July 8- Christmas in July
Posted on | July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
Christmas Song Bingo
Here are today’s words. Good luck!
Good King Wenceslas
We Three Kings
A Child This Day is Born
RECIPE THURSDAY
Every Thursday we will delight your palettes with delectable, tried and true recipes for various occasions direct from the kitchens on our own design team members. We’re starting with Christmas recipes today! We will also cover summer/picnic recipes, other holidays (anyone have a good recipe for green St. Patrick’s Day cookies?) and the last week will be pot luck. This recipe collection will be dual-purposed. They may be recipes that are good to take to a pot luck, or the collection itself will be a pot luck! This will be the place to find our designers’ favorite recipes that don’t fit into another category.
Perhaps you can use some of these recipes or a collection of your own favorite recipes for a special family scrapbook! Below is bonus sketch #2! You can use this sketch as the basis of a simple family recipe album. You can get half-size binders and sheet protectors at most office supply stores for a durable binder that will hold up to years of use and spills. These normally hold 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ paper (half a sheet of standard paper or cardstock).
Print recipes on white or colored copy paper or cardstock, cut the recipes to the desired size, mount them on a coordinating-colored half-sheet of cardstock, add a strip of patterned paper and a square at the top identifying what category your recipe would fit into. Viola! A Simple recipe book!
Perhaps you could use a different color combo for each category, or a different pattern of paper. Maybe you don’t want a working cookbook-type album, but a display album? Have traditional family recipes, favorite holiday recipes or Christmas cookies that are fixtures in your family celebrations and want to preserve them for generations to come? Simply adjust the dimensions to fit whatever display album you choose.
Have a favorite recipe you’d like to share? Add it as a comment below! Have you already made a recipe album or did you make one using this post and sketch? Post a link to it below using Inlinkz! We’d love to see them!
Now doesn’t that sound yummy?! Bon appetit!
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Christmas Spritz Cookies
from Caryl
6 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
pinch of salt
2 cups (4 sticks) butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bown mix flour, baking powder and salt.
3. In a seperate bowl cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture gradually. If it’s dry you can add a little milk.
4. Fill a cookie press with dough, and pipe cookies onto an ungreased baking sheet. Top with cookie sugar!
5. Bake for 7-8 minutes until the bottom edges are turning golden. Cool on a wire rack.
I LOVE to dye some of the dough green or red to make them even more festive!
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Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies
from SarahKaye
Preheat oven to 375*.
Cream together:
2C shortening
6 oz cream cheese
1C sugar
Beat in 2t vanilla.
Gradually blend in 4C flour.
Roll into small balls and flatten on ungreased cookie sheet with thumb. Fill in impression after baking with colored frosting or before baking with jam. Bake at 375* for 8-10 minutes. Watch closely for browning and remove at once to cooling racks.
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Eggs Benedict Casserole
from Arielle
1½ hours | 20 min prep
SERVES 10
Ingredients:
6 English muffins
10-12 ounces Canadian bacon (2 packages, or use diced ham)
8 large eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup half and half
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 teaspoons dijon mustard
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
cooking spray
1/2 teaspoon paprika
Directions
1 Lightly toast muffins & cut into 1/2-inch cubes. Set aside. Cut Canadian bacon into 1/2-inch squares. Set aside. Whisk the eggs well in a 2-quart bowl. Whisk in milk and next 5 ingredients.
2 Spray a 9-by-13-inch glass or ceramic baking dish with cooking oil spray. Scatter half the Canadian bacon evenly in bottom of dish. Scatter muffin cubes on top of Canadian bacon. Top with the remaining Canadian bacon, scattering it evenly over the bread. Pour egg mixture over the casserole. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight, or at least 8 hours, to let bread absorb egg mixture.
3 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Remove casserole from refrigerator and uncover it. Lightly sprinkle the paprika evenly over the top. Cover the casserole with foil and bake for 40 minutes. Remove dish from the oven, remove foil, return dish to the oven and continue to bake, uncovered, until the eggs are set and the bacon on top begins to crisp, about 20 minutes more. Remove the casserole from oven and let it stand 5 minutes before serving.
4 While casserole bakes, make Hollandaise Sauce.
To serve, cut casserole into squares and place them on plates. Spoon about 2 tablespoons (or to taste) warm Hollandaise Sauce over each serving just before serving.
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Homemade Chocolate Candy
from SarahKaye
The flavors of this delicious, easy-to-make candy are only limited by the ingredients you choose. It’s so popular that the one year I didn’t make it I got a lot of complaints. 
Basic recipe:
Melt chocolate (you can use anything from high-quality candy-making chocolate you get at specialty stores to regular chocolate chips- you can even go half and half to reduce cost) and stir in whatever stir-ins you have chosen. Pour onto cookie sheets. Shake gently and drop cookie sheet flat on the counter a few times to even it out. (Spreading with a spatula or spoon leaves an uneven surface and you lose candy by it sticking to the utensil.) Place in the freezer if there’s enough room (I just put it outside since I make it around Christmas time and it’s plenty cold here) until hard. Break into pieces. You can use a spoon, your hands or just drop the cookie sheet on the counter again, depending on how hard your base chocolate is and how large you want the chunks.
Variations:
*white, milk or dark chocolate with peppermint crunch (You can find this at cake decorating stores. It is red and green and is less sticky than crushed candy canes- doesn’t get stuck in your teeth when you chew it.)
*Milk chocolate with crushed Heath pieces (can be found in bags with the choc chips at the grocery store)
*Dark chocolate with toasted coconut
*create your own!
WEEKLY SKETCH
And don’t forget about our regular weekly sketches! This week’s sketch post #62 can be found here. We want to see your projects using this week’s sketch!
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July 8th, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
Awesome Recipes
cannot wait to try them out.