I’m so impressed with all the lovely gifts ya’ll have received, and even better, given. Thanks for your lovely comments and for sharing with the readers of my blog. If you haven’t read the comments, you can click on the title of the blog post, and you get both the blog post and the comments posted on it.
Scrumptious threads are a weakness of mine, and I profess my favorites are almost always the Signature threads. They’re not easy to find since I’m a long way from most large quilt and fabric shops, so when I venture into town I stock up on several different colors. Today I’m giving away three spools of their thread: two large variegated spools, and a smaller violet spool.
So tell me your favorite holiday recipe to prepare for your family over the holidays. Mine? My husband loves the old-fashioned cornbread dressing, and the kids love any cookies I bake, but their favorites are the traditional sugar cookies, rolled out, frosted, and dappled with sugary sprinkles.
The winner of the Olfa rotary cutter? Patty, congratulations! You are the lucky winner of the rotary cutter. Come on down! Send me your mailing address at maria [at]colormastery.com.
I make Sands–little balls of pecans, butter, flour, ;ittle sugar,and vsnilla. While still warm they are rolled in powdered sugar. I make 8-10 recipes because friends expect them at Christmas.
It is a must tradition for our family. We have our annual Christmas Eve supper with close friends. I’ve been making sands for 25-30 years (maybe longer).
We (DH & I) like to have peanut brittle – homemade in the microwave. Its our treat once a year – 2 batches only!!! LOL
Looking forward to making the first batch next weekend and then the other between Christmas & New Year.
CONGRATS to Patty on winning the rotary cutter!
I sure could use those wonderful threads. So here is my favorite recipe, it is raisin scones. We got the recipe from a little bed and breakfast we stayed at years ago and every Christmas morning I make it for my family. Congrats to Patty!
How to pick just one! Every Thanksgiving and Christmas I make my grandmother’s dressing recipe – it’s made with cornbread and buttermilk biscuits and is probably my very favorite! I’ve already mentioned to you the baking I like to do every Christmas and of all of the sweet treats, the biggest hits are usually the homemade fudge and mints (sort of like the peppermint patties, but even more delicious!) I always make several batches of each of those.
During Christmas time in Brazil one of the most tipical things to it is “Rabanada”. It’s a bit like French Toast but have a special flavor that I don’t normally find in the common variety of French Toast. Maybe it’s because we use a special bread to dip a slice in milk mix with some condensated milk and then into eggs to fry it. After is beautifully brown, roll it in a mix of sugar and cinammon. It can be eatten hot or cold. Some like it with a side of ice cream too.
My favorite recipe would have to be gingerbread people! Or as they say in dutch “speculaaspop” which means gingerbread doll. I find this a cute term. I found this great recipe last year and I love to decorate them with my children.
Our favorite family recipe is beef wellington. Each person gets their own little pastry packet of beef with mushroom sauce. They are valued by everyone because they are delicious and it is like having a christmas present wrapped up on your plate!
My favorite recipe is creamed onions with cheese sauce. It is always a fvorite at all our Holidays meals.
My family’s all time favorite for *any* time we can all be together (which is indeed a holiday!!)… is my homemade chocolate pudding!! (Runner up, is my baked sliced apples, with cinnamon crumb topping!)
When my children were growing up, I would make the pudding at the stove, stirring the cocoa, sugar, cornstarch and milk constantly, until it began to thicken and bubble. (Only after they were grown, did I discover how to make it in my microwave!! SO easy!… No long cooking time, no constant stirring, no scorched pans!)
For the Holidays, they love to have my Chocolate Almond Toffee, my Spice Cookies, and my Candied Cinnamon Nuts, for sweets… and my Spinach Salmon Roast (with Feta and Ricotta Cheese), for a dinner anytime between Christmas and the New Year!
My husband’s family had a tradition of having an Oyster Soup (really, just fresh oysters, milk, butter, and salt)… at the New Year. (They said it was for a good new year…)
Not being a fan of oysters, I found it hard to believe this could be a good way to start any year!! However, *just to be polite*, I would take a sip of the milk soup (no oysters, though!)
Each year, I’d drink a little more of the soup, and one brave year, I actually took a tiny nibble of an oyster! Amazement!… It was *good*!
Over the years I came to love that soup, and would actually make it at other times in the year, when I’d have a taste for it!
When the time came that there was just my mother-in-law, my children, and me, I’d make it for us, remembering the love that had brought us there together…
Like Naomi and Ruth, we had love, faith, and trust..
Blessings!!!
(Maria, if you want any of these recipes, just let me know! I’ll post them here for you…)