I make these nuts every year for Christmas, and the fan club grows with each passing year. I include them in little ribbon-tied plastic bags in the tins with other home-made Christmas goodies, but I also have plenty of extras for the table after Christmas dinner.

It’s nice to know that they’re a bit healthier than some of the holiday treats that we splurge on during the holiday season. Best of all, they are very fast and easy to make.

I first learned the recipe one year when a friend gave them to me as a gift.

Ingredients:

1 egg white You can use the equivalent in reconstituted egg white powder.

1/2 pound raw nuts I generally use pecans or walnuts. Almonds or hazelnuts might also be nice. (Don’t use nuts that are already roasted or salted.) Read More »

One of my family’s favorite holiday recipes is for Mini-Cheesecakes. Really, who doesn’t love cheesecake? I also happen to love all things mini.

Cheesecake + mini = perfection, at least for me.

My mom has been making these little delights for years and we pass them out like other families hand out Christmas cookies.

I wish I knew where the original recipe came from. It was probably the cream cheese package or some random magazine of I know my mom, which I do! The Mini-Cheesecakes are also always a hit at pot lucks and just about any function you’d want to bring food to.

I often get special requests for them at work. They also make a great bake sale item!

I usually have to make double what I was going to so I still have enough when I leave the house. My husband and our roommate scarf them down like potato chips.

The ingredients are as follows: Read More »

My sister first made this recipe at Christmas about 10 years ago. It was a big hit with the family and now they expect her to make it every year! Heaven forbid that Judy show up without her famous Stained Glass Window candies!

She always makes several batches and takes them to various family gatherings in cute holiday tins. These would even make a neat gift for someone who doesn’t have dietary limitations.

Needless to say, the kids all love them! Luckily, it is very simple to make, and contains few ingredients. It is inexpensive as well. Here is the recipe, so that maybe you can start a tradition for your family holiday!

Stained Glass Windows

12oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips Read More »

I remember growing up that my grandmother made the best crunchy cookies for Christmas every year and I just could not get enough of them.

I would eat them as fast as she would make them.

When I was about 15, my grandmother pulled me aside and explained that the cookies were called Rosettes which were a Scandinavian cookie and that her mother had made them and she wanted to pass the tradition on to me.

The cookies are easy to make, the most difficult part was to find the iron used to make the cookies, but my grandmother had given me hers.

The recipe is quite easy. It calls for: Read More »

This recipe is called Christmas Crunch, my grandma used to make it for me as a child.

Ingredients:

2 cups white sugar
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups crispy rice cereal
1 cup cashews

Directions: Grease one 10×15 inch baking pan. In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, corn syrup and water; bring to a boil, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Read More »

My peanut butter Toll House cookies are the best.

What you need is
a double boiler,
peanut butter,
cooking wax,
semi sweet chocolate morsels,
and wax paper.

What you do to begin is make cracker sandwiches out of the crackers and peanut butter. I usually pick up the Toll House Christmas tree crackers for the holidays.

Once you have all your cracker sandwiches made you take your double boiler and add water to the bottom pot. Once you do that add half a block of cooking wax (paraffin I do believe) and some of the semi-sweet chocolate chips to the top pot and sit it into the boiler pot. Read More »

My all time favorite Rum Balls recipe is easy to make in the Christmas season to delight all friends. It is easy, no-bake recipe which will be a big hit. It is simple to make and very yummy to resist. This recipe makes 36 pieces.

INGREDIENTS
3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
1/2 cup ground pecans
3 tablespoons cocoa Read More »

One of my favorite dishes to have at Christmas dinner is scallop potatoes. I got the recipe of scallop potatoes from my Mom who got it from her mother and I think that’s one of the reasons it’s my favorite.

When I make this dish I think about my grandmother and it’s almost like she’s still with me. Whenever I make this dish from scratch, it gives me a warm sentimental feeling. This is a dish that I really enjoy making for others; it makes me feel like I am sharing a little bit of my family with them. Read More »

My favorite Christmas recipe is called fruit salad. I got the recipe from my mother and it is very easy to make. All you need is several cans of fruit cocktail and a container of cool whip.

You drain the juice from the fruit cocktail and put it in a bowl and then you mix in the cool whip. For an extra special touch, you can put maraschino cherries on top or maybe some cut up bananas.

You could even put in a few drops of food coloring to make it different colors, like red or green for Christmas. Read More »

I am not sure exactly where this recipe came from, but I remember it well from my grandmother, my dad’s mom. She lived on a farm and made, grew or raised almost all of her own food.

We always celebrated the holidays with my mother’s parents, and this recipe was always my grandmothers (dads mom) contribution to the meal.

We ate it with our holiday meal on homemade rolls and for days after on toast. The more batches or double batch you make the more to enjoy! Here it is!

Cranberry Orange Marmalade
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