Christmas recipes

[58ford]

Everybody post your favorite Christmas Recipes, you never know who might have your next favorite holiday dish in their cook book.
And aren't we all tired of green bean casserole & the sweet potatos with little marshmallows on top?

Chocolate covered peanut butter & jelly sandwiches:
Melt chocolate in a double boiler.
Make some peanut butter & jelly sandwiches.
(Use good fresh white bread, the cheap bread with all the holes in it doesn't work as well)
Slice off the crusts.
Cut them into cubes about as wide as they are tall.
Poke toothpicks through them.
Dip them in chocolate & set them on wax paper.
Wiggle the toothpicks out while the chocolate is hot.
(you don't have to take out the toothpicks, but I do because a cousin of mine stabbed himself in the mouth with one)
They stay good for quite a while, (they won't be around long though, people tend to eat one & then stand arround & finish the bowl) the chocolate keeps the bread from going stale.
Enjoy!!:smt111

[Hermione]

Tired of green bean casserole? Bite your tongue!!

[jmb]

Great idea, 58! I'm still gonna have my green bean casserole, but I'm always looking for new recipes to try, too.

[big john]

ROASTED BEAVER

Needed are:


One 25 to 30 lb beaver (save the tail for beaver-tail soup)
Two cups flour
One cup bacon drippings
Salt and pepper to taste
3 or 4 bay leaves
3 or 4 medium onions, chopped.First, scoop up a beaver. Skin it and take it the skin your local trading post. It's as good as cash. After skinning the beaver, remove all fat. Cut into serving size pieces. Soak in salted water overnight. Rinse meat well in cold water and drain. Roll meat in flour. Brown in skillet with bacon drippings and season with salt and pepper. Place in roaster alternately with bay leaves and onions. Add a small amount of water to remaining drippings in skillet and pour over meat. Roast at 350 degrees for 2 and one half hours or until tender. Uncover and brown 15 minutes before serving. Goes great with a California Merlot

[Baloo]

For a quick and simple change to cranberry sauce, stir a handful of walnut pieces and a 1/2 tsp. of orange extract into a can of whole berry-cranberry sauce... It is a nice change to an old favorite...

[Baloo]

p.s., Thanks for the thread 58Ford! Cooking is one of my favorite things to do!

[Baloo]

Thanks Hawkeye!!! That is very nice of you!

[XC9]

ROASTED BEAVER

Needed are:


One 25 to 30 lb beaver (save the tail for beaver-tail soup)
Two cups flour
One cup bacon drippings
Salt and pepper to taste
3 or 4 bay leaves
3 or 4 medium onions, chopped.First, scoop up a beaver. Skin it and take it the skin your local trading post. It's as good as cash. After skinning the beaver, remove all fat. Cut into serving size pieces. Soak in salted water overnight. Rinse meat well in cold water and drain. Roll meat in flour. Brown in skillet with bacon drippings and season with salt and pepper. Place in roaster alternately with bay leaves and onions. Add a small amount of water to remaining drippings in skillet and pour over meat. Roast at 350 degrees for 2 and one half hours or until tender. Uncover and brown 15 minutes before serving. Goes great with a California Merlot
You are just kidding aren't you?

[Hermione]

For a quick and simple change to cranberry sauce, stir a handful of walnut pieces and a 1/2 tsp. of orange extract into a can of whole berry-cranberry sauce... It is a nice change to an old favorite...

We cut this out of a magazine, along these same lines: baked sweet potatoes, cut in half and scoop out, like "twice-baked" potatoes. Mix the potato with walnuts, cranberry relish, brown sugar and butter, maybe chopped cranberries (?) and re-bake. Plan to try them for Christmas.

[fuzzis]

Homemade French Bread
*made in the early, early morning hours of Christmas morning so as to be fresh and hot for a breakfast of bread and cheese...preferably brie.

Starter

1 cup cool-lukewarm water
1/2 tsp yeast
1 1/4 cups unbleached flour.
1/4 cup white or whole wheat flour

Stir ingredients together to make a thick mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and let set at room temperature overnight, or for 2-16 hours.

Dough
Entire batch of starter
1 cup lukewarm water
3/4 tsp yeast
1 tbsp sugar
3 3/4 to 4 cups unbleached flour
1 tbsp kosher salt

Stir sponge, add water, yeast, 3 1/3 cups of the flour and salt. Mix. Dough will be loose. Let rest for about 12 minutes, then knead for 10 to 12 minutes. Add the held-back flour as needed.

Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover with both lightly greased plastic wrap and a damp cloth, and rise until almost doubled.

After rising, deflate dough but be gentle so as to retain some of the bubbles. The bubbles will make the holes that you want in French bread.

Rise the dough for on a cookie sheet sprinkled with flour or cornmeal.

Rise the dough until almost doubled and puffy looking. When risen, make slashes across the top of the bread -- but gently, so as not to deflate.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees, placing your baking stone in the oven to preheat also. When ready, gently place dough on the stone, seam side down.

Spray water into the oven. A plant sprayer works fine.

Place your bread in the oven, reduce heat to 475 degrees, and spray with water every few minutes for 15 minutes. Stop spraying and bake for an additional 10 or 15 minutes, or until done.

fuzzis

[wilebill]

When risen, make slashes across the top of the bread -- but gently, so as not to deflate.
Somehow, I just don't see you performing this part as it calls for. :smt118

[fuzzis]

Somehow, I just don't see you performing this part as it calls for. :smt118

Heh. I was always about 3/4s drunk when making the French bread...and that put me in the *best* of moods. :smt118

fuzzis

[Baloo]

Thanks for the recipes guys, they all sound great!

[fuzzis]

Easy Christmas Cookies


One package of cake mix (I like to use strawberry or lemon)
One container of cool-whip
Powdered sugar

Mix cake mix and cool-whip.

Form balls from dough.
Roll balls in powdered sugar.

Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes.

The cookies take on a "crackle" look.

Yum.

fuzzis

[Conveyor Belt]

I've scored a deal with my seafood supplier. A 20 Lb. IQF case for $200 will feed at least 12 adults, all they can eat.

I donno, hawkeye... I could probably polish of 20lbs all by myself...

[58ford]

Holiday Vegetarian Tofurkey

Four 12oz pkg. of tofu
2 box of Stovetop Stuffing
2 Vidalia Onion
4 Bell Peppers (green)
5 Med. Roma Tomatoes.
1 Bay Leaf
2 Heads of Garlic (mashed)
2 stalks of Celery
1 Ball of Twine
12 - 12oz beers

While drinking the beer, dice up all the vegetables & mix in a large container with all the other ingredients.
Stuff the mixture into a med. eviscerated vegetarian. (save the giblets for gravy)
Sew shut with twine.
Bake in a large oven at 350 for 6 hrs. or until a meat thermometer indicates 160 deg. in the glutious.
Pit roasting is acceptable, but you tend to lose the drippings. (excellent for the giblet gravy)
Serves 15 to 20 depending on the vegetarian.

[mccole79]

I'm doing something novel for me this year to make it eaiser on myself as chief cook. No turkey and ham this year. Made a trial run today and it was great.....Giant King Crab Legs!...Steam 7 minutes, shuck and dip in seasoned butter.

I've scored a deal with my seafood supplier. A 20 Lb. IQF case for $200 will feed at least 12 adults, all they can eat.

If you want a case, send me a PM. Will be available for pickup on Dec 13th and 20th only. Lesser quality and size legs available at Sam's for around $15 p/lb.

I'm headed over to your house for Christmas dinner! LOL