Archive for the ‘Holiday Cooking’ Category
Friday, January 1st, 2010
This year I tried a new snack - meatballs in a mixture of cranberry sauce and chili sauce. It's much vaunted, but Shaun and I just weren't impressed. I'd make it again as an easy appetizer for a large party, but that's about it.
We also made ...
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
We had a nice relaxing Christmas, starting with sleeping in, then opening gifts, Emma included, enjoying some bacon and fried potatoes for breakfast, a day of watching goofy movies and TV, a standing rib roast for dinner, and more fun TV for the evening. We just started watching Penn ...
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
We had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of bacon wrapped shrimp and steamed crab legs (about 5 minutes from frozen to perfectly hot, moist, and tender). It was very nice :-) We topped it off with some tasty cookies. I hope you all have a ...
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
This is a tasty holiday meal. It is very low maintenance, though it takes awhile. The leftovers are great for breakfast, in beans, in sandwiches, and in all sorts of things. The bone makes a wonderful ham stock for soups. We had this along with a ...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner, and finished it off with pumpkin pie. I got some organic canned pumpkin this year that just seemed much tastier than the usual kind. I follow the recipe on the Libby can, but modify the spices to our tastes.
Thanksgiving Dinner
Brined turkey with ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
This recipe is a combination of several I've tried over the years. It's very moist and just on the border between breakfast and dessert, especially with the addition of chocolate chips :-)
Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips
Makes 2 9" x 5" loaves (about 24 servings)
1 15-oz ...
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Well, we didn't make it to the Fremont Oktoberfest this year, but we did have a nice lunch in the spirit of the event - fresh bratwurst boiled in Possmann Frankfurter Applewine, made in Germany, and then browned up in a skillet, similar to my previous recipe. The apple ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
A nice Sunday dinner tonight - roast leg of lamb, potato wedges, and roasted broccoli. We're not to familiar with lamb, so this was an experiment, which we quite enjoyed. I just did a simple kosher salt and pepper rub and roasted it along with the veggies. ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
For breakfast I fried some eggs and deli ham and put them on toasted sourdough english muffins. A quick and filling breakfast. We also hard boiled some eggs, but no pictures of those.
For dinner, we had prime rib with some boiled potatoes and roasted broccoli, much like our ...
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
This is our traditional Christmas dinner. I usually make a yorkshire pudding with some of the pan drippings, but since it was just Shaun and I this year, I skipped it. I cooked the roast to a perfect medium rare, and we had some boiled potatoes and roasted ...
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