Homestead Blessings Giveaway
December16
Franklin Springs Media has a new dvd out!
Homestead Blessings: The Art of Cooking
Put on your apron, warm up the oven and savor The Art of Cooking. With years of experience preparing delectable southern recipes, the West Ladies – Vicki, Jasmine, Hannah, and CeCe – teach a wealth of fun and helpful kitchen essentials that will make your culinary adventures richly memorable.
Econobusters is giving away a copy of this awesome dvd!
Here is how you can enter:
Leave a comment with the answer to this question: What is your favorite Christmas recipe?
Contest will close on December 23rd. The winner will be announced on December 26th.
Good luck!
My favorite Christmas recipe is my moms blackberry jam cake with homemade caramel icing… it is sooooo yummy!!
We actually found in recently in a KY historical cookbook with great great (great??) grandmothers name in title (Martha Creech’s Jam Cake). Mom doesn’t remember where it came from except it was in family so that was interesting to see
What is your favorite Christmas recipe?
I’d have to say, coffee cake. I like to have my coffee cake anytime, but it wouldn’t be Christmas without having some on Christmas morning. The recipe I use lets me roll the dough very thin. I use several different recipes for fillings. The one that is ‘coffee cake’ for me is a poppyseed filling. I also make a date/orange/walnut filling, a cream cheese filling, and of course, there has to be cinnamon in several forms–cinnamon rolls, cinnamon raisin bread, cinnamon knots. I have a small batch of dough rising now, and I can’t wait til I can get the finished product out of the oven!
Merry CHRISTmas!
I’m not sure I have 1 favorite recipe…..what we do love having is wassail and “monkey” bread for breakfast on Christmas morning.
Its very simple, but I truly LOVE spritz cookies! You can do so much with them and I make probably a million of them during the holidays. Give them to neighbors and people at work,ect.
My favorite Christmas recipe is this Cheerios snack mix that my mother always makes- cheerios, pretzels, spices, cheese crackers, and cashews. Mmmm.
My favorite is a traditional holiday cookie. They are called crustelies and come from many generations of my people from southern Italy. The dough is made,basically, with eggs, flour, vanilla, sugar, butter, BP and BS. The dough is then rolled into various shapes by the whole family (braided wreaths, twisted canes, xmas balls etc.) then deep fried. No one can eat just one. The best part is the family sitting around the table, reliving past holidays, asking questions about their roots and just enjoying each others company. That’s what Christmas is all about.
My favorite is a recipe for old fashion raisin filled cookies. My Grndmather used to make them and now my mother does.
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Divinity, Mom showed me how to make it years ago and I’m so glad, she had a stroke 7 years ago and can no longer talk I’m so glad of the time we spent together talking and cooking together. I still have my mom but would love to be able to hear her talk again and I will in heaven.
Not sure if this is really a Christmas recipe, but my Mom’s pecan pie! It’s amazing, and she makes it every Christmas!
the new from fresh cranberry sauce recipe I put together, soo easy
My favorite Christmas recipe is my Grandma’s fudge recipe. It is more delectable than any other fudge I have ever had. She used to make it when she was really young. Once when she was 8 years old her father left her and her brother home for over a week in Helena, MT and they made fudge and sold it to pay for food.
I think my favorite Christmas recipe is this apple bread pudding I usually make for breakfast.
My grandma makes the best caramels! She isn’t a big baker, but her Christmas candies are the best.
My mom makes fantastic red velvet cake. I have yet to try the recipe myself, because I remember the first year my mom made it, her whole kitchen was red!
NUT ROLL for sure!!! Absolutely yummy. Tasty yeast dough is refrigerated overnight. Next day rolled jelly-roll style with a sweet nut filling, then topped with sugar and baked. For many years a friend made this for us at holiday time; sometimes making two as our family got bigger. It’s yummy with a cup of tea. Unfortunately, I never got the recipe and I no longer have contact with this person. I’ve found a “suitable” substitute, but it’s still not quite the same.
Our favorite holiday recipe is Raisin Cake. It is something that we only do at this time of year.
I love to make spritz cookies. As a child, I would make them with my best friend. Now I make them with my kids. Now there are so many memories in that one simple cookie!
My favorite recipe is my mama’s homemade dressing. It is the best I have ever eaten.I looked forward to it every Christmas.
Our favorite Christmas recipe has to be cereal snack mix–it disappears almost as fast as it cools.
My favorite recipe for Chrimastime is a new recipe to me. It is called Reindeer Food. My family loves it! And it is so simple to make and easy to share. – Kathy
Making candy cane cookie….I have great memories of baking these with my mom and now I am making more memories baking them with my kids.
Every year for the past 20 years, I’ve made cranberry orange cookies – the pucker from the cranberries is always a delight!
My favorite Christmas recipe is pecan pie muffins. Easy, delicious, and yummy enough for company.
My favorite Christmas recipe would be my mom’s sugar cookie recipe. It is the only one that I’ve come across that uses powdered sugar as opposed to granulated. They are soooo good with almond extract instead of vanilla also. I like to slightly underbake these cookies, so they stay nice and chewy – no crispy cookies for me!
Wow, this is a hard one! I love so many Christmas-time goodies. I would have to say that chocolate covered cherries are my absolute favorite Christmas season goodie.
My favorite recipe is my mom’s apple cake. She makes it every Christmas. When I was young, I would get to eat it for breakfast.
My favorite recipe is the Cranberry bread we make at the first of the holiday season. The pretty read berries look like Christmas as we mix them into the dough and Oh! the taste…yum!
My mom makes candied pecans that are SOOO yummy
My favorite Christmas recipe is more about the experience than it is about the actual food. It’s my mom’s cut-out sugar cookies. I still remember the process and the joy we shared when we decorated those cookies. Now my kids share the fun with Nana. My son is 15 and he still wouldn’t miss out on the annual tradition. The only difference is that now we also do gingerbread cookies and we use frosting on some cookies (we just did sprinkles when I was growing up).
my favorite christmas recipe is for buckeyes – because i only allow them in the house once a year (also known as “chocolate-covered peanut butter balls”).
~liz
I love all Christmas food! Just reading these comments makes me hungry =) I love cranberry fudge, cheeseball, good old chocolate chip cookies…it’s all wonderful!
My favorite recipe is a corned beef dip recipe my husband makes up every year. It serves it in a large hollowed out sour dough bread bowl and it’s always a hit.
I believe my mom’s Christmas quiche is my favorite holiday recipe. She always makes 2- 1 bacon/cheese/green onion and 1 broccoli/cheese. Yum!
I would say candied sweet potatoes. I would also have to say pumpkin whoopie pies. These taste so much like pumpkin roll. I have a hard time rolling the pumpkin.
Susan
My favorite would have to be gingerbread cookies, made with the kids of course. We all have such fond memories of making these every year since the kids were really little. Every year it is the most treasured memory.
Cindy
My favorite recipe is cream cheese logs, yum. You use bread as your log and mix cream cheese and sugar together. Use it as your filling. After you have flattened your bread you spread in on there and roll it up. You then roll it in melted butter and then roll it in cinnamon and sugar mixture. Bake about 20 min. in oven. They are so good. You can add whatever you like to them like apples. Good with icecream. Good with breakfast. Not healthy though. I guess it is cheap though. And easy. LOVE IT!
Most definitely, dressing. You have to say “dressin’” though or else it doesn’t taste as good. It’s a southern thing. You wouldn’t understand. Bless your heart.
My first favorite is cinnamon rolls for breakfast is my favorite. The recipe tastes just like cinnabon’s so they are huge and yummy. My second favorite is fudge. Enough said!
I make a yummy egg bake on Christmas morning.
I like these cracker bars that are super easy to make. They are made with saltines, brown sugar, butter and chocolate chips. Super yummy.
My favorite Christmas recipe is my famous Mamaw’s Cheeseball. Everyone, including the grandchildren, love it. I usually am asked to make it for most all holidays and special ocassions. Thanks for the contest.
My favorite Christmas recipe is my grandmother’s gingerbread cookies. It was such a comfort smell the cookies baking in the house. What a treat!
She was wonderful to pass the recipe on to me and I bake the cookies every holiday.
My favorite Christmas recipe is my mother’s cherry cheese cake. Yum!!
Makes you want to grab your snuggie, a slice of cheese cake and relax on the couch.
My favorite Christmas recipe? Boy, that’s a hard one to narrow down…I guess I would have to say the dressing my dad makes every year. This has been passed down from his family…an old German favorite!!
I have a major sweet tooth, so my favorite holiday food is cookies, all types of cookies, but especially anise flavored pizzelles.
My favorite Christmas recipe is chocolate chip cookies (the Nestle Tollhouse recipe) made with peppermint extract instead of the vanilla. Yummy!
One of my favorites is homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast with cream cheese frosting. My husband’s family did that when he was growing up and we are carrying on the tradition!
There’s many, many yummies this time of year, but my kids and I like to make rock candy. It’s a simple sugar and corn syrup recipe that we make with many color/flavor combination. My favorites are red-cinnamon and green-peppermint. I grew up with this and now my girls are making it, too!
One of my favorite recipes at Christmas times is peppermint bark. I love all the peppermint recipes at the holidays, but peppermint bark is so easy and yummy that it has become one of my favorites.
My favorite CHRISTmas recipe is our families traditional Clam Dip that has been passed down for 4 generations. It is a must!
Thank you so much for the generous contest.
My favorite thing to bake at Christmas is gingerbread men. Also, on Christmas morning we make home made turkey sausage that is very yummy!
my fav christmas recipe is my mother’s cookies! i don’t know what they are called but they sure are good. we just call them the chocolate kiss cookies.
my mom always makes a chocolate cake at christmas that is really good!
my favorite recipe is cherry delight…. I look forward to this every year!
What is your favorite Christmas recipe?
I love a Cherry Blossom Cookie I make every year at Christmas. The recipe is on my blog http://flouronmyface.blogspot.com
arlene
pizzelles – yummy italian cookies!
Gingersnaps and Peanut Butter Bon-Bons!
My most favorite thing to make for Christmas is Coffee Punch and Rum and brown sugar sausage for Christmas breakfast. My dearest friend Cherie who was killed in a tragic airplane crash 20 years ago served this and gave me the recipe. I have made it ever since in her memory.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Eggnog is our favorite Christmas food. My recipe uses vanilla pudding in place of the eggs and is non-alcoholic. It is a fabulous recipe that turns out every time and is delicious. The children are begging for me to make it now and usually one of them asks for it for their birthday during the year. Thank you for offering the giveaway!
We make homemade granola that is out of this world delicious! We package it up in cute bags and give it away or sometimes we put it in jars and give it away. Then we make some for ourselves and sit down to watch some Christmas-time television and eat it while we drink an icy cold Coke! Yum! Sometimes people like to put it on ice cream.
We have had a tradition for many years in my family of my parents making sauerkraut balls for Christmas. I know it doesn’t sound very Christmasty, but it’s something that we all look forward to every year. They’re delicious!
My favorite Christmas recipe is my Polish grandmother’s potato and cheese pierogies. I’m the only one who would make them any more–and haven’t done so in a few years, since it’s a great labor and I haven’t been brave enough to do it with all the littles.
However, we may have them this year, since I’m thinking about it!
My favourites are usually gingerbased… dark ginger cake, gingerbread cookies and soft gingerbread drops. This year the fingerprint cookies have also been very popular!
My favorite christmas recipe is the chocolate covered chex mix…. my grandma used to make it when we were coming into town for Christmas and it was great. We haven’t made it in a few years, maybe I will make it this year. The last few years we have been making cranberry tea, and it has become a tradition but I’m thinking of skipping it this year….
There isn’t much involved in my favorite Christmas recipe, but without a recipe it can be disaster- roasted chestnuts.
My favorite Christmas recipe is my gingerbread loaves. I took several recipes, took the largest spice measurement from each, replaced the maple syrup of one with blackstrap molasses, and cut the sugar to 1/3 the original amount because with all that flavor, you don’t need the sugar. I use whole wheat flour and bake them up in large batches to give to our neighbors and friends, keeping 2-3 large loaves for ourselves. They are delicious plain or spread with sweetened or unsweetened cream cheese.
My favorite Christmas recipe is White Hot Chocolate (that all my friends make me bring to get-togethers), Oreo Balls/Cookies, and good old-fashioned Sausage Balls! YUM, YUM!!
My favorite Christmas recipe is my mother’s bonbons – I look forward to them every year! This year after the holidays, she’s going to have a bonbon tutoring session for me!
My favorite Christmas Recipe? Hard to say. We make homemade caramels and fudge and lot’s of cookies.
We make homemade Chex mix for gifts each year. The curry smells so good. This year, I am making Buckeyes for the first time. We’ll see if that becomes a tradition. My Grandma always made them and I sure loved eating them
My favorite CHRISTmas recipe is the pull apart bread that we make for CHRISTmas morning. I started this a few years ago and the children love to help me make this. I also love cinnamon rolls that my Mom makes.
My favorite recipe for Christmas is my mom’s Peanut Butter Balls- They are made with graham crackers, PB, and confectioner’s sugar rolled together and dipped in either white or dark Chocolate. She’s made them every year (usually several batches) since I was a child. My whole family looks forward to them.
My favorite Christmas cookie is one my grandmother use to make. She died in 1976, and until about 6 years ago we did not have the recipe for that cookie. We tried several from her ccok books, but none tasted like this one cookie. Then an older lady from our church gave a recipe to my mom and told her it was one my grandmother use to make. We tried it and the memories with that first bite came flooding back. We found it! My husband has named them “Memory Cookies”. It is amazing how tastes and smells bring back memories of long ago. God is good!
My favorite is my mothers oatmeal cake with that special frosting of coconut and pecans. Shes past away and it makes the even more special because its part of her.
my favorite recipe is homemade fudge my grandma makes every year for christmas.
Double chocolate mint treasures!
Yesterday at a Christmas party, I had caramel pie that was amazing and the directions are incredibly easy. Take a can of sweetened condensed milk, remove the label, and boil it in a tall pot of water for 3.5 hours (yes, that long). Then, let the can cool a little bit and pour into a graham cracker crust. Then, top with whipped topping, chopped nuts and mini chocolate chips. Unbelievably YUMMY!
My favorite holiday recipe is super-buttery butter cookies with one edge dipped in chocolate! Mmmmmm! I also roll them in nuts, organic coconut flakes or crushed peppermint sticks after I dip them in chocolate. They are delicious with coffee! =)
Merry Christmas!
Donna
Christmas at our house always includes peanut butter fudge which we take along with other treats to our neighbors.
My favorite recipe is my mom’s nut roll and poppyseed rolls. My Great Grandmother taught her how to make them. It is fun to hear my mom talk about learning to make them.
My favorite Christmas recipe is pecan sticky rolls for Christmas breakfast. Yum!
My favorite Christmas recipe is Sausage Balls. My family looks forward to eating them while we open gifts every year. Simple ingredients that hit the spot – sausage, cheese and biscuit mix!
My favorite Christmas recipe is for Raisin Clusters. The recipe calls for 1 package of white almond bark, 1 cup peanut butter, and a package of raisins. Melt the bark, stir in the peanut butter and raisins, and drop the clusters by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Let them harden in the fridge and then they are ready to serve. They don’t need to be refrigerated. They may not last very long anyway. They’ll be eaten up quickly. This recipe comes from the school cafeteria from when I was a kid.
My favorite recipe is Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls with Cream cheese & honey frosting. I only make the jumbos once a year but they are so delicious and we really enjoy them!
Cheese fondue!! (The real authentic homemade Swiss recipe,not the kind from a box!)
My favorite Christmas recipes are Candied Sweet Potatoes or Sweet Potato Pie. They remind me of my dear sweet grandmother who went on to Jesus in 2008. I grew up cooking with her–standing on a stool when I wasn’t tall enough to see the stovetop.
My favorite is sugar cookies, but not because they taste so good. They are my favorite because of our tradition of getting together with my cousin and her children to make them. We have a wonderful time and make terrific memories with our children.
Pumpkin roll and cinnamon buns and pearl onions! Oh, my!
I love my Grandma’s potatoes that are baked with cheese and red and green peppers. The best part is the crusty cheese on the side of the dish. Everybody fights over that part!
My homemade cinnamon buns that I make on Christmas Eve to enjoy on Christmas morning!
My favorite Christmas recipe is peppermint bark. My guys love to gobble it up.
My favorite Christmas receipe is monkey bread that has just come out of the oven. My whole family loves it. I would just love to win this dvd from Homestead blessings!
My favorite Christmas recipe is my mom’s Christmas pudding recipe. I think it is a recipe that has been handed down a few generations. She makes it in November and it tastes scrumptious on Christmas with a special white sauce. The pudding is full of fruit. I guess I should learn to make it so I can pass the recipe down to my children!
My absolute favorite is a simple sugar cookie recipe that can be rolled out & cut into holiday shapes. It is just crunchy enough and has the best taste. It always puts me in the Christmas mood!!
My favorite recipe is peanut butter cookies w/ Hershey kisses on top. YUMMMMMMMMMMM!
my favorite recipe is a red cake my husband makes and then we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.
My favorite Christmas recipe is Christmas Card Cut-outs. They are an absolutely delicious spice cookie that can be cut into any shape. Originally the recipe called for making them in the shape of giant christmas Cards. Thus the name. They are so yummy we usually make several batches.
My kids would say their favorite is a cranberry chutney we make with fresh cranberries, blueberries and apples – takes some of the tartness out! I just love getting together with all the family – it makes everything taste heavenly! P.S. LOVE the West ladies!
My mother’s homemade cinnamon rolls. It has been passed down from her Swedish grandmother and now my 13 yr old daughter makes them for a special Christmas treat!
I love all the cookies and desserts. My favorite is Lefse…my in-laws make it. YUM!!!
I make tiger butter candy every year for Christmas at my children’s request. So easy to make…3 ingredients…and delicious!
My favorite Christmas recipe is Fantasy Fudge. The kids don’t think it is Christmas if I don’t make it for them!
My favorite Christmas dish is a breakfast casserole with sausage and eggs in it. I can just make it the night/day before, pop it in the oven in the morning and we can have something a little special for Christmas morning. I also get to spend time with my children instead of cooking!
My favorite would have to be my mother’s Christmas spiced tea. It just isn’t the holidays without it. So yummy and comforting during the cold weather.
Even though it’s not technically a Christmas recipe, I love my mother’s waffle recipe. It has a sauce that makes it divine!
My favorite Christmas recipe is my mother in law’s Hot Spiced Cider. It truely warms the soul and is amust at our Christmas gatherings.
My favorite Christmas goodie is peanut butter fudge. I just made a second batch this afternoon! YUMMY!
Soft sugar cookies would hit the spot.
My favourite Christmas recipe is a Christmas cake recipe from a friend of the family. It is so popular at our house that we often make it for birthdays as well!
My favorite Christmas Recipe is a molded strawberry jello salad. It looks so “Christmassy,” and tastes wonderful.
My favorite is pignoli cookies. This is a tradition that came from my Italian husband. But I love making these with the kids and eating them!
This is not a “Christmas” recipe, but a Christmas tradition at our house. Instead of a traditional, “all-the-fixins” dinner, we splurge on big salmon steaks. It’s so easy to pop those in the oven whenever we’re ready, along with home fries or baked potato, and a side of steamed brocolli. With little preparation or clean-up, it frees up our day to enjoy our family and guests, and everyone seems to enjoy it.
My favorite recipe is to make a quiche for my family for breakfast. I just use what vegies and meat I have in the frige. My kids love it and it is a great way to get in those vegies that they normally would not eat.
Rum cake is a dessert that my mom only makes once or twice around Christmas. It is moist and delicious. I always think of Christmas when my family talks about rum cake.
My mom always used to make Christmas cookies. The one I really love is Kolachky (I think that’s how it’s spelled.) It’s made with pecans, pineapple, and cream cheese. What’s not to love?! The other is Cuccidatti (again, not sure of spelling) which is an Italian Christmas cookie made with candied fruit, nuts, dates, raisins, and orange juice. That’s the only time we ever got those cookies, so they say Christmas to me.
I love shortbread cookies.
My favorite Christmas recipe is for Banana Salad which I just recently found out is from my Great-Grandma Finney! It is always a recipe we have for Thanksgiving and Christmas and only then, although I’ve been known to have a craving on occasion and cheat
My favorite Christmas time recipe(s): my mom’s homemade fudge and pie crust cinnamon rolls. Yummy!
My favorite Christmas recipe is my great-grandmother’s coconut cake. Quite a few years ago and after many attempts, my mother finally got the recipe from Grandmother. I guess that sounds strange but it took a bit of effort. My grandmother just added ingredients in amounts that looked right! My mother bought the ingredients and then carefully measured everything that Grandmother had put in the bowl. My mom and dad grate the coconut by hand so we only get this wonderful, moist cake once a year, but it is so worth the wait!
My great-great grandmother’s eggnog recipe is the best! I have never liked any eggnog but this and have converted tons of people to being fans of this classic!
I’m not very good at baking, so my favorite Christmas “recipe” includes Pillsbury Cinnabon refrigerated cinnamon rolls, eggs, and li’l smokies for breakfast on Christmas Day. It’s a tradition that we started years ago, and since I’m usually such a “fly by the seat of my pants” kind of person, it’s one of the few that our family can count on every Christmas, along with Daddy reading the Christmas story before we open gifts. I’ve enjoyed reading all the other comments, but it would be nice to actually have all those recipes.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
My favorite is Yorkshire Pudding with Prime Rib. I started this 5 years ago or so, and my husband LOVES it. It’s a memory for me of my time spent in Yorkshire England before I got married. I was taught the authentic way and shared it with those I love here. Now it’s become our favorite Christmas meal.
Merry Christmas! Rebekah
my favorite holiday recipe?
well i guess that it would have to be pumpkin pie, i know all you do is just dump the can of pumpkin in a blow w/ a couple other things and then dump that in a premade piecrust, but whatever it’s still my fav around the holidays =)
My favorite recipe is the hard candy my husband (and oldeset daughter this year!) make every Christmas. Nothing says Christmas like cinnamon and wintergreen candy!
One of my favorite recipes is the delicious Yule Log Cake that my mother-in-law makes. It is a favorite of the entire family! Over the years, we have often lived too far away to join the family for Christmas. One year, she made the spongecake and rolled it up with wax paper, put the frosting in a plastic storage container, and MAILED it to us. We were thrilled and it was so good!
Merry Christmas!
[...] On December 16th, 2009 at 8:47 am 4 Melissa Logan Says:Its very simple, but I truly LOVE spritz cookies! You can do so much with them and I make probably a million of them during the holidays. Give them to neighbors and people at work,etc. [...]