RECIPES FOR CHRISTMAS

Dad / Chef / Author ^ | Carlo3b

[carlo3b]

RECIPES FOR CHRISTMAS

Plan for your Christmas Feast and Gifts HERE!

Holiday Ham with Fruit and Root Beer Glazed

 
BOILING AND SYRUP INGREDIENTS:

• 6  12oz bottles root beer (high quality)

• 1 red apple, sliced

• 1 green apple, sliced

• 1 cup red seedless grapes

• 1/2 orange, sliced

• 1/2 tsp cloves

• cracked black pepper to taste

• 1 tsp file (ground sassafras)

BOILING HAM:
1) Place ham in a heavy-bottomed black iron pot or dutch oven.
2) Surround the ham with apples, grapes, orange and cloves. Add root beer and dust with cracked black pepper and file. 3) Bring to a rolling boil and reduce to simmer. Boil approximately 1 hour and turn ham over and continue boiling until root beer is reduced to a thick syrup.
4) Remove ham and set aside. Continue to reduce syrup until it is the consistency of molasses.
CAUTION: Do not burn, or scorch. Remove syrup and place in a mixing bowl, allow to cool and reserve for later.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 (5 - 10 pounds) smoked ham

• 1/2 cup root beer syrup (reserved)

• 1 cup Creole mustard

• 1/2 cup brown sugar

• 1/4 cup pineapple juice

• 1/4 cup cracked black pepper

• pinch of cinnamon

• pinch of nutmeg

• pinch of allspice

• pinch of ground clove

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
1) Place in the mixing bowl, all of the above ingredients except the ham. Using a wire whisk, blend all spices into the mustard mixture until well incorporated.
2) Place ham in center of dutch oven and coat completely with the sweet mustard mixture.
3) *Bake uncovered for 1 hour.
*Preparing a decorated the ham for the table centerpiece. Start by uusing a sharp paring knife to cut slits on eighth inch deep diagonally across the ham. Continue in the same pattern from the opposite side until even triangles appear from the cuts. Stuff with cloves and, using toothpicks, secure pineapple slices or fresh strawberries to the top of the ham before baking.
SERVES: 6
 
 

[MeekOneGOP]

It seems that there is a virus out there called the Senile Virus.....

ROFL ! I think I've caught that a couple of time, lol !

[carlo3b]

Bwhahahahahahahhahahha

[jellybean]

I was literally ROTFLMAO...

[jellybean]

I think I've caught that a couple of time, lol !

I don't remember if I did or not.

[MeekOneGOP]

heh heh !

[carlo3b]

... 'Nog recipe.....is a good one, if you need any others..ping me ...try this as well;

Hot Christmas Punch Flambe

• 2 bottles cabernet sauvignon, or equivalent quality dry red wine
• One bottle aged rum
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 3 cups strong English tea
• Sugar to taste

1) Heat all ingredients in a saucepan.
2) Let simmer for a few minutes, but do not boil.
Serve in a large punch bowl.
To "flambe", half-fill a long-handled ladle with sugar and cover with rum. Warm ladle in heated punch and ignite. Pour into punch and quickly smother flames.
 

[carlo3b]

Baked Smelts
Pesce a la Padella 2 pounds of smelts (these are a small oily fish, that stay tasty and moist when you fry or bake)
2 cups bread crumbs
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 cup vinegar
1 cup mint leaves
1 can tomato sauce
3 tablespoons oil
2 cloves garlic (or 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic)
1) Debone smelts.
2) In a 13 x 9 pan you will layer these ingredients in the following order. 1 tablespoon oil, 1 pound of smelts, 1 cup of bread crumbs, a handful of mint leaves, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/16 cup of vinegar, and 1/2 can of tomato sauce. Repeat the process so you have a second layer of oil, smelts, bread crumbs, mint leaves, salt, vinegar, and tomato sauce.
3) Spread the last tablespoon of oil. Place pan in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for approximately 30 minutes.
The smelts will be done when the top reaches a golden brown.

 
 

[jellybean]

I have some friends whose New Year's Eve tradition is to have pickled herring in their mouth at midnight.

[jellybean]

New Year's Eve Traditions

stanz, don't dispair...you may yet have a chance to wear those red drawers...

Mexico In Mexico, many people usually gather with their relatives and friends to celebrate the new year. On New Year's Eve, we have some special customs. For example, we turn on the TV and wait to see or hear the bell ringing twelve times. Each time the bell rings, we eat one grape and make a wish. Then we hug each other and wish each other a Happy New Year. Some people, especially women, wear red underwear meaning you will find love in the next year. There are also people who take out their suitcases and walk around the block, meaning they wish they could travel next year. There's also a custom on January 6th to eat a special cake with a hole in it and a small toy inside. The person who gets the piece with this tiny kid is supposed to make a special food on February 5th.

A new tradition is giving The Clinton Legacy Cookbook to bring good luck and great food throughout the coming year!!!

[stanz]

What happens if I wait for the bells, eat the grape, walk around the block in the red underwear while reading "The Clinton Legacy Cookbook"?

Don't answer that...the butterfly net is waiting.

[jellybean]

In that case, I think the Argentina custom kicks in and the fireworks go off!!!!

[Howie]

My wife is from large Polish family, they have sauerkraut and pork on New Years almost religiously.

[jellybean]

Another tradition I read about years ago says that who ever you are with at midnight on New Year's Eve is who you'll spend time with during the next year. It must be true...I've spent NYE on FR for the past 4 years!!...LOL

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yes, of course you may. Any others you'd like let me know.

All. I'll take all your gifs. Stick'emup, this is a gifrobbery.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[VermiciousKnid]

Hey, thanks for that calamari recipe! I do LOVE calamari!

Here's the Delictibite recipe. Lisa and I have been best friends since we were 10 years old. The first Christmas that I visited her house (in 1975), her mother served these delicious cookies, and I was entranced with them. Eighteen years later, at my bridal shower, she presented me with her recipe, and I have been making multiple batches of them for Christmas ever since.

DELECTIBITES

- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup flour
- 2 TBS. sugar
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- powdered sugar

1) Combine butter, sugar and vanilla, and mix well
2) Stir in flour and walnuts
3) Chill one hour
4) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
5) Shape into marble-sized balls and bake
on ungreased cookie sheet 15-17 minutes. DO NOT
BROWN!
6) Remove and roll cookies in powdered sugar while
still warm. (Careful of your fingers; they
get HOT!)

[carlo3b]

Thank you so very much for your wonderful recipes, I can't wait to try them. All of my time has been taken up with the wrapping and mailing of our great cookbook so that folks can get them for the holidays. So this year I've missed most of the cookie production around the family homes, but the first chance I get I will put these great favorites to the test on my brood... ;)  Don't stop sending...LOL

MERRY CHRISTMAS CRESCENT COOKIES

• 1/2 lb. butter (2 sticks)
• 2 c. flour
• 2 c. chopped pecans
• 5 tbs.. sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tbs.. water
• 1/2 tsp. salt

Cream butter and sugar; add vanilla and water. Sift flour and salt, stir into mixture. Add pecans and mix well. Shape into size of walnut and shape into crescent. Bake slowly at 325 degrees about 20 minutes. While warm, roll into powdered sugar.
 

[carlo3b]

.....we hug each other and wish each other a Happy New Year. Some people, especially women, wear red underwear meaning you will find love in the next year....

...a...er.... here we go again!
 

[carlo3b]

New Year's Eve tradition is to have pickled herring in their mouth at midnight.....

I have had a few family members do just that...yuck  They were alone most of the time on New Year Eve.. do you think there was any correlation....hmmmmm   ;o)

[carlo3b]

wait for the bells, eat the grape, walk around the block in the red underwear while reading

The Clinton Legacy Cookbook""

Seeeeeeeee, she's prancing around in her bloomers again....JELLY!!!
 

[carlo3b]

My wife is from large Polish family, they have sauerkraut and pork on New Years almost religiously.

"...religiously" Their neighbors will need the prayers if they do that too often...LOLOL