chance at a wonderful giveaway! During the holidays, I always make special cookie recipes that I don’t make the rest of the year. These cookies are usually richer or more time consuming to make or just have that “tastes better at Christmastime” quality. Two of my favorites are Russian Tea Cakes (also called Mexican Wedding Cookies) and Buckeyes.
Merry Christmas to your and your family. Since we moved to the NW from Florida and family doesn’t get to visit often we keep things simple. Dinner is prime rib with mashed potatoes and southern green beans with Black Bottom Pie for desert. If I make a snack it’s usually spinach, feta cheese stuffed mushrooms, a Paula Deen recipe. The gifts you are giving our wonderful and would be happy to win any one of them. I love your blog and website and hoping one day I’ll get to visit your shop—-sure you don’t want to open an annex in Oregon.
Hello Lisa! I read your blog all the time and just wanted to let you know I’m working on a Christmas project for me now! I’m almost done with the six wool mitten ornies; too cute!
Linda
Lisa, I only wish I could actually visit you- I follow you on line and read your blog faithfully. Please consider coming to The Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival in Feb- you are so creative and you inspire me to finish my UFO’s to start even more. Thanks, Lisa… I know it takes a lot of work and sacrifice on your part, not to mention the time it takes away from Nick and the boys- thanks for all you do to inspire us. You are a blessing. I’ll send a recipe soon- just wanted to drop you a line.
Merry Christmas and all of the very best for 2011!!! Blessings always!
First of all let me tell you thank you for sharing and showing on your web site and your blog. I look forward to receiving your updates every time they come to my email.
Here’s a quick recipe that I used for several holiday parties and it even looks like the holidays.
First of all let me tell you thank you for sharing and showing on your web site and your blog. I look forward to receiving your updates every time they come to my email.
Here’s a quick recipe that I used for several holiday parties and it even looks like the holidays.S
Green Beans Stir Fry with mushrooms and cherry tomatoes
Clean and cut diagonally fresh green beans into serving size pieces
In tupperware container add 1 Tablespoon of Spiced Japanese Vinegar
Marinate in vinegar for several minutes
Precook in microwave oven on high for 5-6 minutes….do not add water …..this will steam the par cook the beans
In same container as beans add mushrooms and let set for at least 30 minutes
In Wok or large fry pan– spray olive oil cooking spray to coat lightly
Add green bean and mushroom mixture. Stir fry and cook until beans are tender. Add cherry tomatoes at last minute.
Serve on flat platter so the guests can see the combination of colors and textures.
Enjoy
Sally Lansing
Lisa,
You shared a great green bean recipe awhile back – here’s mine for Sesame Green Beans. They are great hot or cold!
1 lb Fresh Green beans when in season or a bag of Frozen, cooked. I like to steam.
Combine 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil, 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce,1 Tbsp Brown Sugar, 1 tsp white wine vinegar, 1 tsp ginger powder 2 Tablespoons toasted Sesame Seeds in a bowl. Pour over beans and stir well.
Merry Christmas!
Nancy
One of our favorites is cookie salad…
1 pt buttermilk
1 can crushed pineapple
1 pkg. vanilla pudding
16 oz of whipped topping.
Mix together.
1 pkg. fudge stripe cookies – save 4 or 5 for the top and crush the rest.
Just before serving stir in the crushed cookies and put the whole ones on top.
Thanks for all your ideas!!!
Merry Christmas to you & yours! I can hardly believe Christmas is less than a couple days, but in all honesty, I cannot wait for the holidays to be behind me, to pack it all away & lock myself into my sewing room for the winter months sewing!! Can’t wait to get out to your shop in search of that perfect quilt pattern & fabric!!
One of my families favorite Christmas eve snacks is:
Nippy Franks
1/2 c catsup, 1/2 c packed brown sugar, 1/4 tsp worcestershire sauce, 1/2 c barbeque sauce, 1 1b cocktail weiners or little smokies. Mix together catsup, brown sugar, worcestershire sauce & barbeque sauce together in slow cooker. Add smokies.
Hope to see you soon!
Tammy
Hi Lisa! I always enjoy reading your blog and seeing what you are up to. You are an inspiration! I especially enjoy your pictures.
A favorite Christmas tradition for our family is homemade carmels, so here is the recipe:
2 cans Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk
2 cups sugar
2 cups real butter (must use butter)
1 large bottle Karo syrup
Slow boil sweetened condensed milk in the can for 2 hours the night before you make the carmels. The next day combine all ingredients, bring to a boil, stirring constantly. This mixture should be cooked until it reaches 240 degrees with a candy thermometer (or soft ball stage). Pour into buttered cookie sheet. Let cool, cut into squares and wrap in waxed paper.
If this is cooked too long, you will have slo poke carmels. It is always a challenge every year to see if we can get “the perfect carmel.” We sometimes put walnuts, peacans or almonds on the cookie sheet before pouring the hot carmel mixture out of the pan.
I hope you have a great holiday season and hope your try our recipe.
Lynn
Green bean bundles are my new favorite recpe for any/no occasion. 🙂
Jane
Mine is Turkey with my dressing made with raisins and white wine.
Hello!
We met you at the Iowa Show last year. I can’t wait to shop again. Hope to see you soon. I did wool crazy thru the shop. Merry Christmas!
Yum, you’ve been left some interesting recipes already – going to copy some of these down.
Here’s one for an extremely easy to make melt in your mouth shortbread. Thank you, Lisa and a Blessed Holiday to you and yours.
WHIPPED SHORTBREAD
Prep. Time 15 min.
Baking Time 13-15 min.
2 cups butter(no substitutes)at room temperature
1 cup sifted icing sugar
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cream butter and icing sugar until very fluffy. Beat in cornstarch, vanilla and then flour. Beat until mixture is very light and fluffy. Drop by
teaspoonfuls onto baking sheet. Bake until edges and bottoms are a light golden brown.
Makes 60 cookies.
I enjoy your blog and have ordered numerous times from your website, hope to get alot of sewing done after the holidays. To visit your shop is on the to do list for this coming year! Thankyou for the generous give aways with an order on the day after Thanksgiving! Our family always has to have cheese ball for Christmas. 1 8 oz. cream cheese, 1 c. mild shredded cheddar cheese, one small onion, cut up, 1 tbsp. worchestershire sauce and 1/2 c. sliced stuffed olives. Mix all together. Shape into a ball and roll in 1 c. chopped nuts—we skip rolling it in the nuts. Refrigerate or freeze. I like the snowflakes falling on this page! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Lisa! My favoriate recipe is for the ultimate chocolate chip cookie dunked in a bit of chocolate once it has cooled….. they go fast! If you want the recipe… just e-mail me :o)
Looking forward to shopping after Christmas. Hope to see you there!
I am on month three of your Lisa’s Flower Garden BOM and am just loving it.
We always have pancakes and hot sausage for Christmas eve meal after church. Started with my parents many years ago and it’s nice to keep traditions going.
Merry Christmas from New York.
Love, love, love your website and your blog. New favorite cookies are Truffles made with oreos. 1 pkg chocolate oreo cookies, 1 -8 oz package cream cheese softened, semi sweet baking chocolate melted.
Crush cookies in food processor add cream cheese, mix until well blended. Roll cookie mixture in to about 40 balls. Dip balls in melted chocolate and place on wax paper. refrigerate until firm about 1 hour. I can tell you there will never be any leftovers, these cookies are just that good.
Enjoy, Debby
My son, who is 34 now and a big football coach guy, loves “Pink Salad.” He and all 6 year olds. 🙂 My mother first made this for him for Christmas when he was about that age – 1 large Cool Whip, 1 large cottage cheese, 1 large Cherry or Strawberry Jello mix, and 1 large can crushed pineapple (drained). Mix all together and children will lick the bowl! blessings, marlene
I always bring a cheese ball to holiday gatherings. Super easy…just mix up a packet of Ranch dip mix with a package of Philly cream cheese, add some chopped green onions, fresh bacon bits, and shredded cheddar. Roll into a ball and roll in more shredded cheddar. Place on a festive Christmas plate with crackers and a Christmas cheese knife and you are good to go!
Have a Merry Christmas!
Melissa
Merry Christmas and I hope you and your family have a great coming year. I love this recipe and use it all year with many different meats, poultry and fish.
Cranberry Gelatine Mold
1 pound fresh or frozen cranberries, I just put the whole bag of fresh berries in the freezer
1 cup sugar
1 small can crushed pineapple, drain juice into liquid measuring cup
2 small packages raspberry gelatine
Add enough water to the pineapple juice to equal 2 cups of liquid.
Grind cranberries while still frozen or process a few seconds in a large processor. Add the sugar. Heat the liquid mixture until near boiling. Add gelatine stirring to disolve. Add pineapple and gelatine to the cranberry mixture. Stir well and put into abowl or mold. Chill until set.
This can be made with sugar free or reduced products. Can be made several days ahead or the meal.
I made over 20 different kinds of candy and cookies this year. I get lots of comments on my Snicker candy.
Corn Casserole Brown 1 ch. onion in 1 stick of butter. Let cool some. Add 1 can creamed corn, 1 can whole kernal corn with liquid, 1 box Jiffy corn muffin mix, 3 beaten eggs, 1 cup sourcream & mix well. Pour in sprayed(Pam)covered casserole dish, bake @ 400 1 hour+ til center is set. Towards end of baking time top with shredded cheddar cheese. Yum
My favorite Candy
Peanut Butter Roll
1/2 c. Light syrup 2 eggs
2 1/2 sugar 1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt Peanut butter (I like Crunchy)
1/2 c. water
Combine the syrup, sugar, salt and water in saucepan. Stir constantly until sugar is dissolved. Cook without stirring to 248 degrees. Just before syrup reaches 248, beat egg white until stiff. Pour about half of the syrup into egg whites, beating constantly. Cook remainder of the syrup to 272. If using a hand held mixer set bowl on a damp towel so the bowl does not spin on you. Add syrup slowly to the first mixture, beating constantly until it begins to pull away from sides of bowl and holds it shape. Pout onto sprinkled board or counter top with confectioner sugar. Sugar your hands and rolling pin, roll into a rectangular shape about 1/4 inch thick and cover with a thin layer of peanut butter. Roll up like a jelly roll with seam side down cut into fourths wrap in press and seal or waxed paper( I like press and seal better it keeps it fresher). Refrigerate cut into 1/4 inch pieces about 15 minutes before serving. Enjoy
Have a wonderful Christmas with your family. Our favorite recipe is microwave carmel corn
3 qts. popped corn (use a large brown paper bag sprayed with pam or a large glass bowl
1c brown sugar greased) I use the bag
1/2c marg.
1/4c corn syrup
1/2t baking soda
In a large bowl mix br. sugar, marg, and corn syrup. Put in microwave on high till it comes to a boil. boil for 2 min. add soda and stir till it foams up.
Pour over popped corn (in bag or bowl) stir a little bit
Microwave on high 1 1/2 min.
Stir (shake the bag)
Microwave on high 1 min.
Stir
Microwave on high 1/2 min.
Stir
Pour onto a cookie sheet to cool Enjoy!
Happy Holidays, Lisa! What a generous giveaway!
One of my favorite cookie recipes this time of year is Jan Hagel Cookies:
1 C. Sugar ½ tsp. Cinnamon
1 C. Butter, softened 1 T. Water, mix with egg white
1 Egg, separated ½ tsp. Vanilla
2 C. Flour ½ C. Walnuts, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix sugar, butter, and egg yolk. Stir in flour, cinnamon, and vanilla. Press out on 1½” jelly roll pan that has been lightly greased. Spread out as thin as possible. (Use flour on hands if needed). Beat egg white and water until foamy. Brush over dough. Sprinkle with walnuts. Bake until very light brown (approximately 20-25 minutes). Immediately cut into 3″ x 1″ bars or 2″ x 2″ squares. Cool. Store in an air tight container.
Hi Lisa. We just made our 3rd batch of these, so this year these are our fave. Almond Bark Candies – 1 1/2 pounds almond bark, 2 c. mini marshmallows, 1 c. peanut butter, 2 c. rice krispies, 2 c. salted peanuts. Melt almond bark, stir in peanut butter, rice krispies and peanuts. Fold in marshmallows. Easy and yummy.
Happy Holidays!
I love your blog and I especially love working with wool. The thing I make the most is biscuits. I know biscuit. However: 2cups flour(sifted)…4tsps. Baking powder… 1/2 tsp. salt. Combine. Then add 1/3 cup of veggie oil & milk to make 1 full cup.Mix together & roll out to about i/2 inch thickCut out with your cutter&. Place on your baking sheet & let them rest for about 4mins. Bake 425 oven for 12 to 13 mins. I started using the oil when I went to a HEART smart classes to bake healthier I do hopr you like them. Dianne.
I could really use those precuts….I have been in physical therapy for months as a result of a mishap by my doctor. Anyway my therapy allows me to sew but only do minimal cutting, so I have found precuts are in my future for a while. Your fabric giveaways are luscious.
My whole family loves my Spiced Nuts
1 egg white
2 tsp water
4 1/2 cups pecans (or any nuts)
1 cup sugar
1 T cinnamon
3-4 shakes of ground ginger
Beat the egg white and water until foamy not stiff.
Pour nuts in this mix until they are all wet.
Mix remaining ingreds and then toss in the wet pecans to coat
butter a pan well and add sugared pecans (I try to make a flat layer of nuts)
In 250 degree oven bake for 1/2 hour then turn and bake an additional 1/2 hour
May be frozen, but who are we kidding they are usually eaten before you get the chance.
Merry Christmas….I will be hoping to win this giveaway…but understand that we can’t all be winners! Krsity
What a great giveaway! One of my favorite Christmas recipes is for Apricot Bars. These are DELICIOUS!!
Apricot Bars
1 stick of butter
1 stick of margarine (do NOT use two sticks of butter–it doesn’t work!)
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
1 10-12oz. jar of apricot preserves
Cream butter, margarine, and sugar well. Add egg yolks, flour, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly. Spread dough in 9×13 greased baking dish, but save enough to put over the preserves (about the size of an orange). Spread preserves over dough; then dot with remaining dough. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cut in squares when cool.
This summer I made your ‘Forest Floor’ pattern and loved it so much I made another and donated it for a charity auction to benefit a heart transplant recipient from our community. Even better yet, a quilter friend purchased the quilt so it is being loved & appreciated! My sister and I are passionate about your designs & seeing your booth @ the Madison show. One of these days, we’ll make it to Menasha. Two friends here in Iowa have already beat us to it after hearing us talk about your wool patterns.
Recipes … being of Norwegian and German descent, lefse and the honey cookie recipe passed down from my Great Aunt, are “must dos.” I also love to make Christmas Tree Bread. You roll the dough into a rope and starting at the top, weave it back & forth in the shape of a Christmas tree. Add the trunk at the bottom and after its baked, frost and add red & green maraschino cherries and even sprinkle with colored sugar if desired. It’s gorgeous & everyone loves it!
How fun! What an amazing and generous giveaway!! One of my favorite and easy recipes is stuffed mushrooms.
2 packages fresh clean mushroom tops
1 package cream cheese softened.
1 package Bob Evans Sage Sausage
Preheat oven to 350. Fry sausage in pan. Drain grease. Mix in cream cheese. Stuff mushroom tops and place on a cookie sheet. Make sure to spray cookie sheet with Pam. Bake in oven for 25-30 minutes. Serve warm out of oven.
It’s a real crowd pleaser! The guys love them!
Enjoy.
Love your shop! It’s a must visit every time we are in the area and at any quilt show you are at! Simple candy for you….mini pretzels, Rolo candy and pecans. Place pretzels on a foil lined cookie sheet. Place an unwrapped Rolo candy on it. Put in 250 degree oven for about 4 minutes. Press a pecan on the top of the candy…it will smoosh down. Let cool. Quick and easy and yummy!
Hi Lisa: Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and blessings for the New Year. Here is my favorite Christmas recipe. My family & Blockhead friends love it!
Pepper Herb-Crusted Beef Tenderloin
1 well-trimmed whole beef tenderloin roast (4 to 5 pounds)
Seasoning:
2 Tbsp. Olive oil
2 tsp. cracked mixed peppercorns
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp. dried basil leaves, crushed
1 tsp. dried oregano leaves, crushed
Optional: salt
Mix in small bowl.
Instructions:
Heat oven to 425 degrees.
Place roast in shallow roasting pan lined with foil.
Press seasoning evenly onto all surfaces of whole tenderloin.
Do not add water or cover.
Roast 50-60 min. for medium rare, 60-70 min. for medium doneness – but depends on how thick/fat your tenderloin is.
When cooked to your likeness, let stand 15-20 minutes.
Cut tenderloin into very thin slices and serve with small dinner rolls.
Enjoy :o)
Lisa,
What a nice idea, thank you for giving so much to your customers. I live in California, so I’m really too far away to ever get to your shop, but I always look forward to seeing you at Road to California and the Long Beach show in July. I wanted to tell you that my friendship circle decided this year to draw names and make wool projects. We all bought kits online from your website (some of us had kits we purchased from you at shows) and exchanged them on Saturday 12/18 at our holiday brunch. It was so much fun we decided to do it again in 2011.
The pictures of The Gathering are great…maybe someday!
Fran
Hello,
Wow, so nice of you but then you ARE nice.. I love this special time of year and my favorite cookie is Russian Tea Cakes.. I have made them from my Betty Crocker Cookbook that I have had for 53 years.. They have lots of names,, wedding balls,snowballs and almond cresents,, I make mine into balls. They melt in your mouth..I make them small so you can just pop them in your mouth and let them dissolve.. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmm
Have a wonderful holiday
Maggey & Jim
Love all your goodies and surprises!!
Here is a great Spread for crackers or fruit/vegtables
It got rave reviews at my quilt Christmas Potluck
Pineapple Cheese Spread
2 8 oz cream cheese
1 8oz crushed pineapple DO NOT DRAIN
1 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
2T chopped green onion
2t season salt
Mix together and Chill
I work part time for a caterer and learned to make these, they use it as a garnish on steaks but my family likes it as a side dish on Christmas when I make a rib roast. I don’t like parsnips but love these. (Are they still healthy if they are fried?)
Fried Parsnips
Peel and discard outer layer of parsnips as they have a waxy coating.
Peel the rest in long strips down to the core.
Deep fry at 350 degrees a minute or two , until light brown. Drain on paper towel and salt.
Can do it in a deep pan on the stove and check temp with a candy thermometer. Do these in small batches so the temp doesn’t drop too much. You can do these a head of time.
My family loves when I serve appetizers on Christmas Eve. Nothing fancy at all…just simple things like bacon wrapped water chestnuts in BBQ sauce, cocktail weiners in BBQ sauce and pickles slathered in cream cheese, wrapped in Buddig Beef and sliced! Awesome! Aren’t the holidays all about the love of family AND food?
How fun Lisa! Thank you for your generosity! My favorite Christmas salad is the traditional Seven Layer Salad. Start out with a casserole type dish. The seven layers consist of lettuce, frozen peas that are thawed and drained, green peppers, onion. Take a cup of mayonaise, thin it with an equal amount of sugar and vinegar (1/8 cup each),and add black pepper: spread over the top of the salad, add a layer of shreaded mild cheddar cheese and bacon that has been cooked and crumbled. Refrigerate several hours before eating. Enjoy!
Lois Wilhelm
What a great idea and generous! The gifts look awesome! Holiday fudge is what I make many Christmas’s for a very special family member (my Mom in Law)…
12 oz chocolate chips….or a handful more if you love chocolate!
1 – 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk (you can use fat free and it tastes the same!)
1- tsp vanilla
1 – cup chopped walnuts optional
Line a 9×5 loaf pan with wax paper.
Melt chocolate slowly in a saucepan; remove from heat add condensed milk, vanilla and walnuts. Stir well. Pour into wax paper lined pan. Refrigerate several hours until firm. Turn out of pan and cut.
Makes about 2 lbs.
Have a Wonderful Holiday.
Kathy U
Just waiting for my local quilt shop to get in your primitive muslins. Here is a fast and easy
candy recipe.
Rolo Turtles
Place 1 Rolo candy on a pretzel on wax paper. Place in a warm oven 175′-200′ until soft. 5 minutes or so.
When rolo starts to soften remove from oven. Place a pecan half on top of Rolo and push down
flattening the Rolo. Let cool. Enjoy!!!
Hi Lisa,
Merry Christmas to you and all the girls working in the shop. I’ll share this wonderful dip recipe.
MUSTARD PRETZEL DIP
2 C Hellman’s Mayo
1/2 C brown sugar
1/4 C French’s yellow mustard
1 Tbsp garlic powder
1 heaping Tsp horseradish
1/4 C World Harbor After Glow
Buffalo Style Hot Wing Sauce (Can substitute Frank’s Hot Wing Sauce)
Serve with pretzel’s or crackers, tastes great on a ham sandwich too.
Wow how fun! One thing we do at Christmas is take a good chocolate chip cookie recipe, leave out the chocolate chips and replace them with M&M’s. It takes the cookies to the next level 🙂 Thanks for such a generous giveaway 🙂
Hi Lisa, Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Here’s an easy fudge recipe that is so good and pretty for giving,
Peppermint Fudge
1 12oz pkg(2c) vanilla milk chips
1 can pillsbury vanilla creamy supreme frosting
1/2 tsp peppermint extract
4 drops red food coloring
2 Tblsp peppermint candies crushed
Line 8″ pan with foil, extending foil over edges, lightly butter foil. Melt chips in large saucepan over low heat, stirring till smooth. remove from heat, stir in frosting & peppermint extract. Spread in buttered lined pan. Drop food color over fudge and pull knife through mixture to marble. Sprinkle with crushed candy. Press lightly. Refrigerate until firm about 1 hour. Remove fudge from pan by lifting foil. Remove foil from fudge and cut into squares. Enjoy!
Thanks, Karen M
Lisa, you’re always so good to us. At Christmas I love cooking (and eating) almost as much as opening presents. One of my favorite recipes is a chili dip. I use my small crock pot to heat it and keep it hot.
So easy and GOOD!
Chili Dip
1 can wolf brand chili, no beans
16 oz. velvetta cheese (cut in cubes)
1 bunch chopped green onions
1 can of chopped green chiles
1 can of rotel
serve with fritos
Combine all ingredients and heat in small crock pot.
Merry Christmas to all!
Merry Christmas, Everyone,
I have this quick and pretty salad recipe that we have every holiday:
8 oz. Cool Whip
8 oz. cottage cheese
Small can of crushed pineapple, well-drained
small box of strawberry jello
1 banana sliced
Combine all ingredients in a medium serving bowl.
It’s so pretty and even little ones will eat the cottage cheese when served this way.
I love your shop and wish I could visit in person, Lisa.
Happy New Year, Mary
I live in Stuttgart, Germany, and I have been a faithful customer of your shop since I have lived overseas. We were in Seoul, Korea before this. My husband is an Army officer, and we have been stationed now overseas for almost SIX years! 🙂 Your shop has been so great to send me things I needed…lots of BOMs, fabric, etc! I am doing the A Christmas quilt and finishing up the Pocket of Posies quilt (finally). I can’t wait to one day meet you, and thank you personally for helping a military wife enjoy her quilting while overseas. We will be returning to the US this May. I do a fair amount of entertaining, and one of the favorite appetizers I serve around Christmas time is a favorite with the men. Very simple: bacon, parmesan cheese and club crackers.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Take a club cracker, put a teaspoon of parmesan cheese on it, and wrap with a half slice of bacon. Place on a broiler pan. Do this for as many appetizers as you like. Bake for 2 hours. Let sit for an hour. In my German oven, this sometimes takes a little longer I found out. I had to up the degrees some! You can bake these ahead and freeze. Reheat until warm. Easy and good!
I hope you have a wonderful, merry Christmas!
Fondly,
Rachel
Hi Lisa ,
Love your site. Have ordered many kits from your site. Love it when you are at qult shows I attend. You really need to make a trip to Minneapolis to see your good buddy Stacy. Teach a class. I could fill it with just my friends. Here is a favorite simple recipe.
Banana Cake
1 yellow cake Mix according to directions on the box. Add 2-3 very ripe bananas. Bake according to directions on box. Let cool
Frosting
1 small package instant vanilla pudding. Make as directed on box. I ususally use about 1/4 cup less milk. Fold the pudding into one container of cool whip. yummy
Have a great Christmas!
My favorite Christmas recipe
Wild Rice and Cranberry Salad
1 box Uncle Bens wild rice cooked and cold
1 Cup Oceanspray dried cranberries
3 Celery stalks chopped
1 Cup broccoli chopped
4 green onions chopped
1 two ounce jar pimentoes
1/2 Cup dry roasted peanut
1/2 Cup to 1 cup Kraft Poppyseed dressing
Mix all above ingredents with the cold rice to the desired wettness you like. Every time I make this it goes like wildfire and I always double this recipe, the cranberries and the broccoli make it look Christmasy.
Hope you enjoy,
Leisa
Georgia
Wow what a generous gift you are giving. I would love to have all of that and head to my sewing room.
I love to make carmel corn out of the Puff Corn and the recipe is on the bag. Also I sometimes like to melt White Almond bark and coat the puffs with that. Both are so good.
Merry Christmas!
Rhonda in ND where we had 11″ of snow today. 🙂
Lisa,
Merry Christmas! Thank you for making the quilting world more exciting. I really like your designs and am so thankful for you bringing your patterns, kits, and talent to California. I am looking forward to seeing you at The Road To California. Snowball cookies are a tradition in our family.
What a generous giveaway! One of my family favorite recipes is simply called that weird green jello salad. Make one large box of green jello. Let it set up until it is soft set, then add one can crushed pineapple, drained. About 2 cups of cottage cheese and one cup grated cheddar chess. Let set up completely. It looks awful but tastes heavenly.
This is my favorite recipe for a Christmas treat.
Pecan Tarts
3 oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
Mix cream cheese and butter. Cream well.
Add flour mix. Form into ball. Chill overnight.
Divide dough to make 24 balls. Put one in a mini muffin tin. Press with thumb to bring crust up to the top of tin and over a little bit.
Filling:
1 egg
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 TB melted butter
1 tsp. vanilla
dash salt
2/3 cup broken pecans
Slightly beat eggs, add other ingredients and mix well. Drop by spoon into crust.
Bake 325 for 25 min.
I doubled this recipe to make 48 tarts but needed to triple filling ingredients.
Lisa…thank you for having such a wonderful web site…I look forward to each day to read your blog and all the new projects.
Merry Christmas to all….
Happy Quilting..
Vicki from the Pacific Northwest
I’m so glad that most of my shopping is done and now I can get on with the final things that need to be done. Namely cooking and cleaning. I truly hope you can enjoy your couple of days with your family. I use to be in retail and now how draining it can be. Thanks for the generous and wonderful giveaway. One my family’s favorite salad recipe is Pina Colada Salad
1 C crushed pretzels
1/3 C sugar
1/2 C melted butter
8 oz. cool whip
8 oz. cream cheese
1 Sm. can crushed pineapple
1/2 C sugar
Preheat oven to 400. Melt 1/2 c. butter add pretzels and 1/3 c. sugar. Bake 7′.Stir once
Mix softened cream cheese and 1/2 c sugar. Stir in cool whip, add drained pineapple.Just before serving stir in the pretzel. Save some for the top. Enjoy.
Thanks again, Lisa, merry merry to you and yours.
Lisa, thanks again for yet another wonderful opportunity. Love reading your blog and shopping at your website!
My favorite recipe for a holiday appetizer is stuffed mushroom caps, quite a different version from an earlier post by Linda, but equally yummy. I don’t have a “written” version, so here’s my best attempt at how I make them.
Ingredients:
one package of large button mushrooms (I buy the package that contains about 15 mushrooms)
2 cups bread cubes (unseasoned)
1 to 2 teaspoons dried marjoram (depends on taste preference)
1/2 cup butter (divided)
one half of a small sweet onion, chopped
2-3 stalks of celery, chopped
1/2 cup chicken broth
2-3 slices of swiss cheese (chopped up or cut into squares the size of the mushroom caps)
pepper to taste
Wash and cut stems from mushrooms to leave just the cap. Hollow out some of the cap to allow room for the “stuffing.” Save the stems to add to the onions and celery. I usually dry my own bread cubes from Italian bread, but you can use unseasoned dried bread cubes (much like croutons.) Sprinkle dried marjoram over bread cubes placed in a small bowl. Set aside.
Chop the mushroom stems and combine with the chopped onion and celery. Saute in a pan with one-fourth cup butter until onions are transparent. Add fresh ground pepper to your taste preference. Add chicken broth and bring to a simmer. Pour this mixture over the bread cubes with marjoram; stir and allow time for liquid to absorb and soften the bread cubes, . (Add more broth if using packaged bread cubes. They tend to be quite dry.)
Melt the remaining one fourth cup butter in the saute pan. Dip the mushroom caps in the melted butter and place in a 13″ X 9″ baking dish, cap side down. Spoon a mound of stuffing into each mushroom cap. Top with cheese (I prefer the milder taste of Alpine Lace swiss)
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes or until mushrooms are tender.
Merry Christmas and best of health in the New Year!
Hi Lisa! Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas Day! We are just wrapping up an early celebration with all 3 kids plus our little grandson here! Too fun! Something we had on hand is Butter Toffee- so, so yummy! The recipe I used this year is a new one from Pioneer Woman- enjoy!
Hi Lisa,
Hope you’re feeling better. Here’s a favorite “make the night before” recipe for Christmas morning. We serve this at our quilting retreats here in So. CA. Hope I can be a retreat guest at “The Gathering” one day. Merry Christmas!
Creme Brulee French Toast
6-8 servings.
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoons corn syrup
6 (1 inch thick) sliced bread (brioche or challah work well
5 eggs
1 1/2 cups half-and-half cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon brandy-based orange liqueur (Grand Marnier®)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4-1/2 cup pecans (optional)
Directions
1 Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Mix
in brown sugar and corn syrup, stirring until sugar is
dissolved. Pour into a 9×13 inch baking dish. Sprinkle pecans in dish.
2 Remove crusts from bread, and arrange in the baking
dish in a single layer. In a small bowl, whisk together
eggs, half and half, vanilla extract, orange brandy, and
salt. Pour over the bread. Cover, and chill at least 8
hours, or overnight.
3 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove
the dish from the refrigerator, and bring to room temperature.
4 Bake uncovered 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven,
until puffed and lightly browned. Loosen the edges with a knife, place serving platter on top of dish and flip onto serving platter.
Would love to visit your store, but can dream!!! Heres our family favourite recipe. Bear with me for English translations….you will get the drift!
Grreat British Stuffing
packet pork sausagemeat
1 onion, finely chopped
packet or two fresh cranberries
standard can English Cider
chopped mushrooms
salt pepper.
Sweat down the onions, in seperate pan cook the cranberries in the cider, until soft and mushy, mix with onions, mushrooms and sausagemeat….yes girls, with your fingers…season with salt and pepper. pack into a nice oven-to-table dish and cook in the oven with your turkey for an hour or so. yummy.
Hi there,
Ik like everything with choclate!! I am not a good cook but a simple chocolat cookie wil do.
Greetings from Debby,
the Netherlands
Hi Lisa~
Please come East for a class, show, etc! My favorite holiday cookie so far this holiday season has been the Fudgy Brownie Cookie recipe from lifesambrosia.com. To make it a little more festive for the holidays, you can add crushed candy canes. I brought these to our guild party and everyone thought they were awesome. Here is wishing you a happy holiday and a great New Year. I can’t wait to see what you “cook up” for us next year!
I LOVE your blog and website. You are an inspiration.
What a gorgeous looking bundle!
My favourite Christmas recipe is one my family call ‘alternatives’ as they were made as an alternative for those who don’t like mince pies. It’s basically a batter with a little sugar added, throw in any dried fruit and nuts you like, put them into individual muffin or fairy cake trays and bake in a medium oven for about 15-20 minutes depending on you oven until they turn light brown.
What a wonderful giveaway ~
We don’t make this often anymore because it’s too tempting…this is a recipe my Mom (87) learned from her Mom…worth the effort!
Mrs. Banks’ Peanutbbutter Fudge
In heavy saucepan, combine:
3 cups sugar
about ¾ cup Jif creamy peanut butter
pinch salt
1 ½ cups milk
Stirring occasional at first, then constantly toward the end…
Cook on low heat until boiling, next, cook on very low heat until soft ball (232*) is reached on candy thermometer
Remove from stove and add:
¼ cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat with electric mixer until it looks hard enough to pour
into buttered pan (8 x8 or 9x 9)
Hi Lisa
My sister, Debbie, and I are from Ontario, Canada, and have been very fortunate, and quite a bit poorer, after visiting your booths in Nashville, Houston and Chicago. You seem to always remember us, not too hard I guess, because we visit your booth several times each show. It’s always our favorite – hands down. I am currently involved in your Aunt Maggie’s BOM and am loving it – it’s brought me out of my comfort zone. I love the idea of coming for a retreat, and am going to try to convince my sister and the quilt group I started this fall in our small town (so far we’re 15 strong and having a great time) to consider it. My wish for you and yours is a peaceful, joyous Christmas and a New Year filled with health and happiness!
Here’s my recipe for my favorite Christmas cookies – I’ve got somewhat of a reputation for my baking, and these always get raves!
White Chocolate Candy Cane Drops
8 oz white chocolate baking bars (I use white choc chips)
1/2 cup butter softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup crushed peppermint candy canes
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper, set aside Chop 4 oz of the white chocolate and set aside. Melt the remaining 4 oz. white chocolate (I use the microwave, on half power, for short periods of time).
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder and salt. Beat until combined, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Beat in melted white chocolate. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour. Stir in the chopped white chocolate, crushed candy canes and mini chocolate chips.
3. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart onto prepared oookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 8 – 10 minutes (9 minutes in my oven) until cookies are lightly browned around edges.
They freeze wonderfully.