Easy Holiday Recipes

Delicious Holiday Food

Festive Fruit Salads for Your Holiday Table

by Rachel Paxton

Colorful, delicious salad recipes that are perfect for your holiday table. I love fruit salads. Unfortunately, many of the best fruit salad recipes are very high in calories and take a little more preparation time than you might want to spend.Continued Here

Christmas Foods to Remember

Dyfed Lloyd Evans

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If you're planning any kind of family Christmas or Yuletide celebration this year, especially if you're hosting the event. Or even if you're thinking of what you need to do in terms of preparing food for a family gathering then now, the beginning of November is the time to start seriously thinking about Christmas. If you are going to bake traditional cakes and puddings then this is definitely the time to start thinking about baking these. Like so many cakes Christmas cakes and puddings require maturing. So it's best to do them now. That way everything is done well in advance and you also have wonderful gifts to bring to family and friends. Continued Here

Quick Fix Christmas Recipes

By Sheryl Graham

Mix up a delicious beginning to the Christmas holiday with our Christmas Cheese Balls and Christmas Punch recipes. These recipes take only minutes to prepare. Keep the ingredients on stock to whip up something special for those unexpected holiday drop-in guests.Continued Here

A Drink For Every Season

By Joseph Then

One of the great things about drinks is the fact that they can make use of what is currently in season to make a delicious and seasonal touch to any party, get together, or moment of relaxation. Here are some great recipes for you try out at home. You should love them! Continued Here

Eggnog Christmas Jell-o

1 small box lemon gelatin
1 cup boiling water
1/4 cup cold water
1/4 teaspoon rum extract
3/4 cup dairy eggnog
1 small box cherry gelatin
1 small bottle maraschino cherries, drained (save juice)
1 small can Mandarin oranges, drained
1 cup boiling water

Dissolve lemon gelatin in 1 cup boiling water. Add 1/4 cup cold water and rum extract. Measure 3/4 cup gelatin mixture into medium bowl. Add eggnog. Pour mixture into 6-cup mold. Chill until set, about 25 minutes.

Meanwhile, dissolve cherry gelatin in 1 cup boiling water. Mix reserved cherry juice with water to equal 3/4 cup. Add to cherry gelatin along with cherries, oranges and leftover lemon gelatin. Carefully pour into mold over set gelatin. Chill until firm.

Unmold and garnish with whole red candied cherries, cut in half, and green cherries, cut in quarters, to resemble leaves.

Christmas Candy

1 pound (468 gms) white chocolate
1 cup small pretzels, broken into small pieces
1 cup pecans, chopped

Melt the chocolate. Stir the pretzels and pecans into chocolate and drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper. Handy edible gift suggestion.