Our family does not have many formal holiday traditions, but you better believe we always find a way to incorporate tasty food into whatever we decide to do. We would love the hear from our readers to know what your family likes to eat when it is time to celebrate! Don't be shy; regardless of the grandiosity or simplicity of the recipe we want to know and may even add it to our eclectic repertoire!!!
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My mom just started making these last year but they are yummy. enjoy.
Candied Pecans
1 C. Sugar
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 lb. pecans
1 egg white (room temp)
1/2 Tbl water
1/2 Tbl vanilla
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Combine sugar, salt and cinnamon in a small bowl.
In a separate bowl beat egg whites, water and vanilla until frothy (not stiff).
Add pecans to egg mixture, stir until coated, add sugar mixture, spread on to a cookie sheet (lined with foil) Bake 30 min. separate to cool.
Our Christmas traditions all involve cookies! (And wine.) Thick cutout sugar cookies with lots of frosting, caramel oatmeal bars, pistachio chocolate chip cookies, lemon bars, and those peanut butter ones with the Hershey kisses on top are our favorites. They are best enjoyed with - you guessed it - wine.
Here is my famous banana bread:
Suzie Roman’s Super-Duper Banana Bread
2 cups sugar 3/4 cup oil
1/2 tsp. salt 2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. soda 3 cups flour
1 1/8 cup buttermilk 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. vanilla 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
1 cup chopped pecans (opt)
Cream oil,sugar, eggs. Add dry ingredients and buttermilk ( buttermilk can be made with reg. milk and part vinegar )Add in vanilla and bananas and nuts. Bake in 4 small or 2 big loaf pans..at 350 for 30-35 minutes or til brown. Let sit in oven for a few minutes after turning off oven. Wrap in saran wrap while still warm ..it keeps in moist. You can freeze if you like. Bread will pull loose from sids of pan when done.
Enjoy!
In Arizona with our amazing Spanish infuence...we make tamales. Here's a link to my instructions :http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2009/12/homemade-tamales.html
Here is a recipe for a Christmas cookie that makes a large batch to eat and share. It's a little unusual, takes time, but is so worth it. All of my children remember the President's Christmas Cake I used to make when they were little. They told me it wasn't Christmas until they saw the cake made. A few years ago I adjusted the recipe and made cookies. Now it's not Christmas until these cookies are in the house.
Kristmas Kandy Kookies
By Grandma Neive
Yield 7 dozen cookies
24 oz Hershey solid chocolate candy bars of your choice (I like to mix milk & dark chocolate)
8 oz pecans
4-1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
8 oz candy orange slices (or mixture of your favorite gum drops)
1 c. craisins
2 cups butter (1 lb) at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract (orange extract can be used if you like)
2 cups brown sugar (or try 1 - 1/2 cups brown sugar and 1/2 cup natural sugar this combo will give a great "bite" to the cookie)
8 oz cream cheese at room temperature (with all the butter you don't need to add low fat cream cheese)
4 eggs at room temperature
Chop the candy bars into bite size pieces (you can nibble on a FEW pieces, but not a lot because you want to be able to eat them in the cookies). Roughly chop the pecans. Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Using kitchen shears cut the gum drops into fourths and add to the flour mixture making sure the gum drops are well covered with the flour mixture. Add the chopped chocolate bars, pecans, and craisins to the flour/gum drop mixture.
Cream together the butter, vanilla, almond (or orange) extract, and sugar till light. Add cream cheese and continue beating the mixture. Add eggs one at a time until mixture is light and fluffy. Add the flour candy mixture to the butter mixture and mix only till all the flour is incorporated. This is a thick batter, so don't worry if it appears to be stiff, if you add milk or water the cookies will not hold their shape during baking. Note: The cookies can be frozen in 2 tablespoon size cookies at this point and baked at a later date.
Drop cookies by 2 tablespoon size onto cookie sheets and bake at 325 for 15-17 minutes or till light brown.
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