Well, a usual tradition around here is sharing recipes.
I haven't seen any of the oldtimers do this yet and I know the Thanksgiving Holiday is only two days away but I have decided to share anyway.
I found this recipe last week and am planning on making it for breakfast on Thanksgiving, something easy and simple to keep the masses at bay while dinner is making the house smell wonderful...
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Make new memories, share old ones. Keep traditions and find what you are thankful for this year.
Crumb Topped Cranberry Eggnog Muffins
(Makes 12 muffins)
For the muffins:
2 cups flour
3/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
3/4 cup eggnog
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup fresh cranberries
For the crumb topping:
1/2 cup sugar
5 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin pans with paper liners. Now youre ready to make the muffin batter. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg. In a medium bowl, combine the egg, eggnog, vegetable oil, and vanilla. Add this wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir until just combined. Gently stir in the cranberries.
To make the topping, combine the sugar, flour, and nutmeg in a small bowl; whisk to blend. Add the butter pieces and cut them in with a pastry blender or a fork until the texture resembles wet sand.
Next, fill the lined muffins tins 3/4 full of batter. Then top with crumb topping. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Thanks Cat
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
I ate too much but isnt that what it is all about!
Yum I will save this for Christmas week.
I will post some fun recipe too. I love sharing ideas.
Hey Cat!
Thanks for this recipe and the others.
One of my Thanksgiving traditions is to make cranberry bread, a favorite of the family. It was very time consuming though to wash and chop up the cranberries. Sometimes the bread came out a little dry.
Now, instead of using raw whole cranberries, I use canned whole cranberry jelly. It makes the bread so much moister. I don't use quite as much of it as the raw cranberry.
Everyone likes the bread even better.
I'm going to try it with your recipe for muffins. Will let everyone know how it worked out.
Thanks for starting this thread!
Oatmeal-Coconut-Chocolate Chunk Cookies
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening
3/4 cup butter, softened
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
3 cups long cooking oats
2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
2 cups chocolate chunks semi-sweet
1 cup chopped pecans
Beat sugars, shortening and butter with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until combined. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to sugar mixture, blending well. Stir in remaining ingredients.
Drop dough by 2 tablespoonfuls onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool 3 minutes on baking sheets;remove cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
That is the recipe as written. I made them by the one tablespoon full, and had to bake them a few minutes longer. Just take them out when they are golden brown. Made over 6 dozen.
Those sound really good.
I had a bit of an issue with cookies last Christmas (they were all my favorites) so I am trying to stay away from that this year.
I will be posting some more recipies this week hopefully.
And where is everyone else?
Do we have a bunch of Scrooge's this year?
On another note, I was doing some research last night about my elderly dog. She has been acting very strangely.
I think she is developing the dog form of Alzheimers. Can you believe that there is actually a version of this for dogs?
It is called Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome. She has been exhibiting many of the physical symptoms for a long time and is starting to show some of the behaviorial issues. And other days, she is like a puppy.
Anyway, just sharing because, well, I am
And other days, she is like a puppy.
Maybe she has childhood issues?
Just wanted to post at 12:12, on 12/12/12
Cape Cod Glazed, Cranberry Orange Cake
8 tbl spoons unsalted butter
1 C granulated sugar
2 lg eggs
2 tsp orange zest
1.5 C all purpose flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
.5 tsp salt
1/3 cup orange juice
2 C frozen or fresh cranberries
Ingredients for glaze
8 tbl spoons unsalted butter
3 tbl spoons orange juice
1/3 C sugar
Heat oven to 350 degrees
Cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Combine eggs and orange zest with sugar and butter mixture until light. Mix dry ingredients together, set aside. Stir juice and cranberries into butter/egg mixture then fold in dry ingredients just until mixed. Bake in a well greased and floured 9 in tube pan at 350 until cake springs back when lightly touched - don't over bake (about 40-45 minutes in my oven).
Melt together the glaze ingredients. When cake comes out and is still hot, pour glaze over it. Let cake cool 1 hour before removing from pan.
Notes: to keep from over cooking, keep a close eye on the cake. remember it will continue to cook in the pan once removed. A toothpick should come out clean, but not much more than that else the cake will be dry with a beautiful glaze
Merry Christmas!
AJ
Hi cat, I lost my dog a little over a year ago, he was 15. I think he had the dog version of Alzheimers. His whole life he would walk to the door and bark to go out, but the last few months he would walk to the door and forget to bark, and then pee right there. Other things like that too, he just didn't understand anymore. I still miss him a lot, and it was just last week I finally gathered enough emotional strength to take his old blanket out and burn it. I cried like a baby the whole time.
The recipes all sound so yummy!
In keeping with the holiday theme...
Pumpkin Gnocchi With Sage Butter
Ingredients:
■1 (15 oz.) Can Pumpkin Puree (drain excess water)
■Salt & Pepper
■Dash Of Nutmeg
■2 3/4 Cups All-Purpose Flour
■1/3 Cup Melted Butter
■6-7 Finely Chopped Sage Leaves
■1 Large Clove Garlic, Minced
■Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese
Directions:
1.Mix together the flour, pumpkin and seasonings to make a soft dough.
2.Add additional flour if the dough is sticky or does not hold together.
3.Divide the dough into 6 parts, and on a lightly floured surface, roll each piece into a rope about 1 inch in diameter.
4.Cut the rope into 1 inch pieces and roll each lightly along the floured surface.
5.Continue using up all the dough in this fashion. Place on a lightly floured baking sheet. You can refrigerate the gnocchi until you are ready to cook them.
6.Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a slow boil.
7.Cook the gnocchi in lightly salted boiling water for until the gnocchi rise to the surface and float.
Sauce
1.Place the butter in a small saucepan and heat.
2.Add the garlic and sage.
3.Remove gnocchi from the water, mix with the butter sage sauce, and serve topped with the freshly grated cheese.
Notes:
Be careful not to overwork or overknead the dough; you simply want to incorporate the flour into the pumpkin puree
WCW,
I am so sorry about your dog. It is something, that while I know is coming, is not something I am looking forward to in any way. I also don't want to watch her suffer and I am afraid the day may come that I have to make a decision that I don't want to think about right now.
Yea the recipies do sound good. There should be another thread or two around here that have some really incredible ones on there as well.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday.
Good to see you around.
Cranberry-Apple Casserole
3 C peeled and chopped apples
2 C raw cranberries
1 1/4 C granulated sugar
1 stick butter
1/3 C flour
1/2 C brown sugar
1 1/2 C quick rolled oats
1/2 C cholled pecans
Preheat oven to 350
Wash cranberries and combine with the chopped apples and granulated sugar. Spoon into 2-quart buttered casserole.
Cream together the butter, flour and brown sugar. Stir in the oats and pecans and spread over the top of the casserole. Bake 1 hour.
This is SO good!
I dunno Cat about the pumpki gnocchi?. Gonna look at it again tomorrow. When my D and I made Mach chilli she ask if it was pumpkin pie? But we both thought it was good:.)
pastel de papas
Lay the left over empanadas meat in a pan. Make mash potatoes lay it over the meat cook for 30 minutes. Gain 5 lbs. good stuff
You know, I think it will be good with the sage butter.
The reviews say it doesn't taste too pumpkiny, that its for effect kinda like spinach noodles.
They say that the key to good gnocchi is how you bake the potatoes. Still looking for further detail on that...
This is my Grandmothers famous "family only" Brownie recipe I decided that you guys are really like my family now so I am sharing it with you.
If you think that any boxed brownie mix is good this is amazingly rich !! -- She used to add walnuts and RAISINS sometimes - I know the raisins sound weird but they were killer -- I hope you enjoy it !!!
Sunny
Brownies
Preheat oven to 350 !!!
Grease and parchment paper a 13 x 9 x 2 inch pan
2 sticks sweet butter
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
4 large eggs
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
Melt butter and chocolate in double boiler.
Whip eggs together in a large bowl whisk in sugars and vanilla, stir in butter and chocolate mixture than fold in flour.
Pour batter into pan level bake 45-50 minutes.
Let cool cut.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Merry Christmas to you too. I hope your holidays are going to be filled with fun and family gatherings.
Reviving an old thread...
Turkey Avocado BLT
BACON !!!
Sliced deli Turkey
2 Avocados
Sour cream
Lemon Juice
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Salt
Black pepper
Sourdough bread
lettuce
Tomatoes
First, make a BACON weave..
3 strips, cut in half. Weave them like a basket to form a roughly 4 inch square. Bake at 350, on a broiler pan, until desired crispness is achieved.
While the BACON is cooking, make an Avocado mash...
Cut up avocados into small chunks. In a bowl, add about a tsp of lemon juice, 1/2 tsp of garlic powder, tsp of onion powder. Add a dollop of sour cream (about a rounded TBL) and mash until you get a tight mix. Salt and Pepper to taste.
Toast bread, and add avocado mash to both sides, then place turkey, lettuce, tomato, and a BACON weave when they are done...
wow...love it. I don't have time now, but I'm going to add a recipe here too.
I knew my ears were burning for some reason.
Hey Mach! Thanks for dragging this up.
I still need to try AJM's recipe.
Sjohns6...how is that recipe coming?