Since it’s that time of the year when even folks like myself who rarely cook, start banging pots and pans in the kitchen- I wonder what ya’ll are fixin’ up?
I actually spent the whole afternoon/evening in the (shudder) kitchen.
We will now have:
Shortbread, peanut butter candy, date balls, fruit filled cookies and a mock liver pate that is great with cornbread crackers. Now, if I can just manage to get the “real food” done in the next few evenings I’m set! 
Say, how about giving us the receipe for the mock liver pate`. and where do you find cornbread crackers? This sounds really good!
Raven
Mock Liver Pate
1/2 pound Braunschweiger liver (Oscar Myer makes what I found in the
luncheon meat section at the local Food City- I was suprised
to find the stuff here)
1 8oz cream cheese, softened
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. worchestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. salt
pepper
(optional- finely chopped onion or finely chopped green onion)
Mix well. Chill, form in ball, roll in parsley, dill or chopped pecans.
The crackers are Town House..Bistro- cornbread crackers.
Thanks! This sounds excellent. I wish I had some now, 
but alas, I will have to get the ingredients tomorrow. 
Raven
I think I’ll make a lentil loaf with gravy in lieu of Tofurkey this year, and also make a chocolate chip bourbon pecan pie.
(Other family members will, however, eat meat.)
I’ve been instructed that I am to make a rib-eye roast for 24 people. I will also make some soda bread (with currants!), and if everyone is nice I will make some of my very special pecan french toast on Christmas morning. It’s so good you don’t even want syrup or butter on it!
Our entree for Christmas this year is going to be Tempeh au Poivre. I haven’t settled entirely on side dishes yet, but rosemary roasted potatoes will probably be one, because I love them so. Desserts don’t love me, however (other than the Russian Tea Cakes we bake for Santa), so dessert will probably be a pumpkin pie from Costco.
Redwolf
Nanohedron came over yesterday and showed me how to cook monkeys.
I’m kind of feeling like a fish out of water this year… for the first time in about 8 years I’m not cooking a holiday dinner. We’re going to see family in South Carolina so I won’t really be cooking anything. But I do get the fun of trying to figure out how to transport presents without children seeing them! 
And then trying to fit everything back in the car to come home.
I am making scones today to take to a Yule/Solstice celebration tonight, so at least I can get a little bit of special cooking in. 
Best,
Andrea
That’s the sad thing about not being the host…you don’t have all those leftovers which so define holiday indulgence!
I know, Em, it’s such a bummer!! I’ll actually have to go grocery shopping for the week after!
~A
…and Cran has an innate touch for Bearnaise sauce. 
Mock pâté! A co-worker’s wife had some folks gathered at their home, tensely and self-consciously snooty by his account; cultural arrivistes or something, like they worshipped at the Altar of Martha Stewart or The Cooking Channel or whatever. One fellow had brought homemade pâté, and was continually fishing for compliments on it and congratulating himself on the result. Fed up, my co-worker finally went up to it, tasted, and said, “Hey, cool! Braunschweiger.”
Ya think they’ll have him back?
It’s up to his wife, I suppose. It’s their home.
…unless you meant the guy who went to all the trouble. He’s probably seething and has vowed not to grace the premises ever again.
I don’t suppose we could get the recipes for that chocolate chip bourbon pecan pie and pecan french toast??? PLLLLLEEEEEEAAAASSSSSEE!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays every one!!!
Nancy
Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
(recipe is vegan…don’t let that scare you–it’s terrific and not at all good for you!)
egg replacer(to equal 2 eggs)–perhaps you can just use two eggs, though I can’t vouch for that.
2 T molasses
1/2 C corn syrup(light)
2 T Jack Daniels…or other bourbon
1 t vanilla
1/8 t salt
1 1/2 C pecans, chopped
1 C choc. chips
unbaked crust
Preheat 350. Mix eggs(replacer,) molasses, corn syrup, bourbon, vanilla, salt. Add pecans and choc. chips and mix together well. Pour into crust and arrange 4 whole pecans on top if you like pretty decorations. Bake for 40-45 minutes.
Thank you VERY MUCH!!! I am not afraid of egg substitute…I use it all the time!!! I can’t eat eggs…so I don’t usually buy any…I just get the egg substitute to use in my recipies…
Sounds like a winner recipe…Thank you very much!!!
Merry Xmas…
Nancy
We have made chocolate crinkles, chocolate chip cookies, Ginger snaps, chocolate covered pretzels, thumb print cookies, and phillo dough cups filled with butterscotch, chocolate and walnuts. We will have turkey breast and all the things that go with it. BTW I would like the recipe for that lentil loaf. Lentils are one of my favorite things. We make lentil burgers and lentil soup, one of my favorite foods.
Happy everything
Ron
I have a double batch of caramels on the stove right now. Only two more double batches to go! :roll:
After that, it’s on to the Whiskey Truffles, the Chocolate Buttercreams, and the orange shortbread. I’ve never done the Whiskey Truffles before, but decided I might need 'em after I get done with everything else! 